[Anime Industry] A Thread on Anime Directors talking about an anime's production decisions, the limitations, and relations between the original Authors and the Anime Staff

Mar 9, 2021 5:43 AM

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A thread of anime directors talking about:
- why some anime never get a season 2
- why sometimes a sequel season takes a long time
- why many original anime have a rushed ending
- why more anime are split-cour nowdays
- the connection between the original author and anime staff

here are all the answers for those questions - https://twitter.com/aottt5478/status/1368596003763331076
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/m0nyb2/a_thread_on_anime_directors_talking_about_an/

i do not see a thread about this here so here you go if you find this infos interesting might as well share it around too

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Mar 9, 2021 5:44 AM

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Thats not a bad idea, but doing it for all animes will be one heck of a task.

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Mar 9, 2021 5:50 AM

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l--_--l said:
Thats not a bad idea, but doing it for all animes will be one heck of a task.

btw i did not make it clear enough the twitter thread already have all the answers on those questions

Mar 9, 2021 5:52 AM

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deg said:

l--_--l said:
Thats not a bad idea, but doing it for all animes will be one heck of a task.

btw i did not make it clear enough the twitter thread already have all the answers on those questions

I figured you were talking about creation of such threads on mal

Mar 9, 2021 5:59 AM

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still this doesn't explain why

Mar 9, 2021 6:01 AM

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I don't a lot much about behind the scenes anime production but there wasn't much surprising information here, I could have guessed as much.

Mar 9, 2021 6:02 AM

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l--_--l said:

deg said:

btw i did not make it clear enough the twitter thread already have all the answers on those questions

I figured you were talking about creation of such threads on mal

well this is the thread already i mean if you got other social media like twitter and facebook might as well share that twitter thread too

Mar 9, 2021 6:06 AM

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Catalano said:
still this doesn't explain why

Yabuta the director of the pre-animated PV of the Final Season says this

In Japanese anime industry, most animators are freelancers and rewards are paid for each cut. Few people have a contract with the studio.
Each year, over 200 anime titles are made. So the lack of animators is a big problem for all studios.

And there is no big difference in rewards depending on the title. (At least there is no difference to overturn the motivation of animators.) So animators often choose titles to be involved for reasons other than rewards.

https://twitter.com/yabshu55/status/1352366987318489088

other animators have spoken about this that super animators will choose an anime project that have a good production schedule

Mar 9, 2021 6:07 AM

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deg said:
A thread of anime directors talking about:
- why some anime never get a season 2
- why sometimes a sequel season takes a long time
- why many original anime have a rushed ending
- why more anime are split-cour nowdays
- the connection between the original author and anime staff

here are all the answers for those questions - https://twitter.com/aottt5478/status/1368596003763331076
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/m0nyb2/a_thread_on_anime_directors_talking_about_an/

i do not see a thread about this here so here you go if you find this infos interesting might as well share it around too

This was very informative. I often find myself asking questions like "What makes them wanna ruin a show?" Even though I knew that certain factors were involved, I did not know exactly what they were. This shed some light on a lot of it. Thanks man, and good job.

Catalano said:
still this doesn't explain why

Time, I think? No matter how good the staff, they can't make it look good if they simply aren't given enough time. I've seen at places that MAPPA wanted another year to work on the show, but the production committee didn't allow it 'cause they wanted to air it during all the hype. Plus I think that bigger things are harder to animate, and there were also new and complex character designs and stuff....

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Mar 9, 2021 6:28 AM

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And he often saw viewers complain like "I really like this part of manga/novel, why did the anime change it?" In fact, these changes were sometimes requested by the author, who also wanted to see something unique and different in anime.

yes I'm sure kamachi personally told Nishikiori to turn accel's second fight with touma into a fistfight that's impossible to have according to their powers and build.

Aoki said there are 2 trends in anime industry, one is to consider the people on the original work's side as amateurs, and anime production should be left to professionals

so that's what happened to shield hero.

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Mar 9, 2021 6:40 AM

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might as well add this here

Q3 : Why do you use 3D?
A: Simple, because there's no one there to draw! A lot of content from the manga are beyond the existing manpower to work with! Animators who can draw and perform the character acting well is too rare. Even if you pay them a lot of money, there is a limit on human physical strength, and therefore amount of work that can be digested by a man has a constraint too. So it's not that we don't want to hand draw it, it's about using the provided resources efficiently and rationally by choosing which content to use with 3D or 2D. Drawing requires physical strength. The standard unit for animation is know as 'cut', and there may only be one frame for a cut, but there may also be hundreds frames for a cut. No matter how fast a person can draw, it is impossible to draw hundreds of frames in a short time. Yet, this can be done efficiently by using 3D, and then rendered it with 2D drawings or use digital program to correct the 3D designs. This way you can have both efficiency and quality done. So this is a very reasonable approach in current industry.

Q4 : Why not get 'X' to be the animator or 'Y' to be the director?
A: In Japanese industry, most of them are freelancers. They are not obliged to serve fully for a specific project, they often serve multiple projects and multiple companies. Therefore, everyone has their own schedule fixed for the works in contract. If that animator's schedule can't match for this work, regardless how big or grand this project is, it will be rejected. Because they only earn the money for the cuts they draw, or parts they in charge. Animators also need a living, it is impossible to give up all other projects just for one. Then they would really have no money to live. It is very realistic in this industry.

source https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1881878

Mar 9, 2021 7:12 AM

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the same director for wicked city,ninja scroll and other adaptations made by the same author actually has a very close friendship and both have a great working relationship together.

Mar 9, 2021 7:15 AM

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Crow_Black said:
the same director for wicked city,ninja scroll and other adaptations made by the same author actually has a very close friendship and both have a great working relationship together.

Kawajiri's a legend, but I don't see how he fits in the topic.
Because of the director/author relationship part?

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Mar 9, 2021 7:18 AM

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Kawajiri's a legend, but I don't see how he fits in the topic.
Because of the director/author relationship part?

Yeah thats the first thing that came to mind the director relationship part for me.

Mar 9, 2021 7:25 AM

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"Aoki also mentioned anime like Index, Railgun and Overload, which are very popular, but it took so long between 2 seasons.
In these cases, the production committee actually wanted to release the next season asap. But to keep the same quality
they also wanted to keep the same production team"

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