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AngryLittleAlchemist on 01 August 2018
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TranceformerFX said:
HomokHarcos said:

For mainstream anime and manga there are several different genres that have a mainstream series. Compare that to American comics which is dominated by superheroes and animation which is dominated by comedy.

Mainstream Japanese anime is diverse? No offense, but you're talking out of your ass. Anime isn't "diverse", nor has it evolved since it entered pop culture in the late 80's/early 90's. Infact, the "anime" business has been in decline for years now...

 

https://kotaku.com/evangelion-creator-predicts-the-death-of-anime-1706738732

 

http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/miyazaki-blames-otaku-animators-for-anime-decline/

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124894486860193163

 

https://kotaku.com/5966163/japanese-anime-fans-are-growing-tired-of-these-tropes

 

I don't know about Manga - but the animation industry has a cloud of doom lingering over it's head, and Japan only has itself to blame. When you cater to one audience (Japanese viewers) and capitalize on tropey cliche'd bullshit material year after year - oversaturation and disinterest is bound to happen. Which it clearly is.

 

Diverse? Don't make me laugh - Japan has largely been making the same shit since anime caught fire in the early 90's.

Lmao really? We're using the two biggest disgruntled disillusioned industry names to make claims? Come on now. And you said other people were cherry picking! 

That being said, diversity in popular anime is definitely a problem. However, the most hilarious thing of all is that despite the fact it's an issue - it's still more diverse than the American cartoon industry, where what survives is exclusive to either children's cartoons(which have become very homogeneous), or campy adult comedies. In other words, you slamming someone for calling anime or manga more diverse doesn't actually work, because your rebuttal isn't in the context of a comparison, it's just based on the overal vacuum of the Japanese industry. 

Also @Agente42 Shonen is a demographic, not a genre. It seems like the only time people use the term shonen in discussions of diversity is to argue that anime or manga aren't diverse because a majority of them are shonen. This doesn't make sense, because shonen is not a genre. There are TV anime that I honestly would have no idea were shonen (or even seinen) had I not looked it up. 

To argue that anime or manga isn't diverse by using the term "shonen" is intellectually dishonest. It's like if you tried to argue that movies are largely the same shit by showing ratings instead of the actual content of the movies.