Anime if anything seems to be doing worse at this. Nearly every fantasy or fantasy adjacent anime goes for a knock-off D&D MMO style and it feels so tired. They don’t want their audience to need to make the smallest effort to understand the world and the role of the characters in it.
That’s so disappointing. I haven’t really kept up with anime in recent years, but what I loved about the anime I watched when I was much, much younger was how different it was compared to the western media I was familiar with.
I think the difference is that a lot more English speakers watch anime as it’s airing in Japan now. Anime used to have to be at least somewhat interesting for someone in the west to even be aware of it, but now we get to see all the shit they’re putting out that never would have made it over here before.
Dr. Stone, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen – you don’t have to look very hard to find anime that doesn’t look anything like western fantasy
Anime if anything seems to be doing worse at this. Nearly every fantasy or fantasy adjacent anime goes for a knock-off D&D MMO style and it feels so tired. They don’t want their audience to need to make the smallest effort to understand the world and the role of the characters in it.
At least some of take a super unique approach… like being reincarnated as a vending machine.
You got a title for that one? Sounds like something I’d enjoy
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon. I think there’s an anime adaptation.
Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou
It’s actually alright. Not something I’d rewatch though.
I count that as more gimmicky than creative. Like they are taking the same structure and just doing a bit of madlibs.
Yeah, that was kind of my point lol.
“That one time I was reborn as ____ and now I ____!”
*cue big ol’ anime titties
That’s so disappointing. I haven’t really kept up with anime in recent years, but what I loved about the anime I watched when I was much, much younger was how different it was compared to the western media I was familiar with.
I think the difference is that a lot more English speakers watch anime as it’s airing in Japan now. Anime used to have to be at least somewhat interesting for someone in the west to even be aware of it, but now we get to see all the shit they’re putting out that never would have made it over here before.
Dr. Stone, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen – you don’t have to look very hard to find anime that doesn’t look anything like western fantasy
The person you were replying to was explicitly talking about current (‘new’) anime, not industry darlings like AoT.
Dude, the last episodes of AoT haven’t even aired yet, how current do you want?
I was explaining what they meant, I don’t personally care. Their complaint, as I understood it, was an absence of new and original work.