Oh I’ve been around the scene long enough to remember what it was like back before anime studios started adapting manga into anime panel-by-panel as a default. Some of those 90s series in particular had horrible filler (not just filler arcs, randomly-inserted filler scenes, as well as other highly-questionable changes to the source material). It was a huge relief when anime adaptations started becoming way more faithful to the source material in the 00s.

The problem is that when adapting the story from one medium to another, panel-by-panel adaptation means taking pacing that fits the manga format and awkwardly forcing it into the anime format. So when I say that 5 minutes of manga content gets dragged out to 22 minutes of anime content, I’m not referring to filler, I’m speaking to the nature of the manga vs anime media. In other words, a 5-minute manga chapter turns into a 22-minute anime episode once dialogue is spoken, actions are animated, sound effects are given auditory form, etc. (after all, think about how much faster it is to read dialogue vs speak it aloud, and how much quicker it is to flip through a manga’s action scene of a few panels vs watching the scene fully animated). Sure some substance is added through the addition of a soundtrack, visual flare, and such, however as far as plot, character development, theme development, etc go, you end up with less substance per minute of experience… and it takes a lot of soundtrack and visual flare to compensate for that. Some series pull it off, but it takes a lot of effort, skill, and more importantly, budget, for it to be truly successful. And even then, the thing about manga is that the reader gets to control the pace (they can decide whether to read slowly and savor the experience, or speed through it and absorb as much content as possible as quickly as possible), whereas with anime you cannot (unless you start fiddling with playback speed, which is much more effortful and affects the quality of the work dramatically).

The pacing in manga (especially compared to any adaptations) is almost always better. With only a handful of exceptions, anime is too dragged out, which ruins action, humor, and drama alike. It shouldn’t take 22 minutes to adapt ~5 minutes of manga content. I said what I said.

I don’t think you comprehend exactly how large a number 7 billion actually is. There’s plenty of innovation and art potential already.

Don’t forget the air pollution!

Sidewalks are quite rare outside major corridors in space-constrained Japan (you’re often lucky to get so much as a gutter or a hint of a shoulder to walk/cycle on), so this is an overdue move indeed.

Pictured below is a pretty normal street width/layout in both rural and urban Japan, and the street I lived on was about 30-50% narrower than even this, and had high walls on either side (zero setbacks).

I too came to the comments section just to comment on those beautiful old floors.

Also: disable AI from all websites, such as Google/DuckDuckGo and YouTube. Don’t know how to do this? What a perfect opportunity to practice old school Internet searching to find the answer!

You could even say it was… feral.

The aye-aye is weird-looking enough as an adult, but it looks like a Jim Henson creation as a baby.

I was planning on making a separate post tomorrow asking the opposite ;)

Wild boars. We need an antonym for “glow up.”

Turning old plastic into food? I’ve seen this one before!

Only if you want to; the message is basically the same and the word size is currently well-proportioned to the image.

Too late, that money already went to the shareholders.

(Also thanks, this is awesome!)

Any interest in making one that says “Just say no to AI slop #neverslop”?

Nearly all dietary studies are correlation studies, unfortunately.

FYI chewing gum is made of plastic. So there’s that.

USA here, and no. However he does look like a mash-up of several celebrities that I would recognize.

It should still be pretty obvious what the results were, as “OMG I’m pregnant!!!” and “ohthankgod I’m not pregnant” are two very different expressions.

How dare you use my likeness for such filth.

(For the botanically-disinclined, those are fireweed flowers in the photo.)