I wish anime never got popular because I’m so sick of seeing posts like these giving it a bad rep.
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Anime is like anything else: 90% garbage, 9% decent, 1% brilliant. But modern western entertainment succeeds at about half those rates, so anime is probably about twice as good.
I wouldn't say garbage, just niche. It used to be the same in the West with how daytime dramas were designed for housewives, afternoon family, late night adults.
The problem was the West went with 'inclusivity' and ended up making products for some made up general audience so became bland mush usually filled with ideology.
Asia still has the niche audiences it appeals to and can turn a slight livable wage on since you can get dedicated audience of weebs that want to read about the vampire loli with a edgy hero.
20 years ago it would have been considered garbage. Generic Identical Isekai Number 6524304072 isn't worth watching no matter who you are. But the sad reality is, "not worth watching" is actually no longer even close to the bottom of the barrel. Now if a show doesn't try to groom children or incite race riots it's halfway decent. Just being bland and forgettable is considered a positive, because at least it's not actively harmful.
You do have a point with some things as I have dropped shows in the past that were just so mind numbingly boring, but they've never directly insulted me as a viewer unlike a lot of Western franchises.
I'll take bad over insulting. I'd rather watch a bad show that's kina boring than one that lectures me on how terrible I am.
Not really, you missed the decades when every show tried to be Gundam, so you had generic identical space mecha number 3638579, instead
Sure, but we knew they sucked back then. Nowadays they'd be considered bland but watchable.
The same year that gave us Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-96 TV season) produced countless trash.
So you're right.
Evangelion is kinda trash tho. It's literally Ano venting about his personal issues, the symbolism goes nowhere and the freudian psychoanalysis themes didn't age the best, if it wasn't for the incidental bait and switch it made, it wouldn't have been as popular. Also, Ideon existed before.
Its biggest mistake was spawining a bunch of pseudo-intellectual redditors who think they are better than the rest of anime watchers because muh media literacy™
The rebuilds are the best example, they exist in a quantum state of being trash Ano made to own the coomers by selling more merch yet again and achkyually being 2deep4u masterpieces because Shinji finally touched grass and got himself a gf
Eva made me realize I needed to get my life straightened out.
So I'll always love it.
Good for you, I'm more of a Gurren Lagann guy, Eva got me into psychology at least, so that's fun.
I just wish it didn't spawn a wave of pseudo-intellectual anitubers who think all anime is secretly satire
I watched it knowing they only put the Christian symbols in because they thought they looked cool.
Which they do.
Then again, I also first saw it when I was 40.
Tourists should be forced to watch deliberately weird shows like Kamen no Maid Guy or Angel's Egg before they're allowed to see the classics. I don't want my hobbies to be popular, I want them to be populated by people who genuinely enjoy them for what they are.
Bitch propably doesn't even know Watanabe also made Space Dandy
A bad rep is inevitable due to the frothing at the mouth subset of the fan base that is obnoxiously pro loli. Sexualizing kids will always turn off a majority of the people in the world, animated or not. And shouting "free speech!" at them isn't going to change their mind. It will just make them more wary of the entire medium and assume that you are a pedophile.
It's similar to how defenders of the education system act like the institution is sacred and beyond reproach while the public sees drag queen story hour being implemented with no push back from within.
So ignore the attacks and watch whatever you want to watch, because nothing is changing any time soon.
Nobody likes "My Cute Little Sister's 7th Grade Gooning Adventure". That's the shitty season where they jumped the shark. Everyone knows that "My Cute Little Sister's 6th Grade Gooning Adventure" is where it's at.
Bet she's never seen either of those shows.
>studio ghibli and cowboy bebop
>either of those shows
You're more of a tourist than she is.
He clearly meant Cowboy Bebop and My Cute Little Sister's 7th Grade Gooning Adventure.
Ah. I guess you could read it that way. I limited the reference to things that actually exist.
They'll fucking win against anime in the end. It will take a while, but I think they'll win. But that's alright. They'll take enough away from people who just want to be left alone, that the cycle will repeat.
Also, bitch needs to take Studio Ghibli out of her mouth. Ghibli is great, you don't get to use it to shit on all the entirety of anime just because it might not be as good as the masterpieces.
99% of the trashiest of trash anime is still better than most of modern Western entertainment, and her Pokimane-looking ass can sit the fuck down.
Just start calling it Japanimation the way it was meant to be called. Or niptoons. I kind of like niptoons.
Anime always had the reputation of being weird and strange but people used to just accept it as its own thing and as Japan being Japan. . But it wasn't until recently (Around covid time actually) when it became mainstream it of course brought in all the trouble makers and activists(aka tourists) who started acting up and condemning people over fiction.
It's sad that I'd trade in all of these modern retards for actually psychotic 90's weeb anime freaks, at this point.
Those people were fucking trouble - I'm talking the really obsessed ones - but at least they weren't actual subversives. They were just weirdos. They weren't trans, and they didn't hate the West or anything. They were creepy, they were a bit dangerous under the right circumstances, but they weren't the enemy of civilization. And they largely grew out of it.
It's not that it isn't weird anymore, it's because troons and feminists are deciding what's acceptable. They'd push "My Cute Little Sister's 7th Grade Gooning Adventure" if it was yurifag or trap shit
Sucking off Ghibli is the most basic bitch shit ever. Even Hosoda mocks Miyazaki.
Also they are the ones bitching how Faye is gooning material. Look at the CB Netflix series
I hate these rage bait posts because then you have people in the comments like “and they call us the TOURISTS” okay random internet user #4672 saying the exact same thing as everyone else.
Then just post things you want to see more of, handshake.
Keep in mind this account is the better part of a year old, it just hasn't done much in all that time except make 2 threads and 4 comments, highlighting my point in other threads about how a handshake doesn't automatically mean a new account.
Their age adds weight to my request. This lurker has been around for over 8 months and hasn't added to discussion here. Now he posts an example of what he doesn't like and leaves a comment underneath to say 'stop making these posts,' expecting people to listen.
Anime gave itself a bad rep.
Wish it had a worse rep, so cunts like that would keep themselves away from it