Yeah i also wanted to mention this as another revenue stream but I thought it was currently to small to include it. However it's certainly growing. Every hit anime nowadays makes a movie and generates millions
Sony is a Japanese company, Crunchyroll is a Japanese streaming service, and anime is made in Japan. So, in the end, Japan wins. I hope Sony will focus solely on anime and sell Spiderman back to Marvel. It's pretty inappropriate to see a Japanese company owning Spiderman a popular America's fictional character. I know Sony will not let Spiderman go because he contributes a lot to their survival.
Sony won't be doing that anytime soon. Infact I suspect most Japanese companies are structured as conglomerates with diversified interests part of it is coz of the keiretsu networks I talked about. Anime is just another revenue stream for Sony
Much of anime has poor storytelling, poor character development and they beat the snot out of cliches. Some of them have a great idea or plot but can't develop or come up with a quality end. There are so many ideas and stories in world mythology. By the way, characters don't have to have the same skin color palette or culture.....
I think you are generalizing waaayyy to much. I've personally watched anime that I think have better story telling than any TV show. Attack on titan, legend of the galactic heroes, eight six, berserk come to mind. As for bad endings, I do agree. but what happens from the production side of the anime is once an anime becomes a hit, the Manga publishers sometimes force the mangaka to continue the story beyond the point he/she had intentionally decided to stop the story at. Though I wouldn't say this is unique to Anime/manga. even western TV shows like lost, and walking dead, prison break, supernatural etc try to milk their cash cows as much as possible. Creatively I hate it, but from a business perspective I understand why, it's better than funding an unknown project that might immediately flop and lose most of your capital. Lastly for tropes, i think most story telling generally follow the 7 story telling archetypes.
One thing you missed is most of the biggest Shows are going to Movies now. Demon Slayer and Spy and Others
Yeah i also wanted to mention this as another revenue stream but I thought it was currently to small to include it. However it's certainly growing. Every hit anime nowadays makes a movie and generates millions
Sony is a Japanese company, Crunchyroll is a Japanese streaming service, and anime is made in Japan. So, in the end, Japan wins. I hope Sony will focus solely on anime and sell Spiderman back to Marvel. It's pretty inappropriate to see a Japanese company owning Spiderman a popular America's fictional character. I know Sony will not let Spiderman
go because he contributes a lot to their survival.
Sony won't be doing that anytime soon. Infact I suspect most Japanese companies are structured as conglomerates with diversified interests part of it is coz of the keiretsu networks I talked about. Anime is just another revenue stream for Sony
Much of anime has poor storytelling, poor character development and they beat the snot out of cliches. Some of them have a great idea or plot but can't develop or come up with a quality end. There are so many ideas and stories in world mythology. By the way, characters don't have to have the same skin color palette or culture.....
I think you are generalizing waaayyy to much. I've personally watched anime that I think have better story telling than any TV show. Attack on titan, legend of the galactic heroes, eight six, berserk come to mind.
As for bad endings, I do agree. but what happens from the production side of the anime is once an anime becomes a hit, the Manga publishers sometimes force the mangaka to continue the story beyond the point he/she had intentionally decided to stop the story at. Though I wouldn't say this is unique to Anime/manga. even western TV shows like lost, and walking dead, prison break, supernatural etc try to milk their cash cows as much as possible. Creatively I hate it, but from a business perspective I understand why, it's better than funding an unknown project that might immediately flop and lose most of your capital.
Lastly for tropes, i think most story telling generally follow the 7 story telling archetypes.