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INTEREST: Hideo Kojima, Kazutaka Kodaka Praise Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Anime

If you get praise from any of these men, then you know you've done something right!

Hi, can someone please explain to me what kojima meant when he talked aboutthe current domestic anime situation and what he meant with consumed by overseas market. Sorry its late and my brain isnt processing very well...thanks for your time

He's talking out his arse. He might be talking about how popular anime is now being aimed at an international audience rather than just taking japanese values into consideration, but that wouldn't make sense here because cyberpunk is a collaboration between a polish studio and a japanese studio while being distributed internationally via an american company. So yeah, he's talking out his arse. Don't bother giving it any deep thought.

Except he's actually not and knows exactly what's going on. The domestic Japanese market for anime is stagnated and has gone down for a while outside of a few hits here and there which keep the numbers afloat. A lot of anime studios nowadays actually operating in red and are in the active searching for other sources of revenues from the international markets (hello Chinese companies) only because primary source of revenues - disc sales - went way down.

Right, now what does any of that have to do with what he said about edgerunners?

Under the recent domestic anime situation, there was a feeling that famous Japanese studios were consumed by the overseas market, but not this one!

zunderdog24 wrote:

Right, now what does any of that have to do with what he said about edgerunners?

Exactly what he says, duh.

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Under the recent domestic anime situation, there was a feeling that famous Japanese studios were consumed by the overseas market, but not this one!

He was basically afraid that the CDProjekt affect the production process of the show to make it appeal to the West, but somehow Trigger pushed their own narrative (like that time when CDPR tried to cut or change Rebecca), while keeping it as Japanese as possible.

Did you miss the part where edgerunners is a literal collaboration with the west?????? Its not exclusively trigger's narrative, CDPR has to affect the production process because they need to be involved BECAUSE ITS THEIR IP THAT THEY WANT TO MAINTAIN A CONSISTENT NARRATIVE WITH THEIR GAME. What do you even mean when you say "keeping it as japanese as possible"? do you even know?

I know he's plugging his own thing, but Akudama Drive really is great to watch if you want something else like Cyberpunk. It's also different in ways that I can imagine people who didn't like Cyberpunk might like Akudama.