>Since 2011, the country’s moviegoers have increasingly chosen animation over live action on a scale that far outstrips similarly sized markets.
>In two of the past three years, 75% of the revenue generated by the top 10 films in Japan have come from animated features.
>Nearly three-quarters of Japan’s Actors’ Union are voice actors, up from 60% 10 years ago, according to union representative Michihiro Ikeumizu.
>“It’s ranked at the top of the most desired professions,” said Ikeumizu. “Especially voice actors who focus on voicing anime. Recently, the marketing of voice actors with proven ability and voice acting talent agencies have increased a lot.”
Japan's live action industry sucks anyway, even their own people would rather watch Hollywood shit.
Samuel Ross
Does that mean there was any anime films OTHER than Your Name that were actually worth watching that came out this year?
Cooper Sullivan
anime was a mistake
Brayden Russell
JUST rip nip kino
Mason Clark
They're talking about the shitzillion dollars Yokai Watch made, which is a little disingenuous since it was basically the second coming of Pokemon when it came out.
Liam Jenkins
That movie almost had me in tears.
Ayden Taylor
Good to hear desu. Animation has greater potential anyway.
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Josiah Butler
80% of their live actions are just adaptations of anime and manga anyways
Robert Morales
>For forty years draw asians as white people with blonde hair and blue eyes >Giant breasts and super power ninja action >No actor can possibly compete with this fantasy
What a surprising turn of events
Xavier Kelly
This makes sense though. Animated things the director can make it look exactly how he wants it where in live action they have to coach actors performances and theres lighting and all the shots. Anime is a better medium than live action for this very reason, and its the reason cgi will become the new medium in America over live actors and practical effects
Caleb King
I don't think I've ever heard of or even seen a live action Japanese movie besides that one black and white meme film every pretentious jackoff puts on their list of "holy shit deep".
Isn't it like a cultural thing in Japanese where it's considered low class to actually star in live action television shows and movies and that's why anime is like 95% of their broadcasting with the other 5% being retarded game shows?
Josiah Bennett
>white American anime fans try to justify the Japanese drawing all of their characters as white people with reasons such as "it's because anime is based on manga which was in black and white so it just carried over" and "when Japanese look at anime, they see Japanese characters" >Japanese like Scarlett Johannssen as the Major in Ghost in the Shell because "it would look more like the anime than if a Japanese actress played the role"
Brayden Collins
I know we're both going to catch shit for this, but I agree. Seeing the fucking CGfests so divorced from warmth and humanity that Hollywood has turned anything but indie movies into has in some ways ruined my love of of film, at least schlock I used to enjoy and middling tier movies with mild budgets.
At least in anime everything looks unreal because it's clearly drawn, so the suspension of disbelief isn't so jarring. It lets people cut right to the heart of things.
The only thing I need anime as a whole to get better at is "cinematography" for lack of a better word. A lot of it is so boringly "filmed" it looks like Prequel George Lucas directed it. There are some exceptions, but I find that most visuals in anime, at least from perspectives, are severely lacking.
Jordan Garcia
Jap live actors can't act for shit anyway,
Gabriel Richardson
>Bullshit pulled directly from your ass
The Japs like Scarlett because she's hot and was in Lost in Translation, a great movie that had their country as one of the finer points of its background.
I'm actually much more flabberghasted at the arrogance required to assume an entire nation of people draws an entire medium with the same intention, much less one that seemingly shuns their society, lives, and the way they look.
But then anti-weebs are so cancerous they actually need a title, as opposed to just a normal person who just doesn't like weebshit.
Ryan Powell
The Lone Wolf and Cub films are great.
Ian Rodriguez
Moana has more heart and is more beautifully animated than any anime shit in the past 5 years though.
Luke Harris
Moana was great, but the last five years includes The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and The Wind Rises.
Caleb Turner
Not really. Frankly I don't see the big deal with Pixar or Dreamworks anymore, the last movie I enjoyed was Zootopia because it was fairly unique, but Moana was the same merchandising garbage everything Disney touches is nowadays.
Fuck's sake pick better animated movies to defend.
Ryder Gutierrez
>The Wind Rises
I forgot about that movie. Fucking Herzog singing.
He's turning The Tatami Galaxy into a movie? For what purpose?
Samuel Thomas
I didn't know Japan had a live-action film industry outside Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, and a few arthouse filmmakers.
Ethan Lee
>I'm actually much more flabberghasted at the arrogance required to assume an entire nation of people draws an entire medium with the same intention
Nobody said it was on purpose retard. Anime is an extremely simple style, there is no way to make as much variety as an artist wants without eventually changing the hair color and eye color. This immediately makes them stop looking like natural Asian characters, and gee, more like white people, who have those features naturally.
Matthew Allen
Beautifully made, but I didn't think the story was all that good. When Marnie was There was far more memorable
Dominic Brooks
>Japan actors >Japan movies Thank god. This is is horrendous.
James James
>That first link >They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness
Chase Scott
Hasn't pale skin been the standard of beauty in the Far East for centuries?
Zachary Bennett
GuP movie came out last year
Julian Lee
Currently Visiting Japan, just saw force awakens. Almost every preview was for American films as well as no posters or advertisements for Japanese movies outside. It was odd, I felt like I was in the USA still other the subtitles.
Bentley Cox
> force awakens. Sorry I'm an idiot I meant rogue one
Carter Torres
anime is the superior medium
Dylan Morris
It's all about the money.
Aaron Rodriguez
Nip actors are pretty bad desu senpai
Austin James
What happened since the days of Kurosawa Akira?
Jonathan Robinson
japan "live" actors usually encompass a bunch of pop idols who can't act
nothing of value being lost
Andrew Wilson
Wrong.
Even Your Name is just a hackneyed, sappy anime-style romance that offers absolute fuck all to the genre.
Nathan Reed
Animation is the superior medium.
Ryan Garcia
This is true, can't think of a single good jap film recently
John Howard
Koe no Katachi is very well thought of, lots of people prefer it even.
Blake Edwards
is this the movie about the guy that fucks his AU self?
Jaxon Hughes
no wonder those nips appear in disney/marvel franchises so often now
Xavier Jones
Nonsense. Their horror movies used to be god tier.
Caleb Ross
Naruto did Kaguya better anyway
Jason Phillips
This is actually true but it has been so long that most people won't remember. Japan used to also put out a lot of really quality horror vidya gaems as well.
But how long has it been since the last good Japanese horror? At least the west is putting out content. And while It Follows wasn't quite to my taste I was very pleasantly surprised with Babadook.
Anthony Flores
To be honest makes sense if you consider how expensive is to rent several locations and how the tax incentives countries are literally at the other side of the planet.
Nicholas Scott
there's a board for opinions more pleb than Sup Forums
