is anime overtaking hollywood?

[ambi]

what do you think? the anime movie "demon slayer" just recently smashed box office records for a foreign film in the US. meanwhile, the audience for this year's oscar awards crashed by over 50%. do you think people are turning away from hollywood and towards anime and mange for their entertainment?

[☎need4naiim☎]

Publicado originalmente por Ad Victoriam !:

From my point of view, the decay of Hollywood is the decay of american influence on us....

i see it like this; Hollywood got away, far away from the roots where&when we witnessed John Waynes, Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brandos, Clint Eastwoods, Sophia Lorens... etc. Hence, people do not see that charm anymore. Audience know Classic Hollywood Spirit does not exist within 2021 Hollywood more than 90% of the time. It is not that audience got away from US Culture, but Hollywood itself made it obvious that the Classic feel is not there. May the future bring it back and reinstall the glory & charm? God only knows.

[Ailes]

The mainstream won't switch over. There are movies like "Your Name" or your obvious few Ghibli movies that even those who aren't into animes/mangas will know and like. But that's about it I think. I don't know about Demon Slayer. Too many other movies are recaps of series and pretty bad. The few unique ones that aren't Ghibli or Shinkai are rather niche and special, these will never be known to a large amount of Western people. Ask your neighbor about Jin-Roh or Akira for example, they will probably ask you if that's something new to eat at your local Asian. If you get lucky Ghost in the Shell will ring a bell, but you better hope it's not only just the live-action movie.

Publicado originalmente por Masque of Clavicus Vile:

Publicado originalmente por Walach:

I tried watchin anime a long time ago, I loved it, but then I noticed that so, so many of the where the same thing. Same characters, same story, same structure, etc.

I'm no expert, and I don't know if it qualifies as "anime", per se, but I think if you watched the Studio Ghibli films, you'd change your mind. Absolutely incredible stuff.

Ghibli movies are same-ish. And somewhat cookie-cutterish. Family-friendy. They are essentially the Disney of anime. I adore Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, but if you have seen a couple more you will eventually get bored by them in some ways or others. At least that's how I feel. They aren't bad. But they aren't necessarily always the pure, undisputable work of genius that hardcore Ghibli fans will try to tell you.

The same goes for Shinkai movies like "Your Name". These are nice-to-watch romances with cool sci-fi ideas mixed in. But they will not usually stick with you for too long. If you aren't into romances you will probably skip them altogether. They did not stick with me for long, except maybe for the original black and white short movie "She and Her Cat" and "Voices of a Distant Star".

The really good animes are series. That's where you will find true gems. Of which the casual person won't be watching much ever in his life. And no, I'm not talking about your omnipresent One Piece, Dragonball or Naruto. These shows are for children. They are trash. Too long, too predictable, too much about stupid topics and tropes. The truly fantastic animes aren't having hundreds of episodes and will deal with deeper things than "Friendship, compansionship and/or love can conquer all."

[AdahnGorion]

No but this week it is taking over steam

[AdahnGorion]

Publicado originalmente por Zenith:

Publicado originalmente por Darkie:

No but this week it is taking over steam

I haven't noticed much more anime games from years ago when I browsed Store-kun.

Try clicking on the golden sale and see what happens

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

at least japan tend to care much less about being ''politically correct'' when they made anime compared to hollywood when they make movies.

[天佑中共🐥the strongest]

vtubers ruling the world
I rather watch an anime girl watching a hollywood movie than watching the movie itself

[Netaris]

Publicado originalmente por ☎need4naiim☎:

i see it like this; Hollywood got away, far away from the roots where&when we witnessed John Waynes, Kirk Douglas, Marlon Brandos, Clint Eastwoods, Sophia Lorens... etc. Hence, people do not see that charm anymore. Audience know Classic Hollywood Spirit does not exist within 2021 Hollywood more than 90% of the time. It is not that audience got away from US Culture, but Hollywood itself made it obvious that the Classic feel is not there. May the future bring it back and reinstall the glory & charm? God only knows. :overthedream:

Of course, the spirit of the beginnings is long dead, my grandpa was a huge fan of westerns with John Waynes and other actors of this era. This Hollywood don't gonna come back, even if there is a try cancel culture gonna prevent it from coming back anyway.

And I'm french, I'm tired of french bashing, treasons and lootings from americans, englishs and germans. You have absolutly no idea what we have endured in term of humiliations, degradations and destructions because of "glorious and charming 'murica" since the end of WW2. I'm done with them, I don't trust this country anymore and if one of their tools is decaying, that makes me happy. I wish no harm to 'muricans, but, they have to go back home and stay into it.

[garygarypov]

Corona's over, g. Maybe it's not, but Hollywood is gonna pretend it is with no concern for the body count because the mouse dgaf

Anime is not gonna beat L.A. Studios

[Logan]

Lmao no

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Publicado originalmente por Ambigore:

what do you think? the anime movie "demon slayer" just recently smashed box office records for a foreign film in the US. meanwhile, the audience for this year's oscar awards crashed by over 50%. do you think people are turning away from hollywood and towards anime and mange for their entertainment?

tbh all the bad ♥♥♥♥ coming out of holly wood i wouldn't doubt it.

Sure anime isn't as clean either but you can bet your ass it's not as bad as hollywood in the past couple of decades.

it's also no surprise you keep seeing ♥♥♥♥ with the "made in Georgia" peach or apple logo. I think they're trying to get tech companies to go to Texas too. Hollywood has become very Toxic or showing its true colors more. Well the whole state as a whole has become very corrupt and wonky.

In a way anime is sorta a gateway to shut off your mind even for a couple of mins and just take a break from the real world.
What made hollywood so good has become henpecking of virtue signaling and selling ♥♥♥♥ for as low a cost as possible. No one wants more of that ♥♥♥♥ spoonfed to them in their escape releases.
What is even funnier is they tried to make "live adaptations" of animes and such but it's just recycled hollywood garbage with the monumental huge flop of the last airbender rated as the worst adaptation or at least the go to for worst adaptation.

but as the first comment said anythings better than hollywood RN not just anime. Hell i'll even take mexican or Indian movies bollywood and what not.

[Fostin4]

90's Hollywood was prime. Now it is so bad I can't get past the cringe, also let's not talk about the chris hansen level of stuff they are involved and easily get away with it.Nowadays, it is one or two good movies a year. Anime is miles ahead now in every aspect.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Publicado originalmente por Fostin4:

90's Hollywood was prime. Now it is so bad I can't get past the cringe, also let's not talk about the chris hansen level of stuff they are involved and easily get away with it.Nowadays, it is one or two good movies a year. Anime is miles ahead now in every aspect.

90's was pretty cringe too
i wanna say early TV era before color like black and white and relying on acting and word of mouth or radio was the golden age.