Critical Reception of Global Anime Productions: A Deep Dive

Recent criticisms have emerged from audiences in the West and Japan, highlighting the shortcomings of certain global productions, particularly in their adaptation of English songs to resonate with a worldwide audience. This has been deemed a significant failure in the “global” context by the production companies involved.

Online Community Reactions

Here are some comments from netizens regarding this issue:

• “Is there a video that truly captures the essence? Will we meet this week or next?”
• “In the end, only the last few minutes might make sense. No one will know what the film is about just by looking at the opening sequence. Isn’t that a significant issue?”
• “Netflix’s Ultraman also has a similar opening style, so I suspect that all anime from Production IG will follow suit. Usually, this approach leads to a disappointing conclusion.”
• “I feel disappointed that a song only vaguely resembles Linkin Park’s typical opening sequences from one anime.
• “I don’t think it’s bad, but it merely reflects a Western perspective. All anime produced outside of Japan seems to adopt this approach. In reality, the opening sequences of foreign anime are increasingly resembling this trend.”
• “We must begin to consider the impact on both Japanese and foreign viewers, and this has failed in both cases.”
• “I watched a music video that featured scenes from manga and found a much better song than this one.”
• “To be honest, this animation seems to be taken from PC games from about two decades ago, which feels quite disappointing.”
• “It resembles the opening sequence of a movie but shouldn’t be representative of the entire Japanese anime industry.”
• “Great animation for a music video, but it doesn’t suit the opening sequence. They should have followed the lead of Shingeki no Kyojin.”
• “I genuinely enjoy the music and the animation style, but I believe there’s much more they could do to enhance the animation.”
• “The song doesn’t quite hit the mark, but I don’t dislike the imagery at all. I prefer animated films with dialogue that has a certain depth and a bit of action.”