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After attempts at Lord of the Rings and Star Wars anime, one producer is "pissed off" by Hollywood requesting everything be turned into an anime: "There are too many works to check out" (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by mo_lave@reddthat.com to c/anime@ani.social

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[–] hypertown@ani.social 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hollywood executives are probably thinking like this: "I heard this whole anime thing is getting popular no? Those are just cartoons but Chinese right? Huh, Japanese? Whatever let's just give them a few millions from our 10 billion dollars budget and we can milk our done to death stories even more!"

Honestly that is something I kinda fear. If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry they could dictate what's being produced. And I assure you that anything original is going to be rejected because it's too "risky" and "it doesn't make sense from a business perspective".
Maybe it's ridiculous but that's just a fear I have.

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I could easily see it happening, especially with how comparatively cheap anime is to produce.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's cheap because the employees work for significantly less than they should be making.

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, of course. I'm not saying it's easy to produce, or that it should be cheap. From a corporate perspective it hardly matters why it's cheap though.

[–] hypertown@ani.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Considering how much work needs to be done to produce even a mid anime the difference is staggering.

[–] xep@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the people working in the animation studios are underpaid and overworked.

[–] hypertown@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately. But I feel like even if you gave everyone a good pay the gap would still remain.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

If Hollywood buys out much of the anime industry

Sony has quite a head start on this already, Hollywood be slackin.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I welcome folks to read up on soft power, because this is the goal of animéfication. Moon made a whole video about it, and why Japan has the highest debt of a first world nation.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's plenty of anime.

Furrify Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Be original!

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Idc I’ll lap this shit up

Sorry not sorry anime is better art