How much "executive meddling" is there in anime and manga? I'm curious about both general practices and specific examples
>Kazuhiko Torishima, Akira Toriyama's editor for Dr. Slump and the first half of Dragon Ball, felt that the Dragon Ball anime's ratings were gradually declining because it had the same producer that worked on Dr. Slump. Torishima said this producer had this "cute and funny" image connected to Toriyama's work and was missing the more serious tone in the newer series, and therefore asked the studio to change the producer.
>Impressed with their work on Saint Seiya, he asked its director Kōzō Morishita and writer Takao Koyama to help "reboot" Dragon Ball, which coincided with Goku growing up. The new producer explained that ending the first anime and creating a new one would result in more promotional money, and the result was the start of Dragon Ball Z.
Naruto was almost all editor meddling, it should have the editors name in the credits over Kishimoto There's also a conspiracy theory that says that Steel Ball Run was written by Shueisha editors trying to save Araki
Kevin Howard
And they did good, Dragon Ball Z is one of the most loved animes around the world today.
Chase Reyes
I still can't believe just how much a good editor can help a shit manga. If Horikoshi had Kishimoto's editors at the beginning MHA whould have been one of the greatest Jump manga ever.
Julian Rodriguez
VEGITA PLEASE FUCK MY WIFE
Parker Nguyen
If a manga I like goes bad it's executive meddling If I don't like a manga then the author is a hack
Jack Moore
Successful, but not necessarily good
Ian Jackson
The only editorial meddling in SBR's case was forcing Araki to distance it from Jojo. If you noticed, SBR did not mention the fact that it was part 7 until it moved out.
Ian Harris
Loved =/= good, no idea why you bothered to interject
it makes sense to me, how is a mangakai going to think up a good everything, and draw and write it, in the timeframe given? it can't, name a single 10/10 manga
Julian Wright
>Kazuhiko Torishima the real brains behind the success of dragon ball. Thank god for editors
Cameron Murphy
>There's also a conspiracy theory that says that Steel Ball Run was written by Shueisha editors trying to save Araki well judging by the absolute piles of shit that part 6 and part 8 are I can see this being true
Ayden Williams
DB's influence was already monumental by then, the parts that turned into DBZ just made a lot of money and South American childhoods, they added very little except reach
Noah Morgan
Torishima was the only man who could properly tardwrangle Toriyama and give us kino like early Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump.
Samuel Sullivan
He was literally in charge until after the Piccolo arc and even after still had influence over the manga
William Cruz
I love little girls they make me feel so good I love little girls they make me feel so bad When they're around they make me feel Like I'm the only guy in town I love little girls they make me feel so good
They don't care if I'm a one way mirror They're not frightened by my cold exterior
They don't ask me questions They don't want to scold me They don't look for answers They just want to hold me Isn't this fun Isn't this what life's all about Isn't this a dream come true Isn't this a nightmare too
(Repeat first verse)
They don't care about my inclinations They're not frightened by my revelations
Uh oh take a second take Uh oh it's a mistake Uh oh I'm in trouble Uh oh the little girl was just too little Too little, too little, too little Isn't this what life's all about Isn't this a dream come true Isn't this a nightmare too . . .
And I don't care what people say And I don't care what people think And I don't care how we look walking down the street
>DB's influence was already monumental by then Before he took over and changed it into a juggernaut, it was a middling Jump manga slowly falling down the rankings. He understood what it took to turn it into something the, let's say, impressionable readership of the magazine would eat up like it was candy.
It's villainized too much. Clearly there's some appeal to Z and, even if popular is not good, which-no one asked-I could turn tables and point popular is not necessarily bad. It's Devil's Proof. No matter how much universal appeal the series has, I cannot prove to you that Z is good. Neither can you prove that Z is bad, though, and no, acting contrarian is not a proof.