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PS1gamenwatch said:
With the Solo Leveling anime, does this mean they would adapt othet Korean manhwa into anime? And kept their Korean names?
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I don't ever want to see another Korean webtoon get adapted into anime. I don't even consider them anime to begin with. Crunchyroll is responsible for unleashing all of them on the market and they're not something Japanese studios would ever choose to make of their own free will.

If you want to get really tinfoil hat-ish about it, I personally believe that CR and other companies are funding adaptations of non-Japanese IPs to dilute the term "anime" so much that they can start calling things like High Guardian Spice "anime" unironically and have normies buy it. "People would rather watch anime than our CalArts bean mouth goyslop? Let's call our goyslop anime." The sad part is that it will probably work. People absolutely ate Edgerunners up even though Cyberpunk 2077 and Studio Trigger should have never been mentioned in the same sentence together.
 
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I'm not someone who cared for a lot of Funimation's output before or now and you won't see me looking back on Funimation with nostalgia but as someone who was an at most very casual and infrequent Dragonball watcher they used to have decent JP subtitles for DB. I'm sure that will be tossed out the window as Funimation is folded into Crunchyroll and it's $80/episode sweatshop regime.
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Your Funimation Digital Copies will also be gone.
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A.P. Hill said:
People absolutely ate Edgerunners up even though Cyberpunk 2077 and Studio Trigger should have never been mentioned in the same sentence together.
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It's at least an anime since Studio Trigger is still run by Nips who love animation and they went bonkers with it, as an anime should. It's also a nice callback to the time when cyberpunk was commonplace in anime, though I was hoping that perhaps it would've started a new boon of cyberpunk anime. I wouldn't called Edgerunners a perfect anime like others have, however, it was still missing something.

Netflix was quality all over the place and have further polluted the waters in defining "what is anime" thanks to Castlevania and gang, but they had a head start in producing the kind of anime people actually want to see. Compare that to the folks of Toonami who commissions series no one actually wanted more of (or if they did, the end result was either that of a complete mess or productions are still delayed), and Crunchyroll doesn't have love for the medium despite it being their bread and butter, and they're cheap to boot. And while it may be neat to get more manhwa adaptations, they still went about it the wrong way and pissed off everyone in the process—like who's still talking about Tower of God today despite all that hype? Legit? I personally believe Tokyopop would've been a better producer of manhwa adaptations had they stuck around long enough to consider commissioning studios to do adaptations, and they're screw-ups who gave us the finger and fucked off in the late 2000s.

Thank God for thrift stores and secondhand copies. I pirate practically everything, but physical media is still king where it counts.
 
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A.P. Hill said:
I don't ever want to see another Korean webtoon get adapted into anime. I don't even consider them anime to begin with. Crunchyroll is responsible for unleashing all of them on the market and they're not something Japanese studios would ever choose to make of their own free will.

If you want to get really tinfoil hat-ish about it, I personally believe that CR and other companies are funding adaptations of non-Japanese IPs to dilute the term "anime" so much that they can start calling things like High Guardian Spice "anime" unironically and have normies buy it. "People would rather watch anime than our CalArts bean mouth goyslop? Let's call our goyslop anime." The sad part is that it will probably work. People absolutely ate Edgerunners up even though Cyberpunk 2077 and Studio Trigger should have never been mentioned in the same sentence together.
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I tried to give Solo Leveling a watch and got bored after half of the second episode. It looks too much standard power fantasy "I'll show those people that called me a loser!" and "what if magic in real world".
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I tried to give Solo Leveling a watch and got bored after half of the second episode. It looks too much standard power fantasy "I'll show those people that called me a loser!" and "what if magic in real world".
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i'm surprised anyone from here even bothered
the goddamn name alone has more than one red flag
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
Thank God for thrift stores and secondhand copies. I pirate practically everything, but physical media is still king where it counts.
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It's why I'm grateful for companies like Discotek who license older anime. The only sucky part of that now is Crunchyroll bought out Rightstuf so now I have to go through their horrible customer service and website to get worse deals and to have my pre-ordered Blu-Rays come in later than if I had just ordered it normally.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I tried to give Solo Leveling a watch and got bored after half of the second episode. It looks too much standard power fantasy "I'll show those people that called me a loser!" and "what if magic in real world".
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Solo Leveling sounds like the most generic shit possible but that's typical for most Korean webcomics.
 
I'm surprised they didn't try adapting Korean stories Unbalance x Unbalance which features a bad boy and a busty female teacher in a relationship since that is their thing, or Girls of The Wild's which has guy go to an girls school or even Hwang Ri Mi's works which are reverse harems with girls surrounded by pretty boys, especially one which has an assertive bad girl trying to monopolize on one guy even though she promised this gay guy to help him.
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Imagine if that happened to other manga with yaoi in them, a girl like this comes along and takes the guy away.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I tried to give Solo Leveling a watch and got bored after half of the second episode. It looks too much standard power fantasy "I'll show those people that called me a loser!" and "what if magic in real world".
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The visuals were really its only strong suit in the manhwa. Everything concerning the story and characters ranged from passable to mediocre.

PS1gamenwatch said:
I'm surprised they didn't try adapting Korean stories Unbalance x Unbalance which features a bad boy and a busty female teacher in a relationship since that is their thing
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Isn't by the same guy who wrote that Freezing series? I remember how fucked up that manga was.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
It's at least an anime since Studio Trigger is still run by Nips who love animation and they went bonkers with it, as an anime should.
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I think you're kinda missing my point. What I consider to be "anime" doesn't have to do with who made it, or the quality. Western animation can be good too. If the anime exists only because a foreign media company got a Japanese studio to make it, it isn't anime. If the target market isn't Japan, but foreign weebs, it isn't anime. Especially when it's a foreign IP that isn't popular in Japan in the first place. Foreign IPs shouldn't be considered "anime", and I would be over the moon if I never saw another one get an anime ever.

Look at it this way: you can hire 100 Japanese people to build a Ford Fusion, make it indistinguishable from a Toyota Camry, but at the end of the day it's still a Ford Fusion!

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A.P. Hill said:
I think you're kinda missing my point. What I consider to be "anime" doesn't have to do with who made it, or the quality. Western animation can be good too. If the anime exists only because a foreign media company got a Japanese studio to make it, it isn't anime. If the target market isn't Japan, but foreign weebs, it isn't anime. Especially when it's a foreign IP that isn't popular in Japan in the first place. Foreign IPs shouldn't be considered "anime", and I would be over the moon if I never saw another one get an anime ever.
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By your logic, all sequels made because a given show was popular in China are not anime either. Like Railgun/Accelerator/whatever else Index spawned.
 
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