Does anyone else feel as if there's not much of a sense of adventure and wonder in current anime/currently publishing manga?
Early One Piece or HxH when it was still publishing were good examples that really scratched that itch; but none of the current "big" shonen have that kind of vibe anymore.
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Mason Gonzalez
Ethan Walker
>recent anime with sense of adventure
Made in Abyss, Girls Last Tour and err... I can't think anything else.
Grayson Jones
Not really adventure but Shimeji Simulation has a sense of wonder.
Cameron Clark
>shonen
What about Dr.Stone?
Nicholas Brooks
there's not much sense of that in real life
if the new space race does heat up it might help inspire some stuff
Jeremiah Bennett
Pretty much this. Modern anime fans, or really consumers of genre fiction nowadays are more or less realists who don't mesh kindly with the more idealistic sense of wonder you find adventure.
Which begs the question of why they are even involved in these genres in the first place, but that's a different matter entirely.
James Martinez
But they certainly will vote with their wallet, hence why most productions focus more on "hype" shonen or romcoms/sol.
Which sucks, because the medium is capable of achieving incredible aesthetics that aren't so easy replicable with normal film, yet most work is spent on drab modern environments.
Josiah Walker
Unironicly Jobless Reincarnation gave me that sense of wonder and adventure I've been looking for for so long
Anthony Clark
The anime toned down the world building to focus more on character interactions.
Hunter White
How depressing.
David Phillips
Not shone but it scratched my adventure itch
Easton Hernandez
"Current big shounen" is maybe half a dozen titles. Maybe look slightly further afield.
Henry Adams
Because everything's been explored
David Reyes
Not really. Imagine pic related but in Amazon jungle.
Brody Hernandez
Early HxH sucked donkey balls.
Ian Hall
not even close
Jaxon Long
Because why adapt something hard when you can adapt something popular and cheap?
Josiah Ward
This doesn't make sense because you don't understand very basic things about how the industry works.
Noah Phillips
No, it's very simple. The longer the industry has been around, the more easy it is to forecast profits from a piece of work. That means increasingly less creative risks are made.
Nathan Edwards
The amazon is boring.
Jackson Peterson
There's Touge Oni but the scanlators only does the tankobon releases so the release schedule is sparse.