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NowItsAngeTime posted...

This is why i wonder why people watch things based on director/studio

Unless they change the story heavily you should watch a show based on the original sources (manga, VN, LN) writer history since the actual story content will be based on source material writer unless its anime original story

All directors and studios do is just make the anime look pretty enough and theres enough episodes to tell a story for that season

You say this dismissively but there's a lot more to this then you're letting on I think. I think the way studios choose to animate/present something, the atmosphere they try to evoke, the music they choose, etc has a pretty large impact on what the final product ends up looking like. Of course original story content is important to, but I would only put it on equal footing with things like director and studio. (And I do consider both. I never would have watched Amanchu if it weren't by the Aria author, for example.)

Two examples immediately coming to mind in support of this are Bakemonogatari and Girls' Last Tour. Both of those anime have pretty distinctive directing decisions put into them, and I think it's easy to imagine that the show could have been totally different if another group had been put in charge of the adaptation. (And then because these particular studios/directors were able to do this for these cases, that's going to influence how I treat future projects of there's accordingly.) Of course even in other cases I think the studio and director are still a pretty big ingredient in the show's overall quality--just in ways that aren't as immediately obvious.
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