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my argument was not that the anime industry is structurally "constraining" creators and preventing audiences from getting what they really want; i argued the opposite.i think you have indirectly pointed out a contradiction between my original argument and my justification for wanting a more dramatic or plot-driven Haruhi, where i appealed to the tastes of the masses and what has been generally "acclaimed" as evidence for Disappearance being good. i think what the average consumer of anime wants is wish-fulfillment, perpetual-blue-balling harem series. it is not Mind Game, or even The Tatami Galaxy. those works are "acclaimed" by a minority of consumers. at the same time, i think even the average consumer can recognize when a work of fiction achieves excellence.there is a difference between what consumers want and what the wants of the consumers incentivize. i am not telling people who enjoy things that distract them from being a salaryman that they must like "deep" anime. i am saying that this sort of person being the average consumer is what allows people like the creator of Haruhi to NEET it up, because there is a lack of pressure to do anything more than that. as i tried to address by saying "i am not asking for K-On to become Code Geass," i believe there is a difference between SoL or light-hearted comedy like Lucky Star and series that are diminished by inconclusiveness and lack of direction, series that have potential to be something more -- which i believe includes Haruhi (inarguably) and Monogatari (arguably). i don't think it would be possible to make a Lucky Star or Azumanga analogue of Disappearance. everyone would just laugh.
my argument was not that the anime industry is structurally "constraining" creators and preventing audiences from getting what they really want; i argued the opposite.
i think you have indirectly pointed out a contradiction between my original argument and my justification for wanting a more dramatic or plot-driven Haruhi, where i appealed to the tastes of the masses and what has been generally "acclaimed" as evidence for Disappearance being good. i think what the average consumer of anime wants is wish-fulfillment, perpetual-blue-balling harem series. it is not Mind Game, or even The Tatami Galaxy. those works are "acclaimed" by a minority of consumers. at the same time, i think even the average consumer can recognize when a work of fiction achieves excellence.
there is a difference between what consumers want and what the wants of the consumers incentivize. i am not telling people who enjoy things that distract them from being a salaryman that they must like "deep" anime. i am saying that this sort of person being the average consumer is what allows people like the creator of Haruhi to NEET it up, because there is a lack of pressure to do anything more than that. as i tried to address by saying "i am not asking for K-On to become Code Geass," i believe there is a difference between SoL or light-hearted comedy like Lucky Star and series that are diminished by inconclusiveness and lack of direction, series that have potential to be something more -- which i believe includes Haruhi (inarguably) and Monogatari (arguably). i don't think it would be possible to make a Lucky Star or Azumanga analogue of Disappearance. everyone would just laugh.
