Thursday, January 27, 2005

   the power of marketing
Well ... I've managed to get around to finishing a few more wallpapers I've been working on and have been pleased with my results, as I hope you all have. Out of boredom while being stuck home sick I decided to run a little experiment to satisfy my curiosity. The last 3 wall papers I completed were in order Lain (of course), one based on Iria (the background adapted from Midgard) and my litmus piece based on Inu Yasha. Now, in my oppinion everything I had posted to date has shown far more iminagination and skill than my final piece which was hurriedly thrown together but as suspected it is drawing far more atention, demonstrtaed by it's download numbers.
What could be the reason for this? Easy answer, Inu Yasha is far more popular a series ... but why? Lain is without a doubt superior in artwork and especially in story. Iria's storyline may be weak but it has superb artwork. This leads me to believe marketing hype has once again taken control of the public in general, Inu Yasha has become a staple anime series for North American "cartoon" networks ... it is pushed at us relentlessly and because of this it's popularity has grown. Based not on it's quality but rather based on it's percieved quality, a quality assumed to be there because the sheep of the world think that if everyone else is watching it, then it has to be good.