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Oct 5th, 2015
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  1. Everybody know this, but it's always good to remember: animation cost a lot of money. A comercial movie or tv series costs a unimaginable ammont of money and manpower to be done. So it should be to no one surprise that anime industry has to be extemely averse to risks if they want to convince sponsors to invest in them. Most of the time, what we see as "new trends" in anime are actually decades old trends in prose, mangas, visual novels and games beeing translated to a new media.
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  3. So when someone is surprised to see a old trend beeing used in multiple anime adaptations of old visual novels in the new session, a alarm rings.
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  5. 1-the light novels are 3 years old, and sucessfull enought to receive a manga adaptation last year and anime this year. Both the light novels and the mangas are already fan translated long ago, so how were the series out of people radars?
  6. R: Non-animated medias don't catter to their personal tastes. This is completely fine, but they become completely isolated of what is going in storytelling meta. It's bizarre to say this, but the influences of D&D and wuxias colliding in 80' fantasy mangas/lns and rpgs, going back to west in game-storytelling and to east in xianxias, going once again to japan in form of virtual-reality-mmos and magic-schools lns becomes invisible.
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  8. 2-the light novel is old, there's plenty of irfomation in any language about them. So how people didn't predict by the description that those series would be similar?
  9. R: People are "blind" watching anime. They aren't even reading descriptions of "what is this about" before watching.
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