The anime industry has completely run out of ideas of its own and is being forced to plunder manga at an ever increasing pace to make up for it, runs a recent critique.
An abridged translation of a Taiwanese editorial on the subject:
The editor-in-chief of Tong Li Comics [a major Taiwanese manga publisher which famously started out by pirating Japanese manga titles some decades ago] says “The speed at which Japan’s manga titles are being adapted into anime is increasing. Even titles which haven’t concluded are being picked up and turned into anime, if publishers consider the title to have latent potential.”
Lately even titles like “Beelzebub” and “Bakuman” are having anime adaptations announced, despite barely having 5 volumes out.
The anime industry can’t generate enough new ideas itself, but it needs to produce new titles and supply the associated markets – as a result it has had to rely increasingly on ever faster adaptations of manga.
The same thing seems to be happening with Hollywood – many novels and anime titles are being taken and adapted into Hollywood movies, and there are also a great many remakes of previous titles.
In both cases it looks as if they are running out of ideas of their own.
A recap of recent anime releases does seem to reveal an overwhelming majority are based on manga, light novels and eroge, with most of the successful original titles occupying the distinctly staid giant robot genre…
You know… it would be a great innovation if they start putting all the animes and real life action movies in VR headsets.
The solution sounds obvious, but I think they should just stop recycling the same ideas.
I don’t know if they do or not but I doubt it wouldn’t be so bad if they just expanded their market and looked outside of Japan for ideas. I’m sure somewhere out there is an idea worthy of turning into an anime and would pull the company some money.
… Thats just silly… did Lupin the 3rd, Space Captain Harlock, Doraemon, Ranma 1/2 or Orphen wait until their “source material finished printing”? I get that they are waiting less time to pick up popular mangas and turn them into animes, and what does that have to do with creativity? They’ve almost always turned popular media into animes, its kinda what their based on! Hell, with Gainax making alot of anime-first series, I’d say that Anime is acually coming up with more new ideas than the industry used to! And give Hollywood some credit, I mean yeah, the do tend to just do the same thing over and over, teal and orange posters this, write a melodrama about an popular person/company that, but for all these constant reprints and reprints, they do still make the occasional movie that stands out, and those are the ones that we should be focused on!
they should travel more and learn to listen
life is more interesting than movies
find ideas in reality