| Usually when toys are made and sold in stores, sometimes manufacturers create tv shows for advertisements. Sometimes these tv shows are considered “30 minute ads” for consumers. As for anime, if a show is created based on a toy, do you consider the show a “30 min. ad”, even if the show is well written or not? Bonus question: Is there any anime shows you like based on toys? |
| Hello Kitty came to my mind first, meow. =^_^= |
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| Queen's Blade and Bikini Warriors. |
I mean, Minky Momo is one I'm going to watch, and it certainly had an intense tie to the toy line-up (Wikipedia rather explicitly says it was "aimed at young girls with the goal of selling toys")... so much so that Ashi Pro got a bit offended when the toy company who sponsored Minky Momo from the begining pulled out, Ashi Pro made an episode where they ran the main character over with a truck carrying toys, effectively making the toys a lot less likely for kids to ever want to buy. She gets reincarnated, but still, this means she dies as a "fuck you" to the sponsor for pulling funding. Here's a video on it by someone other than Kenny Lauderdale, since too many people say "Watch Kenny Lauderdale's video on [Insert X anime here]". |
Daviljoe193May 22, 3:29 PM
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| I watched a few Beyblade episodes when I was a kid, but using the real ones with classmates was way more fun. We even built custom beyblades and arenas, one of them had razorsharp blades and flew out of the arena, onto somebody's arm and it cut them bloody ^^ |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| @FuunsaikiStar, there is an anime in your list of completed works that is associated with toys (action figures) - Black★Rock Shooter (TV), and it is criminally great for just being a commercial advertisement. It is the magnum opus of studios Ordet & Sanzigen and an expression of artistic giftedness of best talents of Kyoto Animation and Trigger given nearly unlimited creative freedom. Most people are blinded by its brilliance, but those who are able to see the forest behind the trees always hold this gem in high regard. This gem is known among the most demanding fans of Madoka Magica and has been a cult classic for Vocaloid fans for longer than 12 years, and for a very good reason. Another one is Selector Infected WIXOSS (card game advertisement), but it is more of a brilliant storytelling in cinema form than brilliant cinema in general. |
PostMahouShoujoMay 22, 1:33 PM
Black★Rock Shooter (TV) is beyond its time arthouse fantasy/psychological drama/psychological horror/action. Should you watch it? See my review.  ⁺  ⁺  ⁼  |
| technically, almost every anime is a publicity for a product ( usually a manga, sometimes a novel, game, card game ... ). In my opinion, if some effort was put into a show, whether in the writing, production value, creativity or whatever else, simply describing it as an "30 min ad" would be quite reductive. Being an ad wouldn't diminish the fact that effort was put into it, that it can have something to say or that it is simply entertaining, even if the original product is a toy. I actually can't think about a lot of anime made to advertise a toy ( in the way that the toy existed before the idea of making the anime ). Maybe Hello Kitty but it's mostly nostalgia talking because I haven't watched it for a very long time. Some Beyblades series were also fun. |
| Frame Arms Girl is as close to being "just an ad" as it is possible. Each episode told you what models you could buy, how to play with them, available accessories etc. It has a simple but very effective use of CGI: the humans are hand drawn (and quite smoothly), and the models and battles are CGI, which is perfect because they look just like toys. But nobody watches ads for their own sake, let alone 12 23min ads one after the other: the media have to force ads on you. So even in these extreme cases I wouldn't call it "just an ad". |
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| I recently enjoyed watching Mighty Orbots The art is great for a toy peddling show, the vintage space fantasy mood turned out really vibrant. |
| There are quite a few of those, innit? Cap Revolution Bottleman comes to mind, which I found surprisingly enjoyable (need to get back to where I left off on S2). |
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| I think it would be funny if there was an eroanime made to sell sex toys. |
| They are more like 20 minutes ads not 30 but yeah, any anime made to sell toys as a main source of income (not talking about figures that just help maximize profit) is an ad. Can those anime be good ? Honestly I have a hard time answering this because most anime like this that I know, I watched them back when I was a kid and kids are stupid. I remember liking or even loving shows like Beyblade, Digimon, Chousoku Spinner, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go Special, Crush Gear Turbo, Rockman.EXE (yeah video games can be included with toys) and even lesser known stuff like B-Daman and I owned many toys from what I listed here. I even liked shows that were meat for girls like magical girls stuff (most of them are just trying to sell silly gadgets in pink plastic) although I didn't buy any toys from these shows. Overall, I liked these shows as a kid so it feels bad to shit on them now that I grew over this stuff. I still think these anime are low effort and they don't bring any originality therefore they are not worth following for a broad audience but for kids I guess it's ok. Are there any shows worth watching for adults ? If you are a bit nerdy, I guess Yu-gi-oh is decent (at least duel monsters and maybe GX, everything after is shit). I say this because the lore of Yu-gi-oh is a bit interesting the script is mostly stupid but there is a lot variety with lots of arcs with different enemies and objectives and all, and at least there some nice drawings and music and sound effects. It's just not a cheap show. |
| Yeah, of course anime is mostly just a promotion or ads for the original material just like manga or light novels. Aikatsu comes to mind as my favorite one so far as it's a collectible cards game played on arcade. |
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Yeah, of course anime is mostly just a promotion or ads for the original material just like manga or light novels. Aikatsu comes to mind as my favorite one so far as it's a collectible cards game played on arcade.
| @VivaceRex and also the anime from the Pretty series franchise idol anime are different in the sense that they also serve as promotion material for the idols. ps. Aikatsu also had a mobile game. too bad it didn't last for long. pps. another example is Yu-gi-oh! and card fight vanguard, which are basically promotional material for the respective card games. |
DreamingBeatsMay 26, 9:52 AM
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| Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san They -technically- aren't toys. It's about tiny robots that are designed to destroy pesticide immune bugs. They're basically like toys though, it's a fun concept. A fun read and watch.  |
| Beyblade is probably one of the biggest toy-based Japanese anime franchises that comes to mind. Even with the fact that the show has to advertise the toys, show off the gimmicks of each top they still put in a lot of effort into the show. Gen 1 had some really good hand-drawn animation for the tops in the first season before experimenting with CGI in V-Force and G-Rev. It was rather jarring, but the change became standard and was much better implemented the further the franchise went on. In the Metal Saga shows, the CGI Beyblades much better integrated into the animation style, and come Burst they started adding a lot more visual effects and dynamic camera angles to further take advantage of the Beyblades. The story is also pretty decent in some of the later shows. Metal is pretty well regarded in the fandom for its lore |
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