Donghua mean time is predictable as f, but the women are curvy, and the men are in charge, while shit explodes from 'courting death'.
Its mindless, and fun. A hell of a lot better than preaching BS, or tsundere beat 'em up simulator.
I expect them to be the last bastion of gaming as well, thanks to the censors that don't allow alphabet soup. There was the recent 'Sword and Fairy 7' that was pretty decent too.
Modern anime is mass produced and predictable, so if the "current trend" isn't enjoyable to you it'll be garbage for years. We are just leaving the isekai years behind and going into the "slice of life WITH A TWIST" one, both of which leave a lot of bad tastes to some people.
Its less finding a year where things went to woke shit, and finding the generations that appeal to you because other ones likely won't.
On top of all that you have the varying production qualities between seasons regardless of whether a show is a hit.
Two of the more popular anime out there are My Hero Academia and One Punch Man and both have had subsequent seasons that were at times drastically lower in quality than the previous. Naruto/Boruto also have this problem where some fights clearly have a higher budget than the rest of the episode.
MHA follows the fairly common pattern of ending seasons with a big fight and season 1 did this very well by also tying in the full duration of one of the main music tracks to the fight. A fight that was fairly action packed from start to finish, with the added monologuing that often occurs in anime. However a later fight while also tying in a full series track wasn't really much more than two or three punches being thrown with most of the animation being the two combat participants standing around idle and talking to each other.
MHA season 1 ends with All Might vs a Frankenstein's monster and the fight is similar to what OPM does by having an entire music piece play throughout. This was a fight in the comics that took 9 pages I think, can't check atm, but the anime version takes about 4 minutes.
4 minutes is just over how long 'You Say Run' lasts, which is a theme that does get used more than once but not as bad as OPM did with Seigi Shikkou.
And they're all versions fans love because they stand out from each other despite their similarities. Of you were to ask someone who watched MHA what they think of when listening to Might+U the two most common answers will be either regarding Eri or the final fight in the second movie. Likewise asking about Katsuki vs Izuku will either be about the fight the song is named for or the sparring match between 1A and Tintin Mirio. The music stands out that much as as seems to be an unfortunate trend these days, the music of a series/season/movie is often the best part of the show.
Tron Legacy would be an example of this in movies.
As for OPM, season 2 not only has no new music pieces having reused the entire season 1 OST, but the executions are also worse.
The season 1 finale final encounter between Saitama and Boros lasts almost as long as the full version of Seigi Shikkou, leaving out about two bars of the entire 1:47 track.
It's use in season 2 for a similar final confrontation [where Saitama doesn't have an equivalent battle at this point in the arc season 2 is dealing with] is not only horribly cut down but lazily reused.
That's the entire confrontation, BTW. 30 seconds. It's not a trailer or fan made edit. That's how it actually happened when Saitama finally showed up.
Now sure OPM is meant to be a parody of superheroes in the first place but the Saitama vs Boros fight still lasts quite long and there it a lot more to that fight than the clip above, it's just Saitama isn't fighting back until that last bit because he can kill anything with a single punch as per the name of the show. Boros regens so much he can take a few punches but still is completely overpowered once Saitama actually tries.
Meanwhile the Elder Centipede in season 2 is mostly shown fighting Genos or Bang and Bang's brother however none of them actually manage to do enough hence King calling in Saitama.
While this is how the comics go down it's a shit fight to end a season with.
And now I need to go charge my phone because writing this post took forever on mobile trying to sort all the links and then reformat things.
for dramas, i check them on mydramalist for tags, and then usually you can find them on youtube or via google on some streaming site, since copyright isn't being chased into the crapper by the chinese corps.
Really depends on how long you've been into it. There's still some decent stuff but really really rare. This season the only thing new that is decent is Spy x Family. Otherwise I just find it all boring, and the girl beats up boy, or boy desperate for girl/societies acceptance is passe.
Past that, the only anime I really follow is One Piece. Been a fan for 2 decades, and Oda hasn't disappointed. Latest revelations in the manga have ensured that the ride remains fun, and "cartoon" wink hi-jinks will continue.
I’ve watched off and on for a while. I’m an 80s baby so my first exposure was Robotech and Sword art Online. I recently saw Fist of the North Star which I loved. I have been meaning to see One Piece and Attack on Titan as well
i havent kept up with modern anime has it gotten so bad? Japan has an advantage of reputation and are usually more creative and better writers, but if they throw that advantage away , donghua may take over and force them in to competition.
Also interestingly enough Kdramas (korean dramas) apparently has gotten bad recently too from what i heard from people who watch it (like apparently now its women always being breadwinner and men always being dumb in modern Kdramas. )
funnily enough , 2010 actually was around the time i stopped consistently keeping up with anime. Maybe it really was for the reasons you listed and that they stopped having deep and interesting original stories as they used to .
Latest news is that Japan is starting to self censor for westoid "audiences". They are doing it in the games, and won't be long that they do it in other media. I feel a lot of this has to do with them chasing piracy across the west, which in turn puts them square in the 'western sentiments' sphere.
Yeah, I got into Kdrama's late. There are some decent one's, like Taxi Driver, and Devil Judge from last year. Had to literally sift through 15 years of Kdrama's to find just a handful that were watchable, but only the above two do I remember.
The chinese drama's are better in that sense. Production values are insane. Joy of Life is a pretty good one. If you prefer serious Nirvana on Fire is really good. Women are better looking than that hack Lucy Liu that fucked up Elementary.
Notice how it is the rise of feminism that is killing Kdramas. Parallels the trash media situation here. Since the Chinese will re-educate for wanton activism, its relatively safe from woke. No blatant alphabet soup either though they dance around it, much like real life ought to be. Deviancy on the edges, not in the mainstream.
Women are better looking than that hack Lucy Liu that fucked up Elementary.
Keep in mind that actresses in China do way too much plastic surgery and make up so it isnt really their natural look .
And well there was some wokeness in Genshin impact(chinese game) mostly in regards to inazuma basically the country representing Japan and the plot being basically that inazuma doesnt like to change and doesnt accept outsiders easily and this is somehow a "bad" thing .
Soul land & Swallowed Star are pretty good. Ridunculous fight scenes.
Honestly a lot of them are very formulaic. Underdog is stamped on. Family killed or humiliated. Deus Ex Machina kick starts genius rise. Much cathartic revenge ensues.
I just pick the style that I like, because some of them look quite good, while others... remind me of minecraft.
Yeah, even some of the Japanese devs and publishers are starting to get pervaded by Western wokeness. Fromsoft put a bit of it here, and there in Elden Ring.
I've quit watching 99% of anime.
Donghua mean time is predictable as f, but the women are curvy, and the men are in charge, while shit explodes from 'courting death'.
Its mindless, and fun. A hell of a lot better than preaching BS, or tsundere beat 'em up simulator.
I expect them to be the last bastion of gaming as well, thanks to the censors that don't allow alphabet soup. There was the recent 'Sword and Fairy 7' that was pretty decent too.
So modern anime is bad? What’s a good cutoff year?
Modern anime is mass produced and predictable, so if the "current trend" isn't enjoyable to you it'll be garbage for years. We are just leaving the isekai years behind and going into the "slice of life WITH A TWIST" one, both of which leave a lot of bad tastes to some people.
Its less finding a year where things went to woke shit, and finding the generations that appeal to you because other ones likely won't.
On top of all that you have the varying production qualities between seasons regardless of whether a show is a hit.
Two of the more popular anime out there are My Hero Academia and One Punch Man and both have had subsequent seasons that were at times drastically lower in quality than the previous. Naruto/Boruto also have this problem where some fights clearly have a higher budget than the rest of the episode.
MHA follows the fairly common pattern of ending seasons with a big fight and season 1 did this very well by also tying in the full duration of one of the main music tracks to the fight. A fight that was fairly action packed from start to finish, with the added monologuing that often occurs in anime. However a later fight while also tying in a full series track wasn't really much more than two or three punches being thrown with most of the animation being the two combat participants standing around idle and talking to each other.
MHA season 1 ends with All Might vs a Frankenstein's monster and the fight is similar to what OPM does by having an entire music piece play throughout. This was a fight in the comics that took 9 pages I think, can't check atm, but the anime version takes about 4 minutes.
4 minutes is just over how long 'You Say Run' lasts, which is a theme that does get used more than once but not as bad as OPM did with Seigi Shikkou.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZIUtDAFIw
All Might vs Nomu
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFAGAyLzcg
MHA at least changes the music used in later seasons even if this does result in 'You Say Run' having at least 6 different edits.
You Can Become a Hero
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAukL8dyh6I
Jet Set Run
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl9NYmCo2k
Might+U
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3jf_Z68c4LQ
Katsuki vs Izuku
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDleHc_LPeI
And they're all versions fans love because they stand out from each other despite their similarities. Of you were to ask someone who watched MHA what they think of when listening to Might+U the two most common answers will be either regarding Eri or the final fight in the second movie. Likewise asking about Katsuki vs Izuku will either be about the fight the song is named for or the sparring match between 1A and
TintinMirio. The music stands out that much as as seems to be an unfortunate trend these days, the music of a series/season/movie is often the best part of the show.Tron Legacy would be an example of this in movies.
As for OPM, season 2 not only has no new music pieces having reused the entire season 1 OST, but the executions are also worse.
The season 1 finale final encounter between Saitama and Boros lasts almost as long as the full version of Seigi Shikkou, leaving out about two bars of the entire 1:47 track.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rW7OB_HDCGQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jakLeunGJGU&t=248s
It's use in season 2 for a similar final confrontation [where Saitama doesn't have an equivalent battle at this point in the arc season 2 is dealing with] is not only horribly cut down but lazily reused.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bMmy86j84Q
That's the entire confrontation, BTW. 30 seconds. It's not a trailer or fan made edit. That's how it actually happened when Saitama finally showed up.
Now sure OPM is meant to be a parody of superheroes in the first place but the Saitama vs Boros fight still lasts quite long and there it a lot more to that fight than the clip above, it's just Saitama isn't fighting back until that last bit because he can kill anything with a single punch as per the name of the show. Boros regens so much he can take a few punches but still is completely overpowered once Saitama actually tries.
Meanwhile the Elder Centipede in season 2 is mostly shown fighting Genos or Bang and Bang's brother however none of them actually manage to do enough hence King calling in Saitama.
While this is how the comics go down it's a shit fight to end a season with.
And now I need to go charge my phone because writing this post took forever on mobile trying to sort all the links and then reformat things.
Ok. Thanks!
Any anime with classical masculine figures? Modern or otherwise?
not only that, but can you refer to some sites to inform oneself what to check out /TomSeeSaw.
Thanks. I know with regular programming I tend to not watch anything made after 2014. I foolishly assumed that anime hasn’t been affected
animexin
for dramas, i check them on mydramalist for tags, and then usually you can find them on youtube or via google on some streaming site, since copyright isn't being chased into the crapper by the chinese corps.
Really depends on how long you've been into it. There's still some decent stuff but really really rare. This season the only thing new that is decent is Spy x Family. Otherwise I just find it all boring, and the girl beats up boy, or boy desperate for girl/societies acceptance is passe.
Past that, the only anime I really follow is One Piece. Been a fan for 2 decades, and Oda hasn't disappointed. Latest revelations in the manga have ensured that the ride remains fun, and "cartoon" wink hi-jinks will continue.
I’ve watched off and on for a while. I’m an 80s baby so my first exposure was Robotech and Sword art Online. I recently saw Fist of the North Star which I loved. I have been meaning to see One Piece and Attack on Titan as well
i havent kept up with modern anime has it gotten so bad? Japan has an advantage of reputation and are usually more creative and better writers, but if they throw that advantage away , donghua may take over and force them in to competition. Also interestingly enough Kdramas (korean dramas) apparently has gotten bad recently too from what i heard from people who watch it (like apparently now its women always being breadwinner and men always being dumb in modern Kdramas. )
funnily enough , 2010 actually was around the time i stopped consistently keeping up with anime. Maybe it really was for the reasons you listed and that they stopped having deep and interesting original stories as they used to .
Latest news is that Japan is starting to self censor for westoid "audiences". They are doing it in the games, and won't be long that they do it in other media. I feel a lot of this has to do with them chasing piracy across the west, which in turn puts them square in the 'western sentiments' sphere.
Yeah, I got into Kdrama's late. There are some decent one's, like Taxi Driver, and Devil Judge from last year. Had to literally sift through 15 years of Kdrama's to find just a handful that were watchable, but only the above two do I remember.
The chinese drama's are better in that sense. Production values are insane. Joy of Life is a pretty good one. If you prefer serious Nirvana on Fire is really good. Women are better looking than that hack Lucy Liu that fucked up Elementary.
Notice how it is the rise of feminism that is killing Kdramas. Parallels the trash media situation here. Since the Chinese will re-educate for wanton activism, its relatively safe from woke. No blatant alphabet soup either though they dance around it, much like real life ought to be. Deviancy on the edges, not in the mainstream.
Keep in mind that actresses in China do way too much plastic surgery and make up so it isnt really their natural look . And well there was some wokeness in Genshin impact(chinese game) mostly in regards to inazuma basically the country representing Japan and the plot being basically that inazuma doesnt like to change and doesnt accept outsiders easily and this is somehow a "bad" thing .
Got any recommendations for donghua? Which ones are you talking about?
Soul land & Swallowed Star are pretty good. Ridunculous fight scenes.
Honestly a lot of them are very formulaic. Underdog is stamped on. Family killed or humiliated. Deus Ex Machina kick starts genius rise. Much cathartic revenge ensues.
I just pick the style that I like, because some of them look quite good, while others... remind me of minecraft.
Where can I watch this?
Apparently donghua is Chinese animation. Had to look that up.
Yeah, even some of the Japanese devs and publishers are starting to get pervaded by Western wokeness. Fromsoft put a bit of it here, and there in Elden Ring.