Well, there are certainly melodramatic manga. And it does show up in video games from time to time, usually the more anime inspired ones. The characters in Ace Attorney, for instance, can be extremely dramatic. However, manga is comic medium, not a audio visual medium influenced by theater. And video games don't use real actors (most of the time).
Funny you should mention that because I don't find old Mizoguchi films grating at all, yet whenever I tried watching live-action adaptations of manga, I cringed - the bad acting is exacerbated by poor direction and editing.
Honestly, the filler was the best part of Sailor Moon for giving the girls more character. Sailor Moon Crystal was just that godawful.
There can be good filler, ngl, it's just about portions really. Dragon Ball Z for example, full of it. Most doesn't really do anything than help the writers keep up with the manga. That's kind of how I see a lot of long running anime from the 80s to mid 90s.
I have a personal belief with older anime that I call "Toei pacing", where they want to be faithful to the IPs they're adapting (including the scenery panel shots), but they'll still put in filler to put enough distance between themselves and the manga. It's a common practice in general, it's just that Toei seems like they're much worse at it due to the bad pacing they put together to meet that 24-minute runtime. Dragon Ball is a great series, I just do not blame people for giving up on the anime and going to the manga instead due to its dreadful pacing and constant lingering panning shots.
I think that's pretty accurate. I only made it to season 2 of DragonBall Z, and only because I was a kid. I've tried reaching it on my old DVDs, but the first episode just kills me. The 80s and 90s in my experience are a coin toss. Either the pacing is on point, or it's getting dragged out because they're planning on a multi hundred episode series. It just kills a lot of anime I would otherwise have watched.
Since this is the unpopular opinions thread, I guess I should confess that I prefer Crystal to the original.
i'm not really sure if this is an actual unpopular opinion
It starts strong and then falls apart in the same way DBZ falls apart: too much power creep. When everyone is pulling out the Super Saiyan skills, it makes a lot of characters obsolete.
the funny thing is this occurs in Bleach's first major arc rather than far down the road
What's interesting is that part of its failure comes from character design, which is Tito Kube's strength as an artist. He's fantastic at drawing faces, but when it comes to everything else, it's all on-the-fly so nothing ever really coheres right. I don't think a skilled novelist could fix Bleach as a setting, though it is a good example of how not to world-build.
I would've taken him literally dabbing over "YOU ARE MY SPECIALLLL" drowning out everything else in the scene.
