is this the start of more japan and china co production of animation?

Apr 6, 8:59 AM

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I thought it was Japan on the 2D parts and China on the 3DCGI parts but ngl, I’m sold on this, can’t wait for the next EP

Apr 6, 9:02 AM

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V1P3Rdmk said:
I thought it was Japan on the 2D parts and China on the 3DCGI parts but ngl, I’m sold on this, can’t wait for the next EP

The entire animation is being done by Chinese studios. Aniplex is just a producer

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Subxxxx1 said:

V1P3Rdmk said:
I thought it was Japan on the 2D parts and China on the 3DCGI parts but ngl, I’m sold on this, can’t wait for the next EP

The entire animation is being done by Chinese studios. Aniplex is just a producer

Ah I Thought it was a mix of JP and CN studios but ngl I can tell the CN ppl had bills to pay with that and I respect it.

Apr 6, 9:26 AM

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Subxxxx1 said:

V1P3Rdmk said:
I thought it was Japan on the 2D parts and China on the 3DCGI parts but ngl, I’m sold on this, can’t wait for the next EP

The entire animation is being done by Chinese studios. Aniplex is just a producer

I saw mappa and silver link in the end credit. but their credit was in Chinese so I'm not sure what they did.

Apr 6, 9:31 AM

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sicklyslick said:

Subxxxx1 said:

The entire animation is being done by Chinese studios. Aniplex is just a producer

I saw mappa and silver link in the end credit. but their credit was in Chinese so I'm not sure what they did.

That's Outsourcing. Many elements in animation are outsourced to other animation studios even though the most of it is done by the in-house studio itself. There can be some assets which was provided by outsourced studios. You can find studios who are not the main studio listed in credits in most shows, both live Action and animation (in most countries)

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Hopefully it means China will start to ditch the ugly 3DCG and replace it with this much nicer style

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Subxxxx1 said:

sicklyslick said:

I saw mappa and silver link in the end credit. but their credit was in Chinese so I'm not sure what they did.

That's Outsourcing. Many elements in animation are outsourced to other animation studios even though the most of it is done by the in-house studio itself. There can be some assets which was provided by outsourced studios. You can find studios who are not the main studio listed in credits in most shows, both live Action and animation (in most countries)

right, I'm aware of outsourcing. every studio does that.

but if part of the animation is outsourced to mappa, you can't really claim the animation is 100% Chinese. I guess same argument can be made about anime because I always see Viet/Chinese names on the credits so anime is not 100% Japanese as well.

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Hopefully it means China will start to ditch the ugly 3DCG and replace it with this much nicer style

yeah I'm really digging the hybrid style. the 3D in this show is tastefully done.

Apr 6, 11:03 AM

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Subxxxx1 said:

sicklyslick said:

I saw mappa and silver link in the end credit. but their credit was in Chinese so I'm not sure what they did.

That's Outsourcing. Many elements in animation are outsourced to other animation studios even though the most of it is done by the in-house studio itself. There can be some assets which was provided by outsourced studios. You can find studios who are not the main studio listed in credits in most shows, both live Action and animation (in most countries)

right, I'm aware of outsourcing. every studio does that.

but if part of the animation is outsourced to mappa, you can't really claim the animation is 100% Chinese. I guess same argument can be made about anime because I always see Viet/Chinese names on the credits so anime is not 100% Japanese as well.

@sicklyslick You are correct that this isn't 100% made Chinese. I just think it is funny that for the longest time anime fans acted like anime was 100% Japanese made and ignored the fact that Korea, China and South East Asia did a lot of outsourced work. Now it is the opposite and minor scenes for this show are getting outsourced to Japan.

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CAN WE ALL AGREE THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST ORIGINAL ANIME SERIES OF THE YEAR .

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CAN WE ALL AGREE THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST ORIGINAL ANIME SERIES OF THE YEAR .

Can’t speak too soon, this is only the first episode plus it’s competing with Lazarus and moonrise in this season alone

Apr 7, 3:28 PM

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The start? Most stuff is out sourced to China already. Your favorite animes are likely made by a lot of Chinese animators.

This isn't the start at all.

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The start? Most stuff is out sourced to China already. Your favorite animes are likely made by a lot of Chinese animators.

This isn't the start at all.

@hermgonewild not outsourcing i meant co produced too

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not me just finding out the director of this directed link click and that the director of link click also directed tian guan ci fu

i'm so late lmao

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@hermgonewild not outsourcing i meant co produced too

@deg so FYI, the Japanese government actually is promoting more co-productions between Chinese and Japanese studios. The reason being is that Nezha 2 broke box office records in China alone and Japan wants in on that market.

For To Be Hero X, it is being shown on Fuji TV (which is currently sinking right now) and Fuji TV even has a special timeslot for Bilibili shows. In return, Bilibili will get to show more Japanese animations in China.

Lastly, Sony is the owner of Aniplex and Crunchyroll and has a very small stake in Bilibili. Which is why Aniplex is the co-producer for To Be Hero and Crunchyroll has the distribution rights to To Be Hero X outside of Asia. Because of this business relationship, this explains why the only donghuas to find on Crunchyroll are ones produced by Bilibili.

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@deg so FYI, the Japanese government actually is promoting more co-productions between Chinese and Japanese studios. The reason being is that Nezha 2 broke box office records in China alone and Japan wants in on that market.

For To Be Hero X, it is being shown on Fuji TV (which is currently sinking right now) and Fuji TV even has a special timeslot for Bilibili shows. In return, Bilibili will get to show more Japanese animations in China.

Lastly, Sony is the owner of Aniplex and Crunchyroll and has a very small stake in Bilibili. Which is why Aniplex is the co-producer for To Be Hero and Crunchyroll has the distribution rights to To Be Hero X outside of Asia. Because of this business relationship, this explains why the only donghuas to find on Crunchyroll are ones produced by Bilibili.

@DonghuaFan ok thanks for the info

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