In recent years, it has been common to see remade anime that "animate" popular works such as "Dragon Ball" and "Sailor Moon" that once caused a frenzy of ratings. Classic manga such as "Parasite" and "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" were only recently released on TV more than a decade after the end of the series, and they have been successful. These topical works are generally comics serialized between the 80s and 90s, why do works from so long ago come back to everyone's attention like corpses? Now, let's take a look at the Japanese media's analysis of this phenomenon.

◇ Strong feelings of the team & fans

First of all, if there were no producers who selected the classics from the many productions and were responsible for raising funds and building a production team with all their might, it would not have been possible for these old works to be resurrected in the form of animated versions. From the mid-80s to the 90s, the group of people who spent their sentimental teenage years during this period are now exactly thirty or forty years old. By this time, they had grown into mainstays with a voice in units such as television stations and animation studios.

The same is true for the audience. Many of the generation who are obsessed with old games have more money, as can be seen from the good sales of old animated Blu-ray discs. The works that can make these people enthusiastic often have zài popular elements in them. Because the work contains the deep love of the production team and fans, it can be said that it is an inevitable development trend that the former masterpiece will attract attention again. In the second half of the 2000s, Yomiuri TV changed some of the settings of "Little Twin Heroes" and re-aired it. Fuji TV aired "Graveyard Kitaro", which was based on the classic anime "Weird Kitaro", on the late-night anime program "noitaminA", and achieved a high rating of 5.8%, which is rare among late-night anime. From these numbers, you can get a glimpse of the signs of the popularity of the old animation.

In addition, "re-animation" is not the same as a "remake" of past works. In the past, there was often a distance between the original manga and its anime adaptation. In the 1980s, some anime followed the plot of the original manga to make zuò. In order to buy more time, you can only add an original story to the animation, although there is no way to do it, but it always makes the audience feel a little strange. But from the current point of view, the comic series of the former masterpiece has ended, and it can be animated according to the complete original work. As a result, the re-editing of the former TV anime into "Dragon Ball Reform", which is closer to the original, and the new version of the TV anime "Fullmetal Alchemist", which was remade, was born.

◇ Late-night animation in a competitive environment is an assist

Nowadays, the original forms of zuò animation are becoming more and more abundant, which also affects the rapid development of the animated version of the old work. In the past, it was difficult to find sponsors to sponsor the animation of original novels and manga for the upper age group because it was not possible to commercialize them for the younger age group. Classic manga such as "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" are only available as OVAs for this reason. However, in the late 1990s, late-night anime came into being, and a business model was established to collect production fees by selling DVDs and other audio products. Then, more and more works of different styles became objects of choice when animated.

In order to avoid risks, it is the most mainstream practice to change the work in each playback unit (3 months), but this has also caused the audience to digest the animation content faster, and the animation rights of excellent works are fiercely contested. One of the most striking ways to do this is to animate the masterpieces of the past. As a result, popular works like "Parasite" have been produced that boldly change the character settings and the background of the era.

Among the anime that aired this summer, "Dragon Ball Super", which depicts the follow-up story after the fierce battle between Goku and Majin Buu, and "Tide and Tiger", which was serialized in "Weekly Shonen SUNDAY", are all eye-catching. Among the anime that began to be broadcast in the spring, the original novel was published in the 1980s, and the new TV anime of "Arslan Wars", which was also released by OVA in the 90s, was also very popular. The popularity of the old anime can be seen.

◇Grave digging fires are lit all over the world

The use of old zuò animation is not only happening in Japan, but also around the world. In 2009, the TV animated "Dragon Ball Reform" came out at the same time as the Hollywood live-action movie version of "Dragon Ball: New Evolution". After that, the theatrical version of "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods", which was released in 2013, and "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrected F", which was released this year, both take place in the timeline of the latest TV anime "Dragon Ball Super". In addition, although even the original author Akira Toriyama complained about the Hollywood version of the live-action version of "Dragon Ball", it is undeniable that this live-action version of "Dragon Ball" played a key role in stirring up the topic.

From last year to this year, "Parasite", which has been broadcasting TV animation and live-action movies, also announced in 2005 that Hollywood wanted to make it a movie. The 2008 remake of the TV anime "Little Twin Heroes" aired in the same year as the original "Blitzkrieg GoGoGo" and the live-action movie "SpeedRacer" of the Dragon Company. Although Hollywood film companies buy the rights to the film, there are also cases where the finished product is not produced, and the final product often does not meet the audience's expectations for the work. Therefore, it is more reliable for Japan's domestic film company to produce the zuò live-action version. So the old work is back in everyone's field of vision.

Kazuhiko Kato's classic manga "Lupin the Third" will be broadcast in Italy before the new TV anime is broadcast in Japan. You can see that the old work has an audience base not only in Japan, but also many fans abroad. The all-CG theatrical version of the animation "Captain Harlock" has been very popular in France and Italy, which shows that Japanese entertainment has a strong demand for animating old works.

The demand for movies and TV animation in Japan is expanding dramatically, but production has been in short supply, and older works that are already well-known often have an advantage in raising funds when making zuò animation. How long will this craze last? Let's pay attention.