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Mami-kouga
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I am very sorry to state that you kind of failed director-kun, but ya tried your best. Though it's kind of fun seeing the mindset of those who work on the series. Its always difficult trying to adapt to the changes in a medium, if you get too creative it will disatisfy the fans, but if you stick too close the medium differences will just hurt the project. I think the anime as a whole managed to find a decent middle ground and it'll be fun to think of what their future products after Mushoku could be, whenever that is. |
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helln00
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Lol they tried to not cause viewers discomfort, then what was that barn and bedroom scene lol. Tbh without those the 1st season would have been like a step better
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Snowcat
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Nice interview. It would have been interesting to have some insight of what they are planning after this summer (an other project or season 2 ?).
In my opinion, they managed to handle the "discomfort". Few viewers dropped the show because of it and the reception of this first part was a success. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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I think you are grossly over estimating how many people dropped the show due to it. Yes a lot did not in some morbid fascination to see how it would up itself each week, but there were a lot who did drop the show due to the material. |
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Casval Rem Deikun
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People who dropped it is their loss. One the best anime adaptations I have seen in a long while. From art, to music, everything was perfect. Mushoku Tensei deserves nothing less.
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Snowcat
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If you have a source, i'm interested. Because, the viewership seems to be in the same range as Re:Zero and i don't consider people uninterested in isekai shows as "drop". |
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AksaraKishou
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Guess people low key have a skewed perspective because in places like r/anime, it was sometimes exceeding Titan on a weekly basis. Both having 10k+ upvotes and 1.5/2.5+ comments within 1 to 2 days of the airing of each episode. |
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AksaraKishou
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Imagine it like this: Anime 1 (random show): 100 people don't watch it at all Anime 2 (Mushoku): 100 people drop out 3 or 5 episodes in. Neither show how many people are ACTUALLY watching it. So while we "know" that a lot drop it, they could be a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things (which seems to be the case?) |
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El Hermano
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Overall I would definitely say it isn't really a point of contention for most anime fans. At least the younger ones who seem more open to sexual content. I know all the kids on Tiktok have been eating these shows up and making shows like Mushoku and Redo some of the most trending and well loved series on anime Tiktok. Given how well Redo did, I'm curious to see the numbers for Mushoku will be like when it's BDs come out. |
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Snowcat
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My perception of the drop rate is based on MAL statistic (drop/(watching+completed)) by lack of a better source to base my opinion on (that's why i'm interested in any kind of other source). The show seems to have been liked on reddit and some anime database doing weekly polling, to have good viewership on Japanese streaming services and Chinese (until it was blocked). I don't pretend to know the truth but that's why i thought it was a success and the vulgarity didn't hindered it that much. |
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NeverConvex
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As one of the people who dropped it a few episodes in after discussing it on the forums and being convinced it wasn't going to get much better, I'm not sure there was ever much the director could have done to make me want to watch it. The problem was with the source material, from what I could tell.
That said, I'm also skeptical that enough of us dropped it to make a dent. A lot of anime fans seem to either not get or care about how shows frame the actions/thoughts of their characters, and just seem happy when there's horny content, period, especially if it's beautifully animated and has a decent story as well. But a source on viewership figures compared to other major shows would be neat, if anyone has that handy. |
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Blanchimont
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A lot of us myself included genuinely enjoyed the show without it having anything to do with 'morbid curiosity'. Your words, can you show a lot of people dropped the show, if compared to the average drop rate of this Winter season anime? Snowcat above at least could give an idea based on MAL statistics... |
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ATastySub
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He never said otherwise. He said that out of the people that were uncomfortable with it some stuck through due to morbid curiosity. You’ve already made it super clear you were not uncomfortable with the show. So no, you were not being talked about and didn’t need to try and make it about you. As for “statistics” it’s pretty obvious that the content was a turn off for a lot of people because of the content. It was not marketed as a pedophilic/sexual assault show, it was marketed (falsely) as “The OG Isekai” and a lot of people dipped once they realized what they were getting into. Reddit/MAL are niches within a niche within a niche, and pretending the slant that gathers there is representative of the whole is completely misusing statistics. It really helps when you stop treating the show as a part of yourself and realize that people dropping it over its gross parts isn’t an attack on you. |
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Snowcat
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On my legal streaming service the "popular" anime advised are correctly reflected in the MAL viewership, so if you have the viewership numbers from crunchyroll and funimation to fact check MAL statistics, i'm also interested. |
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Blanchimont
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MAL page views are a magnitude higher than for ANN, and double that for unique visitors. And even reddit numbers dwarf ANN. In my opinion, you're grossly underestimating MAL.
I didn't see it as any kind of attack on myself. Just did a rebuttal as it seemed to gloss over those who truly enjoyed the show the way it was worded... |
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