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Failed the quest to convince myself this is still a Danganronpa blog

[noha-komesblog]

wip

[anodymalion]

Also while it’s on my mind, I wanted to write down stuff from a really interesting panel I went to at the con, run by a guy who does anime market research and marketing strategy, about the data behind anime viewership and revenue. I think it’s especially interesting coming on the heels of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards and the discussions I've seen around it (mostly around not being happy with the winners).

I wasn’t taking notes during it, but this is what I remember to the best of my ability; apologies if there are any inaccuracies:

At this point there is more money coming into animanga from overseas markets than from domestic (i.e., Japanese) markets. Companies are aware that for something to get really financially successful, it has to appeal to international audiences.

And most of that overseas money comes from subscriptions to streaming services. Merch / purchase of physical copies / etc make up only a small % of revenue.

Shonen and isekai outperform everything else to a huge extent. So there continue to be lots of these produced.

About half of all recent/current anime views are going to just a few (like, a single digit # of) series. I believe it was: Solo Leveling, Sakamoto Days, Dan Da Dan, Gachiakuta, MHA, and (I think) JJK. Also Solo Leveling by itself gets far more than any other series.

Quote: "Statistically, if your favorite anime from the last year wasn’t one of these, then no one watched your favorite anime"

Note that these are all shonen (except technically Solo Leveling since the original material is manhwa, not manga, but close enough)

Don’t be surprised that these are the series winning awards, even if you don’t think they hold a candle to [insert your favorite anime here] — there’s just so many more people watching these that it’s virtually impossible for any other series to win.

The only series in the recent top 20 that wasn’t shonen demographic or isekai genre was Apothecary Diaries.

Quote: "Thank god for Apothecary Diaries." lol

Crunchyroll has by far the biggest market share of overseas anime viewership, followed by Netflix to a lesser extent. No other providers come close.

The perception among production companies is that Netflix is where people are getting converted from non-anime viewers into anime viewers, and CR is where established anime viewers go.

Average anime watch time among anime viewers on Netflix is 1.5 hours per month, whereas on CR it’s 1.5 hours per day (?!)

Discovery on Netflix is heavily determined by what the Netflix promotes / actively surfaces to users, and that tends to skew towards particular series — likely reinforces that views are going to already-popular series and that new anime viewers are getting funnelled into certain genres.

Netflix doesn't license all that much anime compared to what they could be licensing, so that further skews things. Also, even if a series is licensed to Netflix, if the Netflix algorithm doesn't actively push it to users, no one on Netflix will watch it.

Rating sites such as MyAnimeList tend to be skewed towards a particular type of fan that is not representative of the actual market, and these ratings are meaningless when it comes to actual success metrics. IIRC he said only a few% of very frequent anime watchers actually rate/review things.

He phrased it as "rating things on MAL is not normal behavior" which made me lol

Anime adapted from light novels tends to perform the best compared to anime adapted from other sources (manga, webcomic, games) and original anime. Adaptations from manga is #2; everything else is wayy behind.

Solo Leveling seems like quite an outlier in this regard since anime adaptations from webcomics tend to be among the least popular

The single feature most correlated with success of an isekai was whether the main female character has big breasts and that’s not a joke.

Quote: "If the main female character has big breasts your anime will likely overperform, and if the main female character is a monster girl your anime will likely underperform. Because things aren’t fair."

At one point he was like yes I really do have to go into serious business meetings and present this anime breast data to client companies.

There’s a perception among audiences that pirating animanga that isn’t legally available in your country will prove there’s a demand for it, and lead to it getting licensed in your country, but this isn’t true. Pirating stats don’t actually have much effect on whether stuff gets licensed — because there’s no reliable conversion from people who pirate -> people who will pay to view legally.

Studios get booked for projects 3-4 years out, so stuff for 2029-2030 is getting booked now. There are a lot of reboots/sequels/franchises/reusing-IPs type projects getting booked, just like what western media studios have been doing, because (as with western media) companies want the reliability of IP that is known to be successful rather than the risk of something new.

He concluded that the quality of storytelling in animanga is completely unrelated to whether it is popular, and that, at the current time, the popularity of a series essentially just comes down to 1. is it a shonen, 2. sheer luck. rip

[virtualmosshroom]

[zeravmeta]

holy shonen trinity ranked on their relationships with the government

[krkcts]

・fan art

Fate/EXTRA：岸波白野、ネロ・クラウディウス

[idliketochill]

We reject the sunset.

[shinjiroaragaki]

Playing hundred line with my wife means I can try and come up with a fan design for Turamtammi at the same time YIPPEE

[kaibutsushidousha]

Do you think that humans can eventually become tools in Marisbury's eyes? Outside of Olga and Mash there were a bunch of Seraphix masters that got experimented on. Irisviel and Illya would likely be seen as tools since they are homunculi but what about Sakura Matou?

The Crypters were people he was particularly fond of, but if turning them into bombs will help solve his problems, then he will easily turn them into bombs.

[kaibutsushidousha]

How do you think Marisbury got loaded after he wished for money on the Holy Grail?

Just unquestioned numbers on his bank account, probably?

[kaibutsushidousha]

Sooner or later, every foreign resident of Japan gets the experience of having an old Japanese man staring really weirdly at you, and now, two months into this new life, it finally happened to me, but I was a unique situation unlike anything I expected, and I don't even believe it was a xenophobic microagression because I had a conspicuous face injury that was more likely to have been the cause of the strange attention.

Details under the cut, but it's really nothing serious.

As I announced a few weeks ago, Concrete Revolutio is my favorite anime and yesterday I attended the wonderful fan meeting event in Tokyo celebrating the show's 10th anniversary (huge thanks to the 0 of you who joined me).

I arrived in the city early and was resting at a net café until the big moment. When the time finally came, I got up fast and hit my forehead against the upper table. I think I was still bleeding a little when I got the venue.

At the event, ConRevo's creator and head writer Aizawa Shou took the stage, while the rest of the writing staff were present as regular audience members, sat on an isolated table in the back of the crowd. I had to go to the bathroom at some point, and to get there you have to pass by the table with the writer team. Most of the writers kept paying attention to the show, but for some reason Urobuchi Gen locked eye contact with me through the whole time I was walking by their table. And that was my incredibly unusual first experience with weird Japanese staring.

@impactstab theorized that The Butcher could smell my blood from a distance, and that checks out to me completely.

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[sundog-days]

[wisterimist]

[moved-please-leave-me-alone]

Alright your Discord avatar and tumblr avatar are locked in a closet for 7 minutes ala 7 Minutes In Heaven. What happens

[kaibutsushidousha]

Where is Teruteru Hanamura's accent from?

I'd say Kouchi is the region it draws the most from, but it's supposed to be an unrecognizably jumbled mess.

[lilyapd]

inconsistencies between official and fan translations make me dagnabbit mad.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Sorry, that was me. I'm the guy putting the inconsistencies in the fan translations. I understand the point and importance of making things recognizable, but higher quality very often requires rethinking how things fit new context and just not respecting the bad decisions of your predecessors.

[kaibutsushidousha]

@studentofetherium Making this about Tsukihi Phoenix in the tags is actually perfect because the original post turned out to be part of a Tsukihi Phoenix bit I fell for.

[lilyapd]

inconsistencies between official and fan translations make me dagnabbit mad.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Sorry, that was me. I'm the guy putting the inconsistencies in the fan translations. I understand the point and importance of making things recognizable, but higher quality very often requires rethinking how things fit new context and just not respecting the bad decisions of your predecessors.