Does anime have an arthouse movement?
With movies there are so many obscure titles from acrosss the world that it feels like you can never run out, with anime it feels like what you see on the surface is all there is, like there is nothing deeper than Evangelion or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
There are obscure ovas but few are actually worthwhile, that's what you get when an entire medium is limited to just one country. If you look for animation outside Japan, there is plenty of cool shit like Sylvain chomet or Richard williams.
Arthouse trash is for fags and teens.
Have you not seen Tenshi no tamago, Magnetic rose, the tale of princess Kaguya, 5 centimeters per second and all that?
I've seen Kaguya but i've heard of the rest, that's the point with anime it feels like you've at least heard about everything . With film you think you've seen it all and then suddenly you hear about this obscure Chinese documentary about Congo railways.
There are indie animation projects, but they're usually in the vein of short films or expos. Animation just has a much higher starting cost than live action, and is much more of a timesink. If you don't have an FX heavy movie you can shoot and edit it within a few months, whereas you're looking at least a year to two years for a commercial anime project. TV anime also offers the lowest rates and worst conditions. More experimental animators, animation supervisors, directors, and storyboarders are in film or music videos.
That said, watch Studio 4C's offerings, particularly Children of the Sea. The climax of the film is particularly great.
I don't think it's about the money, but rather the the lack of skilled animators, animating might be the hardest skill there is, probably harder than becoming a professional athlete.
like they said, animation is money and japan is just one country. it's probably much easier to find arthouse manga than anime.
>it's probably much easier to find arthouse manga than anime
and yet i've never heard of obscure masterpieces uncovered on Zig Forums, it's all "Slavery in isekais/Montergirls but with x" so whacky and weird.
Look for animator college projects
There's plenty of skilled animators in the film circuit, though the anime film boom in the past few years means it's harder to get enough of them for your project. But the high starting cost for even a shittily animated project means that it's a lot harder to get an experimental anime short film off the ground. And Japanese animation is considerably undervalued compared to North American or European animation.
I don't know what qualifies as arthouse, but Mononoke (the TV series, not the movie) and its prequel in the form of the last 3 episodes of Ayakashi is pretty good.
I hear Son of the white Mare (1981) from Hungaria might be the greatest animated fim ever but i've yet to verify that claim.
probably because you haven't spend time on Zig Forums
we have some few artsy threads with people posting GARO or Comic Beam stuff
>inaka isha
>nekojiru-sou
You're welcome.
Yes it's called lurk moar
Look at this walking garbage incapable of existing without being spoonfed
I see lot of cool shit on 3x3 thrads but with the manga industry being so big, you think we would have daily threads dedicated to uncovering gems.
Belladonna of Sadness is the closest i can imagine to what you ask, OP
seen this recommended on /film/.
There just not that many anime out there. Of course most of the good ones are well known.
film doesn't require much.
pic related is classic Mondo, made by a couple of guys with a camera, capturing absurd things like the only known footage of the zanzibar revolution and subsequent massacre.
anime requires an organization and structure. works well for the japanese but also requires oversight.
Go watch Ringing Bell. Don't look it up first.
not OP but i will do that. thanks user.
I caught a glimpse of the synopsis, "an innocent lamb ...... " i am expecting fucked up shit to happen. Bambi 2.0? should i watch?
it's sad being a fan of animation, Disney has fucked us all by making sure that animation is seen as a medium for children and then they fucked us again by popularizing c.g shit, Japan had to cover for the rest of the world but it's not enough.
China does. Check out fog hill of five elements.
this gookshit looks like low quality flash animation made by a fucking youtuber. are you sure you don't have shit taste?
Check out Midori Shoujo Tsubaki, its based on a ero guro manga and animated by one guy.
It's pretty fucked up tho so be warned
Nah, it's just too hard to do and there aren't too many tools to help it. Even shitty anime is really expensive to make.
It's about a lamb who goes on a journey after the death of his mother. It's not Bambi.
People here just wants their next escapism romcom
i don't, but there's an ideology present on Zig Forums against giving shit up for free. it's both beneficial and bad in different ways
that sounds exactly like bambi?
I think you’ll find what you’re looking for more in manga than anime. There are plenty of great obscure titles that don’t get adapted because they’re not popular enough.
it's hard to keep threads about "uncovering gems" alive when everything that gets translated is lowest common denominator manga and people aren't interested in weird stuff, most of the time they don't go over 10 posts.