The five otherworldly novels "Riad Record the Earth", "The Strongest Sage with The Lattice Pattern", "The Genius Prince", "The Disciple who Claims to Be a Sage" and "Crossing with Good Brothers" all on the shelves are all scolded by the comment area, and they are more or less inferior to the level of production. Why are otherworldly animations so poor? In fact, they are not poor, but their status is not high, and they cannot attract talents to come to production, so having money does not necessarily make it. Let's analyze it in detail, as follows:
Otherworldly animation, some are not poor
Otherworld animation is generally adapted from the original book, but what are the conditions for the original book to be adapted into animation? Is good sales. In other words, works that make money are eligible for animation, and this work has already sold well before the animation is produced, will the publisher still be short of money? No. Since the publishing house is not short of money, it naturally has enough funds to support the production of animation in other worlds, for example, "The Prince of Genius" won the 14th place in the 2019 "This Light Novel Is Really Great" award.
Some people may think that the 14th rank is not high, but the otherworldly light novel can enter the top ten and have to open champagne, and the sales of "The Prince of Genius" can definitely support its animation. However, "The Prince of Genius" obviously makes money, so why is the level of animation produced quite average? The answer also happens to be that it can make money, so the dependence on animation is not high. Since it is not animated as a cash cow, after animation, as long as the sales volume doubles three or four times, the publisher will earn more.
Although the higher the quality of the animation, the easier it is to attract the audience, but for the publishing house, as long as the animation is active, the sales of "The Prince of Genius" will increase several times. Becoming an evergreen tree like eva and Naruto is something that most publishers don't dare to think about. Therefore, even if the quality of other-world animation can be done better, the benefits brought by spending more money have not increased much compared with the benefits brought about by less money. Therefore, the publisher of the original book in the other world is obviously rich and rich, but it still chooses the cheapest way to animate, just as an advertisement for light novels or comics.
The status of the other world is low, and the masters are reluctant to come
Although otherworld animation basically occupies half of the Japanese manga in China, in fact, the popularity of otherworld animation in Japan is quite limited, and only a few light novels and manga in other worlds can rank among the top of the annual list. "This light novel is really powerful" is selected in the top ten, and under normal circumstances, it will only squeeze into one or two other worlds, and there are many years or even one. In several major manga magazines such as Weekly Shonen Jump, the ranking of otherworld comics will not be very high, and some will not even accept otherworld comics.
Therefore, many of the comics in the other world now only choose to be serialized on the online platform. From the above, it can be seen that the status of manga and novels with otherworldly themes is not high in Japan, except for "Jobless Rebirth" and "Re0" and other fine products that can rely on fans to generate electricity, except for a few sales giants such as "Rebirth Slime", there is basically no big bull in other other worlds who will choose to animate it. Otherworld Animation has a much harder time finding a good production company than its peers.
In January, the new fan plus the sequel have a total of six otherworldly films, only one production company of "The Strongest Sage who Lost the Check" is a famous and surnamed festival, and the others are outsourcing companies of first-line companies, second-line animation companies or animation companies under a certain station. Even if the other-world animation takes a large number of tickets to ask for a first-line company, there may not be a company to take over, and the usual original painting master may not be willing to come. There is no way for anyone to call it another world theme, and its appeal in Japan is not as high as Netflix's bad films.
summary:
Otherworld animation doesn't have to be short of money because it has made enough money before it is animated. However, the publishing house may try its best to control the cost of animation and maintain a level that is both cheap and eye-catching, resulting in the production level of otherworldly animation being unsatisfactory for a long time, and the front-line production companies and masters have little interest in other worlds, resulting in otherworld animation in an embarrassing situation where there is money and does not want to spend, and no one to serve.