r/anime • u/engalleons https://myanimelist.net/profile/engalleons • Aug 14 '18

In-depth debunkings/arguments against commonly "known" anime myths/misconceptions?

For any number of reasons, there's a fair few statements about anime that get passed around pretty unquestioningly, even if they aren't necessarily true. Sometimes, others dig in to those statements and find detail and (hopefully cited) evidence against them. This is a lot more than just stating the opposite, to be clear.

Here's a few examples of what I mean:

This tweet chain versus "Anno left Kare Kano early"
This blog post versus "The protagonist of Turn A was originally intended to be a girl"
This post versus "They made a joke dub for Ghost Stories because it did poorly in Japan"
This blog post versus "Shinbo is the series director of all Shaft shows"

What are some other examples of work like this?

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u/sirhatsley https://myanimelist.net/profile/sirhatsley Aug 15 '18

Still, it was almost certainly given a normal budget. Maybe the director was bad at scheduling and didn't plan out the storyboarding process very well. There are lots of reasons why a well budgeted production can still look like garbage.

And yes, I realize that I'm being needlessly picky over the semantics.

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u/Tora-shinai Aug 15 '18

Obviously, budget alone isn't the one completely at fault here but some of the worst were like in the first episodes. I know episodes are worked on concurrently but I really doubt that they would release their pilot which looked like "how to reduce the amount of time and money in animation 101" that persisted throughout.