Memes related to anime. Animemes.
I even finished watching Technolyze recently.
Just to note....
There was just as much garbage anime in any given year in the past as there is now - it's just that current garbage anime is current and past garbage anime has been long since forgotten.
Ditto manga, music, movies books, television, whatever. The past generally looks better because it's only the best of it that's remembered.
Percentage wise, sure. But not volume wise.
You are just talking about the concept that states 70-80% of everything is mediocre or terrible. All music, all tv content, all movies, all books, etc.
I think there is more anime made today than 25 years ago. So there is more bad anime.
Yeah but there's more good anime too. Seems like every year there are several new anime that are worth watching; it wasn't always like this.
Yup, that’s how percentages work!
That's undoubtedly true.
But by the same measure, there's also actually more great anime being put out now that there was in the past - again, just measured by sheer volume rather than percentage.
And while I wouldn't disagree with that, it goes even further contrary to the rose-tinted view of the past, and thus even further from my point.
I didn't mean to say or imply anything specific about the standards of one or another era of anime. My only point is that people need to be aware of the fact that they can't make summary judgments regarding relative quality by pointing to all of the recognized great anime of the past, because that's necessarily what's remembered. The basis for any such judgment is necessarily skewed by the fact that over time, the great ones are remembered and the awful ones are forgotten.
That's all.
I mean, yeah, but it really feels like Isekai is easily marketed in the West
Your comment is very to the point, but I think I already knew about it, I just expressed it more simply: old anime are good, but I didn't say that's all? There was always enough crap, it's just that now the AI generates it.
Same, OMW to watch animes made before the year 2000.
I honestly don't watch anime from the 90s usually because the voice acting is pretty bad. I usually watch anime from the 2000s, of course there are some interesting anime from the 2010s, but I still prefer the 2000s.
For the 90s I will always watch Nadesico. One of my all time favorites
You've got to go earlier, there's some really neat stuff way back like Astro Boy, Tetsujin 28-go, Speed Racer, etc.
Bubblegum crisis, "" 2040, Macross plus, lupin the 3 Rd had good voice overs.
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 is an abomination. Even though the story is more coherent, they sterilized everything that gave the original an atmosphere and soul.
Bubblegum Crash is better IMO, and that only got 3 episodes.
I've been watching through old Gundam shows recently. While some haven't aged well IMO, others are still really good. Zeta and the 8th MS Team are two examples.
8th Ms team was great. Man I even like Gundam g as well even though many people didn't like it. Unicorn and seed were also pretty good in my opinion.
8th MS Team ❤
Just started Gundam Seed and not liking the boyband vibe so far.
Watched a new one on Netflix that was great
Sometimes, I wanna watch something super fast-paced and flashy that really keeps my brain engaged. and sometimes, I just wanna get really high and count how many unique frames Inuyasha actually has in a single episode.
I've had long break (I mean like 7+ yrs) from watching animes and recently started watching new stuff in my free time.
Honestly it's not bad, but the hell with all of them having such a slow pace. Literally none of them have a finished story, all in long ongoing phase with plans to run for ages.
That's just the natural result of so many of them being based off of manga, but there are exceptions! Takopi's Original Sin and LOOK BACK are both recent excellent anime that don't suffer from these issues. One of them finishes its whole story in six impactful episodes, the other is a movie that wraps up in under an hour. Both will make you cry.
Kinda surprised by this take, because IMO the biggest strength of the new anime I've been watching is that the pacing is much, much better. I'm often blown away by how much is packed into each episode of something like DanDaDan, Gachiakuta, or Sakamoto Days. Even something that I'd consider a little slow, like parts of Solo Leveling or Kaiju Number Eight, still blow older anime like Naruto or One Piece out of the water.
Did you really need to compare it to animes with the slowest pace possible?
Those were super popular though. If you were to talk with people about anime 15 years ago that's pretty much all people knew.
I probably was in a wildly different circles. Most people I knew didn't want to start em due to size and pace. Single digits watched both.
By the way, have you ever had that feeling -- “I need to finish this episode... But when the hell will it end?”
Eh, not really. I mean unless episode sucks. But I'm mostly having issue with unfinished stories rather than episodes being bad.
Like I've watched multiple 20-40+ episode titles that about ran to sorta culmination point... so I'll have to wait like 3-5 more years to see how they end.
I like when a season actually has a finished story. Even if the next season would use the same characters.
Recently I got that watching episode 1 of Takopi's Original Sin not because of the pacing but because it was really intense and I needed to relax and I didn't realize that the first episode was double-length!
Went back to anime recently, and they feel like they're all becoming the same thing, least checking random ones through Crunchyroll for some months now. Art style is becoming pretty same-y even for older, still running shows, story setting and pacing also seem to be more uninventive than ever, and in action animes, thunder or similar-looking effects sound like always have the same audio track playing. I wonder if those series are already using AI as I remember seeing being proposed in a news a while back.
It doesn't have to be AI. It's probably more trend chasing. Anime A becomes super popular, so other series try to emulate it. As far as sound effects, the studios are likely pulling from the same sfx library.
There's still plenty of really cool, unique stuff being made. It definitely can be hard to find under all the isekai slop though, so if you're interested in finding good new stuff I'd recommend looking for seasonal review videos from channels like Mothers Basement or Gigguk.
Will be looking at those 👀
Thanks!
Well, before people simply riveted templates to survive in the industry and now templates are simply generated by AI.
It's not a fact that they all use AI, but corporate greed says otherwise.
I just finished rewatching DBZ Kai. Recently started Super for the first time.
I only watch DBZ Abridged now. I can't take the real show seriously anymore
This is like an insult for any LATAM DBZ fan... But ngl, I'd want to watch the Abridged version once 😅
Would highly recommend checking out Eureka Seven if you're down for more cool series to check out!🤗
Mechs soaring through the sky on hoverboards ended up being a way cooler aesthetic than I expected.
I've been watching Monster, and am gobsmacked by how consistently we'll written it's been
Previously, creators had more opportunities and more free time to think through the plot than now.
Maybe, but the same writer made the story for Pluto as well and by all accounts it's also incredibly good.
Hey, me too actually. I can't believe I've actually warmed up to Eva
My to watch list cover the last 40 years so i kinda go up and down the timeline. Old 90s and early 2000 really is starting to feel its age.
Well if they would pump out re zero episodes faster...
Perhaps they don't want to be caught using AI.
We remember the best of the best classics, and forget the ones that sucked. When you watch classics, you're watching the ones that have stood the test of time.
Decades from now, some of today's shows will looked back on the same way. Many will not, but we won't even be thinking about the ones that didn't.
If our civilization does not degrade and collapse due to World War III, of course.