CATDOLL: Japanese industry insiders revealed that anime is randomly adapted into TV series just for the sake of ratings

Recently, there are more and more live-action TV series adapted from Japanese anime works. However, since the settings of many anime works are not very suitable for real people to play, the plots after the adaptation are still very different from the original works. There are still many failed adaptations, which has caused dissatisfaction among many fans. Recently, a Japanese media reported that the practice of live-action anime works and making major adaptations to the original works is not what the producers want. Instead, they have to do it under pressure from superiors.

A TV drama scriptwriter said: "To be honest, I actually want to write a TV drama script with an original story, but no matter how interesting I think it is, the TV station will not approve my plan. Now only the original story plans of big names such as Koki Mitani and Shinji Nojima can be approved. Now I can only live my life adapting the original work into a script according to instructions."

A producer also said: "Whether it is a movie or a TV series, a script and introduction will be produced during the planning stage. For original stories, only text materials can be submitted. Therefore, it is difficult for the superiors to understand the fun of the work just by looking at the text. In order to make them understand better, it is a good choice to bring out anime works with ready-made pictures or images. If they look at it and say, 'I want to make this a live-action version,' the plan will be easily approved."

In addition, works that already have original works have data that can be used as a reference. "When actually making a TV series, you can't say what the ratings will be. But if there is an anime original, you can say 'this is a work that sold XX million copies', 'the animation once achieved XX% ratings'. An original story without these data to support it is hard to believe, no matter how interesting it is. The plans of Mitani and others were approved because they had past achievements, but new scriptwriters had nothing to show for it. I also know that new scriptwriters will not be able to develop if this continues, but there is no other way at the moment." However, even if the current situation can only be like this, the impact of the constant appearance of such "magic modifications" is not good, right?

The producer also said: "Although I wanted to adapt the original work directly into a live-action version, at least I wouldn't be criticized by the original fans, but the higher authorities instructed that 'the content needs to be changed for TV adaptation'; 'In order to increase ratings, women should be added to works that only starred men', etc. This also led to the collapse of the original worldview, and the story could only develop in other directions, and eventually became a work that no one liked. In addition, due to different sponsors, some famous scenes in the original work also need to be cut. For example, if it is sponsored by a car manufacturer, there can be no scenes such as racing or drunk driving."