When studio president Tomohiro Maki was arrested in 2019 for sexual assault of a teenager, a subsequent audit unveiled years of unrecoverable mismanagement.
Heh, in fact there was a new Urusei Yatsura series recently, there’s a new Ranma 1/2 running right now and there was an anime-original Inuyasha spinoff (Yashahime) a couple of years ago. There’s actually a bunch of 80s IPs being taken out of the storehouse right now, with a new Cat’s Eye series running right now and an upcoming Kimengumi series.
The issue appears to be a lack of original works to adapt, or perhaps more accurately, too many of them. Adapting existing works has always been anime’s bread and butter, but while there are more people than ever reading manga (and light novels) right now, their attention is spread across a larger body of works, so there’s not that much that stands out in terms of popularity.
That said, brining back these old IPs might not be a bad thing in the long run. Back in the early 90s after the real estate bubble popped, a lot fewer shows were being made, so TV stations had to air reruns of older shows. This revived interest in genres that had gone out of fashion, like science-fiction, and led to the mid-to-late 90s period that is often seen as a golden age. Maybe this will be one of the things that will end this current rut of infinite isekai stories. I can hope, at least.
I’ve always liked Rumiko’s stuff. I think I first ran across it when the internet first started to become common late 80s early 90s. I have a first volume of Urusei Yatsura manga English translated that’s getting near 40 years old. And the content was already a decade or two old at that point. Realistically, Inuyasha is proto-iseki even.
I’m sure Takahashi like Toriyama at this point, have a lot of cultural memory and inertia. Though I honestly would have thought by now that there would be proteges or others influenced by them, that would be more culturally relevant in this day and age.
Heh, in fact there was a new Urusei Yatsura series recently, there’s a new Ranma 1/2 running right now and there was an anime-original Inuyasha spinoff (Yashahime) a couple of years ago. There’s actually a bunch of 80s IPs being taken out of the storehouse right now, with a new Cat’s Eye series running right now and an upcoming Kimengumi series.
The issue appears to be a lack of original works to adapt, or perhaps more accurately, too many of them. Adapting existing works has always been anime’s bread and butter, but while there are more people than ever reading manga (and light novels) right now, their attention is spread across a larger body of works, so there’s not that much that stands out in terms of popularity.
That said, brining back these old IPs might not be a bad thing in the long run. Back in the early 90s after the real estate bubble popped, a lot fewer shows were being made, so TV stations had to air reruns of older shows. This revived interest in genres that had gone out of fashion, like science-fiction, and led to the mid-to-late 90s period that is often seen as a golden age. Maybe this will be one of the things that will end this current rut of infinite isekai stories. I can hope, at least.
I’ve always liked Rumiko’s stuff. I think I first ran across it when the internet first started to become common late 80s early 90s. I have a first volume of Urusei Yatsura manga English translated that’s getting near 40 years old. And the content was already a decade or two old at that point. Realistically, Inuyasha is proto-iseki even.
I’m sure Takahashi like Toriyama at this point, have a lot of cultural memory and inertia. Though I honestly would have thought by now that there would be proteges or others influenced by them, that would be more culturally relevant in this day and age.