There's more drama in the industry than in any of the Netflix's reality shows.
Star Wars also went through some development hell starting with Rise Of Skywalker and stream of poorly produced and made shows.
Getting even a glimpse of something like this hapenning with Dragon Ball as well is surprising on the side that we are rarely getting any info on this IP that isn't for marketing purposes. And not surprising with the recent state of the things if true.
I wonder how will this turn out in this particular case, but revolution has to happen.
In marketing, arts and general, artists are underpreciated more and more with so much push on delivery and performance, that the creative side suffers. And even if the stories are better than average, it leaks through hasty CGI, design department etc.
And it always goes back to the artists – they did a bad design, they did a bad CGI – nobobody, mainly the customer, doesn't care about (and why should they spending the money?) behind the scenes as they believe that for they money, they are getting desired quality. But nobody blaims the guys who really call the shots, either literally or through the limited budgets or undesirable working conditions, that make the creation of great products borderline impossible.
All of these issues go back to the business owners and executives, who are pushing for more and more while giving back less and it leads to unimaginative and unpolished works, that most people loses interest in over time... Marvel, Star Wars, DC. We had lot of nitpicks with Super and how things were handled – hasty and crappy production, which we can safely bet came from the top of the studio and producers involved.
Power, or rather, Respect to the people.
Rafa Fast wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:48 am
Way back in January I was very skeptical about the web anime, today I still am, but not referring to its existence but to its state of production
Way back in February we had that Kubota interview where he said that there was no new new DB animated project in the works
The new project aside from Super Hero mentioned by Akio in early 2022 never came to a reality and we are in september 2023
Now this shueisha scandal is happening
Then we had the rumour about Akio's attempt in making Super 2 and the Web Anime but Shueisha blocking it
Then we have no Dragon Ball announced for Jump Festa in this December
And we keep getting more rumours about the web anime and its "new details" about it over and over
All of these sound very connected for me,
It may be too soon, but for me it seems that the web anime and maybe even Super 2, are nothing but a idea, and supposedly gave by Akio and the Dragon Room, repeatedly recused by Shueisha
there are no established plans, pre-production, chosen production team, story written, nothing, only ideas.
I hope I'm wrong tho.
Maybe you nailed it on the head. Because this wouldn't be far from Lucasfilm announcing and reportedly developing countless projects, that got shelved, countless creative differences and struggle of creators versus studio – I've stopped to trust chief executives coming in and saying: "We had to save the movie/project by hiring someone else." and then watching the subpar alternative thinking, jesus, we have really dodged the bullet and maybe they should have canceled it altogether if what am I watching now is better than what I've almost got
And years later, creators speak up, uncovering info on original story scripts, decisions and clashes with studio that ultimately resulted in heavy changes and alterations at any point of production.
But back on topic. Yeah, maybe those people sharing rumors were right and I didn't trust them, but coming by Lucasfilm, when they showed all the logos and made press releases, the projects WERE actually just a pitch idea and logo (I can imagine those poor designer souls were forced to produce logos for projects in really tight deadlines so white collars can hype up the audience and enjoy the fame from labor of their underlings).
We'll probably never know.
Also, all this formulaic stuff and "unfinished stuff" we are getting for bleeding money on countless different streaming services plus cinema.
To quote Bob Iger, when Abrams asked for pushing the deadline on Episode 9 after Carrie Fisher unexpectedly passed away and he had to rework the whole project already in preproduction: "No."
People like Iger are all that makes the business bad and toxic nowadays, for people working in it up to us getting content that is being subpar, formulaic (because it sells and to do it super simply to earn the most money... if people love the Marvel cinematic universe, than all they want are other universes etc.). It's insulting both to the creators and customers/fans. Hence revolution has to happen!
