Thread: Crunchyroll Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
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Old 2016-01-30, 11:39   Link #101
kuromitsu
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Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor View Post
Aren't you underselling the studio's effort a bit much? Aren't studios also responsible for choosing the right person/team to make an adaptation? You know this kind of material can easily go wrong if not treated carefully, right? For latest example, look at Utawarerumono 2 (ugh). Also, the animation here is a lot more than "doesn't look crap". It actually looks great and detailed even above many series this season which is saying much because this season is pretty strong (visually, at least). Give credits when credit's due, girl.
Hey hey hey, slow down, boy. (Or girl, I guess, I don't know.) Studios aren't necessarily responsible for choosing the director and the core staff. Sometimes they are, depending on the extent of their role in production, and there are of course directors belonging more or less exclusively to certain studios. But in case of adaptations where it's usually the publisher that pays most of the costs and calls most of the shots, the core staff are usually recruited by the producers/production company. (Sometimes they even decide on the main voice cast, or at least the seiyuu for the most important characters.) Of course there's a great variation in everything, and since I'm not involved in the production of this show (or any, for that matter) I've no idea what went on behind the scenes in this case.

What I'm trying to say is that anime fans have this habit of attributing everything about an anime to a) the studio, regardless of the extent of their influence in creative matters; or b) the director alone. (Writers, storyboarders, etc. tend to be acknowledged only when they somehow become famous and/or infamous, like Okada Mari.) Even though an anime is rarely a one-man show for the director, or, with some obvious exceptions, a single-company effort of the studio. Anime are usually created with the creative input of many individuals who may or may not be connected to the studio.

(And there's also my personal pet peeve, completely ignoring the source material if it's not well-known enough, which is why I mentioned Sakamichi no Apollon. Everyone kept saying how great Watanabe was for telling such a great story and what a great sense of music he had and everything, even though the anime was almost a panel-by-panel, line-by-line adaptation of the manga... well, streamlined to fit the episode number.)
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