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Originally Posted by dorkvader /img/forum/go_quote.gif
it's easy and cheap to animate, so people can spend more time on beautiful storylines.
Ha. haha. Hah. Nooooooooo. Anime merch and suchlike is expensive (grossly so)
because anime are so expensive to produce. It's not uncommon for a show to run out of budget
in the middle of the season. (This was especially bad with Neon Genesis Evangelion when it first aired and also with Bakemonogatari. In both cases, the anime was hugely popular enough and sold enough merchandise that the later episodes got reanimated - especially in the case of NGE, which got a movie ending to the series, has had several movie recaps, and is now being remade into a series of movies that grossly alter the canonicity, to the point where it might as well as be an alternate universe. [Not that I mind, mind you - the Rebuild movies are
awesome.])
And as far as "beautiful storylines" go... Sturgeon's Law. "90% of everything is crap." I've (sadly) watched a lot more bad anime than I have good. It just seems like there are so many good anime because there're so many anime. (Seriously, my backlog is ridiculous, and filled with [mostly] good anime. Dennou Coil, Eden of the East, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Baccano!, Bokurano, Ergo Proxy, Boogie Pop Phantom, all the seasons of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, I still need to finish Hanamaru Kindergarten though I'm worried about my heart giving out...)
OST from something called X: Ah, possibly
this anime?
And as far as that picture goes... yeah, I just went through that artist's tag on Danbooru. Only seven pictures, but they're all gorgeous. (I'd link you, but Danbooru runs NSFW ads. The artist, alcd, him/herself is SFW, though.)
@Topic: Can anyone identify these phones, or are they fake? I ask because the girl's bag has the Audio-Technica logo and name on it, and I don't ever recall AT having ever made bags of any sort.
-- Griffinhart