Odd for an anime to get beyond its initial 48 episodes and outlast the popularity of the game and be called terrible is one of the oddest things i read today. MHST_rideOn is a perfect anime
I would call Monster Hunter far from perfect, it's cheap, it looks bad, the target audience for it is clearly younger kids. The fact that it got extended has nothing to do with its quality, the producers were probably happy with how well the ratings were doing or something similar to that.
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I dont understand, stuff for kids can be good.
Its actually getting annoying right now lolTheres like over 40 capable anime studios, actually they could even pick a newer younger studio for it. The Bones love is like the madhouse love from a few months bacck where people just wanted madhouse to do every single new franchise
I started the whole speculation on what series would be the next ones to get adapted after we are sure Yuuna is getting an anime. My top picks were Kimetsu, Hinomaru and Neverland. The discussion happened to concentrate on Kimetsu, it's not like the series gets that much discussion around it anyway. This topic probably won't get mentioned in a while either, so whatever.
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I guess people are finally realizing that Bones are the new Madhouse. BnHA probably had a lot to do with it.
I haven't seen too much from them lately, but the Pokemon Sun and Moon anime is freaking amazing, their new digital animation techniques make the new pokemon anime more fun than it's ever been, at least for me, the last time I watched the Pokemon anime was in the Diamond and Pearl era, and that wasn't anything special.
Yeah, I'm surprised more people aren't that pumped with the idea of Bones, one of the most consistent studios all around adapting more Jump stuff, they've finally had their breakthrough with the big 3 publishers, I personally want them to adapt as many good or promising manga from the big publishers. Madhouse happened to have some last legs because of HxH, but as I pointed out, the staff that did that left to form studio VOLN and OPM was a once in a lifetime coincidental miracle production. Bones, even if they've struggled financially at points throughout the years, they still managed to bounce back and they still always came out with some of the best new anime productions on a yearly basis. Also, all studios are pretty much in the red, except like 2-3. While MAPPA haven't exactly been flawless or anything lately, I still think they've been better than Madhouse in recent times to an extent, at least they aren't making a bunch of relatively cheapish light novel adaptations and they're trying to innovate to an extent, with stuff like Zankyou no Terror, that show had scary good visuals and ideas, but for a lot of people, the story wasn't the best. Stuff like Ushio to Tora, the first Garo anime, the third Garo anime and Sakamichi no Apollon were things I've enjoyed from them, even Yuri on Ice.
I can agree with you to an extent, but also disagree. Studios do matter and so does the staff. Could have a show like Mob Psycho looked as good and been as solidly produced and well executed if it were made by another studio with a weaker overall core of staff and members, animators? While Deen did a great job on Rakugo and Konosuba, they also had a lot of very sub par stuff in that period as well. 2016 was a shockingly good year for them and 2017 was pretty bad. From Bones, you can expect a certain level of quality and consistency, almost always, because they have an incredible core of talented people that work for them.
And then they did one of the worst shows of the year The Reflection last season. Its best to say that those shows were exceptions if anything. But you're right in that you should always mark your expectations with the staff involved and not the studio in itself which I'll forever bring up when people keep bringing up a Neverland anime.
Reset was garbage, not sure about Monster Hunter. Level E was a collab but I saw more of David Pro than Pierrot in that anime. Both are WSJ titles so that's why I brought that up. I enjoyed both titles a lot.
I definitely agree with you on Neverland, that will seriously need an appropriate staff to work on it. An approapriate director would be the director behind Death Note and AOT for example, in my opinion, since he's also closely tied to WIT and Production I.G now, that would be ideal. A good studio is also definitely necessary for it, since it has super unique designs that will be tough to adapt in animation, it's in a similar scenario to Kimetsu, Bones, Wit or Production IG would also be great picks for Neverland in my eyes.
I wouldn't mind DavidPro for Kimetsu, a million times better than Pierrot or Toei.
I've never seen it, but I did see it had some crazy animation highlights and a very unique visual style with the shading it had.
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Eh. I don't think that Araki would be a good fit for Neverland just for the sheer fact that tge style of his direction is the complete opposite of what the manga goes for it was the same issue with Death Note and Attack On Titan though some would say that the over the top nature of the adaptation helped Death Note a lot because at its core it's a very pulpy and dumb story but with Attack On Titan he turned a manga eith horror and dramatic elements into a dumb action anime. Now if you had said the same team that's doing Ancient Magus Bride then I'll agree.
I think it's fine to have expectations from Bones, since they almost always deliver. Sure, they do hire a lot of talented freelance staff, but their core is undeniably of the the best from all animation studios. Season 2 of Kekkai Sensen still has solid directing even without season 1's director and it sill has incredible animation highlights and great consistency. I don't mind more possibilities, as long as things end up well and the people in charge deliver, I know if something goes to Bones, chances are, they most likely will deliver, that's my outlook at least. Also, do you think Season 1 of Kekkai Sensen would've been as exceptional under another studio, even with season 1's director, probably not.
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I'd be completely fine with the Magus team doing Neverland, that show has some stunning art and the attention to detail is some of the best I've seen in a while when it comes to an adaptation, Neverland would need stunning visuals to stand out and to respect Posuka's vision. Araki came to mind because it seems he has the right formula to make mega hits, I'd expect Shueisha want Neverland to take off in a similar way that AOT did and I did see some similarities between the AOT manga and the start of Neverland's.
According to Anime News Network, It's a compilation film of the first season with Reigen telling the story and a little bit new material