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Hey if you like the thumbnail, it's pretty heavily inspired by the kind of thumnails LadyMonsters makes. Check them out if you like creepy vocaloid music. www.youtube.com/@LadyMonsters Also a couple of the clips are from LittleKuriboh's YGO Abridged series, which I'm certain most viewers will be familiar with.

but can you see individually animated slow-mo titty bounce in manga? yeah, thought so

it also deppends on what series you are watching, such as the series Gochiusa, both manga and anime are too good. visuals in both adaptations both Anime and original manga adaptations are equal in stunning visuals, and characters, and too many instantly likeable characters that thrive with the series too well.

i really prefer the 'standard' look of older anime from the mid-2000's and early 2010's and even a wack harem anime could look cool and fun with that

Old anime: funny and good New anime: hahaha look boobies fanservice left and right.

Honestly I despise the new trend of giving all the waifus those stupid squinty smug eyes. Why can't they look innocent and silly again? I'd much rather watch Kamichama Karin than Dressup Darling because Karin actually looks cute and not like a self-centered egirl.

NieR Automata OST, also old anime were so special, I miss them and their weirdness I don't care about the old dated graphic, I miss the vibes

Mesmo assim prefiro os animes antigos.

The bizarreness of old anime you describe here sounds like my experience of watching sonny boy. Sonny boy lets you decide whether it means anything at all, or whether it is just all completely pointless. I love that.

I didn’t love Sonny Boy but I love that it exists if that makes sense

The main thing I miss (especially in romance anime) is that random side story that [instead of using exposition] ties into the themes of the show or foreshadow plot points in really strange ways like the picture book in Chobits, Chihiro's story she writes in ef: A Tale of Memories, the play/Illusionary world or even Kotomi referencing The Dandelion Girl in Clannad. Last anime I can of with something like this was the supernatural element in The Duke of Death and His Maid but even then it was lesser. Also why I love visual novels, something like Song of Saya or Wonderful Everyday would be wild to have an anime of now and even more recent VNs like Amazing Grace or Aoi Tori have that weirdness in them cause they have no restrictions at all - want to make a game about catgirls in a cafe that's mostly pron and then go and make an extremely gory historical setting horror VN? Go ahead. Old harems, even shitty ones also have this weird charm that makes me enjoy the anime cause by all means C³ is not a good anime but I enjoyed it. ATRI -My Dear Moments- is currently suffering from that slow burn (cause VN adaptation) but as someone who's read the VN the 1st plot twist that happens kept me reading throughout the whole second half without ever putting it down, scared that (depending on how they adapt it) this will also happen to Summer Pockets

I started watching You're Under Arrest yesterday. On another note, Noir and Requiem for the Phantom are brilliant shows from the early 2000s that have that same kind of feeling that you just don't get anymore. The 2003 adaptations of Fullmetal Alchemist and Kino's Journey have this kind of feeling, too.

Anime more watered down and generic then it has ever been. Every show that comes out besides one or two a year are complete lifeless assembly line slop. Anime has never been worse than it is right now.

Anime is absolutely not the best it’s ever been right now.

I think a lot of modern anime is shit. Sure, there is high quality visuals, but high quality visuals doesn't equate high quality story. Most don't use their high quality visuals in a way that really enhances the story threads.

I remember jumping inn on my dad rewatching breaking bad and i watched like from half of season one to season two. I stopped wanting to watch the show when Walter killed Jane. I was just tired of here there shit. I then watched the first episode of The Sopranos with my dad. And i fucking loved Tony. it all felt like breath of fresh air. Sure he pummeled a guy in the face with his foot repeatedly, but he felt sad about some ducks in his pool being gone. Tony might be a worst human being then Walter, but i like Tony more. He has his light sides that your hoping for to take over (they never do). Also I feel Slice of Life is more Vibe and character then plot. One slice of Life i really liked was "Super Cub". Its a story about a loner girl who gets a super cub scoter and starts to feel more free and that life has a purpose.

The Monogatari series was started being written in the 2000s and is still being continued in both novel and anime form to this day and is still as weird as ever with a lot of motives needing later explanation instead of being instantly addressed and it does that very very well

But a Evagalion manga exists

Who's got clip sources for me? Would appreciate information on 0:46 1:02 2:00 2:42 3:15 6:16

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Japan was minting money in the past. They could afford to make things that only 10 people would see. Now not so much. Also remember the big collapse that occured. I could buy a box set of Now and Then, Here and There for 5 bucks at Walmart. Or the whole set of Heat guy J for ten bucks (and I did). It would definitely make producers focus on moving units, not making critics happy.

old anime jus has this certain charm to it that still hasn't disappeared w the passing time

I'm not super experienced with anime, but I love the early 2000s anime art style. For example, I genuinely prefer the look of the 2001 Fruits Basket compared to the 2019 version. It just looks so interesting, and a little off, and kinda grungy I guess. The 2019 version is beautiful, but it looks like everything else.

i think the problem here is not that modern anime isnt delivering on the same level of experimentation as 20+ years ago, but rather in conversations like these we are often pitching the last 3 months or year of anime against 10-30 years of history with cherry picked examples. anime like serial experiments lain and texhnolyze were outliers at the time they were released just like how sonny boy and wonder egg priority are outliers now. and in the examples of those aforementioned series, lain and texhnolyze aired 5 years apart of each other whereas wonder egg priority and sonny boy both aired in the same year. when looking at things from that lens, you realized how fundamentally flawed and biased this argument is.

Wonder Egg Priority doesn't give me the 90s anime vibe, I mean just take some still images of it and compare it to anything made in the 4:3 format.

I prefer "Sailor Moon".

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You're totally right, there's a place for both the efficiency of modern anime and the weird and slow older stuff. There's still weird stuff being made (Mononoke, Sonny Boy, Devilman Crybaby - really anything from Science Saru) but it's being treated like arthouse films and going underappreciated. Great video!

This is something that's been on my mind for quite some time. People have stopped experimenting and taking risks. It's sad to see a medium that pulled me in with its creativity is now just pretty pictures. I think Sarazanmai and Hoshiai no Sora also fit the experimental categories. The latter is not exactly surreal, weird or avant-garde, but it was experimental with its techniques, and felt quite fresh. Sonny Boy was great too. It just gave us a bunch of information, and didn't connect anything for us. It felt like the creators trusted me to figure shit out, and it was a great feeling. I have never tried Wonder Egg. Should I? If it's avant-garde and experimental, I don't even care if the end feels unfinished.

A great example of the old anime you described is Steins; Gate. Quirky characters, an intellectually challenging story that forces you to think about the plot and what’s happening, all wrapped up neatly with a unique but interesting art style that is a product of its time

Weird anime is what got me to notice the difference between the western animation and the east and I loved it. I do wonder if anime did go back to being weird would todays weebs/anime fans would stick around or high tail it outta the fandom

I think we aren't living on the same planet and time; I've seen a lot of anime without any plot coming out in the last couple of years and most of good ones are 2nd and 3rd seasons of really popular anime (and some of the 2nd seasons weren't even good). Also some had not even bad animations, but they just didn't move or do anything for most of the time... Of course almost all are copies of older anime, that's common, but majority of these copies are just bad at everything or almost everything... And sometimes low budget anime are sadly better than others made by big studios with a lot of founds...

This isn't old anime though. 80s and 90s is

upset that kamichama karin was the thumbnail but not repped in the video at all. old shoujo was weird as hell. Those Clannad women were on something different

you cant really complain about the state of modern anime...... i can they all feel the same. a few outliers but most are the same carbon copy. just different clothing. i guess the thing is, alot are just too safe for the most part.

You bring up some interesting thoughts! I feel like even the more concrete anime in the past tended to have some level of abstract elements a lot of the time. The example that comes to mind for me would be Kanon--you get a concrete plot that's mostly explained/strongly implied, but then it comes with certain side aspects of its story that are left very ambiguous and abstract.

IM SO HAPPY YOU MENTIONED SONNY BOY I FUCKIBG LOVE THAT SHOW

I've been watching OVAs from the 80s and 90s (which boomer anime fans/veterans refer to as the golden age of anime) lately especially those of original ones. Back in the 80s Japan was booming and during this time period a lot of money were poured into experimental projects thus give birth to the first OVAs (direct-to-video). Some of these were adaptations of existing IPs but the original ones are the ones that took the most risks. Many experimental concepts were made as OVAs. I guess that the lost decade had made studios these days to be more budget minded especially smaller ones.

Theirs definitely a lot of experimental manga out their possibly more experimental mangas out now than anime’s but real experimental stuff uses its medium well. Evangelion has minute long scenes in elevators and that doesn’t translate to manga. Same thing with panel fuckery page turning or junji itos art style. Translating an experimental manga is difficult cause it probably wasn’t made with the direct anime directing in mind. Making a full blown experimental new no ip attached show is a huge gamble no one wants to risk when the same carbon copy iseki 5x is making a billion dollars. I think weird anime will happen as long as -Dooley are buying and people caught wonder egg priority hard but it’s a big gamble comparitivly so studios will gamble less and less

This show got a huge upspike of interest when the whole show dropped on Netflix.

The dispute over whether or not Visual novels count as Video Games is only in the West, Japan doesn't even use the term Visual Novel that way, they are called Bishoujo Games. And anyone who thinks there is no meaningful Gaming to them hasn't tried to get the Threesome Ending of School Days Blind. Pokémon was one of the core enter level Anime for many Millennial Anime Fans. There are so many Games I only know exist because I fell in love with an Anime based on them. In my heart the Tales of Series is an Anime franchise.

Every one of my favorite top 10 anime series is either from the 90s or 00s. i agree with your points

I think the problem is that modern anime adheres so strictly to some set of parameters that it has lost a lot of what made it entertaining to begin with. It isn't JUST avant garde type shows that have vanished, but its definitely a big part of it. "You can't write a story like this, you can't include these elements, you need to draw the characters in this way, you need to animate them like this," etc. Older anime didn't feel like this really, it felt like just a project that was for the most part created with the heart of the people working on it and graded on how much the audience enjoyed it. But now it feels more like they are doing an assignment and that there is some correct box for them to check to ace it. It feels less like it was made for the audience and more like it was made to satisfy a checklist. It was really hard to explain, but that is how I feel about a lot of modern anime.

I think the main reason is that most anime today is made by otakus for otakus, in a weird feedback. Back then people who worked in animation also had something to do with live action, commercials, literature and even politics and education. I always say that the roots of today anime can be found in what was popular 15-20 years ago, because the talent producing anime today were the otakus of back then.

Idk i really hate animes like that

Modern anime. Ok you have 12 episodes. If you dont make enough money to cover the costs, you are all fired. If you make double the costs back, your jobs are safe. If you make 4 times the costs, then good job. If you make 6 times the costs we will consider a second season. So how confident are you in the project?

I totally agree on the 'modern anime takes our hand and leads us gently through the plot' part. It's one of my biggest pet peeves in anime where they interrupt the flow to dump exposition on us viewers and explain eeeevery single thing that's happening, like they don't trust us to be smart enough to use our cognitive abilities to analyze and interpret. I remember that was the biggest shortcoming of JJK S1 for me. Take for example, Yuji & Todo's fight against Hanami when Todo was using his clapping technique. There was one moment when the opponent thought she got the gist and was preparing for Todo's next clapping technique, however Todo tricked her and clapped normally, taking Hanami by surprise. I thought 'How genius of him!', then he started talking. "You see, even if I clapped this time I didn't actually use my technique-..." OH MY GOD, SHUT. UP. We got it! We are not the idiots we think you are!

Yea same I also felt that old anime had more uniqueness in their story and some had thought provoking themes and some were weird shit which actually hooked me to watch more old anime Also old art style which was complete pencil drawn was somewhat appealing to me You know i also felt that character interactions and dialogue were also engaging and enjoyable. One anime that i recently watched was paranoia agent and. Man i lived how they criticized the modern world through some shonen bat character which is actually not real but person imagination

Madoka ? Bakemonogatari ? Land of the lustrous ?

One of the purposes of anime is to sell/promote the manga. Watch 1 season of anime. Now you either wait for season 2, or you like it so much that you read ahead in the manga instead of waiting for season 2.