If you could change one thing about anime...

[Soviet Heavy]

What would it be? I personally would like it if the mouth animations were changed to suit whichever language the show was being shown in. I realize that mouth flaps work when you need to run the show in multiple languages, but it is really annoying.

How hard would it be to just try and sync up mouth animations?

Anyways, what would you change?

 

[MisterShine]

Mine would be the adherence to the 13/26 episodes per season rule. Yes I know if they didn't have a standard length it would be very annoying to schedule all the shows together with some kind of coherence, but so many shows lose something when they're either forced to condense what they have to say, or put in filler.

One of the reasons why I like anime so much better than anything America has produced is that the Japanese approach it with a "Here's the story we want to tell, and here's the time-frame to we'll tell it in", whereas in America it is "Here's our basic premise, how long can we add to it until it isn't popular anymore?"

Which thankfully saves them from having to leave shows open for extra seasons if it's popular, they can have more meaningful episodes. With shows like Time of Eve and Fooly Cooly, you can see just how much creativity they can pack into just how much time they want to have. So, if they got rid of the fixed number of episodes crap, it would get rid of a lot of the filler bullshit we have to put up with in 95% of shows, that waters down a lot of the good stuff.

 

[Arisato-kun]

What would it be? I personally would like it if the mouth animations were changed to suit whichever language the show was being shown in. I realize that mouth flaps work when you need to run the show in multiple languages, but it is really annoying.

How hard would it be to just try and sync up mouth animations?

Anyways, what would you change?

Actually very. Imagine having to redraw every single frame so the dialogue syncs up. Even with a team the work is tedious. :/

I'd like for more series to be released in America. There's tons of shows I've watched that will never see the light of day on this continent.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

Blasphemy!
I would want all filler episodes cut out. Also, fights that last 5 episodes? Bull-fucking-shit! Also, stop with the softcore porn. Either go hardcore or stay out of it.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

What would it be? I personally would like it if the mouth animations were changed to suit whichever language the show was being shown in. I realize that mouth flaps work when you need to run the show in multiple languages, but it is really annoying.

How hard would it be to just try and sync up mouth animations?

Anyways, what would you change?

Actually very. Imagine having to redraw every single frame so the dialogue syncs up. Even with a team the work is tedious. :/

I'd like for more series to be released in America. There's tons of shows I've watched that will never see the light of day on this continent.

But if a show were specifically designed to be released to a foreign market, would that not justify syncing lip animations? Just sayin'.

 

[Worgen]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

ehh you know what they say, seen one woman naked, you want to see them all naked

 

[Infinatex]

That shit where a character says something stupid and all the other characters who hear them hover the air and then fall over. (DBZ I'm looking at you!)

 

[Steppin Razor]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

This. So very much this.
*shudder*
It's all sorts of wrong.

If I could get a second choice, I'd go with getting rid of the ridiculous transformation scenes, especially in mecha series. Gundam Seed and Zoids are particularly bad for this as you get to watch a 30-60 second long scene of the mech getting equipped with the exact same weapons it nearly every episode.

 

[Dango]

I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe... the last episode of Amagami SS (episode 4), but that's really it.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

Blasphemy!
I would want all filler episodes cut out. Also, fights that last 5 episodes? Bull-fucking-shit! Also, stop with the softcore porn. Either go hardcore or stay out of it.

No. Not blasphemy. Truth.

OT:What she said. (heh heh heh)

I speak the truth, if I wanted to see actual possible human proportions, then I wouldn't watch fucking Japanese cartoons!
Also, I want anime in which I can tell men from women. For that matter I would like to see more character differentiation. I'm tired of seeing the same character with different eye color and hair.

 

[Marik2]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

ehh you know what they say, seen one woman naked, you want to see them all naked

LOL thats the opposite of me seen a lot of naked girls when I was a kid not by porn but by being in the womens locker room till I was 7 (I had to be with my mom since she was taking swimming lessons) So a naked women just makes me go, meh.

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

Oh God so very much this and retarded fanservice ugh -_-

 

[Gigaguy64]

The amount of fanservice added to a supposedly non-ecchi series in order to get people to watch it.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I'd cut out the arbitrary existential crisis at least one character will have during the series.

 

[Worgen]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

ehh you know what they say, seen one woman naked, you want to see them all naked

LOL thats the opposite of me seen a lot of naked girls when I was a kid not by porn but by being in the womens locker room till I was 7 (I had to be with my mom since she was taking swimming lessons) So a naked women just makes me go, meh.

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

Oh God so very much this and retarded fanservice ugh -_-

hmm maybe it only works if your a guy and into women with breasts

 

[Marik2]

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

ehh you know what they say, seen one woman naked, you want to see them all naked

LOL thats the opposite of me seen a lot of naked girls when I was a kid not by porn but by being in the womens locker room till I was 7 (I had to be with my mom since she was taking swimming lessons) So a naked women just makes me go, meh.

Breast sizes. Anime women have huge knockers that would make any realistic girl die. I'd like them if they were more realistic looking. I can understand D Cups, but when you push past that, it turns into a ''seem one pair, seen em all'' type of deal.

Oh God so very much this and retarded fanservice ugh -_-

hmm maybe it only works if your a guy and into women with breasts

Hey Im a guy and I love women but Im not obsessed with the female body

 

[Arisato-kun]

What would it be? I personally would like it if the mouth animations were changed to suit whichever language the show was being shown in. I realize that mouth flaps work when you need to run the show in multiple languages, but it is really annoying.

How hard would it be to just try and sync up mouth animations?

Anyways, what would you change?

Actually very. Imagine having to redraw every single frame so the dialogue syncs up. Even with a team the work is tedious. :/

I'd like for more series to be released in America. There's tons of shows I've watched that will never see the light of day on this continent.

But if a show were specifically designed to be released to a foreign market, would that not justify syncing lip animations? Just sayin'.

That would be justified because the show would be drawn for that market. But there's never a guarantee that a licensing company is going to pick an anime up. It's more cost effective and less tasking in the long run to just sync the lips for ambiguity.

 

[lucky_sharm]

I would like characters to stop randomly falling on the ground at the same time whenever something "funny" happens. Another change I would like about anime is for them to write better dialogue. It just makes me cringe whenever a character performs an action and then have another character state the obvious as to what just happened as if the audience didn't see it at all. For example,

*character pulls out a sword*

character 1:He pulled out a sword!

character 2: Unbelievable! He has a sword?

character 3: Look at that sword!