Was thinking about an isekai where a mime mimes getting hit by a bus and gets transported to another world but just keeps on miming

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I fail to see how it would cut down on animation costs. It’s way easier to make a mouth move these days than to animate the entire body doing pantamime.

    But I do see a lack of “silent” cartoons. Tom & Jerry is the only one I think is still going.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    9 months ago

    What are you talking about? The isekai “I was a mime in Paris before being hit by an Englishman who drove on the wrong side of the road and now I have to defeat the demon lord on another world and I’m still a mime” comes out next season

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t this Tom and Jerry? Exaggerated expressions, focus on the soundtrack and no dialogues

    But we’re no more in the 50s, the market is flooded and kids want something extra. Bonus points if it’s something that pretends to be educational by doing some number counting during the episode, but actually the franchise has been optimized to sell toys

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    As much as you’d save on not having a voice actor, I’m pretty sure a modern cartoon or anime that doesn’t have a protagonist who speaks wouldn’t do as well as it did in the past when you had the real old cartoons that came out before sound came with movies and you didn’t need a live orchestra.

    I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’d be get kinds bored after a few episodes of not hearing the protagonist speak at all. Closest I can think of that we’ve gotten is probably the remake of Dororo that came out somewhere close to a half decade ago. And that’s with a protagonist who only really started speaking gradually more as the series progressed.

  • crawley@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Funny enough, “cutting down on costs” and “not having a voice actor” isn’t actually what makes a good cartoon.

  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    Two things:

    1. Back before audio was really available with film that is pretty much what we had. The character would do something then a card with the dialogue would show up. When “talkies” came along everyone made them for a reason.

    2. I think the concept would be interesting but would get old. Dialogue is often used to advance and explain plot, the types of stories that could be told would be greatly limited without dialogue.