Serious or troll I'll take this seriously as I do feel the same way and know it. You aren't crazy, people can go oh well duh they are the same, or I don't see what you see type responses but I see it too, in many mediums.
What works works, what types of power fantasies, what types of self inserts, character designs that do or don't look cool, what people talk up, easily believe, may or may not say is good or bad but still buy into it. Whatever validation, whatever mainstream, whatever depth of people going to nicher series, think about it on more sides.
Businesses are doing what works for a reason, audiences either are ok with it or suck it up and don't really care, newcomers come in and fans either eat it up or move on once they realise or 'don't feel it due to a number of factors'.
Sure not much we can do but not watch and fund what we want to see happen instead of give up on the medium, or go back to older works even though new audiences come up all the time so try to fight it it's tough.
Like Game and Watch was for Nintendo a random person in Japan pressing buttons on a calculator, hey lets make a clock/game system combo and something to press buttons with. Like not everyone has that level of inspiration or how I do with Foamstars think up more than the two modes it has, they aren't good but I mean if foam/a surfboard is all to go on as a base and I have more creative ideas then they do no way they'd hire me it's not money making mindset or it's too ambitious then their safe trending approach. Too much to maintain then 2 modes with my 5+ mode ideas. XD They don't want creativity they want cosmetics/bare minimum that functions to make money. XD
I don't know movesets or story telling dynamics matter a lot to me not just easy emotional fulfillment but how to put a spin on the creative process. I don't make anything but I do analyse/pay attention to the finer details sometimes.
From Indie games to AAA or other mediums I sense it for sure. So part of it is nostalgia, comfort, similar, easy to manipulate audiences, some people want simple and don't want to seek out a work, or make their own. Others are too inspired too close to a favourite work of theirs and because it's popular or because a production company/publisher wants it to be standardized. So it's multiple factors.
Why else wouldn't I hate Indie games that are too much like 'oh we were inspired by this' and it's very obvious they went we made this, and while the level design/assets are original you see the same mechanics and tone as them. Wow how can I get excited if the mechanics are the same, they may play differently but the mechanical ideas to me is enough to say nah pass.
As while the writing/tone try to convey as best they can and it's fine. How the games play or what they want to underlyingly offer is why I hate nostalgia/heavily inspired Indies. It's a weird take but it's no different to safe AAA, put the studio under 'make this trend', they never have before and we get either passable or that studio is dead after the project results.
Not all Indies have a random idea, prototype enough. It's why I get annoyed.
So with anime (bringing it back I just related it to the other as I have strong feelings towards it with games and reflection on it a lot over the years), manga, music, games, whatever medium it's repeat or get a few that are willing to be bold, get past the companies enough to be pushed through and impactful. That's what it needs. People stupid enough to enjoy them or it being genuinely good and not stupid at all and a respectable series.
Hpw many reboots do we need to widen the audience, think about it. That's enough to say from me seeing the Steins;gate reboot, wow we got 1, Zero and spin offs...... Huh I think their desperate, maybe try a spin off like Utawarerumono Zan a beat em up approach than it being well a tactics but mostly visual novel. Or what was the point in Steins;gate Elite with the anime cutscenes in it? They need to think bigger they do not.
If in terms of trends/gimmicks then yeah, if seeking the same types then well change genres, change studios/creators works, go read different types of manga/visual novels or watch other anime.
Do people get too inspired yes, do they watch/read the mainstream only yes, do we see repeats or spins too weak or too copy paste or not spinning up enough yes. I see it all the time. Blame fans of those older works making their own works. Blame their lack of creativity, lack of bolder ideas or is it because of editors/production companies and safeness of 'what works' I mean some bold can be too far but some are worth experiencing so them being Indie works or fan works then purely wide spread is the difference. Being an Indie but even if a company or not and just an individual who seeks them out? Even with Youtube, Pixiv or Writerscafe or others. Who really branches out with ideas, let alone sees the few that do.
I make music with a free app, I don't think my structural sound design is good but it's not commercialized that's for sure. Sometimes it's sticking to a genre, other times awkward sound design with the patterns I use of the what key/harmony tool other times it's just the samples and going nuts. Who cares to find it, it takes time to find what app, what communities, what type of uploads.
I showcased mods in a game I was familiar with and shared my knowledge but also showed off niche mods, not the same mainstream mods over and over. I broke the mold because I was sick of seeing the same. Who wants to do that only the few people that do and the few people that seek something different, those that mix things up but also are safe about it in 'how they handle their content'.
Same with any doujin manga, or short films/animations people may make, finding it. If you want commercialized things to be more creative sometimes look to Indies that are or aren't companies and just creativies making and sharing their things online instead.
People get inspired, experience narrow series, only have few ideas to make it differ besides their inspiration from other series.
If from experiences themselves they put into it or other people around them then sure or research they do on a topic the series may offer.
But most times unless they have a great idea from random most will follow something else they enjoyed that was popular (then niche or people looking past the narrow mainstream show/manga/other source materials) and unless they are the few percent that have an original idea then spin off of others that connected with them in some way.
It's one of those things where I can go all slice of life are the same, now is it due to the types of things characters do? Is it the setting? The limits of teen or other aged characters besides the adult ones wider range of limits and difference of flexiblity to places/events they will present (not just age ratings either unless the series is about some younger that do things and a focus on that in a dark way I guess).
But yeah unless the themes differ in a multiple ways (as in unique to each person even if sound a bit odd which as unique to them is fair or similar and trying to target the same) to present a love song or whatever else kind of way (I don't mean just romance I mean as in the many ways to present something part) then yeah |
Dreams are worth fighting for
