I feel like anime is becoming more bland because companies are not willing to take risks and just repeat the same garbage.
I don't know if I will ever see another anime like Master Keaton, Ranma 1/2, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Daddy Long Legs, City Hunter, Maison Ikkoku, Nadja the Secret of Blue Water or Urusei Yatsura
Most anime these days seem to lack effort and go for merchandise sales above all else.
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Old anime is objectively better than current anime and you know it. I will not reply to you again.
>lacks effort and goes for merchandise sales above all else
Yeah, there totally weren't any anime like that in the glorious 80s/90s.
I will never get why people think neverending-formulaic money machines like City Hunter and Rumiko shit are good examples of effort and non-bland-ness. There is literally nothing to those stories or characters.
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What's the reason people start to think like this?
Is it just the spot between, newfag who only watches seasonal shit cause that's popular and oldfag who only watches seasonal shit anymore cause he knows all the good old stuff?
To me the sentiment can only be driven from a lack of knowledge and experience.
Well I used to imagine this sentiment was what kind of driven a lot of gatekeeping/nostalgia type of talk.
We've already had some much material over the years pruned for us in terms of selection, such as anime that's gotten popular was most likely a manga or story that got turned into an anime.
But now there's this video.
youtube.com
Yeah it's a pretty average review video for a mostly forgotten anime.
But he hits on a point about how newer episodes were made for the show and how it felt out of place in current seasonal animes and how anime isn't being made for the everyman.
It's shows like "Touch" that didn't have anything extravagant about its story but it still captured the attention of the Japanese public.
I do believe there is a real lack of shows that don't really try to sell you something outright but instead tell you a story.
But then again I can be wrong, there's always been merchandising opportunities in anime.
Sarazanmai is airing right now, what are you smoking?
A single show doesn't make up for the majority of moeblob and isekai trash that comes out.
Most of the shows you posted were continuously long running. When was the last continuously long-running show besides Space Brothers?
But 8 shows in the span of 18 years does?
And that's if your word is taken at face value, not paying any mind to the fact that you listed a WMT show, 2 Rumiko adaptations after she had become extremely popular, a low effort as fuck Keaton adaptation, and City Hunter (top 50 best selling manga of all time) as "risks." I'll accept Nadia, UY, and LoGH as risks and that's it.
I'm not OP dude
>he likes ranma
>he thinks his opinion matters
You nerds have absolutely no taste.
UY wasn't a risk, it had an anime after the manga was a smash hit. LoGH was also a very popular novel series.
OP is entirely wearing nostalgia goggles.
how was master keaton low effort ?
The industry has changed. In the past most anime was produced by tv channels or self-funded by studios (ovas). Now most anime is made by production committees whose sole purpose is to make money/advertise product and minimize losses. Given this fact it's not surprising that it might seem to people like modern anime lacks soul. There are far less passion projects today than there used to be in the past. There's also less talented animators today than 30 years ago, which is also a major reason for anime looking crappy and soulless.
Hearing all of this shit is so incredibly frustrating.
It's looking at a certain thing in a specific way and then making a general statement about everything else.
This one episodic show failed, therefore modern viewers can't stand episodic show.
This one show aimed at adult Japanese failed, therefore anime isn't for adults anymore.
Isekais are popular and they are about escapism, therefore people nowadays just can't handle serious and tragic stuff anymore.
To say that anime is only now trying to sell you something, but back then they just wanted to tell stories and make good art is so incredibly stupid.
I just think it's incredibly funny to say that anime isn't made for the everyman. Because people constantly complain and whine that anime is appealing to the mainstream too much.
It's just so annoying. All of that talk is so unreflected and simplified. There's just no real ground to any of it. Sure there's trends and stuff. There are a lot of isekai for example. But I fail to see how they are just mindless otaku pandering fanservice garbage with no merit and completely devoid of any originality made for the sole purpose of selling you stuff. While the 80s were totally not like that, all the mechashit totally wasn't fanservice for otakus. It totally wasn't some escapist fantasy to pilot a cool big robot and save the world. And they certainly didn't try to sell you anything it was 100 % pure heart and soul.
It's not anime, it's you. You've been slowly running out of soul through your whole life, and now it's finally time you lose your sense of wonder and can only rejoice in remembering the old shit.
Right because in the 80s anime wasn't supposed to make any money. They totally didn't kill of your show and force you to end it 20 episodes earlier than planned if the tv rating sucked. That never happened, right?
There's tons of passion projects being made, what a fucking stupid point is that. There's constantly stuff with plenty of soul coming out.
Look at stuff like Konosuba, Kemono Friends, Mob Psycho and One Punch Man, Made in Abyss or the Jojo adaptations. Basically anything that Kyoani touches is filled to the brim with love and passion. I fucking hate Hosoda but his movies certainly have passion and I respect them. Studio Colorido is constantly doing great stuff, they just released their first movie. Even like the IG sports shows being adapted are full of passion, I don't know why they even make them. Trigger is THE passion studio.
That's just a bunch off stuff from the top of my head there's countless more. Even disregarding the individual quality there's tons of anime being made that the creators clearly put tons of effort and love into.
People who say anime lacks soul or creativity are fucking retarded.