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Originally Posted by Westlo
Well like Swampy said isn't that what they're effectively doing with the "They're both too popular to choose one" approach? And boy I don't think being the VA/Singer of Minmay hurt Mari Iijima's career...
I don't know what worse, this approach or omnibus, such a pity anime directors are losing their balls, Amagami SS would've been better if it had focused on Tsukasa as the main girl and this is from someone who liked Ai and Risa better but I have to admit that Tsukasa has the better story, not that you would know from the anime.. thanks to the omnibus format we get 4 episode arcs that just weaken the entire thing. Yay for that and yay for harem endings for shows that clearly shouldn't have harem endings period
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I’ve been thinking the same thing recently. While the omnibus format may be better for the sales, but for the storytelling, quality-wise, it seems quite the opposite in my humble opinion. I completely agree with you about Amagami SS, it had such a great potential, given the original material, plus the staff was sure skilled. In just four episodes they delivered as least interesting stories. But as you’ve said, Tsukasa clearly had the most interesting storyline and there’s more interesting ideas for character development in her arc.
Yosuga no Sora suffered from the same fate too. Sora was clearly the main girl, and her arc was the only one that ended up really above the average in the whole series. Because it was evident that the staff put much more effort while making her arc, and consequently the anime got a huge increment in quality when her arc came. So, I think if they had more episodes to develop her arc, Yosuga no Sora probably would have become a masterpiece of its genre.
I couldn’t help but remember of KimiKiss. An anime that the director really got the balls to split the main character in two, it was a pretty good move. Talking more about it would be quite spoilerish, but it worked really well in the end, because they are really different and had opposite “approaches” while they’re pursing a relationship, and so on the most interesting girls ended up as winners, it was sure a satisfying ending to me.
But sadly, I heard somewhere that KimiKiss anime ended up as a commercial failure. Is it a sign that the Japanese otaku community are against new ideas in romance anime?
I think in Macross case things are a bit different. I agree 100% with the most counter-arguments presented here. The idea of having a “loser” at the end affecting the sales makes no sense to me, because in Macross there’s always a winner when there’s romance. Actually, it would be more dangerous, from the commercial point of view, to leave an unsolved triangle, coz it’s uncharacteristic of the Macross franchise, then the producers will be assuming new risks. Furthermore, Macross always has a very loyal fanbase supporting it. Maybe only a huge mess in a future series could affect the sales to the point of making it a commercial failure. I think that, in the long run, the successive mistakes in character development and storytelling would create a much more negatively impact to sales, because there’ve got higher chances to displease the fanbase. And probably the companies behind the Macross series are rational enough to minimize the risks and secure the fanbase at the first place. Extending the fanbase is too a very important thing to do, but while doing this they also need to move carefully, always trying to minimize those risks.
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