![]() That's what happens when so much of the community will call "trash" and "shitty writing" on anything that does not skip or almost skip prologueĪnticipation/SF often require longer prologues and set up in general to be good, and one with a dystopian setting in particular would be fairly unforgiving on that point ImO.Toward the Terra and Galaxy Express 999 establish their stories within the 1st episode. So we can't have that as anime, because of the anime community. Another reason being simply that Japanese don't seem as interested in anything SF/anticipation related in general as the western authors/audience does. That's one reason it's fairly unpopular in anime and manga medium, who want very short prologue to grab the audience's attention. Isekai, MMORPGs, travel-like stories, romcoms, school life, harem/ecchi, and in reverse stuff that doesn't really have any form of main story nor are expected to have one, like comedy and SOL.Īnticipation/SF often require longer prologues and set up in general to be good, and one with a dystopian setting in particular would be fairly unforgiving on that point ImO. ![]() Instead, you'll get more and more adaptations of stuff that heavily favour short prologue and fast jumping into the main action and main story. So they get no new seasons, and story that are similar do not get adaptation. Pretty much all anime that do not do that fail heavily in the ratings and in sale. ![]() Most anime viewers will throw a tantrum when the main story hasn't started by the end of the first episode. So what's the problem with that? Normally, nothing. It weight too hevealy on peoples' everyday lives to be ignored for that long. You can't really start the main story narrative and then just go randomly "oh btw it's a dystopian regime here's some info about it". ![]() S,o long prologues showing the current bad situation in the dystopian regime, and the like, before you can really start with the main story. That kind of setting usually require proper story writing structure as it heavily relies on showing the initial setting. The anime "Library War" already comes fairly close to this premise and perhaps it is all that is needed to convey the message that burning books is bad? It is quite entertaining if rather cartoonish and over-the-top. It imagines a dystopian future where the role of the fire department is to confiscate all printed materials and incinerate them. Although it doesn't make totalitarianism itself the main focus of the plot, it contains powerful dialogue scenes which allow the viewer to see inside the mind of totalitarian statists and how they justify their atrocities.ĥ ) "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury: I actually found this one to be more on the comical side ( whether intentional or not ). It begs the question.are we in fact already living in a brave new world right now without us even realizing it?ģ ) "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin: this novel is somewhat of a lesser known hidden gem of the genre.Ĥ ) "The Evil That Men Do": an action film starring Charles Bronson. One of the author's most famous quotes attributed to him describes modernity as being a sort of pampered prison without walls, a concentration camp without tears. This one was actually alluded to in the dialogue of the anime "Psycho-Pass".Ģ ) "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley: the society depicted in this work of fiction is often considered even more horrific than the one in "1984". Here is my wish list of hypothetical anime adaptations of novels and films of this genre.ġ ) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" ( or simply "1984" ) by George Orwell: the grandest one of them all! The premier title of the entire genre. For sake of clarity, the intended purpose of this thread is not to glorify totalitarianism. I also feel that every now and then we need an anime that reminds us of the type of dystopian future that we don't want. ![]() Yes, yes, I realize that one of the biggest selling points of anime is to find escape from the unpleasant truths of the real world. ![]()
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