Garbage

Here is a short little blurb about the title of this blog, I say that anime is garbage, and that's true for the most part, but let's talk about why. There are two main reasons, both of them are covered in the very insightful video by Gigguk which I posted above.

1. The first reason is the thesis of this video which is that it is incredibly difficult to get all of the stars to align for the production of an anime to even be considered, let alone a quality one. Studios and investors have a larger risk of losing money when producing a show that strays from the standard, which is the case for most good anime.

2. The other reason is a little more subtle, which is that anime fans are garbage eaters and are the main reason for anime being bad. Japan doesn't pump out bad anime because they think it's funny, they do it because it turns a profit. The fans eat that garbage up and in today's age where at least here in North America, buying anime or manga is considered a joke, production studios have to make content that appeals to the least common denominator so they can get dumb otaku to buy figures or other stupid merchandise because lord knows they won't buy the actual anime. They rely on tropes and formulaic stories because if they don't then they risk going out of business.

We are the problem, if you don't support the anime you like by actually spending money on it, then you are contributing to the trend of bad anime. If you want things to change, go out and spend money on a Crunchyroll subscription or something similar, and watch the shows that are good. Crunchyroll collects metrics on these things, and those are relayed back to anime studios. If you spend money and only watch good experimental stuff, then you will see more of that being produced. Cash is king in anime. In other words go out and buy Nichijou on Blu-Ray so we can finally get a season two, that way I can die a happy man.