Ordo said:
Contrabardus said:
PCHeintz72 said:
Never been much of a Gundam fan... though my one brother loves it.
But I've had rotten luck with series continuations on series I actually like... Frankly, it baffles me how they choose which series does and does not get more seasons... especially ones that have plenty of followers or enough manga to warrant continuing.
I'd love for more Kenichi, or Index / Railgun, or Log Horizon, or even GATE, or several others I can think of that left off with possibility of more. But while I've heard of a GATE movie coming out in March, I've not heard anything more on series continuations on any of the others.
There are also the ones they've done more seasons of that were... fairly dreadful. Like The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki chan.
Yet series I cannot fathom why people would like, get more seasons. How Dog Days for example merited 3 seasons (even if half seasons) boggles the mind.
Log Horizon is dead. Dude who wrote it got convicted of tax evasion and is currently on probation. No one is going to touch that series. Dude can't even get his LNs published anymore because no publisher wants to associate with him, much less get an anime done.
Look, I agree he needs to pay his debt to society....but is tax evasion so bad people wouldn't purchase his work and watch an anime based off his creation...I could understand murder or some other such crime but....tax evasion?
Different culture, different standards. Tax evasion is a bigger deal in Japan than it would be in the west.
Businesses culture in Japan is big on employee loyalty and work ethic. Once an adult and working at a serious job, an employee's life pretty much revolves around the company they work for to the point that it's a major factor in Japan's low birth rates. People spend most of their adult lives at work, often don't associate with others outside of work because they don't have time for it, and dating within the workplace is extremely taboo. To the point that people who get married to each other that work in the same place will hide it even after the wedding.
This culture is the reason fathers are so rarely seen hanging around a home in anime and manga, and why when they are shown as being home regularly they are often shown as being unreliable, inept, or lazy. Often they are busy being dead, but just as often they're just not there because they are working. Same thing applies to anime homes where both parents are rarely seen at home, if at all. It's not really uncommon in real life for parents to often be absent during waking hours due to work.
As a result of this culture an employee's behavior is more closely tied to a business than in the west. An employee pulling this sort of thing is considered to reflect badly on the company, and he was likely dropped from the publisher immediately once the allegations came out. If he'd been cleared of charges he might have been able to come back, but a conviction definitely killed the series.