| the movies we get are every year is subpar, once every 5 years we stumble across "movies" that is genuinely well crafted and even if some gems are there, anime community doesn't seem to pay much attention. i am very curious, the film industry could be such a profitable playing field if good movies keep coming ? cant the anime industry make standalones or movie series like Pixar, DreamWorks, etc ? |
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| Because most of the audience demands series. |
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| Because it's too much of a risk really. But most of the anime movies now are sequels to anime that already had seasons. For instance, the Gundam Seed movies, Hathaway Flash (kinda sequel to fill in gaps) and Madoka, GuP and PP all got made into movies sequels, although these series already had enough money for the creators to do such large projects such as continuous movies. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| A movie wouldn't get me interested in the series as a whole. Like start reading the manga etc. That's what a anime series does. Also movies are quite cringe. Never understood the top rated movies. I can't even almost begin to watch them. Last 10 minutes at most. |
| "You only realize the real value of something you discarded when you get the chance to pick it up again." - Rudeus Greyrat |
| Good question. But I enjoy anime episodes more so than anime films. |
| That's a nonsense thread , the quality of movies might be subpar to you but others like them there is a reason why Detective Conan films are made every year and a lot of Japanese go to see them in theaters And it's recent that an anime film won an OsCAR |
| A lot of anime are adaptions from other media which are far too long to fit into a film. |
| Pretty much movies are very expensive, and have a shorter popularity lifespan than a 12 episode anime that has people talk about it. Also, it is harder to sell character merch that way. |
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That's a nonsense thread , the quality of movies might be subpar to you but others like them there is a reason why Detective Conan films are made every year and a lot of Japanese go to see them in theaters
And it's recent that an anime film won an OsCAR
And it's recent that an anime film won an OsCAR
| I suspect there's a certain amount of playing it safe at work, since making an original film is a riskier, more expensive prospect than making a series based on a preexisting IP. I love being able to see anime films in the cinema but distribution is often not great, especially here in the UK. Look Back didn't make it into any cinemas near me. I hope The Colours Within does when it gets its UK release in 2025. @JoeChip Since Best Animated Feature Oscar was inaugurated in 2001, the following anime films have been nominated (year is ceremony year, not release year):
That's just seven anime films across twenty-three editions. Only one of them is not a Ghibli film, and the only ones that won were directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Big crowd pleasers like Your Name, A Silent Voice, and Mugen Train did not manage to get nominated. Now, the Oscars are obviously a ceremony which is mostly about the US film industry jerking itself off and the animated feature category doesn't get as much care or attention as it should, but it's illustrative of how difficult it is for foreign films to get much in the way of mainstream recognition in the US. |
| "The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world." - JG Ballard, Kingdom Come (2006) |
| @09philj Lots of anime movies I wanted to watch were never shown in U.S. theaters, or they were shown long after they were released on Bluray and fansubbed. Piano no Mori A Silent Voice Penguin Highway Cencoroll Children of the Sea Phoenix Reminiscence of Flower Kitarou Tanjou Sand Land |
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ame said: once every 5 years we stumble across "movies" that is genuinely well crafted That sounds... more dire than I would think. I'm curious about what your standards and examples of "genuinely well-crafted" are. I've been watching more anime movies recently (thanks, Netflix), and was pretty impressed with movies from the past 5 years, like Blue Giant, Inu-Oh, Children of the Sea. I managed to catch Look Back in theaters this year, which was also a good watch and seems widely-liked. Speaking of popularity, Suzume and The Boy and the Heron were also within the past 5 years. I haven't been around for long so I don't know if things are worse than before, but I'm glad to see standalone movies keep getting made, and many of them are profitable, apparently (otherwise they'd stop making those, especially in this economy). |
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