Studio Arms (also known as Common Sense) may be taking after Production IMS and Tear Studio as they have now declared bankruptcy, which they announced during a recent shareholder meeting as they filed for special liquidation on July 22nd.
The studio was founded in 1996 and was known for producing classic ero-animations such as La Blue Girl, Words Worth, and Night Shift Nurses: Experiment; they would later go on to produce top tier ecchi shows such as Queen’s Blade, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, and Ikkitousen, as well as non-ero such as Elfen Lied and Gokukoku no Brynhildr.
Back in June 2009, Arms was at its highest point with unwavering titles such as Ikkitousen securing them sales worth ¥390 million; since then however, it is said the company entered a continual downward trend, leading to them being forced to cooperate with other large animation studios on their projects.
That downward trend of theirs followed the ecchi downward trend sadly. They mostly did hentai and then ecchi anime but over the years those types of shows have become less and less popular (or have been deliberately pushed aside) that it’s now at the point that you might be able to pick out 1 or 2 excellent ecchi shows over a whole year whereas in their heyday ecchi couldn’t do wrong. Every season had a tonne of excellent fanservice shows but now? Sad.
Because they stopped doing ecchi shows with story. They could never handle both.
I agree with the observation that the decline began in 2011 on the curve until 2017!
Well I think it’s safe to say that shows such as Interspecies Reviewers and Uzaki-chan are bringing the genre back from the brink then.
Uzaki-chan is not ecchi anime.
“Sex sells” or some such
03:01 good afternoon
counters I used were!
change of character design
“eye shape and shading, etc.”
you see a simplified pattern devoid of soul “details”:post shojo style inherited
and of an ero-anime,one that I noticed quite a bit
Implicity
Consultation?
What do you think, now that the economy is going to stabilize with the gold standard and everything will be prosperous again!
How should this new stage be?
What do you think can be done?
i for one would collaborate by buying!
Shame to see another Studio go.
This sucks so much.
Sad to see a big player go.
WE NEED MORE ECCHI TO KEEP AWAY THE NORMIES AND SJW AND NOW THIS!
so…this is how it ends?
Ecchi doesnt keep those monkeys away, lolicon and toddlercon do
@02:07
No!
This is not over until the Traviata is sung!
All this decline came after the 2008-2013 period. Patience the economy is already going to move to the gold standard. At this moment just “pray to heaven and be strong”, the virus has stagnated or slowed down everything!
“Temporarily”
I recommend you to prepare yourself for the rebirth, there always comes one!
You’re not alone.
Don’t be afraid.
I’ve been waiting for this since 2008.!
I knew since the 90s by premonition that in the future “we would be treated as outcasts of the world” but we will be reborn as “the spirit of the world” that soaks the earth and sees a flower germinate!
ps:@Ota.
The virus is almost hoax tier because it kills people with the health of potatoes.
The powers that be are using it as an excuse to maintain the current usurious system that crashes because they arrogantly think they can accurately fix the interest rate without causing disasters (“see goy? it was the virus that destroyed the economy, nothing at all to do with central banks and fractional reserve banking”)
~30% of all people have the “health of a potatoes”
Welcome to real life…
Hi good evening @15:40
Of course it must be because I only added the first part!…
the financial collapse of 2008-2013 and its aftermath was only the first part!
Since the system is based on debt(usury), trust money “without gold backing” and volatile exchange rates” Keynes school” generate debt=prosperity is why we are subjected, of course the Chinese virus(totalitarianism virus:pcch) is just an excuse!
Even so, that does not take away that there is an infectious agent that came out of a laboratory.
I have already seen this as a counterweight in scholasticism and the economy based on the weight of silver as a change …that is why I am interested in reading ancient books on this subject (school of Salamanca:Dominicans)
I must admit that my knowledge of economics is poor so as I always look for subjects of all kinds to read for my hobby, hence my taste for learning Sumerian language … my follies …
I know it has errors, but like I always say:
“You should not despise any information that serves: wherever it comes from, everything serves to educate yourself!
The elites don’t care about us, we’re just cattle…
That’s why the financial system doesn’t give more!
There is more debt than can be paid in 400 years,the system is a not working zombie and by its own weight it’s going to implode.
That is why the weight of gold must be set so that no more money can be issued than can be backed up as collateral.
Countries have simply exceeded by far what they can amortize
ps:excuse me if my appreciation is low or incomplete i try to work on it, thank you.
Stop pirating s♥♥t and I promise you this is now how or when it ends.
Paying CR or Funimation subscriptions doesn’t help the studios dipshit. Buying the Japanese released DVDs and blu rays do aling with official merchandise.
Paying licnesed goods only gives the publishers money. People paying subscriptions basically is giving dub actors a salary. Any monkey can figure that out.
You think studios work for free? You think they give away their products to streaming companies without getting anything into return? Are you seriously this fucking dense? Sure some money does go to publishers and people abroad but not all of it. You can’t possibly be this retarded.
f♥♥k you retard, pirating has nothing to do with this since they dont make their products available elsewhere
not surprised. the current otakus dont care about uber violent and ecchi series. its either shounen or bust!
Western SJW-pigs from the crunchyroll audience are NOT “current otakus”.
Don’t forget those damn isekais. I swear, that genre is creating thousands of wannabe Gary Stu losers who think “no facial expressions” is cool.