TIL why I think anime is winning over Western adaptations (reddthat.com)

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It finally clicked for me. Hollywood gets ahold of a popular franchise like The Witcher and seemingly uses it as a medium to educate rather than entertain. They try to flip the script and push a message, often straying far from the source material.

Anime, on the other hand, usually has the manga releasing weekly or monthly. The fanbase is essentially "voting with their wallet" on which series they want to see adapted. When a studio picks it up, they just adapt it pretty faithfully. You get exactly what you paid for—the story you already love, just animated. It’s refreshing to watch a medium where the priority is giving the people what they actually want.

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[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Anime exists to sell the manga which has much stronger profit.

In the US they are trying to sell the adaptation itself. The fact that that adaptation usually sucks speaks to American companies not loving the anime but looking at dollar signs.

This is the same reason all the D&D movies suck ass.

Also if you are paying for a streaming service, no matter how many times you watch something it will still go away because its not voting with dollars per show, they are experimenting with how much they can not pay for in licensing before you quit.

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