Many people say that today's Japanese animation is not good to watch, the new fan is the same as the other world through the drama, just start to see it is quite interesting, toss more, it is very disappointing, and one is worse than one, the production quality is not as good as 10 years ago and so on...
Indeed, it is undeniable that in the new fan in the first quarter, there are such 2-3 or even 4-5 other world bans is not a strange thing, other worlds, crossing, dragon auror and other dramas are indeed common, but you who really pay attention to animation, have you noticed, why japan's other world or similar animation will rot on the street? And why is the production quality of Japanese animation getting worse and worse?
In fact, there are only a few reasons
1, because the original is popular
For the Japanese animation industry, genres such as light novels, manga, and games belong to the "upstream", and animation is mostly based on them... And if these original works are very popular, then they will be adapted into cartoons, so as to promote the original work one step closer, and also facilitate the launch of the surrounding areas, thus generating an industrial chain...
Knowing the structural foundation of the Japanese animation industry, it is impossible to understand the reason why animation needs the support of a popular original.
Just to give an example... "Ordinary Professions Make the World's Strongest", this light novel was serialized in Japan's "Become a Novelist" and has been hit 200 million times... And has been ranked second on this site overall... With such a high popularity, now the question is, if you were an investor with a lot of money and now want to invest in animation, what would you do?
To put it bluntly, it is that today's young people love to see this kind of thing... Investing in this type of animation is the easiest way to ensure commercial success, at least much simpler than hollowing out original animation... So there are fewer high-quality original animations... Most of the people saved are this kind of other-world animation.
2, because most can be very low cost
In Japan, which is the most economical way to invest in film and television works? animation. Your Name. Producer Murakawa Genki said that the reason why you can't make a live-action movie is because animation saves money... And in animation, which animation saves the most money? I think it's a manga adaptation, because if the requirements are low, the various settings can be directly referenced to the manga... The storyboard directly copied the manga, and this kind of animation used to be more... There is also a kind of adaptation of another world novel. Why simple?
First of all, the other world light novel, most of the world view settings themselves are very frivolous, since they went to the other world, the story is enough overhead, since bidding farewell to the real world, then the author must want to come to some more imaginative settings, so that it is easier to "all-unionism" to make the plot develop smoothly... So many "toilet paper light novels", the setting itself is not rigorous original, animation relies on simple settings to obscure the audience is also very convenient. The art setting of the "OtherworldLyver Horizontal Shop" above is proof... Since it is not so strict in its pursuit of setting, so casually paste a ready-made art setting, the audience will not feel strange... Therefore, the other world that does not pursue the rigor of the plot itself is indeed the favorite thing for people who do animation...
Although the works of otherworldly light novels often have battle scenes, they rely on simple CG to top it, and the rest of the literary drama parts often have low requirements for performances, reaching a level that can barely be watched, and otherworldly animation can be mass-produced. And since there was no intention to give enough funds at the beginning, and the planner only intended to increase the attitude of their own money-making IP to do it, the animation of the other world was mass-produced, and eventually the overall quality must have declined, because the total number of talents in the Japanese animation industry was unchanged, the number of works rose sharply, the number of talents remained unchanged, and the quality eventually declined, because only the construction period could not grow...
So this is a bit like a vicious circle of feeling, everyone likes to see the average level of continuous animation is not high requirements is to increase the production of a large number of mass production quality decline, so even in 2022, every month there will be "ordinary professions to make the world's strongest" The second season of the animation itself is not wonderful to say, and it can continue to produce sequels...
Speaking of the original (Japan) too many people watching the first... Ah house to pass the time, nothing to see the other world YY a dragon ao heaven open harem... Sure enough, Ling and Waste Wood couldn't escape... If the audience didn't like to see the original works of this kind of work in the first place, I don't think it would be the case now.
So you have to ask, the light novels in the other world are not rotten, is the work wonderful?
Not necessarily, from 1998 to 2005 onwards, the most popular adaptation at that time was probably the hot-blooded battle juvenile manga... "Dead Fire Sea" was the highest popularity of the original at that time, and it was also the peak of the original level, after the peak, it may go downhill, and finally gradually from the juvenile combat comic adaptation to the light novel adaptation into the main force... Like the "Psychic King" that came when it was popular at that time... At that time, I thought it was classic, now look at it, what is good to see... Isn't it also the unfolding of the rotten street... Animation is also not particularly good at the qualified level...
So the quality of the animation itself, or to see the upper limit of the individual, can not look at the average of the whole, the level of the whole is determined by the overall output, in 2000, Japan only produced dozens of animations a year, and now it can produce 200 a year... Do you think the quality can be the same...
So don't talk about Japanese animation going backwards... Only when the market is bigger can there be food to eat... The other world of rotten streets is rice, and the quality of "Pingjia Story" is so high, do you see?