anime

it's also partially that (most people) only have one good story in them

in terms of making something non-formulaic and actually creative

Well spooky I got good news, we are help pix write her new manga, so your gonna get another 8/10 banger

with some om okay with it though

like voynich hotel author makes a bunch of ok stuff and i doubt he'll ever make another thing comparable to that masterpiece

but that ok with me

ishida or fma author etc. should be able to make something good

and they can

see

soul eater author and fire force

you learn how to write stories the wrong way, because your one good story was something you knew inside and out people who set out to write generic LNs usually have a lot of enduring success, because they can just follow trends and write decent slop

meanwhile the former try to crack at a 2nd series (sequel or not) and don't have the luxury of it being that idea, that's been in their heads for years

so they don't really know how to develop it, or really what to even do with it

idk if mangakas have an easier or harder time, art+writing versus LN-ers just writing

I feel like Manga has got to be slightly tougher, although getting your ideas out in pictures has to help if your writing isn't very vivid.

There is likely drawbacks to both

same issue when really good series are told to pad or stall for time, and the author doesn't really know how to just keep circling the story they want to tell

yeah, as a non-artist I don't have the context for how it feels to create visually and if that aids them. clearly it's a lot of additional work though

Watching Pix draw her manga has explained so much about 90% of the filler garbage on manga sites

It's like japanese don't have a deeper ability to be creative other than copying ideas they see, it's very strange.

Actual bug people

Pix vs Lennod fight will be peak manga

True

As long as Enran doesn't get in the way

A1 after years of pure slop that is not well animated decided to become a studio that animates very well. Solo Leveling so far is a just okay show with pretty good animation and a average tier Sawano ost. I am sure the story gets worse as it goes, but for now it is passible

As far as overhyped shows go, it is leagues better than chainsaw man was at least

but that is more on a production end, not a story end I think

specifically where the anime is rn: I think there's a good premise, underneath some mid worldbuilding

which is enough to get me to like something

and yeah, CSM was such a letdown

god chainsaw man is so bad

i have always been against the manga

but it blew up

then the anime blew up

idk

its pretty fucking trash

same issue as Violet Evergarden people were told to like it enough, that it came true

i DROPPED jujutsu kaisen and somehow it blew up

VEG is good

i will stand by that

I keep hearing cope about how the anime ended just before the the story pops off in chainsaw man

I can't wait to see that also not be true

VEG's core story might be ok on its own, as a story

the anime though

...

I always confuse the two, is violet the vasaline coated anime or is that the rape one

vaseline sad girl one

yeah

Spooky, whats your problem? Violet Evergarden is great.

it's a nothing show, that banks more on the feeling of being sad than bothering to write any actual emotional dialogue/interactions/anything

it banks on art and OST, to hope you forget about the show being a complete nothing show

is the core story fine, yeah sure there's a setup/resolution/whatever

but it's devoid of any of the actual emotion you'd assume it would have, given how it treats itself

and for context, I started watching the anime, dropped it, read the 2-vol LN a couple years later, went back and finished the show. Never watched the movies, never read the spinoff, I think its bad

I think this is something we will always disagree on

I think writing emotionless muted characters almost never works, it takes away from the air of sadness and just makes everything feel frustrating.

It's the same complaint I leveled at Angel Beats, though I have far less memory of that show given that its been 10+ years

You know what show had raw emotion in its sad payoff

a certain lobotomised loli

lol

the raw emotion was anger

but still

And Polu, this is coming from someone who almost always likes these kind of stories/shows

Evergarden is one of the few where I feel generally frustrated watching the MC "heal" or "grow" or whatever word you want to throw on her development

ok Pika, now you have to watch it and decide whether Polu or I are more correct

That is not my genre of show, so I think I will end up more likely to agree with you purely because I do not like this genre

Although for all I know maybe this is just a re;zero season 2 situation where your opinion is just insane

I don't have as strong of an opinion of Re:Zero S2 anymore because I've mostly forgotten it

most of Re:Zero tbh, I caught up to the WN a year ago and everything pre-current arc is kind of just mush in my head

I kinda wish I had shows that aired on mon/tuesday

having nothing kinda sucks

i didn't expect to see spooky making bad takes this morning

Betting pool: Which name will more Phijkchu name their firstborn daughters

• Violet
• Pyra

Whats violet from

the incredibles

its the daughters name

Sorry im already naming my kids after disabled children from katawa shoujo