So you wanna them to make anime that nobody likes it or even ask for??? You want creators who prioritize their own agendas instead of pleasing their audiences with good stuff?? Maybe you can go to She Hulk or other flopped western DEI shows instead.

Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon also pleased their audience very well btw, so they can push their innovative ideas while retaining their style

I think your point in #1 is actually addressed by the fact that AI is a tool, as you have said, which will give rise to hybrid workflows. It doesn’t matter whether or not employees can be fired because there will eventually be no role for them in the industry, and new hires become unemployable without AI. The loss of skills over generations of new hires will still happen, because creators who treat anime as a commodity will realize that hybrid workflows are far more efficient. And ultimately, with that loss of skill, future generations will no longer be able to produce anime without AI.

Moreover, just like photoshop displaced artists and 3D displaced traditional animation, AI is also an industry disruptor. However, it’s inarguably more dangerous because, in reference to the main issue you and this article identified, it’s quite literally trained on template and generic content, all while reducing the skillset required to produce animation as opposed to photoshop and 3D which expanded it.

I agree, tbh I only liked what he said here: Over the course of the past 20 years, what was once considered a nerdy art form has now pretty much become a global phenomenon.

But not this necessarily: Fujitsu explains that commoditization has also shifted the viewer’s mindset. The average consumer has been drawn towards the mentality that entertainment can be “anything as long as it’s fun, pointing to the average viewer’s lack of agency to seek value beyond surface-level amusement.”

This comes of as condescending and reducing people of their own genuine feeling of enjoyment, saying we “lack agency” just because we think not everything needs to be the most complex thing or serious thing ever or that we enjoying simple things is somehow shallow is such a bad take and ironically a shallow over generalization. Entertainment can be anything as long as it’s not truly harming others, it being fun or not is subjective.

The hell are you talking about tourist, there’s literally many fanservice anime that are genuinely great like Ghost in the Shell, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, etc. Fanservice means pleasing the audience and the creator as well, many creators simply like fanservice naturally. You know what it’s because you guys have become so scared and ashamed as a society you can’t handle natural things anymore.

There’s literally nothing wrong with fanservice or pleasing your audience, even Hayao and Satoshi Kon did fanservice too. It’s because of people like you anime nowadays is getting even more censored.

The main reason why this will not happen is two important factors. Number 1, Japan has robust Employee Protection laws, so much so that they can not be fired at all, and number 2 is that this is more of a mismanagement and misunderstanding of how to utilize Tools in the first place. AI is a tool, much like Photoshop and 3D was back in the day. The main issue here is everything is hugely focused on Algorithms and Data Driven Trends. This is not the main issue at all because it will be a Hybrid workflow, and what they are saying is much worse than you think.

Imagine it like this, Kadokawa and various other Companies are focusing hugely on Global expansion because the Domestic Audience is shrinking, so they use Data from MyAnimeList, Crunchyroll from views, likes, watch time,ratings, and various other metrics to make products for the Global Market. The main issue with this is it results in making template and generic content that nobody likes or will eventually find boring over time thus creating a commodity in the Anime realm and even in Manga and Light Novels themselves at the source because “Our Data and Metrics say it works, so it will sell” by sanding off the edges for safe and sanitized content.

There are countless trending clips of animation which looks visually stunning but with minor defects and drawing inconsistencies… well, what happens when studios realize that spending less time on animating and drawing allows for more time on storyboarding and writing? What happens when they realize that such a process is incredibly more cost-efficient?

We might get one or two superior ‘products’, but it’ll certainly come at the cost of traditional animating skills as anime is commodified, alongside a wave of even more mindless mass-produced AI slop drowning the medium. And at that point it wouldn’t be a stretch to call it the death of the medium as a whole. Right now, recognition of the value of traditional animation skills is still keeping the medium alive, but I dread the day when that changes.

It’s been a commodity since AstroBoy, this dude doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously.

Well actually, this isn’t wrong, the Anime world is oversaturated with Mediocrity. Regardless of how you try to splice it that s*** is mediocre stuff that’s coming out and the more we keep adding on to this mediocrity the more they’re going to keep spitting it out and the more people can keep eating it up and that’s why I already said it was the death of anime he just over here proving my point.

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I don’t know why this went to your reply as well

Now the seasonal form can and does work for many series, but imagine trying to fit DBZ or other og series into that kind of standardized setup, it just wouldn’t really work (even if you consider something like DBZ Kai which cuts out the majority of filler.)