What animes are you watching? A fuckton of animes and all the popular shonan ones are serialized but have enough development and lore to make parodies and chibi shorts. It's rare in western media because our cartoons need rerun value or else kids won't know what's going on and tune out. And it's us who are shit at it in large doses.
It sounds like Owl House made the same mistake as Steven Universe: too many chefs in the kitchen and nobody to tell them stfu and gtfo. Luz was shaping up to be a rock thrown into the natural and magical order of the Boiling Isles with Eda and King as the rock throwers. But leading up to her going to magic school, it felt like the writers were rushing shit to get to the "good stuff" with other characters without letting us get used to the three (four counting Hooty) we already had. I guess it only got worse and gayer since then.
That explains the juggling act of ideas you said above. I agree but when you're on a tight schedule and shoestring budget, one person working two jobs isn't strange, it's expected (and unfair sometimes). With all that work put on boarders it's no wonder a lot of CN alumni are gender-confused trashfires living on twatter. Disney has the cash to separate the two but what use is the best crew money can buy when the captain is bumbling?
This sounds similar to why Star Vs. ended up the way it did. If magic is a main theme it needs rules or it's just stupid messy writing.
Dreamland wasn't bad but the ending dropped the ball hard. Danger Island was so boring I didn't bother with the space one. The season he wakes up is ironically a return to form similar to Archer Vice (where he also cheated death from almost drowning).
I don't watch that much anime honestly
probably shouldn't have made that broad a statement, my bad!I think it depends on the show, but I get what you mean. We can either be pretty good with serialization or excruciatingly bad at it.
It's basically DuckTales with teeth! The MC also becomes an orphan right in the second episode when his whole family gets killed off by the very people who ran them off their land.I don't watch that much anime honestly
From what I remember right now I enjoyed Paranoia Agent, Baccano!, Cowboy Bepop, Maison Ikkoku and Silver Spoon.
Dunno If I should count in Death Note, because I stopped watching it once Near showed up, until them I thought it was excelent..
I think my gripes with Japanese serialization comes from Shounen actually, I don't watch that much of it tho.
Like they have interesting premises and a solid setting, but they oftentimes don't explore their settings, instead of developing conflict naturally with the characters that are already there, they add in new ones (that then need to be developed, usually quickly trough backstories) and after those characters aren't needed anymore they get discarded.
I'm not a huge fan of cutting a series into sagas, or back-stories, but it all depends on how it's handled.
But really, what frustrates me the most is the introduction and dispense of characters as tools..
In the end it's of course just personal preference. In the end, anime really has more practice in serialization than western animation has.
I think it depends on the show, but I get what you mean. We can either be pretty good with serialization or excruciatingly bad at it.
Moral Orel, Venture Brothers, Archer: Vice, AtlA, Kid Kosmic- Gravity falls too - were great at it.
Steven Universe, SvtoE, the She-ra reboot suck horse cock at it.
To me, it always felt like those three shows took the worst aspects of anime and incorporated them into their cartoons, but with zero awareness of how those tropes are used and how they could clash with western tropes..
Then again, these shows feel more like bad fanfiction than bad anime, so I could be wrong about that.
I mean, these are shows that are inspired by fandom culture for fandom culture.
I have this weird fascination with a Dutch-Japanese 80's show called Alfred J. Kwak, dunno how popular it was outside of Europe. It is also a serialized show, it starts when the MC is born and follows him growing up and going on adventures + political climate in his country.
The show has just so weird tonal shifts dude. Like the main antagonist is literally Hitler.
In some episode Alfred has to travel to the moon to a clown that lives there, so that the clown can teach him a violin song that can cure the plague - and in another episode it's about the political rising of the Hitler.
It ends with Hitler kidnapping MC's girlfriend, then MC has to break into Hitler's house and threaten him with a gun.
It's hilarious!
I don't watch that much anime honestly
From what I remember right now I enjoyed Paranoia Agent, Baccano!, Cowboy Bepop, Maison Ikkoku and Silver Spoon.
Dunno If I should count in Death Note, because I stopped watching it once Near showed up, until them I thought it was excelent..
I think my gripes with Japanese serialization comes from Shounen actually, I don't watch that much of it tho.
Like they have interesting premises and a solid setting, but they oftentimes don't explore their settings, instead of developing conflict naturally with the characters that are already there, they add in new ones (that then need to be developed, usually quickly trough backstories) and after those characters aren't needed anymore they get discarded.
I'm not a huge fan of cutting a series into sagas, or back-stories, but it all depends on how it's handled.
But really, what frustrates me the most is the introduction and dispense of characters as tools..
In the end it's of course just personal preference. In the end, anime really has more practice in serialization than western animation has.
I think it depends on the show, but I get what you mean. We can either be pretty good with serialization or excruciatingly bad at it.
Moral Orel, Venture Brothers, Archer: Vice, AtlA, Kid Kosmic- Gravity falls too - were great at it.
Steven Universe, SvtoE, the She-ra reboot suck horse cock at it.
To me, it always felt like those three shows took the worst aspects of anime and incorporated them into their cartoons, but with zero awareness of how those tropes are used and how they could clash with western tropes..
Then again, these shows feel more like bad fanfiction than bad anime, so I could be wrong about that.
I mean, these are shows that are inspired by fandom culture for fandom culture.
I have this weird fascination with a Dutch-Japanese 80's show called Alfred J. Kwak, dunno how popular it was outside of Europe. It is also a serialized show, it starts when the MC is born and follows him growing up and going on adventures + political climate in his country.
The show has just so weird tonal shifts dude. Like the main antagonist is literally Hitler.
In some episode Alfred has to travel to the moon to a clown that lives there, so that the clown can teach him a violin song that can cure the plague - and in another episode it's about the political rising of the Hitler.
It ends with Hitler kidnapping MC's girlfriend, then MC has to break into Hitler's house and threaten him with a gun.
It's hilarious!
Alfred J. Kwak is so fucking weird and that's why I love it, in any other series I would have roll out my eyes at seeing literal Hitler as the main villain and all the other themes that feel preachy but somehow the writers managed it to actually making it fun on top of finding the craziest way to resolve the problems.
What a weird-ass movie. There's a reason WB never shipped off the Looney Tunes characters to anyone they didn't already know after this thing. About the only thing of value here is the fact that they got Mel Blanc back for the voices, and even then Filmation screwed that up; Daffy, Porky, and Tweety are all sped up from Blanc's base performance in the classic shorts, but here, Daffy and Tweety sound like chipmunks, while Porky's voice isn't sped up at all.
As a sort of continuation of this comment, i ended up binging this show for myself, and it was actually somewhat decent.
All media needs a fucking JohnK at this point. Try finding me a medium that HASN'T stagnated.
Better working conditions and more diverse types of show would help too. It's either comedies or action with little in-between.
