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Tenchi
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In Non Non Biyori, the characters seem to make once-a-month drives to the nearest big supermarket some 50km away. There seems to be a convenience store a little closer to them, but I don't think it's their primary source of food.
Of course, Asahigaoka is a farming village (a fictional one, but still at least somewhat representative of what life is like in the most rural areas of Japan) so there is local produce available for much of the year at those unmanned "honor system" vegetable stands but they still have to buy a lot of their food elsewhere (although the candy store might also offer some packaged staples). |
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whiskeyii
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If I had obscene amounts of money, I'd contract out a publisher to re-release/finish Swan in English. Nothing sadder than a translated series cut short.
 (And also it was just really good.  )
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MarshalBanana
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Primus
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Wouldn't it be even more ridiculous to label them "Netflix Exclusive" when they'd just show up elsewhere after a few years? 
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nargun
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Probably not, actually. + making shitful work is labour-intensive. When you're working with a workmanlike product, you have a narrative framework to work within, you have themes and topics you can use to reinforce and guide your art design and music and what-have-you. Adapting badly-written works is like... cooking a fish full of bones and nasty-tasting bits. They have to be taken out before you start, and then you're left with a mess that doesn't have any structure. So of your five million dollars of labour, an awful lot is going to go in background remediation just hammering the work into something adaptable. Work that anime studios, tbh, are not particularly experienced at and can't do particularly cheaply; this is stuff usually done by print-fiction editors and creative-writing teachers, the people you've just bypassed. + Dealing with difficult-to-deal-with people is time-consuming and stressful, and thus expensive. People who won't accept "no, what you want is a bad idea and you need to do it this way" will waste your money and time. [they also have a vastly increased tendency to stiff you on bills, btw; it's because they're both related to self-centredness/narcissism] + Everything that a creative person or a creative company works on goes into the CV. It develops skills and markets their skills. A good work develops interesting skills and markets them: a shit work develops skills that they don't want and sells them badly. Working on shit cuts you out from this secondary income: it costs you money. End result, a three-million dollar contract for Sainouaru Joe's manga about the princess of the rat-people in a flooded crater on the moon actually works better for the bottom line than your five-million dollar contract about the adventures of walking cardboard boxes. |
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emory
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One thing I'd like to point out: Netflix does own some of their original series under their subsidiary, Netflix Studios LLC. Stranger Things is one of those shows. A lot of their newer original content not based on any existing property is produced by Netflix Studios, such as Bill Nye's new show, Lady Dynamite, Haters Back Off, Big Mouth, and a handful of their lesser knowns.
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nargun
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Also: japanese cuisine includes vast quantities of white rice and pickles, stuff with outstanding keeping properties. |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
 Posts: 943 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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Sure, it's not absolutely guaranteed that it's bad, but that's the likelihood. I expect that just about every time someone's come to a studio from outside of the usual publisher/producer system, the studio's looked at the project and seen that it's crap, and they've passed on it. And in general, it's a reasonable assumption that if you can't convince any producer to bankroll it, the audience isn't likely to buy it. But what does that matter if either way they're paid, one might ask, but in the entertainment business reputation counts for a lot. Being associated with something regarded by critics and audiences as a piece of crap does a lot of damage to reputation, which does have implications for future earning potential. Even if it's someone else's fault that it's crap. Hollywood for a long time had a standard pseudonym to put in the credits for when the director was unhappy enough with the quality of the finished product because of changes demanded by producers to not want their name associated with it. |
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Zin5ki
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Somehow, perhaps almost inexplicably, this description reminds me of a show about Toblerones...
With food prices being as they are, the food I eat may have been cooked (and frozen) a week ago, with the source ingredients being a week older than that. Currency fluctuations are a bigger risk to my sustenance than any spoilage. |
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Greed1914
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It's probably worth noting that a lot of the characters we see grocery shopping on their way home also live in rather small homes with small refrigerators. Stocking up won't work as well if you either have to cram everything on top of each other or leave it out. Sure, it won't go bad right away, but even fresh produce is typically kept at lower than room temperature at the store.
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relyat08
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Yay, I get to talk about this some more!
Keep in mind this is pure fantasy, of course, so some of the staff connections are unlikely, though I did try to make the staff as believable as possible, and most of them have worked with each other in some capacity before. First off, I would prefer for it to be a film. I would have Urobuchi script the whole thing, to preserve as much of the original intent and atmosphere as possible. Other staff: Director: Masashi Ishihama(From The New World, many of the best OPs and EDs of all time, loves dark, visceral content, butalso subtle symbolism, good at handling exposition, is a big horror fan) Episode Direction: More than just him, but Masahiro Ando, definitely. Character Design: Nobutake Ito or Tsunenori Saito Animation Director: Masashi Ishihama, Takashi Kojima, Masahiro Ando Notable Key Animators: Takashi Kojima, Yoshimichi Kameda, Chikashi Kubota, Shingo Yamashita, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Go Kimura, Ryouma Ebata Script: Gen Urobuchi Backgrounds: Studio Pablo of course, but I'd take Studio Easter or a number of other studios. Photography/Compositing Director: I know people who would kill me for this, but Yoshihiro Sekiya does work that I really like, even if sometimes it doesn't blend the way some people want. Art Director: Maybe someone like Masakaze Miyake. They have experience handling the kind of dark aesthetic I want to go for. And it seems like it would work well with Ishihama. Animation Production: Doesn't matter terribly much, to be honest. The most likely location would be A-1 Pictures, but it would definitely fit the aesthetic of Production IG very well. That's everything I can think of off the top of my head right now. |
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belvadeer
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When I was teaching in South Korea back in 2009, I had to do something similar, especially since I didn't have a car. The major supermarket-department fusion stores were much further away and took a long time to get to by foot, but a local small store just down the street from where I was housed made it easier to at least prepare evening meals after work. |
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crosswithyou
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Re: Japanese groceries
Don't forget that living arrangements in Japan are also a lot smaller than in the U.S. That said, we don't all have room for huge refrigerators that would allow us to stock up on groceries. Japanese people are in general more picky about the freshness of their food. |
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wyntre_rose
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SAME. I eventually bought the Japanese volumes too, thinking to one day do a rough translation of them for my own benefit (and as a fun study exercise) but I haven't had the time or inclination recently, so they sit collecting dust on my shelf. |
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John Thacker
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Nah, the difference in the Japanese and American life expectancy is mostly car accidents and violence. Diet has a certain amount of effect (though somewhat counteracted by Japan's very high stomach cancer rate, which appears to be connected to consumption of pickled, smoked, and salted food, all of which are enormous parts of the Japanese diet as well as the relationship between ALDH2 deficiency, alcohol consumption, and alcohol related problems) but that's little to do with what's available in supermarkets and more about choice. (After all, Japanese-Americans live longer than Japanese in Japan.) |
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