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But in their defense, there really isn't much space for innovation. Simply put, most of the cool ideas have been thought of already.
To quote Yamakan:
"What we percieve as originality is simply very deft plagiarism."
no, it's not an excuse for being lazy with your character designs and storylines, but what can one do? Either invent something never-before-thought-of/bizarre and risk alienating one's audience (e.g. FLCL, which was both loved and hated by those who've watched it) , or sacrifice originality, recycling old concepts and things for something more approachable, and get slammed by critics all over the place.
Well, I think that's part of the problem. There seems to be a constant need to either pander ones' audience, or innovate in all the wrong ways. For example, the whole afterlife school concept... what? What does that even mean? It is a new concept simply for the sake of it. Is it originality? Sure, in a shallow sort of way. But does it make sense? Does it relate to whatever meaning the show is trying to have? No, probably not.
I think because television is constantly airing, the same ideas will be reused over and over. This is a problem for people who do nothing but watch anime. The same is true for the video game industry and people who do nothing but play video games. And for people who think books are immune to this problem, they need only look to the romance section of your local bookstore... just reading books is a problem too. Storytelling would be much improved if more people of each respective medium would read more books, watch more TV, play more video games, etc. Cross-contaminate. As it is, however...
-SauceJ. Jonathan Brett said:For the purposes of illustration, compare this creative process with that which goes into the creation of the vast majority of manga. Contrary to what many Internet-savvy manga fans (who may or may not be Internet Jerks) will tell you, the vast majority of manga are pretty crummy. This is because the vast majority of manga are written by people who have read a lot of manga, really like manga, and decide that they, too, would like to make manga. They realize that if they're going to make manga, it has to have some sort of "story", and "characters" to populate the story. These people are quite literally writing to fill pages.
If you're in the mood for contemplation, consider how this issue is evident to varying degrees in every medium.
Consider the amount of people who do nothing but watch anime. This is the only source of storytelling these people have. It is a very bad thing that contributes to a much larger problem.
anyways, digi-kun won't be really happy with this thread turning into a debate about the current state of the anime industry or whatever
I am sorry for derailing the thread, carry on. I love me some digi-kun, don't want to offend.