Am I the only one who can't enjoy modern anime? It just feels so fake and lacks all the soul anime used to have. Is it just me?
Am I the only one who can't enjoy modern anime? It just feels so fake and lacks all the soul anime used to have...
inb4 old good new bad
No, it's not just you. Vivy was the last modern anime I enjoyed. Everything else I watch is pre-2015 or so, and even then it's more concentrated in the 00s.
same anon. I only watch stuff that is at least 10 years old.
This isn't Anon Babble, go be a newfag that's only been living at 2% of their overall potential for the last 30 years somewhere else.
never used r9k
not a newfag
not even 30
Personally I think Frieren got some sovl.
Top sovlfvl 2020's anime:
Sonny Boy
Heavenly Delusion
Heike
Frieren
anime... is fake
Woah
It's certainly not oriented towards audiences from the late 2000s/early 2010s anymore. A love for mechanics, for worldbuilding, for novelty, for sincerity, have largely been thrown to the wayside. It's funny actually to say that nearly all the MCs in pic related wouldn't be considered heroic as more of explicitly self-interested egoists first.
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The kind of intensity you get in this fight with Sahaquiel isn't something you really see in modern anime or really possible in sense that modern directors would have the sense to do it. Am I getting older? I don't think so, because I'm still trying new stuff from the early 2010s/2000s and getting the same vibes as when I started.
In fact if I would think things more, I would say that if the previous anime tended more towards a mythological portrayals, then modern anime is much more about self-insert and relatability (to Zoomers).
If the fights in Frieren or Chainsawman are about the MC dabbing on clueless mobs and looking cool, or as they say, aura farming, then the fight with Sahaquiel is the opposite, because the situation Shinji is is not one anybody would want to be part of. But it's cool, because it's the portrayl of somebody holding back the destruction of the world at immense pain. It's Epic in every sense, and that's make it the object of admiration, and emulation for one's own action in reality.
So in the sense if modern anime is about escaping into your own fantasies, then older anime was about reaching out in external, greater fantasies.
Am I the only one who can't enjoy modern anime?
No, there are always "old good, new bad" fags like you in every generation
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generic dnd setting, concept isn’t good enough to last more than movie length
relies on lolsorandumb without having interesting story and characters, like FLCL except less insufferable
awful adaptation by pretentious director, Bones would’ve been a better match
Literally who
Generic ‘average boy meets magic girl’ with tragedy elements, SAC shits on it so hard it’s embarassing
Good
You’re just watching the wrong 20s anime.
Two Shonen Animanga MC's act like Shonen Animanga MC's
Anon is surprised
Also, the shonen "monster of the weelk" formula was at an all time peak in the 90's and the animanga Frieren isn't even about the battles in the first place, since it's not a battle shonen, so focusing in on that is specifically retarded of you on that point.
man fuck you upload something that isn't blocked everywhere
TRVTH NVKE
How old are you
Thread on page 10
Bumped by OP
Everything else I watch is pre-2015 or so
It's funny how this keeps getting pushed forwards. In 10 years people will be saying they only watch pre-2025 anime.
7/10 l 6/10 l 6/10
6/10 l 5/10 l 4/10
Nah, you are fine.
who knows what anime will even look like in 2035 especially now that they've announced they're gonna start using AI in production
couldn't be me
Watch an actual intellectual show like Sonny Boy
49 anime in 5 years
so you agree with me
pretending like you don't watch the same 20 shows that where released in a 20 year timespan
Jigokuraku is good. You're just a dumb fag.
Try this one. I came here to talk about how soulful it is. Also, it's pretty gay but in a good masculine way. I can't believe I actually cared about the antagonists.
I liked hells paradise. The manga not the anime couldn't tell you about how m*ppa did
don't change the topic to me
49 anime in 5 years is like 1 a month
Aside from Hell's Paradise, I agree that the all of those are shit. I've never even been tempted to watch a second of them.
hasn't watched any of them but criticizes them (except for the one he's watched)
bottom left literally feels like it was written by an AI
edgerunners is an adaptation of a pozzed vidya
frieren is a female-worship that deolves into generic battle shonenshit with the most retarded world-building ever
didnt watch bottom right but it's confirmed tranime
didnt want dadadan but it's netflix original by redditman yuasa
CSM was a CGI-slop
tldr: forced WOKE politics and cutting corners ruined anime
5 years ago when I warned anime was going in that direction Anon Babble mocked me and defended japan that they'd never bow down to woke ideology
these days apologetics try to force the narrative that anime was always woke and I'm a tourist or some shit
Good
More like
Don't kill my rapist!
forgot to mention the main plot point of CSM is 'gun bad' which is also woke democrat objective
mostly trash
Anon there are only 4 seasons a year where new anime actually debut; spring, summer, fall and winter. They don't debut every month so your post makes zero sense, it's a lot more correct to say that we've gotten about 3 good shows a season, probably more if you count this current season as well, in 5 years. That's pretty good all things considered.
buzzword buzzword buzzword
You've not watched any of these anime and probably don't watch anime to begin with
There are some good ones coming out, Freiren, JJK, Dandandandandan, SpyxFamily, the two new recent Gundams Wfm and GQuccccck is are the best Gundam’s been in years, Apocotherapy Diaries seems poised to become a modern day shoujo classic, and Princession Orchestra is a brand new traditional Magical Girl IP we haven’t gotten in years.
It is true though that we haven’t had a truly genre-defining masterpiece the likes of Eva since 2011 with Madoka.
Counting remakeslop as new
No.
Yeah I've watched almost no new anime for years now. Manga all the way.
It’s homogenized. From the art styles to the subject matter. There’s very little risk taking, very little unique ideas and cultures. You have to realize the internet made everyone connected so instead of you experiencing different ideas and vibes from all over; everyone and everything is all always on the same wavelength. We ultimately witnessed the birth of the artistic styles of the past and so it was unique, fun, different, and everyone wanted to have their own thing, but now it’s just mostly generic slop for people chronically online. Grown women used to watch the news or soap operas, now in Japan they’re wanting anime. I mean look how many series are coming out every season and how many are just one of like 4 rotating concepts. It’s not that we don’t get some great stuff it’s just that we’ve experienced everything and we have everything at its peak to look at. Lots of what is being made today is a homage to what already was. Take easy examples like how many shows built upon SAO with the stuck in the game or full body vr concept, how many references are in JJK, how 02 from darling in the franxx is literally a lum insert into a NGE homage that goes full gurren Lagan. What we’re getting now is passive and passionless story telling by people trying to make money from a medium that has global popularity and an emerging market. Let’s call it “the call of duty effect” a once great title beloved by all; now milked into oblivion for cash and no matter how bad it gets they just keep doing it. Look and DBS, the constant remakes from anime’s that were already 90s masterpieces, the Crunchyification of contend
I prefer old anime but old good new bad fags are some of the most pathetic human being that i have ever seen in my entire life
Is Mauritania the worst country ever?
You're an election tourist
Brother just say you don't watch anime
I have grown a bit more selective but if anything I'd say modern anime is regaining soul. Yes there's a lot of trash and uninteresting stuff, but we are also getting very well animated shows for stuff that's fairly popular. I enjoyed JJK season 2, Chainsaw Man, Dungeon Meshi, Cyberpunk and DanDaDan. I'm currently watching Gundam Gquux and Lazarus and liking both. They are maybe not masterpieces but in the 00s it would have been rare to have 2+ seasonal shows of this technical quality. Even One Piece at the moment, despite the bullshit pacing and tryhard sakOOga, seems worth watching. I'm not saying it's a golden age, but I feel like we're doing pretty well.
I usually mix these with some old shows, mostly mecha (watching Giant Robo and loving it), and I really feel like I cannot complain. Even if you want to only watch older things there's so much good stuff out there that you won't be finished anytime soon.
Btw I also had a phase where I couldn't watch any more "new" stuff in my late twenties, but for me personally it was because I was depressed and couldn't enjoy anything new. Now I'm 35 and a bit better: life doesn't feel that bad, I'm not feeling nostalgic all the time and I'm not crushed by my old sense of loss - so I guess new stuff, and therefore new anime, also feel better.