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.
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.
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.