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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  idk maybe bad anime was always a thing and i just ignored it until then, but i’d say around 2015 maybe.

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The “work hard” isn’t meant as capitalist propaganda. Well, at least it didn’t start as such.

    It was first and foremost an advice given from themselves because drawing manga and anime was seen poorly and a dead-end job. The creators faced a lot of opposition and few opportunities, so every success was heartfelt and attributed to them working hard for their dreams and not giving up.

    Despite entering the mainstream having diluted the situation these words were meant for, it’s important we don’t forget that the first creators were pioneers who dedicated their entire lifetimes to their craft.

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They did everything you hate back when you said liked anime. They still have bonkers shit today. There’s variety. It’s not like the entire extremely prolific animation industry of an entire country is moving in lockstep to deliver exactly the same product across the board.

    Sure, there trends like the onslaught of bland isekai shit we had for a while but even the worst seasons of that had their gems. Heck, even that genre has gems; there a reason KonoSuba is well-regarded (and it’s full of people who would be utterly unacceptable in Japanese society).

    You probably have the same problem that gets people to think that all music became shit approximately 20-30 years after they were born: They mainly remember the hits of their youth and forget that 80% of airtime went to shitty music back then as well.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting. I have to say these are nuaces I never really focussed on so I didn’t notice any differences there. I’m in my 40s now and I started watching Anime in the 90s. So there was this stuff on public TV like “Mila Superstar”, “Sailor Moon” and some football and racing shows and the rest I had to get from friends or video rental. There I focussed on SciFi and Fantasy extreme stuff (super violent, scary or pornographic). I’d say there where some masterpieces like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion, Berserk, Patlabor, Lupin the 3rd, Memories, Spriggan and many more. Later, I guess in the early 2000s there was Dragonball and Dragonball Z on public TV, wich I liked. Then with access to the internet I discovered more stuff like Death Note, Cromartie High, Samuari Champloo which had a completely different vibe etc.

    Well, long story short: I never really cared for those more “social” and school related animes which I guess have been there a long time so I didn’t notice any shifts there. Some of the animes I watched had a school theme but that part always just confused me (e.g. Spriggan), I guess school in Japan is very different.

    I think there have always been “cheap” animes which where mostly there to sell merchandise and toys but that was not what you meant. What really pissed me off was the early shift to 3d rendering which made a lot of interesting anime completely unwatchable for me.

    Regarding the “bonkers stuff” I actually feel there is more available now. I don’t use Crunchyroll but there seem to be lot’s of shows like “what if you reincarnated as a vending machine in a mediaval fantasy city?”, “what if you reincarnated as an intergalactic emperor”.

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