What went wrong?

Sep 29, 2017 10:39 AM

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I'm curious about other people's thoughts: What happened to turn what should have been basically a guarantee of something at least reasonably great (a 4th season of Jigoku Shoujo with the return of the original director) into a failure from the word "go" (only 12 episodes, half of which were literal re-runs, and the other half didn't feel like they received the effort they deserved on any front). To clarify, I'm not looking for a list of flaws in this season's execution, and I definitely don't want to sit here bashing the show or the people behind it; I'm looking for thoughts about the production and business side of things: why was this clearly not given the same sort of budget or care that previous seasons were?

I'd also be really curious if there was somewhere that we could see budget information for something like this, though I don't have terribly high hopes for that... I'm just baffled how the budget it seems to have received could have ever been approved in the first place. Was it just an ill-conceived cash-grab, or might there be something more to it?

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Sep 29, 2017 10:48 AM

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That anime was a major letdown and thought season 3 was a letdown

Sep 29, 2017 5:33 PM

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If there's something wrong in production and business side we probably will never know what's it. Looks like this season was made just to promote that new voice actor and the opening band...

Sep 30, 2017 5:15 AM

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What went wrong? it's an original anime and not based on the manga since the last season was the end of the manga I believe. That and they obviously never had any faith in the series or budget since they only did 6 new episodes.

Oct 1, 2017 8:20 PM

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It is definitely interesting to consider. My main question in all of this is, why? Why would they even bother with a new season in the first place? For only 6 new episodes and then just remembrance episodes. It just doesn't make much sense to me, on a personal and business level.

I don't see why they'd decide to open up the cane of Hell worms again, just to make mediocre episodes and obviously a very small budget to work with.

Maybe promotional reasons? But (as much as I love JS) I surprised that they would choose it to promote a band and a voice actor. It's not the most popular show at the moment, mostly because of their budget I assume. But I don't see why they would just start it again to promote things and then just end it.

I don't know what went wrong, but I'd love to see figures with money and budgets.

Oct 12, 2017 9:51 AM

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landlock said:
What went wrong? it's an original anime and not based on the manga since the last season was the end of the manga I believe. That and they obviously never had any faith in the series or budget since they only did 6 new episodes.

The whole Jigoku Shoujo series is an Original Anime work, the manga started the same time as the anime so it really can't be said that the previous seasons were adapted from the manga. Every season is anime original and the manga is based on the anime, not the other way around. Just wanted to let you know :D

Apr 2, 2019 8:17 PM

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So, only recently I saw that Fujishouji is credited as "Producer" of this season. You know, the pachinko manifacturing company Fujishouji? Considering the amount of Jigoku Shoujo machines they made, I probably think that Fujishouji ordered 6 new shorts for their newest machine and somehow Aniplex convinced them to do a full series. But they soon realized that a 25-min anime with 26 episode is costly to make, so they simply said "Stop this shit", got their shorts, but Aniplex considered there was to much investment to make this go down and rushed everyone to fill the 25 minute gap, and that's it. This explains the rushed season, the abuse of old assets, and how the CR Jigoku Shoujo machine also has 3 other original stories from Yoi no Togi on it.

Dec 29, 2019 5:20 AM

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Only six episodes, despite all previous seasons were two cours.
Also, the characters are so dumb, evil and vile, it is absurd and animation is even worse than in 2005.

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