Infinite profit growth isn’t possible, and is definitely is not sustainable.
Not while maintaining quality, which is what an art form like anime is really selling.
If bad anime floods the market, it’ll be like the black and white comic book implosion of the 90s: Too much bad product sinking demand for the entire sector.
Anime/manga seems pretty saturated already.
Inflation over the next 6-7 years is an unknown, and might account for a lot of the target.
Edit: Unless they’re thinking that anime should be enshittified in the same manner as Hollywood, with jacked up pay per view fees, product placements, and sequels and product tie ins dominating the release calendar.
Although arguably anime is headed in those directions already.
That would be a mistake to take away the spirit of experimentation and risk taking.
This does seem to be decent so far, although the trite shonen paradigm of people with superpowers fighting everyone else with superpowers seems to be strong in this one.
Also, I thought Yuru or Dera or even Asa would be a lot more upset about the soldiers and Gabby killing all the innocent(?) villagers.
Best OP of the season for me so far.
I do like this very much.
It’s ambitious in what it’s trying to do, but it doesn’t feel pretentious, i.e. no abstract bullshit, so far.
A clash between “rivals” sets up the MC as kind of a streaming superheroine.
I have no idea where this is going, but I’m feeling confident the writing, direction and art are going to get us somewhere in style.
This was wild, abstract, and hits too close to home for comfort.
Would watch again.
It’s… different.
These Agents are so important.
For all the implications for agriculture alone, of having regular seasons show up on time, the Agents seem to be awfully under-protected, with insurgents being allowed to attack them left and right, on the road or at home.
Having a dedicated yojimbo/bodyguard with a sword might have been fine in the Japan of 100 years ago, but no matter how talented they are, a yojimbo is no match for modern armed groups.
The gods/kami-sama plan of giving the duties of starting up the seasons to mentally unstable teenagers who are guarded by mentally unstable teenagers doesn’t seem like the best plan either.
The character writing is fine, if a little annoying, but I’m having trouble buying the fundamental underlying premise.
I did like some of the world building otherwise: The bit about the Spring Village waiting for her to die hit hard.
During the sales process, you have to clear the inside and the near-outside of your house of junk: Throw it a way, put it away into storage, fill your garage to the gills with it, rent one of those driveway storage containers
I go through houses on sale that have the owners still living in them all the time…
It’s not easy, it’s not quick, but is it worth to you the multiple $100k’s that you can get for your house?
The French le vilain cafard or is that just a Petit Nicolas catchphrase?
Cantonese pook gai
Musical tastes change over your lifetime too, so what was cool when you were a teenager might become cringe later on in life, and vice versa.
And even later on, the things that became cringe might make a comeback and become cool again.
As a broad category, 70s Disco is a great example of that. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, ABBA, etc etc. were overplayed, but it was popular music because it was good.
60s and 70s soul samples become the foundations for new rap and dance tracks.
I love Judy Collins, Mary Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and other late 60s and 70s vocalists even though they were big before I was born.
I’m also enjoying Release That Witch.
For me it’s been a generic technology-uber-medieval with a pleasant feminist twist.
It’s nice to have virtually unlimited free energy to make concrete and steel, where in real life, manufacturing these are very expensive in terms of energy.
I am catching up with last season and the start of this season.
Great:
Meh:
There’s still loads of shows I want to watch:
Witch Hat Atelier.
Nippon Sangoku.
Four Seasons.
Kanan-Sama sounds hilarious.
Needy Girl Overdose.
Mao.
Akane banashi.
Daemons Of The Shadow Realm.
Ace Of Diamond S2.
Liar Game.
Hero’s Rib.
MARRIAGETOXIN.
Dr Stone.
And probably many more.
I don’t remember anything about how S1 ended, so I caught up reading the manhwa.
There really isn’t much more in the manhwa than in the anime, but the manhwa is much better paced for the story that it’s telling.
The story is deceptively simple, with a lot of internal exposition, and I can understand how they’re having a difficult time adapting it.
It would take a very talented script writer, storyboarder and director to make a decent adaptation.
Adapted as it is with just the surface action, it is a pretty dull story, because the writing and direction just isn’t getting the characters’ thoughts across. And the slow action with fast pace of the thoughts and emotions in the manhwa make it a really difficult piece to animate.
It’s like they’d be better off taking a Blue Lock type of approach with powerpoint graphics and exciting narration over it, but then manhwa art doesn’t really support that type of thing.
Bad audio synch on the initial releases. These have been fixed in V2s that have been released already.
Absolutely fantastic! I don’t remember quite where we left off in S1, but the wackiness and violence are still peak!
And the world building… It’s so strange, but it makes a lot of sense.
What decade would this have been from?
“dark blue color”
“Tesseract was a perfect cube, all sides even. It had different components on different sides, exposed circuitry.”
“It had circuits and other parts like a graphics card does, or a motherboard. The circuit board was a dark blue”
Was it some kind of PC, like the open frame PC cases that started in the… 2000s I want to say?
When CPU/RAM/GPU overclocking was a thing?
Completely different kind of computing architecture, i.e. not x86?
Maybe Steve Jobs’ NeXT?
Oh it feels good to be back in the viper pit of CotE!
There’s a complete story arc in the first 4 episodes, so dropping them all at once worked.
Horimiya is so naive. No wonder she doesn’t even compare to her now-graduated brother.
It’s not bad.
The direction maintained my interest throughout, the characters all had personalities and body language, and the voice acting was superb for an amateur production.
Thanks for putting this together!
Having skipped a lot of shows last year, i.e. not being familiar with any of the nominees, it’s a tough decision between HAYASii and rap gods Creepy Nuts, but I have to go with how rockin’ HAYASii’s song is.