| Yes, "Chain Chronicle" seems to share a genre ("high fantasy") with Lord of the Rings. Note that in the past, high fantasy was a lot more popular, so there are some old anime with similar plots. Nowadays, authors are too often embarrassed to play this genre straight, because it's considered cliche. |
flannan said: Nowadays, authors are too often embarrassed to play this genre straight, because it's considered cliche. Yet they are not embarassed to churn out dozens of isekai? somehow that is not cliche? There's nothing wrong with a fantasy setting done right, no one is embarassed at doing it. Its just way more work than just adapting an isekai ln that sells nowadays. |
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Fai said: flannan said: Nowadays, authors are too often embarrassed to play this genre straight, because it's considered cliche. Yet they are not embarassed to churn out dozens of isekai? somehow that is not cliche? There's nothing wrong with a fantasy setting done right, no one is embarassed at doing it. Its just way more work than just adapting an isekai ln that sells nowadays. "Dozens" has nothing on the amount of high fantasies that were written in their heyday. The sub-genre of "isekai" has resorted to self-parodies by now (like KonoSuba), so it must be going out of fashion too. By the way, isekai is about as old as high fantasy, having started in modern form by C.S. Lewis with his Narnia books. |
flannan said: Fai said: Yet they are not embarassed to churn out dozens of isekai? somehow that is not cliche? There's nothing wrong with a fantasy setting done right, no one is embarassed at doing it. Its just way more work than just adapting an isekai ln that sells nowadays. "Dozens" has nothing on the amount of high fantasies that were written in their heyday. The sub-genre of "isekai" has resorted to self-parodies by now (like KonoSuba), so it must be going out of fashion too. By the way, isekai is about as old as high fantasy, having started in modern form by C.S. Lewis with his Narnia books. Does not change the fact that LN isekai shlock with long titles is about as safest of bets as possible in terms of adaptations. That is the reason why we get almost no fantasy works ever nowadays. Not embarrassment. |
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| I'd say Lodoss is much closer. |
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| The problem with such anime is: The plot usually is not that interesting. They heavily rely on other stuff to attract users and keep them watching. Tbh other than LotR I don't know many other western fantasy movies that are set in their own fantasy world that are good/interesting. And for LotR a lot of enjoyment for me came from the music and the landscapes (I even liked this in the books when they got described.) Other good/intersting movies were Willow (with the dwarf/hobbit guy that wants to be a magician ... more like dark fantasy already and not high fantasy). Then there is lots of other crap ... not even mediocre. Those D&D movies ... it just doesn't work. Might be fun as games but in a movie I just don't like it. (Too much magic and the Gandalf-style magic in LotR ... less throwing fireballs around and overpowerd - was much better.) And always that 1 black guy ... just to have at least 1 black in the movie. (I think the english terms fore it are "token black" or somethng like that.) And really bad/uninteresting personality. Always some silent brutal guy that gets feared by others (and in the end he is nice and cares for other members of his party and sacrifices himself for them). I guess for for anime - especially with the anime art style - it is even harder. Tbh I prefer human faces and mimics for such "high fantasy". |
| It has already been animated. "Long ago". |
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