RE: Out of Ideas
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The goal: to attract a new and younger audience. They already did it with another classic that was just as popular in its time, "Urusei Yatsura" by the same creator. They did a remake of it, already having a series and a few movies, and it was a huge success. I discovered the anime and the play thanks to that remake. The same thing happens to me with this one, since at 26 years old, I obviously didn't know this work and thanks to this remake of Ranma 1/2 I'm getting to know it. Yes, they obviously do it for the money, that's an obvious fact, but I also assume they do it to revive their old fandom and reach a newer audience. Imagine, this anime came out in the 80s, I wasn't even born back then. 😅 And although as an anime fan I should have known about it before, it is true that this Remake makes my life much easier by knowing this famous work with a new redesign and good animation (although it seems that the animation tries to maintain the classic style of the original work). I'm watching it right now and I'm liking it, let's hope it stays that way.
Good post.
You make a great point. I guess where I am coming from is that instead of spending all this effort remaking something that is already pretty good, why not make something completely new? There is a ton of manga that could do with some animation.
A few years ago a friend gave me a boxed set for Gatchaman. That's even older than Ranma 1/2. I have very vague memories of watching the English dubbed version of it once or twice when I was a kid. I took that boxed set and put it on for my 8 year old (at the time) and he loved it. No need to remake it to give that exposure to a classic series.
Well... There is a lot of demand for anime adaptations of new mangas that have never been animated before. But it is true that Netflix, which is in charge of this remake (as well as others in the past), has its own way of paying for and producing adaptations. But outside of Netflix, it's as simple as looking at the future broadcasts that have been confirmed for 2025 to realize the huge amount of new anime that are coming.
And well, that would be the case, in mine, as I don't have anyone who knows about old anime like you in my life, I have to wait for a Remake and that at some point in my life I come across the name from the original anime to go see it, if I'm interested since another detail is the style and quality of animation. I know that, like me, there are many young people in the world who are grateful now that the Remake has come out.
But well, we'll have to wait for it to be fully broadcast first and then give our opinion in case they don't ruin it along the way with a bad adaptation or something like that. 🤔