I feel that Japanese manga artists are not as good as before, not the same batch as 20 years ago, but the group 30 years ago. It really has a lot to do with Japan's economic situation, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan had the most hot money in its hands, and it didn't know where to invest. At this time, the level of many animations is surprisingly high, because the production is very sophisticated. It was also the best time for manga artists to be treated, and after a few years, it took a sharp turn for the worse, and to this day Japan's economy is in a slump.
After the economic downturn, the survival of cartoonists has become difficult, and slowly in order to compete, there will be some strange tricks that over-cater to the market, is it not that the sale of meat in previous years is particularly popular, and there are many today. If you want the otaku to pay more money, you have to do this, and you have to open a harem. Look at the fantasy theme anime "Rhode Island War Chronicle" more than 30 years ago, and then look at today's fantasy theme anime, do you think that the painting is not as meticulous as before, and the plot is also pulled.
There is a rather strange phenomenon, that is, the number of cartoonists has not decreased compared to more than twenty years ago, but more. Japan is a big anime country, there are fans of all ages, and there are more and more industry development practitioners, which is a normal thing. However, combined with the recession of Japan's overall economy, the bankruptcy of large international enterprises, the reduction of various industrial workers, the pockets of the audience of anime and manga have been depleted, and some people have almost no time to watch anime for their livelihood.
Animation produces more works, but the audience group does not become more, but it has decreased, the result is that the income of all animation industries is reduced, cartoonists are ultimately part of the animation industry, magazines can not earn a lot, and how to give cartoonists more fees. Cartoonists also use their minds on how to win over this part of the audience, which may be contrary to the original ideal, and people who want to make world-famous works step by step compromise to draw some cartoons with obvious routine traces that are in line with the current otaku aesthetic.
In every country, the largest anime audience is teenagers, and japan's society is under a lot of pressure, and children can feel all kinds of pressure when they are in school from an early age, and even suffer from school violence. In the past, when the economy was good, this problem was not very obvious, and when the economy was restricted, the increase in the cost of survival made the pressure more severe. There are cathartic anime works that are tempting to see, before Japan did not have many middle two disease anime, now there are too many, there are always some teenage protagonists with particularly extreme ideas, to retaliate against the actual destruction of the world, nothing he dares, the backlog of evil fire will be released along with the anime protagonist.
Cartoonists want to get ahead by adapting animation, and even adapting them into movies is even better. Now The development of Japanese light novels is also very fast, the novel is written quickly, many anime are adapted from light novels, and manga is slow to because of its slow output, and no one has been optimistic about it for many years. Cartoonists are another step harder, do you still have the confidence to draw well?
Text: Dragon Knight Sharu