Unlisted video because I don’t know why? It wasn’t before. But this is by far one of the best critique videos of the show on the internet and very much worth your time.
Fantasy anime used to be so good. Escaflowne and Rayearth and all that. Now it’s all adaptations of violent fetish manga written for 13-year-olds that don’t go outside.
Anime and manga realized there’s more money to be made pandering to a modern otaku’s taste which is violent hyper sexualized nationalistic shit.
Not to mention the system of anime production committees making it ridiculously difficult to make anything new or creative. Here’s a short post that kinda explains it.
Thanks to these groups of companies, all expecting a share of the profits, only extremely safe IPs are chosen to be adapted. All that hyper violent, hyper sexual garbage is determined to be a “risk-free” investment (thanks to the legions of basement-dwelling otaku), so those are the only anime that are made these days. As an added bonus, almost none of that money goes to the animators that actually make the shows (which is only to be expected from a creative industry under capitalism). Writers, directors, and animators all genuinely want to make more creative content rather than trash, but their hands are all tied. Death to the modern animation industry for real.
It’s sad. Makes me reflect on Record Of Lodoss War, such a great anime fantasy epic and how it wouldn’t survive today without the otaku baiting.
