• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Animation looks better than I thought it would be.

    Being what essentially amounts to LotR fanfiction, I am tentatively excited to watch.

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      2 months ago

      Yea … probably more hyped for this than I ever was for rings of power.

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        2 months ago

        After Amazon buttfucked Rings of Power and Wheel of Time, I won’t watch a damn thing they make based on pre-existing IP. This looks good though.

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          2 months ago

          Ha.

          It’s funny, I like wheel of time. The show got me to read the books … and I noped out of them half way through book 4 … but will happily continue to watch the show.

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    2 months ago

    With the amount of great unadapted stories in the Silmarillion, I don’t know why they have to go for generic fantasy fanfictiony crap.

    Give me The Children of Húrin, give me The Fall of Gondolin, give me Beren and fucking Lúthien… any of those would make for an excellent anime or live action series, if done properly with enough respect and funding…

    Using someone else’s work’s name just to ride on their coattails because your fanfiction isn’t good enough to stand on its own is a (sadly extremely common these days) massive red flag that guarantees I won’t be wasting my time watching it.

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      2 months ago

      There’s legal issues. Embracer group owns the rights to make video games based on the lord of the rings and the hobbit, but the Silmarillion and unfinished tales of numenor is still owned by the Tolkien Estate, and they are pretty selective with it. The first age is basically off limits to everyone except Amazon prime right now.

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    2 months ago

    I’m kinda disappointed it just looks like a generic Japanese anime?

    Edit: as in the stylistic art for the characters is very just Japanese anime not fantasy drawings matching the books.

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        I really meant emphasis on generic not the anime part.

        Like the characters all look like any generic isekai cast on some 3d mapped backgrounds from scans from the movie miniatures.

        Its got a feeling of cheap and passionless like some rich guy just paid for an anime adaptation cause anime is currently popular.

        I dunno maybe I’m reading into it but my hype went way down.

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          Traditionally speaking, anime looks the way it does because funding for animation in Japan was tiny, so they cut corners wherever they could. Character designs were cut and pasted, backgrounds were static, lip syncing was out of the question, and frame rates were kept low.

          I guess, now that there’s more money for it, and updates technology allows for them to get around many of those early restrictions, they keep doing that stuff, just because, I guess.

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            Those tropes are so ingrained in anime, I believe that if we stopped, it wouldn’t feel “right”.

            I guess, now that there’s more money for it, and updates technology allows for them to get around many of those early restrictions

            In theory. The truth is anime studios are infamous for overworking and underpaying their enployees, in fact Japan in general doesn’t have very good labor laws. Nothing much has changed on that front. Unless it’s a big name studio like Ghibli or Ufotable, the anime industry will always cut corners to get new episodes out as fast as possible.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah that was a bit of a turn off for me, im open minded but i already say “anime tropes” presented in the trailer that kinda make me wary.

      Still will gobble up any LOTR content.

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    2 months ago

    Damn this does not look good. Is American animation really dead?