When I left Zig Forums in 2016 I felt seasonal anime was already on a downward trajectory, but it's still surprising how little things have changed since then. I hate to be one of those "anime was better in the __'s" guys but TV anime was definitely more adventurous in the aughts. In the last week I sampled a bunch of acclaimed shows from the last 4 years and there was nothing remotely as strange as, for example, Boogiepop Phantom, Paranoia Agent, Kuchuu Buranko, Windy Tales, Kino's Journey, Kaiba, the list goes on. There are still plenty of 'Well Made Shows' like Mob Psycho 100 and Little Witch Academia, but tonally and stylistically they're too approachable for me. They don't really challenge the viewer in any way and can be consumed with no resistance. It's as if every good anime became Birdy Decode - a fun genre exercise but not nourishing enough on its own. Even the bad shows seem more boring; I was never a fan of SHAFT but at least it was fun arguing if a new show of theirs was hack or not.
When I left Zig Forums in 2016 I felt seasonal anime was already on a downward trajectory...
Attendant to the above is that basically every major anime director is either gone or washed up. Oshii, Dezaki, Takahata, Miyazaki, Anno, Kon, Ryutaro Nakamura all gone. Penguindrum will somehow end up as Ikuhara's best post-Utena work despite being a colossal mess. Yuasa, the guy whose every project used to be unique and sui generis, makes PA Works shows now. Trigger is Gainax without the twists and curveballs, and Imaishi went from making homages to 70s anime to making homages to himself. Koike is basically a franchise director for Lupin now. Hosoda is so thoroughly disappointing he doesn't deserve much mention. Many more promising creators have either disappeared or greatly scaled back their ambitions: Rie Matsumoto, Kenji Nakamura, Osamu Kobayashi, Koji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura. The only potentially interesting director to emerge in the last 5 years is Kiyotaka Oshiyama, and we'll see if he can raise enough capital to make anything longer than a short film (and anything better than that trash Flip Flappers show). Absent the largesse of a Madhouse or Studio 4C it seems like it's harder for unique voices to break through.
The 90s was better.
die retard
If Miyazaki were to watch seasonal anime how long would it take for him to have a mental breakdown?
Nice blogpost retard
He would just leave like 30 seconds in.
Is it possible that watching seasonal anime just stops being fun like 4 or so years after you start?
I still enjoy anime, but its been awhile since I've felt an anime season was "good" like I used to. Watching seasonal anime turns into a chore because even when you pick out the "best", most of them are too bland or flat out shit to even continue them. Every once in awhile you'll have a Made in Abyss or a Mob Psycho 100, but that's kind of it. This season the best thing is Re:Zero season 2, and LN/WNfags have ruined that for me since the threads are practically unusable due to them, on top of it just not being that good.
2014 is about the last time I enjoyed watching anime seasonally.
Wow who would've guessed watching the anime equivalent of NYT best sellers at the airport would start getting repetitive and boring
>This season the best thing is Re:Zero season 2
Yikes.
At least say Deca Dance, that has semblance of dignity.
Why do people treat airing shows as something they're compelled to keep up with? I've only ever watched shows I was specifically interested in now and then, airing or not.
>At least say Deca Dance, that has semblance of dignity.
I've only watched episode 1 so far and it had me dozing off, gonna download the rest to try and catch up now that you mention it though.
Probably still won't be all that interesting to me compared to Re:Zero where I at least have an interest in the movement of the plot since I want to see what curve ball the writer will throw next, or how Subaru will solve this latest loop, or how the situation will somehow get even more despairing than it already is for him.
Maybe not your cup of tea, but Re:Zero is at its best during these sections like the one coming up. Its during parts like that last 7 or so episodes of Season 1 where it loses me, or when it does cheap melodrama like in episode 4 of this season.
I've been watching "seasonal anime" since the 90s so no it doesn't you're just a poser who doesn't like anime
Imagine admitting you lack the cognitive ability to spend 30 years consuming hackneyed garbage lmaaaoooo
>anno
>gone
party thread when
Artistically he's gone from anime. He only puts effort in his tokushit movies now.
>I've been watching "seasonal anime" since the 90s
Have you really? If so, regale us with the tales of how you were watching "seasonal anime" back in the 90's.
He puts his efforts into burying the rotting above ground Gainax so he can buyout their old IPs as well as tokushit.
What is there to tell? It was the same as it is now, except you'd buy fansubbed VHS tapes instead of downloading them.
I'm giving you the opportunity to tell more of your experiences user.
fear of missing out
Trendchasers are pathetic people, and should be mocked mercilessly.
At least Shin Godzilla was neat (even if the CGI was a bit crap).
Late 90s*
Seems like he's complaining about interesting anime not being made anymore at all.
There are, it's just that 90% of the time, there are really bad anime in the spotlight.
I guess. I see that as mostly a separate issue, because there was always seasonal crap.
The final form looked ok by the theater I was in literally erupted into laughter at the fishy Godzilla when he first made landfall.
it's okay to admit you're not an anime fan anymore. You're just trying to stay in the anime community circle at this point and trying to justify your lack of current anime knowledge because you want to be lazy. Go find some friends that want to be as casual about anime as you and just stop being a nuisance in general
>basically every major anime director
>leaves out Shinichiro Watanabe
Why does everyone do this? Unless I'm missing something, isn't he up there with the major directors??
Probably the only objectively correct post I've seen an OP make in years. Nothing can be helped about it sadly.
I watched Made in Abyss recently and it was so good it made me come back to Zig Forums after having left for years because I thought things were finally getting better for the medium. But the overall quality of the various anime that came out hasn't improved since 2012 apart from a few one-off highlights like MiA.
>I've only watched episode 1 so far and it had me dozing off
Watch the second episode then decide if you want to continue or not before posting an opinion here or we'll all laugh at you in the Deca-Dence threads. Episode 2 is a pleb filter that should either piss you off or get you immediately interested, seriously try and watch it.
It's a consumer market. What do you expect?
You realize why there are isekai anime everywhere nowadays, right?
It's okay to stop following anime all the time and expand your interests. You can check back new anime every now and then.
Probably because everything he did after Space Dandy has been shit.
there it is, the beginning
check back in another decade for faggots complaining how their fag shows were lass faggy than current fagtastrophe shows
reality check: just like Zig Forums was never good, anime was never good either
good night
neck yourself pseudo-intellectual shitposter
>It's okay to stop following anime all the time and expand your interests. You can check back new anime every now and then.
Not him but that's what I did, I was just disappointed when I did check back in.
Yuck, Pedo in Abyss wasn't even one the best anime of 2017, that had Dragon Dentist, Uchouten 2 and ACCA.
i dont even follow anime as a whole anymore
only care about fate/shit and thats it
I still come to Zig Forums though!
I wonder if we'll ever get another 4-year stretch of having at least one dark, twisted, psychological anime like from 2002-06 again.
Shows like Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain, Texhnolyze, Paranoia Agent, Ergo Proxy etc