Just watched the end of eva at the theatre with my friends who never did, unforgettable experience. It felt like my first time watching it despite having done so years ago, watching the komm susser tod scene on a big screen was an otherwordly experience

Anno is a madman, gonna rewatch the rebuilds now cause im back on the evangelion craze

Was wondering the same thing

We really have some knowledgeable ppl in the thread tho

Unpopular opinion but I’m not the biggest fan of the refined/cleaner style MAPPA went with CSM. The manga’s grittier art style suits the absurd content ideally and makes for a low budget b-movie horror type vibe. That probably doesn’t sound like a good thing but it somehow is in CSM’s case.

bro really left me on read smh

CSM from the manga panels ive seen belonged to someone like yuasa, but at least its not gonna be like dorohedoro anime which was so different in art style i was surprised when i went back to look at the manga

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myanimelist.net/anime/39569/Sora_no_Aosa_wo_Shiru_Hito_yo

Who’s seen this

The last movie? If so does it give us a satisfying ending?

I loved what they did with dorohedoro soo much. I have to read the manga since it doesn't look like a season 2 is happening any time soon.

No im talking about end of evangelion lol, they did a rerun this week in anticipation of the last movie you're talking about lol, im also eagerly waiting for that one unfortunately

I thought it was cool until i saw the manga. If CSM is gritty, dorohedoro is arguably even more and it marries into its almost impossible to categorize aesthetic even better than the anime. I need to finish the manga so i can get more disappointed than i already am by the anime adaptation lol, although i think it would be hard for any studio to match that style. I have to give it to mappa for nailing the ops and eds, those in some way encapsuled the vibes of the manga

Ohhhh I see lol. Damn that must have been a dope experience. I need to see if any theater around me is doing the same thing.

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Man I hate it when I watch a movie or anime show, LOVE it and then read the manga and have my entire opinion about the sow/movie changed lol. This just happened to me with Battle Royal.

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anyone know when the first berserk deluxe edition will be back in stock

folks typing dissertations itt

I’ll address your points:

1) my point is, a lot of anime, if not most, is made for the sole purpose of MARKETING something else. This actually is a good thing for the quality of anime because that means there aren’t expectations for it to click with some target group or to play it safe and generally the budget is low enough that the small in house studios can generally do whatever they want creatively with it.

2. As for your point about 95% of the season being garbage, this has always been true, since the inception of the industry. Matter of fact, this is true about every art form since the history of the world. Most of what comes out is going to be mediocre or not memorable. It’s really that 5% you hold out for. If you can get 20-30 truly great shows a year, that is insane from an art form. We’re not even getting 20-30 great movies a year from Hollywood, let alone from any country despite way more financial support being given to those who work in those industries. The truth is even if you let creatives be completely free and do what they wanted, there is zero guarantee what they make will actually be good. In fact, it’ll probably suck. The difference is that if you start corporatizing the industry and making anime for the sake of ITS OWN profits, that 5% will disappear as well. This leads to my next point

3) No. Paying animators and making it a lucrative job is not going to improve the quality of an anime. First off, to pay animators, the industry would need to be making so much money that every studio can afford to double or triple their staff and then put in even more money to give their animators more wages. Now If that happened, the animators aren’t going to be the first priority. The first priority is going to go to hiring producers, creators, people in suits to figure out how to make the most money you can. The job of an animator is treated right now as something they do for fun and because they love doing it that they would want to do nothing else. When you treat it like a real profession, you remove the passion from it and make it about doing what some guy in a suit is telling you to do. I don’t necessarily think animators don’t deserve more money, but if the system went to that, it will be because the state of the industry has become so corporate that simply making something acceptable is enough.

So yes, if we paid animators more, we will get less train wrecks or colossal failures. But we’re also going to get less of anime like Vivy or Made in Abyss or Sarazanmai because when something becomes that corporate, there is zero reason to put more effort than what is expected and as a result investing in something that isn’t a sure fire profitable idea, which Sarazanmai and Vivy sure as hell aren’t.

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The setting in Flip Flappers episode 3 reminded me of mad max

I also rlly like the character designs

Yeah same here, that's why lately i prefer reading manga, unless the anime version is more "hype" (recently jujutsu kaisen and tokyo revengers have been like this for me) or the anime is as good as the manga (ping pong, beck, sangatsu, etc)

Heh this looks funny. I should start when finals are over.