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That's more anime than the Netflix DMC cartoon that everyone calls anime now. Should we call teen titans anime too?
I just wanted to rant. pardon my autism.
Teen Titans is a Warner Brothers production. This is a quick search, so it will be slightly inaccurate, but

it looks like the primary animation studio was Titmouse, who started out on Megas XLR and Avatar: the Last Airbender. Metalocalypse, Superjail, the Afro Samurai opening
the secondary animation studio was Dong Woo Animation which is a Korean outsource factory for Studio Gallop

there were a bunch of other studios but they didn't catch my eye, they look like churn-and-burn studios that just mistreat their talent and use them for shit work

so the Western studio working on it was heavily anime-influenced and the Eastern studio working on it was heavily anime-adjacent but realistically neither can trace their roots back to rakugo

so no, Teen Titans is not anime
 
I started reading bleach manga because i saw some scenes from TYBW anime and it looks amazing. I wastched around 116 episodes of the original anime about 16 years ago and liked it but got kinda burned out by all the filler. The manga reads great and made me nostalgic for that first arc thats just nice slow and wholesome.
I remembered Orihime as being completely boring but at the beginning she's genuinely funny and cute.
 
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Is there any Shonen series that benefitted from being adopted into an anime ? All I can see is bloat and filler episodes. Reading the manga is often just much more fun and doesn't ruin the pacing.
 
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Is there any Shonen series that benefitted from being adopted into an anime ? All I can see is bloat and filler episodes. Reading the manga is often just much more fun and doesn't ruin the pacing.
Gintama's anime has an episode every 25 episodes where they just fuck around and have fun because they ran out of money/ran out of content for that season. Some of the funniest episodes or bits are just the team having a good time and fucking around or remembering that Sunrise is animating it and putting in a stray Gundam or mecha anime reference. Also all of the bits are expanded from the manga.
 
Gintama's anime has an episode every 25 episodes where they just fuck around and have fun because they ran out of money/ran out of content for that season. Some of the funniest episodes or bits are just the team having a good time and fucking around or remembering that Sunrise is animating it and putting in a stray Gundam or mecha anime reference. Also all of the bits are expanded from the manga.
Fair enough, didn't think of it as a shonen but a comedy show. I only watched a bit of Gintama which I liked, but there is no official English manga releases right ?
Demon Slayer got the ufotable treatment making it one the most popular series that even normies noticed it
plus dethroned many popular manga at the time (2020) for consecutive weeks.
Mid manga and anime in my opinion.
Maybe I was not clear enough. What I meant was not about popularity but quality. That the anime adaptation makes the manga almost obsolete.
 
Apparently there's an Anne of Green Gables anime airing right now of all things, and I learned there's also one from 1979. I'm on episode 37 of that one, and it's actually quite good. The character designs are a little old school I suppose, but it immidiately made me think of Ghibli, and the backgrounds of Howl's Moving Castle. The painted cels are really second to none, they're amazing. And the dub is a similar case to Emma, as it's theater actors contracted for the job and they perform wonderfully.

Its pacing is thoughtful and every scene is given plenty of time to breathe so you can appreciate the visuals. If you can acknowledge the merits of an old masterpiece theater show for its authenticity, you'll probably enjoy this. It's a well made and heartwarming period piece, and a touch more learned and culturally sound than say, Isekai power fantasy #298 or Jew-sponsored nog wank #953.​
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you can't disagree with me Lambda, you need to watch Vigilantes or read the manga

the ending for MHA was ghostwritten, the author was working on Vigilantes

he was also demoted to co-writer after character design was completed and the lead writer is fucking based

the manga is finished, I'm not talking out of my ass here
 
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With that animation it made the manga obsolete, why would read manga with mediocre art when you can enjoy quality animation.
For some god damn reason, japs will.
Demon slayer in the west was very much FOTM looking back and I don't know anyone still interested in the final movie(s), and looking at some of the U.S sales the manga did get popular with normies for about 2 years but quickly faded (it wasn't even the most popular manga in the states those years, It sold less then MHA and CSM for each respective year).
But some reason, not only did it keep selling after the anime ended, it's final volume managed to sell almost 5 million copies its first month when other FOTM like JJK lost around 1/3rd of its sales when you compare it's final volume to the peak of it's anime boost, out of the last four oricon "top 50 selling manga series for the year" reports its managed to sneak in when its been dead since 2020.
And for some infernal reason it won't die in japan even though its been 5 years since it ended there. It's getting more events and collabs then any currently running WSJ manga save One Piece (which might be more of a knock against the current lineup in the magazine).
Maybe it'll finally die in japan when there's nothing left to adapt, but at that point I would be surprised if Jump doesn't try to make some kind of sequel or spinoff (which will probably end up like another Samurai 8 or Astro Royal)
 
Maybe it'll finally die in japan when there's nothing left to adapt
They need to adapt more shoujo, like holy shit how was it Black Bird and Beauty Pop were never once considered? All the REEs.
 
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