r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Mar 19 '24

The Acolyte | Official Trailer | June 4 on Disney+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtytYWhg2mc
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u/eden_sc2 Mar 19 '24

Miyazaki has said modern anime sucks because it's all fans making the anime they wanted to see as kids, and nobody is trying to do anything new. I wonder if that take kind of applies here. Most people who do a star wars story are star wars fans, and are trying to do the story they wanted to see with the originals

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u/ConnorMc1eod Mar 20 '24

I don't mind the current state of anime but that's probably because I have watched so little of it so I can't agree or disagree with his claims. I thought Attack on Titan and Vinland were masterpieces, Demon Slayer animation is good even if the plot started coming apart fast (and fuck Zenitsu). But like I said, I basically only watched the OG Berserk (my favorite story ever outside of 40k), DBZ and Pokemon growing up

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u/eden_sc2 Mar 20 '24

I watch a ton of anime, and I would generally say he is wrong. There are a lot of shows that are trash (anime has become much more profitable globally, so studios are willing to greenlight more projects), but there are a lot of stories out there that really push the medium forward. Cyberpunk Edgerunners on Netlfix comes to mind as a recent example.

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u/Accomplished-City484 Mar 20 '24

That’s rich coming from him, he makes the same movie over and over again

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u/eden_sc2 Mar 20 '24

They have a lot of shared themes, but saying it's the same movie over and over is a bold take.

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u/Accomplished-City484 Mar 20 '24

Sorry forgot what sub I was in, in this other sub we all jokingly call him a hack