However, adding more and more unnecessary épisodes isn't the right solution, and hasn't been for décades.
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:So long as currency is a thing, and thus greed, fillers and drawing out storylines aren't going to go away.
Spica75 wrote:That's the thing though, greed should make them do it in a better way, because horrid fillers are literally kicking people HARD away from a lot of fandoms.
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:It's not what they should do, but what they can get away with. There's no real need to take the time and money for quality when enough of your audience is lacking certain faculties in the brain department. If given a choice, they'll aim to get the most money relative to how little time and effort it takes. And since time is money, naturally you don't want to wait to produce the goods, and if they have to make new material that just means making additional money outside of the bounds of the source material.
I've stopped watching the anime a few months ago since it's dragging everything out sooooo much. These long fights are just so booooring and no one wants that. Take the fight against that biscuit guy. That lasted at least for 5-6 episodes I think. I'm sick of it, especially since all of the long anime series do it.
Spica75 wrote:Thing is, it's actually relatively cheap to get decent fillers written, but it's expensive to make the episodes, so why insist on making LOTS of obscenely crappy fillers?
Crescent Pulsar S wrote:That's what I'm getting at. Just about anyone in that well-oiled machine that is the Japanese animation business should have a good idea of where their cost/profit line is drawn. The chances of them going out of their way for something that's likely to be disliked, without expecting to profit from it, should be really, really low.
Cheb wrote:As I said before, it's most likely like that time when USA DOD ordered a couple very expensive submarines they didn't really need -- several billions each -- just to keep the production line from going stale and irreplaceable specialists from going away.
I believe this kind of expense is called "upkeep".
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