Please leave a like and comment! Thanks to the increased patreon support following my last video, I really felt motivated to lean into this more artistic style. I hope you enjoyed this more unique video. And check out the amazing person who did the Art assets for this video Kallehmono (twitter linked in description)
Memories of the future, huh? I remember the outline of a drawing Taruto, a villan from Tokyo Mumu, sitting crossed legged, that I never drawn. I remember him having a crush on the monkey girl Bu-Ling/Pudding. I guess she was kind of cute.
I really love the mix of philosophy and analysis you are applying to anime. You can apply that to anything curious to you imo. Also, this videos realisation made me kinda sad. As most of us probably have, my teenage years were, mostly, spend on anime that are really irrelavant to most anime fans. They are irrelevant to me. I think they suck, actually. And its so interesting. I pass judgement on new shows about how basic they are yet also expect others to see joy in what I liked. Like Mirai Nikki I guess. That was big back then. Idk if others can relate to this as well. I really am kind of a boomer aren't I, then?
How in the flippity flip whackty wick did u manage to both combine the synergy of ur video clip editing and mix it with philosohpical.analysis and apply it so fluently that it makes me feel overwhelmed yet make it so that I'm following along? Damn this is such a good video style u got going man
hiding your a genius why anime is less special is because when it was a niche it was for us our special thing we used to get so excited when we saw someone else like it now that it's is mainstream that Beacon of Hope we had that special thing is gone so it's less special love you hiding amazing as always hope you red this
The aesthetic of Serial Experiments Lain is honestly one of the best of any anime I've seen. It succeeds in making you feel uncomfortable and out of place, like Lain herself you feel like a foreign entity who doesn't belong. The loud buzzing of the powerlines serves as a reminder of the large interconnected web of the virtual and how it creeps into our real world. If you haven't watched Lain you should definitely give it a shot, all of the concepts it explores are extremely interesting.
Also adding to that a lot of the show’s setting and design always reminds me of the late 90s & early 2000s, as someone who grew up during that time it brings a lot of nostalgia every time I watch it
Because it's probably harder to make one. And test the waters due to the structure of the industry in work ethics and finances. At least for now it's isn't completely lost
@@jacksonbrickmedia939 yeah but we’ve seen what people come up with when they don’t use the manga, Dragon Ball Super being a fighting mess, Boruto just being pure filler, The Promised Neverland S2 being worse than the manga, and then the two continuations of FLCL being not as good as the original than again that anime was original and only failed since the creator didn’t make the two continuation
@@elaykitsu7602 Those were still manga adaptations, and FLCL was awesome with the original creative team, but like with any story, it will change based on who is narrating it.
The biggest difference to me is that anime has become more of a business that mediocre shows can survive in. The previlence of tropes, waifu bait, and other comon grabs allow for studios to churn out similar shows at record speed due to the increase of technology. But the new tech and growth of anime as an industry has allowed for more diamonds in the rough, gambits of animation and storytelling to create art. Anime is at its best when the people who create it love it. Look at Redline, a passion project boasting better animation than most shows and movies now. As long as people still have a hand in anime it will be beautiful.
Thats not entirely true and honestly no different than any other media. Tons of people actually do love what you call "mediocre" shows. It seems like a business tool devoid of individuality because you see it that way, because you reject it, because you've seen something similar before. But to someone making or consuming it, that piece of media you don't care about can make their day, they can have fun with it or even be touched by it. I honestly think this cynical view of the industry is just a part of growing old and no longer having the naive joy of discovery we had when we were kids. We may not have fun with it, but it doesn't mean someone can't and maybe if we stop caring so much we might get to have some fun too.
@@Azrael_Terminus nah. Im not saying theres anything wrong with those crappy shows, in fact there are a few that I love despite knowing that they arent all that much. Its more so the intent of the show makers. Even if the original author has a vision they are trying to bring to life, the producers see the show as a means to an end. They are a business and theres nothing wrong with that. But pretending that all shows are equal in how much they take from other anime is silly. Most shows that are incredibly popular are because they try to do something unique to the genre of anime. Mob Pyscho explore the idea of anti-escapism in a whole new way, My Hero Academia takes Western Superheros and brings them into anime themes and tropes, Cowboy Bebop tied together genres of scifi and westerns staring a Byronic hero with greek inspiration. All of these do something that not completely unheard of or unforseeable, it is more inspiration than, for example, Quintisential Quintuplets, which is a harem anime, but this time all of the trope characters are twins. Not that its a bad show, but its limited by the scope of its vision. It does not stray from the safer more current realm of popular anime. And thus it is less original. Again, not to say people who like it have poor taste, I am simply pushing the idea that some shows are more inspired than others.
@@hoofstoo4358 I love Quintessential Quintuplets though... Actually, I think this poses a different question. Does every show have to be original to be valuable? Does every show have to be this risky exploration of ideas to connect with people?
@@jasonyacinthe1778 Not at all. As I said in my comment, " Not that its a bad show, but its limited by the scope of its vision. It does not stray from the safer more current realm of popular anime. And thus it is less original. Again, not to say people who like it have poor taste, I am simply pushing the idea that some shows are more inspired than others." I love many of these less inspired shows from reasons that they are dear to my heart or because they are well executed despite being not very original. Again, we should not discriminate against shows because they are more or less original, but we shouldn't pretend that the idea of being more or less original does not exist.
I quite like how you used the ending of Lain as an analogy of removing excess bias of the past and moving forward with the ideas you have from it. Good stuff.
It's such a breath of fresh air to see meaningful content especially for subjects that are personal to the creator. Your not just cashing in on trendy topics. In my opinion the best types of videos are the ones that when the video is completed your left with eather feeling some sort of deep emotion or at least feeling you learned something. I hope your increase of support continues. You deserve it my friend.
@@HidinginPublic and we will keep supporting you! In the long run your gana enjoy video creation more when your creating stuff you want to create. Like your persona 4 series. There's a good chance you would get more views if you did persona 5 instead, or maybe I'm just over thinking it haha
You are arguably THE anime youtuber that deserves more cloud imo. You are a true artist and your work should have a solid place among the other big youtubers. I wish you the best luck. As soon as my income allows it. I will join your patreon supporters. You deserve this carreer
After have seen close to 700 animes I started to feel like recent animes are mostly rebrand of past ideas from the early 2000. Because of this I had a severe burnout last year and after almost one year without watching any kind of Anime content I decide to go back and see if there's anything that could caught my attention and to my surprise there were two really great animes that remind me why once I loved animes. Now I'm finally watching new animes again, there's still this feeling of repetition but where there's new Animes there's always a possibility of great things being made.
These days most seem so generic asf. No deep messages, bland art style and animation (no detail), overly censored and straight copies of past anime (unoriginal)... anime just isn't the same. I find my self watching old shows on repeat
@@Shenjow6 It's just that good stuff takes time to make. If there's bangers every month, then it would be a new standard and the status quo never change In short, just wait and eventually there's something good to watch
(Haven't seen Lain, but the aesthetic is impeccable) I really liked the ending note you swirled around, of moving forward, not abandoning the things that one has come to acquire, but bringing them forward. One of the ideas that is often touted around creative writing circles and in the Uni classes I took for it are the idea that there is no original idea. Every single idea has probably been done or someone else has probably thought of it, but what matters is how its executed and how the individual artists complicate and add their own character into that idea. The ideas that an artist may have of their own creations shouldn't be abandoned, but brought forward with them, they should use what they know, what has already been known, to shape their own artistic endeavors. And in that same way, I think viewers of that same art should also do the same. If artists can create despite the changing times, despite inevitably being put together with every idea that has come before them and eventually every idea that will come after them, and still hold their heads as high as they can to create, knowing that what they are making might just be a combination of ideas that they themselves have consumed, then as viewers and consumers and appreciators of art, what more can we do then take everything with us and move forward with them. And besides, I'm an eternal optimistic and each year we keep getting new "originals" in the anime space and stand out adaptations and I agree, we are living in this era with so much shows that its impossible for us to know. But I'd be damned if a good portion of these a few decades down don't become someone else's classics.
If you get the chance, watch Lain. It's here on youtube both dubbed and subbed, and only 13 episodes long. If you do decide to though, be prepared to come out of it feeling like your brain melted lol it's definitely not a "shut your brain off" kind of show.
"Art should shock the audience. You can shock your audience, you can disturb them, annoy them; but you cannot lie to them." I think much of modern anime nowadays lack this shock value, this aspect of discomfort illustrating painful truths. Modern titles, e.g. harem anime almost always turn characters into stereotypes with unrealistic, unfortunately predictable behaviours. We no longer see examples of people reaching for totality, arriving at totality.
It is still there and got good ones. The reason for this is the brutal work ethic , more projects but less incentive and health benefits for the workers and authors so less subjects are being done. Also a lot of are still lying hidden from its source material waiting to be adapted. Beastars do shock people . And the problem of modern western society being so snowflake that redo of a healer and World's End Harem, Goblin Slayer is already controversial to them , I'd say it shocked them. World's End Harem had some truth if you give bad side feminist take over the world , they would inevitably try to eliminate man in the world. So if many people are already wanting to cancel shows that have some shock culture to it even at the lowest shock levels , then internationally we won't be getting releases for us worldwide.
Which is ironic for harem animes given the progenitor, Tenchi Muyo. It dealt with a lot of uncomfortable subject, had a lot of quiet moments and introspection and character growth.
@@IceQueen975 World's End Harem is a good example of a harsh truth if wrong people had the power. Bad Feminists . Much of the problem are the audience nowadays especially Western being too sensitive that they want it canceled. If there's little demand for it then internationally we would be getting less. Japan will had it all to themselves to watch it , raw in JP dub without subs just they used to do most of the time especially older era
Nostalgia plays a big role in what is subjectively “ good anime”. If you grew up on dragon ball or yuyu hakusho, in general you will hold it higher than modern. If you grew up on my hero academia, likewise. And if there are certain character archetypes, animation style, vibe, to the anime you hold dear, you’ll lean more to it.
Man I grew up on the classic big shonen but I've actually hated that long-running format for years, to the point where I can't watch new shows with that format. I can still enjoy DBZ for nostalgia, but criticisms fly off in my head. And I do still do it lovingly. But that is to say, I can't pretend like they're these great, perfect shows. DBZ is a mess that layed out a lot of things to improve on. But many studios have learned the wrong lessons and imitate many of what I would personally consider endemic 'big shonen' flaws. Shows have 'conversations' with eachother about these things. A few more recent entries have contributed A LOT to this conversation, but they don't shift it much in the end. Most still just copy what the last one said, and thus it becomes a boring conversation. Ya dig? I think people grossly overrate nostalgia sometimes. But then, I kind of find spending too much time in nostalgia mentally smelly. It's cramped in the past. If anything, that's my criticism of modern anime. The most represented tropes are ANCIENT at this point. The shows just don't evolve much, and it makes them boring far sooner. That's why we look to improvements from future works. Personally, I love the new styles and tech. I always want to see new advancements in the art and execution. I learned a long time ago that this is like... THE spark for me. I'm the same with music. New genres every year, and I don't listen to much that I listened to even 5 years ago, let alone 10. I think that many people come to recognize that what makes a show, movie, game, song, album, whatever so special when they first experience it is that it feels like a first experience. It feels new. The information is new. Expectations have been played. Your job as an artist in any medium is to evoke that, using expectations. It's the most important skill in the composition of anything. And yes, familiarity with any medium will diminish this somewhat, but actually I think the depth of your experience grows there. With the expanded taste, it takes a little more to get in that newness... simply finding it is slightly harder, but it's even deeper when you do. I've been on that journey for 20 years, a little under 2/3ds of my life. Music is big there for me. I never get tired of music. Music today feels fresher than ever, and I recognize more things in it than ever. By the nostalgia metric I should be bored, but instead I am enthralled because over the years of acquiring experiences, I have developed a wider and deeper understanding of the art form that makes me more open by unlocking more ways to interpret things. So I don't buy the nostalgia thing. I think appreciation for an art form grows over a very long time and actually the appreciation you can have going in is limited greatly by what you know about what you're experiencing. So much nuance you don't realize you can plug into yet... and then stuff so new it washes-out your sense of it in waves of awe. But that's the superficial side - the exciting waves on the shore of a great ocean. You can't sail that ocean on your first day. The more you know, the more you intuitively derive, the more there is for you to dig in and enjoy. If you love something, your appreciation grows over a very long time. And when that appreciation gets high enough, you recognize what is and isn't contributing and speak on it. It's not cynicism that guides it. It's a hope and belief in greater potential, fostered by years of steady transcendental experiences brought on via art. You gotta catch some deep sea fish to understand the levels this ocean has. After that... yeah, the common fish can become less interesting. You instead dream of what other majestic and unusual creatures may be lurking. The common ones are always there. Easy to get. And what fun is a public aquarium with only common fish? It's not that they're bad... it's just not why you go 'out to sea' in the first place. Shows these days can really look breathtaking. And they still tend to strike me as average. Anime reminds me a lot of mainstream gaming these days. Personally, I don't have a favorite era in terms of art style. I kind of wish some of my older favorites would get cleaned up, scenes redone and everything. CGI in the 2000s was pretty horrible at times, for instance. There are all sorts of quirks to shows from that era. Cel shading isn't a free lunch. It takes time and work. You won't be able to do all of the frames you want for everything and that will show, or you will limit the screenplay to methods that convey with less and hope the audience bears it enough not to catch on. Consistency is also harder on every key metric. The quality now is so much better. It's what the style is being used to pack up and deliver that is less interesting to me. It's repetitive. A lot like a modern open-world game these days. Glorious environments with amazing designs for the characters and everything. We are going beyond true to life. Games look hyper-real. And yet the gameplay underneath is stagnating... many of them feel like the same games with some parts swapped and a different aesthetic crafted. Jut like those classic shonens, honestly. But I don't think it's even fair to say those shonens are representative of their times, even if they were and still are hugely popular. If anything they were the start of trends that now feel incredibly dated to me, but persist all the same. It's not that I want shows to go back to the past. I just want them to advance more than the visuals. Everyone debates the visuals. In animation they are a big deal. But if everything else has to take a backseat to derivative tropes, stories, and styles, it's pointless to me. Not every show needs to be groundbreaking. But to be memorable it at least needs to have a cogent sense of individuality. That's the thing a lot of shows coming out now are lacking for me. Not DBZ stuff. If anything, I want less influence from that and shows like it. DBZ itself is highly self-derivative and the creator planned on finishing it more than once, but was asked to continue because of the popularity it garnered. This kind of thing downgrades shows IME. The artist himself knew he should move on and make something truly new. But the board members said no, do more and more and more. That's a mindset poisoning the medium to this day. And listen... derivative isn't always bad. You can be creative. There are shows out there that are in fact pretty derivative, but through creative triumph don't feel much at all like their counterparts. There's an art in just nailing an established approach. But I don't think too many niche shows are going for that. It's more straight status quo, or pseudo-subversion.
Imagine sitting through an entire 16 minute video making detailed and specific points just to say "nostalgia goggles lol". What a useless comment. It's clearly more than that.
Gotta respect how you actually make original videos with actual artistic value. A lot of your videos left me with stuff to think about for days after they were released, and imo, those are the best types of videos.
I haven’t even watched this yet but I just wanted to say I was literally just thinking this a few days ago. Certain anime from 1980-2000 just have this pristine quality, especially when it comes to the shot composition. Almost as if there is a real camera being choreographed by a famous cinematographer. While animation quality has generally been improved and made faster and more efficient, something about modern anime just feels “flat.” Obviously their are exceptions but I am definitely finding myself enjoying modern manga more than their anime counterparts and or anime originals.
Wow! This video way outdid any expectations that I didn’t even know I created in my mind before watching. Thanks for always giving me something to think about or giving me yet another side to view something from.
Fantastic video. Side note: recently rewatched lain and you captured the complex dialogue. I still haven’t seen a series that has the feeling that lain offered. Between the dead space and artistic view of the internet and reality. Also see a lot of themes applying to today with social media and it’s influencers, trying to manifest a persona into reality. It’s kinda scary that an anime from 98 can show that before any of that was even a thought.
Lain proves itself to have been around the conceptual curve the farther in we get. So much of lain addressed the possibilities of things that have now come to be. Great stuff
i rarely tend to leave a comment on videos that i watch, but here i have to make an exception. i've discovered your channel thanks to you Oyasumi Punpun videos a few years ago and your style of videos fascinated me with me with how raw and personal it felt. it's been a joy seeing you and your videos getting better and better over the years while somehow keeping what made this channel special. Thanks ^^ ps: oh btw dont let this comment of mine put any unecessary pressure on you, just keep doing what you enjoy doing it shows in your videos :)
Haha thanks. It's fun and artistically fulfilling to sort of arody the aesthetics like this. Like I did with karekano with the previous video. All the subtitles are lines from the show btw
God I hope this video blows up, and your channel too, like seriously u manage to execute a video out of what is a normal topic much more interesting with your style of editing. I mean seriously the way you represent the question and the evidence along with your style of video editing along with philosophical questions and subtle personal experiences made me end up taking more from this video then I expected, even from you dude. And you even manage to make me watch this anime, Lain was it? Imma go give it a try cuz u pulled off the clips and overlapped it with your own so well.
It's still there , but many of them aren't adapted yet or even had an English translation , I'm talking about their source material like manga and light novels
This TH-camr is a fucking artist it’s so refreshing normally listening to ppl nowadays talk about stupid things and have such poor grammar I like how he uses such words to paint a picture
I've been watching anime for only 10 years. And a few months ago was the first time I watched Lain. And it was the most unique thing I've seen up to that point (or at the very least in the top5 unique things). I had no nostalgia for it, no rose-tinted glasses POV on it, but it excited and enveloped me way more than any other anime in the last 5 years. So as much as I agree with the thoughts presented in this video, I do think that something has indeed been lost, even though I can't quite put my finger on what that "something" might be.
Tbh Lain is kinda special. Other (imo) amazing shows come and go, but I have been coming back to Lain since I first dicovered it in 2014. Even in its time frame of the late 90s early 00s "philosophical" experimental anime in the wake of Eva like Utena, Ergo Proxy, FLCL, Texhnolyze or the Ghost in the Shell stand alone complex, Lain feels more well rounded and complete. I have definitely some nostalgia for it, but so do I have nostalgia for OP and Conan. Watching it on my dying PC, while having cables lie on the ground amd feeling secluded from the new town I moved to, I obviously felt connected to Lain. However I would disagree with the notion of "they dont make it like they used to" there still is experimentation in anime and other people will find similar connections to wonder egg priority or sonny boy as I did to FLCL and Lain.
@@carlosdumbratzen6332 yeah that's true, there's still a few that true to stand out. Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge of older anime, but it feel like the "standing out" ones were more abundant in the past. Though this might also just be "survivorship bias", where anything unique that was good back then is revered now, while anything bad just died quietly and is now unknown, while hearing about some new failed anime "that tried to be different" is way easier.
Did the same. Was a terrific breath of fresh air. Still have yet to see anything like it or have me the same strange feelings. It’s still stuck in my head some of the themes and will still think about them for a while. It really is a great piece of art showing how anime can be an amazing form of art
@@megamcee Yeah, I definitely have a certain fondness for this time period aswell. But I defintely would say that there is alot of survivorship bias there. Just scroll through the Seasons of 1997 and 1998 on MAL and you will find quite alot of junk, where the production value is generally alot worse to what we have today. Maybe this is another factor. Overall the production value is alot higher than back then, which leads to the truly great shows not standing out that much.
I was born in 2002 so I don't have nostalgia for any 2000's or 90's anime. I still love the era though. Utena is my favorite anime and Cardcaptor Sakura is in my top 5 for sure. I don't watch the new ones because of all the fanservice. It feels especially disgusting as a girl.
Holy shit. That's my comment. Holy shit. Brilliant work, there are so many thoughts in my head that I am trying to collect now. For many years I've listened to songs, and thought to myself "there's no way they can create something better than this" only to eat my words later on. Anime wise, despite not being that old, I've seen more than most because I've dug deep, and yet to this day, despite being surrounded by friends who have fallen off anime because they feel they've seen all it has to offer, or watched a show so amazing they don't think they could possibly find anything on the same level or better, I'm still wow'ed by some of the things that come out at present that remind me why I'm a fan in the first place. No doubt there are great things in the past and no doubt I've encountered things I feel I've seen before... Even more so as I see stories that I feel couldnt possibly be improved on or tackled a different way. And the wealth of options in a period where we get more of it than ever may make one feel as though what's here now is merely reskins of what once were and could never be as great. But like with music, there always a tune you've always wanted to hear but are still yet to hear, or an additional section of a melody that's going to absolutely blow you away. I wonder if people in the times we idealise as the time of "true originality" felt the same way, leading to them creating the shows we love in the first place... This video spoke to those thoughts that have been swirling in my head. I just rambled a ton on a random TH-cam comment section and I'm sure I reread all this it'll somehow come across as completely unrelated. Maybe I'll edit the comment to be more coherent and relevant later, my apologies Just know though that this video was phenomenal and genuinely made my day.
I miss anime like Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann and Eva plus there's others series that had no manga or source material that went really above and beyond but as far as modern anime goes I think it's fine
Did you ever watch space dandy, it was a little different than what we expected but still legendary , in asking bc it has no manga. And watch flcl if by some chance u haven't seen it a million times yet it has a manga but it's still in a league of its own. I know these aren't hidden gems but out of 1100+ animes they're still one of akind in the absolute best way. Hope this maybe gives u something to watch like the classics, also hajime no ippo and yuyu
I'm a huge Evangelion diehard, but I think that stuff like Devilman Crybaby, SnK, and (hopefully, if it's a good adaptation) Chainsawman really live up to the standards Eva & other similar series set.
i really like your video. it's at the same time a good essay about animation and our relationship with the anime that we like. but at the same time it is a great tribute to Lain. Let's all love Lain.
One could say that due to the boom of animation being around the start of anime that there was better quality in shows, such as Akira being considered one of the best animated productions of all time despite being 30+ years old, but just as we marvel at the unbelieveable meticulous detail of the constantly moving 30fps of Akira, their animators of that age would be astounded by what we are capable of.
Finding videos and creators such as yourself truly is rare and like finding a gem in the rubble. Please keep up the awesome work, absolutely love introspective videos such as this!
Dude, I just, I LOVE your videos. Your commentary made me think. *think.* Feel my conscience and physical brain get to work after hours of being idle. And it's an amazing feeling when that happens. :)
Just re-watched this video cause it's so awesome(and I also feel like I didn't fully appreciate it first time), the concept it tackles is so fun to talk about and one of my favorite philosophy topics, great work Hiding
Man, you had to remind me of Kor's Every Anime In series. That was such a fantastic project while it lasted. Anyway, this video style is great. Great work here!
I’m just sad that romance animes like lovely complex aren’t really being made as often anymore. I’d love to see something like that come out soon😭 edit: I just saw u made a video on this and I’m gonna go watch it rn. Really happy I found ur channel again, you’ve grown so much in every way possible and it’s so cool to see.
the little swirly bars were confusing at first, and hurt my eyes a little like halfway through, but once I figured out why they are there (or at least one functional answer as to why) I was cool with it.
Not related to the actual anime, but the op of serial experiments lain is absolutely wonderful. It’s one of the songs I recognize everywhere and I just love it so much. Boa is such a lovely band.
Checked out the video because I recognized you from Rant Cafe. Really like the philosophical and psychological approach to anime analysis, was not expecting that in the least.
I really liked the more experimental, stylized video format you chose for this one. That being said, the idea that media is naturally always somewhat derivative, and that the experience of being blown away by the creativity of media we grew up with is just the result of a lack of context, is only partially true imo. Even in areas where I have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the traditions a work of fiction stands in, the observation that they will fall on different parts of the 'derivative-original' gradient and some works will be innovative masterpieces while others aren't, and that there are periods of innovation and times where the dominant strategy of media creation is churning out content based on pre-established formulas, doesn't disappear, it only gets reinforced. This doesn't just apply to art, there are periods of innovation and periods of stagnation in philosophy and the sciences as well. This kind of fluctuation just seems to be how things work.
To mean anime has just become part of grander industry, many are created to reach audience and made streamline tailored to being 'good'. This increased bar makes everything kind of blur together. It's that feeling that many feel, when a series blows up into mainstream and it feels less special and just generically good. Before we had unique experimental rough diamonds that just seem to come naturally but now everything is clean cut diamonds created to be valuable and ironically makes everything seem less valuable.
I almost did not watch this video due to the title being so commonplace, but the content of the video responds to it perfectly. Finally got around to joining your Patreon because of how thoughtful this one is. Wishing you the best. Would be interesting to see follow-up videos that consider ideas like phenomenology, or directly comparing similar but not identical concepts between different shows (like the idea of truth here vs. the representation of Truth in FMA, for example).
Two things: One, Serial Experiments Lain is one of my favorite anime ever (probably gonna do a rewatch now, maybe Boogiepop) and two, really digging the new style where you overlay lines from the material you are talking about with your own lines that both contrasts and emphasizes the idea. Very unique and I imagine pretty hard to consistently pull off. Keep it up. No pressure though, I liked the old style as well. Just do you.
I'm enjoying this new style. It's a lot more artistically fulfilling and people are reacting positively which makes me happy. I have had trouble posting consistently in the past, so I feel if inconsistency is such a problem I should worry less about how often I post and more about every post being an experience. That's my thought rn atleast
@@HidinginPublic Very understandable. I personally like it when I can see the enjoyment the creator has for the project. And unique approaches tend to keep my attention. Anyone can talk about an topic or anime, but only you can make something that represents you. Another creator that I like, Explanation Point, has a very unique style and most certainly takes awhile between posts, but I'll pretty much always go right to those kinds of videos because they have that realness that most creators can only sometimes manage. I can't speak for everyone of course, but as long as your stuff is uniquely you, I'll likely keep watching it.
Thanks, I like the creativity that goes into making this style of video. Makes me think and work out ideas where normally I would have just placed footage
I think that fundamentally the only thing that's changed about anime would be our frame of reference for it, like you mentioned things are only seen as unoriginal or derivative if the view in question has seen the inspiration. A story being good on it's own in a vacuum is important but a story cannot come from a vacuum, stories have always been playing with ideas that the author has seen elsewhere, responding to or adapting to other stories or people and their interpretations of those ideas. This is more apparent the better your frame of reference is, so having a bigger one makes everything seem more derivative or less original, when in fact the opposite is true. A novel interpretation or view on an idea that's been well worn should be seen as just as if not more impressive than a novel idea itself. For example Gurren lagann is very much a response to NGE, playing with the same ideas of human suffering and depression, but interpreting it in a polar opposite way, and while Gurren Lagann is amazing on it's own if you have a full frame of reference it only becomes better. Furthermore stories that have very little novelty about them but still manage to be incredible stories are even more impressive with the frame of reference that nothing they've done is new, they just did it better than anyone before them. For example the idea of hard work versus natural talent is pretty common in anime/manga, and Black Clover doesn't really do anything new with the concept, but instead executes on it masterfully and sticks with the concept and they're interpretation wholeheartedly, compared to something like Naruto that played with the same concept but contradicts it's own interpretation as time goes on. Without a big enough frame of reference what is really a simple meal well made instead appears to be something new and extravagant. Only by having a bigger frame of reference can you actually understand how original or how well constructed a piece of media truly is.
@@thecod2345 Doubling even more so on "drawing frames of reference" is that SAO while getting big, isn't even the better work on the same theme of the author, since Accel World came out like the same year but also was a light novel MUCH further into the author's career for experience and to develop other such themes in the whole VRMMMORPG-kei genre percolating in Narou net at the time. I'd also just as much question about what we've DEEMED as unoriginality is just as much limited by our own scope, like how Heek assumed that Gurren Lagann is a direct response to NGE....when the former draws on at least a whole 20+ years of Super Robot anime tropes and shounen hot blooded ness before hand -see Shin getter Robo or really just Shaybs video on WHAT INSPIRED GURREN LAGANN (it's Ashita no Joe). Or better yet how limited our vision is when we OVER prescribe certain long-held communal interpretations like that NGE even is as much "just" a most cynical take on suffering depression not known to be deeply imbedded if not in the Super Robot genre, than the Real Robot counter-genre of Gundam and other Tomino works. There's just the opinion that I completely disagree with that "all works are both derivative but Progressively better than what it's drawing from" is just as much a Survivor bias of the shows that succeeded from other well known names and completely ignoring all the other large swathes of anime that fell to the way side; I don't think ANYONE cites Rounin Kenshin in the current Shounen landscape nor decently well crafted works like Gash Bell or Hitman Reborn despite them very much having as much been large parts of the burgeoning 2000s shounen battle genre as the BIG THREE, but perhaps just as much because they WEREN'T those big 3, much have been heavily discarded and it feels very revisionist to imply everyone going forth are just "Bleach, Naruto and One Piece" inspired
@@thecod2345 I don't seem to understand your point somehow in back in the day one. Although I kinda understand it as since there's few anime before , you had more time churn out more from your series. While Today is basically a race to the point of oversaturation, like no matter what you do you can't be 70 percent original at least , so might as well do it as long as you execute it perfectly(this one fits the Isekai,romcom,harem,battle shonen). Although there are still good ones that don't have adaptation that are in the manga and light novel(most light novel adaptation nowadays are Isekai , which is bad because we have more than just Isekai for novels too)
Wow your video goes in to many different topics very fluently with a great artistic flare based on serial experiments lain. You tell off people from discrediting new anime because of nostalgia and unoriginality/inspiration while also doing a deconstruction of the concept of truth that shows how much knowledge and insight you have gained from studying philosophies and doing all that in a way that makes the viewer ask questions about their own likes and opinions with their own lack of knowledge of context. Its also a cool coincidence that I just finished watching serial experiments lain for the first time a month ago in its 24 year life span with no context and nostalgia in my mind here is my thoughts on that anime. It was slow at the start but the pay off at the end was worth it. Like this video it made me ask questions about my self and reality that put me in a little existential crisis (lol). It was very well thought out and has concepts of the internet/metaverse that are still relevant even today despite being made in an era that still used dial up. The concepts and philosophies that it went over made it a 9/10 but I kind of want to give it an 8/10 because it was a struggle to push myself to want to watch the earlier slower episodes. I love how passionate, artistic, and well spoken you are in your videos aswell as humble and self aware you are I hope you are doing well and will continue to support you on your future works wish you the best
I think anime is relatively the same as it was in the past; just that two things changed being there is so much more anime to watch and it seems “original” anime relies on manga adaptations to feel “fresh” as that seems to be the standard medium to try new things.
It's really more that the two things are the amount of anime being produced and the amount of money flowing in and out of the industry (and who's pockets that money is flowing in and out of). Even in the 60s most anime were manga adaptations, and that really never stopped being the case.
Modern Japanese animation does have its issues, there's no denying that. I could go on my own rant regarding it all. But at the same time, I'm still finding shows that catch my interest every season and manage to enjoy them with little issue. I've watched literally hundreds of Japanese animated shows from over the course of decades and regardless of the year or season, I can nearly always point out a couple shows I enjoyed in that period of time. Some for being thought provoking, some for being comfy and relaxing, some for being flashy eye-candy, some just for being weird, etc. There's always something for any given reason. It's harsh and cynical but I can't help but feel people who fixate over old vs new Japanese animation are stuck in the past. It's common for a lot of people's first experience in any given medium to be their perceived "Golden Age" of said medium. But once that "new" feeling wears off, different trends come and go, and even your own tastes change, that cognitive dissonance makes you long for the older times, even if it's a very skewed view in the first place. As someone who started in the early-to-mid 00's, I understand the sentiment. But at the same time, the people who fixate on the new lack the frame of reference. Multiple times I've seen people call certain trends original despite it being decades old or only just making a modern resurgence. Multiple times I've seen people call certain other trends tired and generic despite only popping up a couple years prior. It's all a repeating cycle of people saying one thing is better than another because of...reasons. And frankly, I'm tired of it all. I think I'm at the point where I just want to watch and enjoy stuff. In the end, there's always something to find, regardless if it's old or new.
Aw man I always wanted a proposement of Hyper-Reality Post-Modernism about the flawed collective consciousness of the Anime Community that "Anime used to be good", all over Lain footage. Overly erudite language aside, I appreciate the post-POST-modern reconstruction that is how you develop a personal attachement so even when "Anime" as some big grandious and nigh undefinable/agreeabled upon genre supposedly changes, you are still able to maintain your emotional connection, if at least one you HAVE had with a work (shout out to Card Captor Sakura). So, despite all the Aristotlean and traditionalized and sanctioned Stoicism wankery of finding some "true objective truth" of the nature of the world and knowledge, a possibly fruitless and completely implausible task for a finite human lifespan (in cognitive memory AND in just living) ironically, it is the emotionally depth and attachments that are MORE real to us. And I'm so glad to have seen that message conveyed in this vid...also play Va11-hall-a
I need more voices to bridge the gap between this 'taste' thing anime watchers so arrogantly hold sometimes. And I mean it both ways. The "older anime is better" camp. The "If it's not new don't @ me" camp. I convinced myself it is what it is. Media consumption, viewing habits, this is what the market has conditioned us to do. This is so ingrained to the culture I like, I struggled to believe people are actually open to try unfamiliar things. "It is also a form of respect to acknowledge they can't accept something~" But really, if I apply that to my younger self, who'd put more importance on my own taste than others, how much of that attitude were ACTUALLY arrogance?? More than I hate to admit. They gravitate to their niche, find like-minded folks, and build fortresses. On a bad day they gone to war I guess. When we're sharing and recommending what we love with each other, it should be an EXCHANGE. Not stating reasons I won't watch 'because...', and play attack and defense with what's near and dear to their heart. Fantastic video, and a wonderful message that'll enrich ANYONE who loves this medium. And apparently I AM LATE TO THE LAIN PARTAY.
Instead of "Has Anime Lost Something?", I feel like it's more of "Has Society Lost Something?"....because the way human society has changed through the recent years and generations will inevitably have a direct or indirect influence on how fiction is created nowadays, especially with anime and other cartoons.
Utterly fantastic video. I really needed this right now. I think expression and art are one of the most important things humanity, or individual people, can do, precisely because of the context/understanding conundrum you present here. Our connecting and sharing experiences (no matter how fractally different, they share the same space) is one of the only ways to truly overcome or work through that issue universally.
I've been really tired with the increase of isekai, harem, and just anime directed towards a male audience. every season it's the same anime repackaged just with some different detail abt it. I would say im also tired of the somewhat same generic art style.
Anime hasn’t really lost anything it’s simply what the current market is producing that people want to pay for. People complain about all of the isekai but that’s what sells. I inquired some time ago about how much it would cost to crowdfunding entire Anime for the continuation and finishing off of the soul eater storyline. And the simple answer was it doesn’t matter how much you raise because some light novel about some guy getting teleported to another world already outraised you tenfold. No one wants to put their money where their mouth is for original stuff anymore. Sure we might get one off passion projects and the other thing here or there but that’s it until people actually wanna support new content, and no I’m not talking about Funimation and Crunchyroll and other streaming services. supporting those companies does absolutely nothing for what gets produced in Japan.
@@LoomDoom The modern business world takes the safe route and bases its decisions on connections, nostalgia, or current trends. There have been periods when spy themes have been popular, followed by periods when dystopian themes have been popular, and finally periods when superhero themes have been. The same holds true for contemporary online comics, light novels, and fanfiction-edited media. Recently, webcomic dramas have gained popularity. Companies don't always choose risk because it can be hit or miss in comparison to adhering to the most recent fads and trends. At least we have more resources and access to a larger selection of anime from every era, past and present. Yes, the current mainstream options may not be to everyone's taste, but the wide variety of anime from the past and present offers a way to offer in ways that weren't presented in the past. There are still unique made anime being made today, it just you need to look closer or help/ support those smaller projects. The trends are based on the Japanese audience demographics which can be different compared to the growing international audience these past few years. In essence, media is created through what is in demand or from the known sources that are being selected and developed. Companies would keep it within their existing property trademarks they have than with new risky ideas/ projects. I don't really think the practice of approving projects based on existing light novels, webcomics, manga, or trademarks will change anytime soon, but that shouldn't stop creators from attempting it since few new ideas have succeeded from the vast number of works being produced. Your ability to be unique or inventive is what makes you stand out or differentiates you from the rest of the pack.
I remember watching Lain back in high school. The series fascinates the chunni side of me so much that I, "in persue of creating a god," half a decade later, am studying computer engineering. But, even then, that feels like just a surface of how much it affects me. Now that I have grown older and started to look at it with more critical eyes, the apotheosis of an unwilling god is just a vehicle for social commentary. On how the internet, while connecting more people, also makes that connection superficial. On how, as people idolize someone (in a strict sense), they too start to view that person in a less humanizing way. They begin to be, well, less "connected" to their idol. Looking back, these have shaped me as a person much more than anything, whether or not I realized it since then. It is such a gem that I can _never_ recommend it to anyone. Its complicated story structure and the artist's attempt to express their worldview is something that is not presented much in today's anime landscape. You can hardly get something like Lain, Perfect Blue, Ghost in the Shell, etc. Don't get me wrong, they still exist, but it's hard to sieve through the humongous list of seasonal animes. Nowadays, you get an overwhelming number of samey isekai, revenge fantasy, adaptation cash grab, and whatnot. It's hard for someone to watch w/o turning their brains off, but if they do so in the former "genre," that kind of defeats the purpose. Even though Lain is still relevant, now far more so than ever, I feel like such sophistry will be lost on whomever I recommend it to and will just leave them with broken, nonsensical, old anime. In a way, I think I'm just one or two rituals away from being in this occult. Maybe, just maybe, Lain is -God- .
I have never watched Lain so I don’t fully understand everything in and referenced in this video, but this was really an amazing experience. Your recent videos have really been something else and I look forward to more. Great job!
I don't know what has changed. It just seems like an overall shift in the culture surrounding the creators with the passage of time. Just the vibes have changed. Anytime I try to point towards one specific change I can disprove it for myself because I've seen a show that breaks the theory. It's just the vibes as a result of cultural shift. Right now I agree that we are seeing everything and not the best that will stand through the test of time. I bet you the only real difference will be the cultural vibe in the end.
I had the same perception as yours but you expanded it better which made me understand more of what I was actually thinking. Good job though . Although another note , the real thing we might be missing soon are the people working on the industry , they are dying
Your channel seems like an underrated gem and I've barely seen one video. Subscribed. I also have a special place for Lain-chan. Nice to see people talking about SEL. Can't wait to see what you put up next. Keep up the good work. Oh and have fun in the Wired :D
What I fear is that in chasing US dollars anime is losing it's will to explore uncomfortable topics in unpolarised ways, and is having to dumb down it's themes. What drew me to anime was it's breadth and depth of emotional expression and intellectual exploration - far wider and deeper than any western media - but these themes and subtleties seem to be reducing year-on-year. Attempts at deeper communication than the standard hero's tale are met with confused disappointment and bewilderment in the west - case in point, the truly awesome multilayered social and spiritual messages of Darling in the Franxx, completely lost to the western audience who just saw cool big robots fighting mecha-bugs and cute teenage romances, and got completely confused when the plot took those kids through their cognitive dissonance, woke up to their true reality and the undercurrent that had been there all along became the main plot ... and in the process exposing the lie at the basis of all religions. I have yet to see any commentary on DitF that notices what it was really saying. I also notice that the current season "yurei DeCo" is flying under everyone's radar with it's nuanced discussion of a world where content moderation controls everyone's lives... How long will Japan keep making shows that show respect for the cognitive capacity of it's own youth that are misunderstood, rejected, or condemned in the US?
I love your new style of making videos, showing off some talent as a voice actor, subtly enough but surely a boost to the enjoyment factor of these videos. Thanks for this philosophical insight on your views and stuffs
@@HidinginPublic haha didn't expect you to see let alone reply so quickly, enjoy the wave of positivity i'm sure you're gonna get! you deserve it, thanks for sharing your creative works with us HiP
Defintely gonna save this to watch later! I think I get the gist tho. Anime defintely isnt as original and weird as it used to be. Ironically the ones that are get swept under the rug. I kind of miss the Edgy anime days. Ergo Proxy, Hellshing, Trigun, Seirial Experiments and even Space Dandy.
I'll be interested to see what you think after you watch it later! I have a feeling based on your comment it's a bit different than what you think from the gist
@@HidinginPublic So i watched the vid and I think(although you didnt mean to) nullified my arguement. When I began thinking that "classics" are better and how I wanted something original we actually have gained more than we lost. Our knowledge of what was lost is not accurate. We have so much knowledge and ideas of whats "good" and "normal" but thats only a small grasp cause we as humans are usually limited to our own context and norms. Good shit man. Real good work
I REALLY love this style of video! I'm also taking it as a sign to finally pick up serial experiments lain; I've been meaning to watch it for forever, it seems. ever since i noticed it, this survivorship bias (of sorts) of media has really interested me. the majority of cinema, literature, comics, etc. being put out has always been mediocre, it's just that the classics were (sometimes) good enough to stand the test of time and be remembered, so we think of those past eras through that lens, forgetting the piles and piles of "unoriginal" and less-than-stelar work that was out there as well. i do think there's just more of everything being created nowadays, to the point where it's overwhelming trying to dive through all the forgettable stuff to find anything that can speak to us, though maybe that's because i'm not really coming at it from a place of seeking "originality" --i think ideas, characters, premises, etc. that are similar to what has been done can still be explored in meaningful ways, and i think it's more about the quality of its execution than anything. but then again, that's also a very subjective thing to appraise. also, at around 12:12, "ephemeral" is used to mean "eternal", but it means the opposite :[ hopefully this is not too nitpicky to say. but great video, and thank you for sharing your thoughts in such a creative and meaningful way again!
That early digital aesthetic is weird. It seems kind of washed out and dull, but not in a bad way. Boogiepop Phantom is especially good. And Rahxephon.
I have not seen so many anime to get bored about the actual anime. For me the old and the new is the same. It has the same chance to be good ore bad. They have different styles and this might be a reason someone are preferring one over the odder. At this point I am watching seasonal anime and watching older anime as well. Usably 2-3 new ones and one old one. But I do finish the old one faster then a season of anime and then start a different old one.
Please take this as constructive criticism: The concept of the video and how you chose to approach was super interesting, but it could have been much better if it wasn't so unncesarily complicated in the first half. It ended up feeling pretentious and the delivery overshadowed and obstructed the actual message behind what you were trying to say. I know philosophy relates to the topic, it always does, but it's okay to be clear about it and to tie the knots in a direct way. At the end of the day, a message is meant to be understood.
Accurate and very representative of my own thoughts on it as well. I fully understand being enamored with your subject matter and wanting to portray it in a way that's evocative of that same subject matter, but it just ends up being distracting and feels somewhat "head up your own ass"-ish when we really just want good points brought across in a way that respects our intelligence without obfuscation. The fact of the matter is, yes: Anime is lacking something. It lacks intelligence, drive, gravity, emotional resonance, humanity and a grasp beyond the immediate. Something shows like Lain, Eva, Texhnolyze and others seemed to emanate - but it only lacks those qualities _sometimes._ That's mostly because production back then was still somewhat counter-trendy in many ways - with things like the Utena Movie and Jin-Roh managing to exist in the same year Lain started - and the medium wasn't _totally_ grossly bloated, Tetsuo-style, as it is these days. Even then, modern anime is _still_ 1000% better than the huge majority of modern Western production, so it's got that going for it. There's still heart out there to be found, and smart shows to watch, and some legitimate gems, but they're so, so hard to find with so much mid-level trash to sift through.
@@_Jay_Maker_ Agree with you 100% Anime needs to grow up. Both the people who make and consume it need to before this medium will ever be taken seriously as an art form. There were glimpses of this happening in the 90s (especially the 90s when anime was really being discovered in the west), the 00's, even sometimes rarely today, but it still has yet to grow out of the Otaku pandering that it has built its wealth and notoriety on. This is exactly what folks like Miyazaki talk about when they express their hatred of the industry. Rabid consumerism isn't something art can be built upon sustainably. Many criticize big budget Hollywood studios for much the same reason. Anime desperately needs some kinda art house OVA renaissance imo or it just isn't going to break out of its self-fellating niche. And this niche isn't healthy for its creators or its audience.
Just like with Video Games. As time went on. Things started getting more expensive, Creativity/taking risks lessened, budgets start becoming lower than necessary, Mass Production and getting content out there whatever way possible within strict time constraints is at an all time high.
I miss Yoshitoshi ABe, too. Hearing the Haibane Renmei soundtrack always strikes a cord in me. I'm happy just knowing some other people feel the same way
If you watch the Archipel interview with Yoshitoshi ABE, the character designer of Lain:( th-cam.com/video/VbadywNSKTs/w-d-xo.html ), you do get a sense that maybe anime has lost a certain sense of experimentation. In it he says: "Honestly at the time I didn't know anything I just pushed through and did what I was told. For Haibane Renmei...I drew an experimental 16-page manga, then Ueda came to me and said we should make an anime of it...I ended up writing 12 episodes of the series...Ueda is a special case,but it was a time when we could do such things, after having worked on TEXHNOLYZE, I haven't made another original project for more than ten years"
Idk I feel experimentation is sort of easier today as well. Mob Psycho, Made in Abyss - properties that would have been impossible if not for the cult following they gathered independent of the industry. Even something like WATAMOTE is noted to only get an anime due to cult popularity on 4chan
@@HidinginPublic Sounds legit. As far as things go though, I think there's more experimentation in manga that there's ever been in anime. Something like PunPun will probably never be adapted, or Memories of Emanon.
Absolutely wonderful video as always, my dude. Although, I do find it pretty funny that I've already seen multiple comments fall into the same bias that you explained literally a quarter of the way into the video. PSA to ani-boomers: No, anime has not "become mediocre." In fact, the drastically increased quantity of new releases each season has actually increased the amount of great shows that come out year by year. The reason you think there's so many more mediocre anime nowadays is because 1. There's way more shows coming out in general, 2. Mediocre anime of the past have been forgotten because of their lack of notoriety, and 3. The aforementioned bias explained in the video. TLDR: Stop being a bunch of salty boomers, sheesh.
Tho anime has changed as all things do, thay have become a world wide industry and that obviously influences the medium, i think people think Anime today is mediocre because there are a lot more anime, that can be bad and awesome, so people look at the huge list of anime today and dont know how to find the gems, i remember seeing some pretty bad old anime so is not a new thing
@@HidinginPublic explain more. We can't enjoy anime to the same extent because we don't have the same context? And I didn't understand the second thing at all. The video has random weeb Japanese mixed with the english which reminds me of the voice in my head reading subtitles until I recognise a weeb Japanese phrase
Please leave a like and comment! Thanks to the increased patreon support following my last video, I really felt motivated to lean into this more artistic style. I hope you enjoyed this more unique video. And check out the amazing person who did the Art assets for this video Kallehmono (twitter linked in description)
editing is cool so far, i'd be down for more stylized videos like this. nicely made
Memories of the future, huh? I remember the outline of a drawing Taruto, a villan from Tokyo Mumu, sitting crossed legged, that I never drawn. I remember him having a crush on the monkey girl Bu-Ling/Pudding. I guess she was kind of cute.
I really love the mix of philosophy and analysis you are applying to anime. You can apply that to anything curious to you imo.
Also, this videos realisation made me kinda sad. As most of us probably have, my teenage years were, mostly, spend on anime that are really irrelavant to most anime fans. They are irrelevant to me. I think they suck, actually. And its so interesting. I pass judgement on new shows about how basic they are yet also expect others to see joy in what I liked. Like Mirai Nikki I guess. That was big back then.
Idk if others can relate to this as well. I really am kind of a boomer aren't I, then?
How in the flippity flip whackty wick did u manage to both combine the synergy of ur video clip editing and mix it with philosohpical.analysis and apply it so fluently that it makes me feel overwhelmed yet make it so that I'm following along? Damn this is such a good video style u got going man
hiding your a genius why anime is less special is because when it was a niche it was for us our special thing we used to get so excited when we saw someone else like it now that it's is mainstream that Beacon of Hope we had that special thing is gone so it's less special love you hiding amazing as always hope you red this
The aesthetic of Serial Experiments Lain is honestly one of the best of any anime I've seen. It succeeds in making you feel uncomfortable and out of place, like Lain herself you feel like a foreign entity who doesn't belong. The loud buzzing of the powerlines serves as a reminder of the large interconnected web of the virtual and how it creeps into our real world. If you haven't watched Lain you should definitely give it a shot, all of the concepts it explores are extremely interesting.
Also adding to that a lot of the show’s setting and design always reminds me of the late 90s & early 2000s, as someone who grew up during that time it brings a lot of nostalgia every time I watch it
YES
That is why the Lain series is my favorite anime to this day!
Anime to watch at 1 AM
What we've actually lost is original anime with no source material. It used to be a lot more common
Yeah it’s almost always based on manga
Because it's probably harder to make one. And test the waters due to the structure of the industry in work ethics and finances. At least for now it's isn't completely lost
@@jacksonbrickmedia939 yeah but we’ve seen what people come up with when they don’t use the manga, Dragon Ball Super being a fighting mess, Boruto just being pure filler, The Promised Neverland S2 being worse than the manga, and then the two continuations of FLCL being not as good as the original than again that anime was original and only failed since the creator didn’t make the two continuation
@@elaykitsu7602 Those were still manga adaptations, and FLCL was awesome with the original creative team, but like with any story, it will change based on who is narrating it.
I really cannot see that as an issue, however it is true, even more consistently adaptations, but that has been the way of it for a decent bit
The biggest difference to me is that anime has become more of a business that mediocre shows can survive in. The previlence of tropes, waifu bait, and other comon grabs allow for studios to churn out similar shows at record speed due to the increase of technology. But the new tech and growth of anime as an industry has allowed for more diamonds in the rough, gambits of animation and storytelling to create art. Anime is at its best when the people who create it love it. Look at Redline, a passion project boasting better animation than most shows and movies now. As long as people still have a hand in anime it will be beautiful.
Literally just read my mind, was thinking the exact same thing
Thats not entirely true and honestly no different than any other media. Tons of people actually do love what you call "mediocre" shows. It seems like a business tool devoid of individuality because you see it that way, because you reject it, because you've seen something similar before. But to someone making or consuming it, that piece of media you don't care about can make their day, they can have fun with it or even be touched by it. I honestly think this cynical view of the industry is just a part of growing old and no longer having the naive joy of discovery we had when we were kids. We may not have fun with it, but it doesn't mean someone can't and maybe if we stop caring so much we might get to have some fun too.
@@Azrael_Terminus nah. Im not saying theres anything wrong with those crappy shows, in fact there are a few that I love despite knowing that they arent all that much. Its more so the intent of the show makers. Even if the original author has a vision they are trying to bring to life, the producers see the show as a means to an end. They are a business and theres nothing wrong with that. But pretending that all shows are equal in how much they take from other anime is silly. Most shows that are incredibly popular are because they try to do something unique to the genre of anime. Mob Pyscho explore the idea of anti-escapism in a whole new way, My Hero Academia takes Western Superheros and brings them into anime themes and tropes, Cowboy Bebop tied together genres of scifi and westerns staring a Byronic hero with greek inspiration. All of these do something that not completely unheard of or unforseeable, it is more inspiration than, for example, Quintisential Quintuplets, which is a harem anime, but this time all of the trope characters are twins. Not that its a bad show, but its limited by the scope of its vision. It does not stray from the safer more current realm of popular anime. And thus it is less original. Again, not to say people who like it have poor taste, I am simply pushing the idea that some shows are more inspired than others.
@@hoofstoo4358 I love Quintessential Quintuplets though...
Actually, I think this poses a different question. Does every show have to be original to be valuable? Does every show have to be this risky exploration of ideas to connect with people?
@@jasonyacinthe1778 Not at all. As I said in my comment, " Not that its a bad show, but its limited by the scope of its vision. It does not stray from the safer more current realm of popular anime. And thus it is less original. Again, not to say people who like it have poor taste, I am simply pushing the idea that some shows are more inspired than others." I love many of these less inspired shows from reasons that they are dear to my heart or because they are well executed despite being not very original. Again, we should not discriminate against shows because they are more or less original, but we shouldn't pretend that the idea of being more or less original does not exist.
I quite like how you used the ending of Lain as an analogy of removing excess bias of the past and moving forward with the ideas you have from it. Good stuff.
Thanks! You're the first one to word that aspect of it in a way that makes me feel like you really got it
This man constantly drops banger videos. They’re so in depth and overall just great analysis. One of my favorite TH-camrs
Thank you. I'm trying my best
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It's such a breath of fresh air to see meaningful content especially for subjects that are personal to the creator. Your not just cashing in on trendy topics. In my opinion the best types of videos are the ones that when the video is completed your left with eather feeling some sort of deep emotion or at least feeling you learned something. I hope your increase of support continues. You deserve it my friend.
Thank you. You were already part of that increase! I hope I can keep putting videos out that are meaningful to me
@@HidinginPublic and we will keep supporting you! In the long run your gana enjoy video creation more when your creating stuff you want to create. Like your persona 4 series. There's a good chance you would get more views if you did persona 5 instead, or maybe I'm just over thinking it haha
Ah shit I should really read that novel. Haven’t seen the time to do it.
meaningful? i see nothing but pseudo intellectual bs
You are arguably THE anime youtuber that deserves more cloud imo. You are a true artist and your work should have a solid place among the other big youtubers. I wish you the best luck. As soon as my income allows it. I will join your patreon supporters. You deserve this carreer
Thank you so much. I hope to keep leaning into this and hope it works out!
@@HidinginPublic this is too hard to understand can you be more clear and concise while maintaining your aesthetic sir
After have seen close to 700 animes I started to feel like recent animes are mostly rebrand of past ideas from the early 2000. Because of this I had a severe burnout last year and after almost one year without watching any kind of Anime content I decide to go back and see if there's anything that could caught my attention and to my surprise there were two really great animes that remind me why once I loved animes. Now I'm finally watching new animes again, there's still this feeling of repetition but where there's new Animes there's always a possibility of great things being made.
Which anime were those that caught you attention?
These days most seem so generic asf. No deep messages, bland art style and animation (no detail), overly censored and straight copies of past anime (unoriginal)... anime just isn't the same. I find my self watching old shows on repeat
@@Shenjow6 It's just that good stuff takes time to make. If there's bangers every month, then it would be a new standard and the status quo never change
In short, just wait and eventually there's something good to watch
@@Shenjow6 but did you watch jujutsu kaisen?
Which two?
(Haven't seen Lain, but the aesthetic is impeccable) I really liked the ending note you swirled around, of moving forward, not abandoning the things that one has come to acquire, but bringing them forward.
One of the ideas that is often touted around creative writing circles and in the Uni classes I took for it are the idea that there is no original idea. Every single idea has probably been done or someone else has probably thought of it, but what matters is how its executed and how the individual artists complicate and add their own character into that idea.
The ideas that an artist may have of their own creations shouldn't be abandoned, but brought forward with them, they should use what they know, what has already been known, to shape their own artistic endeavors. And in that same way, I think viewers of that same art should also do the same. If artists can create despite the changing times, despite inevitably being put together with every idea that has come before them and eventually every idea that will come after them, and still hold their heads as high as they can to create, knowing that what they are making might just be a combination of ideas that they themselves have consumed, then as viewers and consumers and appreciators of art, what more can we do then take everything with us and move forward with them.
And besides, I'm an eternal optimistic and each year we keep getting new "originals" in the anime space and stand out adaptations and I agree, we are living in this era with so much shows that its impossible for us to know. But I'd be damned if a good portion of these a few decades down don't become someone else's classics.
If you get the chance, watch Lain. It's here on youtube both dubbed and subbed, and only 13 episodes long. If you do decide to though, be prepared to come out of it feeling like your brain melted lol it's definitely not a "shut your brain off" kind of show.
"Art should shock the audience. You can shock your audience, you can disturb them, annoy them; but you cannot lie to them."
I think much of modern anime nowadays lack this shock value, this aspect of discomfort illustrating painful truths. Modern titles, e.g. harem anime almost always turn characters into stereotypes with unrealistic, unfortunately predictable behaviours. We no longer see examples of people reaching for totality, arriving at totality.
It is still there and got good ones. The reason for this is the brutal work ethic , more projects but less incentive and health benefits for the workers and authors so less subjects are being done. Also a lot of are still lying hidden from its source material waiting to be adapted. Beastars do shock people . And the problem of modern western society being so snowflake that redo of a healer and World's End Harem, Goblin Slayer is already controversial to them , I'd say it shocked them. World's End Harem had some truth if you give bad side feminist take over the world , they would inevitably try to eliminate man in the world. So if many people are already wanting to cancel shows that have some shock culture to it even at the lowest shock levels , then internationally we won't be getting releases for us worldwide.
Which is ironic for harem animes given the progenitor, Tenchi Muyo. It dealt with a lot of uncomfortable subject, had a lot of quiet moments and introspection and character growth.
@@IceQueen975 World's End Harem is a good example of a harsh truth if wrong people had the power. Bad Feminists . Much of the problem are the audience nowadays especially Western being too sensitive that they want it canceled. If there's little demand for it then internationally we would be getting less. Japan will had it all to themselves to watch it , raw in JP dub without subs just they used to do most of the time especially older era
Nostalgia plays a big role in what is subjectively “ good anime”. If you grew up on dragon ball or yuyu hakusho, in general you will hold it higher than modern. If you grew up on my hero academia, likewise. And if there are certain character archetypes, animation style, vibe, to the anime you hold dear, you’ll lean more to it.
Not really tho DBZ is my childhood anime and I found it dated now
Not really precise. I find myself leaning to the late 90s and early 2000s as an 004 kid
moe slice of life and romcoms are objectively trash and thats 99.9% of anime now
Man I grew up on the classic big shonen but I've actually hated that long-running format for years, to the point where I can't watch new shows with that format. I can still enjoy DBZ for nostalgia, but criticisms fly off in my head. And I do still do it lovingly. But that is to say, I can't pretend like they're these great, perfect shows. DBZ is a mess that layed out a lot of things to improve on. But many studios have learned the wrong lessons and imitate many of what I would personally consider endemic 'big shonen' flaws. Shows have 'conversations' with eachother about these things. A few more recent entries have contributed A LOT to this conversation, but they don't shift it much in the end. Most still just copy what the last one said, and thus it becomes a boring conversation. Ya dig?
I think people grossly overrate nostalgia sometimes. But then, I kind of find spending too much time in nostalgia mentally smelly. It's cramped in the past. If anything, that's my criticism of modern anime. The most represented tropes are ANCIENT at this point. The shows just don't evolve much, and it makes them boring far sooner. That's why we look to improvements from future works. Personally, I love the new styles and tech. I always want to see new advancements in the art and execution. I learned a long time ago that this is like... THE spark for me. I'm the same with music. New genres every year, and I don't listen to much that I listened to even 5 years ago, let alone 10. I think that many people come to recognize that what makes a show, movie, game, song, album, whatever so special when they first experience it is that it feels like a first experience. It feels new. The information is new. Expectations have been played. Your job as an artist in any medium is to evoke that, using expectations. It's the most important skill in the composition of anything. And yes, familiarity with any medium will diminish this somewhat, but actually I think the depth of your experience grows there. With the expanded taste, it takes a little more to get in that newness... simply finding it is slightly harder, but it's even deeper when you do. I've been on that journey for 20 years, a little under 2/3ds of my life. Music is big there for me. I never get tired of music. Music today feels fresher than ever, and I recognize more things in it than ever. By the nostalgia metric I should be bored, but instead I am enthralled because over the years of acquiring experiences, I have developed a wider and deeper understanding of the art form that makes me more open by unlocking more ways to interpret things.
So I don't buy the nostalgia thing. I think appreciation for an art form grows over a very long time and actually the appreciation you can have going in is limited greatly by what you know about what you're experiencing. So much nuance you don't realize you can plug into yet... and then stuff so new it washes-out your sense of it in waves of awe. But that's the superficial side - the exciting waves on the shore of a great ocean. You can't sail that ocean on your first day. The more you know, the more you intuitively derive, the more there is for you to dig in and enjoy. If you love something, your appreciation grows over a very long time. And when that appreciation gets high enough, you recognize what is and isn't contributing and speak on it. It's not cynicism that guides it. It's a hope and belief in greater potential, fostered by years of steady transcendental experiences brought on via art. You gotta catch some deep sea fish to understand the levels this ocean has. After that... yeah, the common fish can become less interesting. You instead dream of what other majestic and unusual creatures may be lurking. The common ones are always there. Easy to get. And what fun is a public aquarium with only common fish? It's not that they're bad... it's just not why you go 'out to sea' in the first place.
Shows these days can really look breathtaking. And they still tend to strike me as average. Anime reminds me a lot of mainstream gaming these days. Personally, I don't have a favorite era in terms of art style. I kind of wish some of my older favorites would get cleaned up, scenes redone and everything. CGI in the 2000s was pretty horrible at times, for instance. There are all sorts of quirks to shows from that era. Cel shading isn't a free lunch. It takes time and work. You won't be able to do all of the frames you want for everything and that will show, or you will limit the screenplay to methods that convey with less and hope the audience bears it enough not to catch on. Consistency is also harder on every key metric. The quality now is so much better. It's what the style is being used to pack up and deliver that is less interesting to me. It's repetitive. A lot like a modern open-world game these days. Glorious environments with amazing designs for the characters and everything. We are going beyond true to life. Games look hyper-real. And yet the gameplay underneath is stagnating... many of them feel like the same games with some parts swapped and a different aesthetic crafted. Jut like those classic shonens, honestly. But I don't think it's even fair to say those shonens are representative of their times, even if they were and still are hugely popular. If anything they were the start of trends that now feel incredibly dated to me, but persist all the same.
It's not that I want shows to go back to the past. I just want them to advance more than the visuals. Everyone debates the visuals. In animation they are a big deal. But if everything else has to take a backseat to derivative tropes, stories, and styles, it's pointless to me. Not every show needs to be groundbreaking. But to be memorable it at least needs to have a cogent sense of individuality. That's the thing a lot of shows coming out now are lacking for me. Not DBZ stuff. If anything, I want less influence from that and shows like it. DBZ itself is highly self-derivative and the creator planned on finishing it more than once, but was asked to continue because of the popularity it garnered. This kind of thing downgrades shows IME. The artist himself knew he should move on and make something truly new. But the board members said no, do more and more and more. That's a mindset poisoning the medium to this day.
And listen... derivative isn't always bad. You can be creative. There are shows out there that are in fact pretty derivative, but through creative triumph don't feel much at all like their counterparts. There's an art in just nailing an established approach. But I don't think too many niche shows are going for that. It's more straight status quo, or pseudo-subversion.
Imagine sitting through an entire 16 minute video making detailed and specific points just to say "nostalgia goggles lol". What a useless comment. It's clearly more than that.
Gotta respect how you actually make original videos with actual artistic value.
A lot of your videos left me with stuff to think about for days after they were released, and imo, those are the best types of videos.
I haven’t even watched this yet but I just wanted to say I was literally just thinking this a few days ago. Certain anime from 1980-2000 just have this pristine quality, especially when it comes to the shot composition. Almost as if there is a real camera being choreographed by a famous cinematographer.
While animation quality has generally been improved and made faster and more efficient, something about modern anime just feels “flat.”
Obviously their are exceptions but I am definitely finding myself enjoying modern manga more than their anime counterparts and or anime originals.
Wow! This video way outdid any expectations that I didn’t even know I created in my mind before watching. Thanks for always giving me something to think about or giving me yet another side to view something from.
There was a real camera. Anime used to be drawn on cels and then shot on film.
Fantastic video.
Side note: recently rewatched lain and you captured the complex dialogue. I still haven’t seen a series that has the feeling that lain offered. Between the dead space and artistic view of the internet and reality. Also see a lot of themes applying to today with social media and it’s influencers, trying to manifest a persona into reality. It’s kinda scary that an anime from 98 can show that before any of that was even a thought.
Lain proves itself to have been around the conceptual curve the farther in we get. So much of lain addressed the possibilities of things that have now come to be. Great stuff
i rarely tend to leave a comment on videos that i watch, but here i have to make an exception.
i've discovered your channel thanks to you Oyasumi Punpun videos a few years ago and your style of videos fascinated me with me with how raw and personal it felt.
it's been a joy seeing you and your videos getting better and better over the years while somehow keeping what made this channel special.
Thanks ^^
ps: oh btw dont let this comment of mine put any unecessary pressure on you, just keep doing what you enjoy doing it shows in your videos :)
you captured the feeling of watching lain in this video so well its insane
Haha thanks. It's fun and artistically fulfilling to sort of arody the aesthetics like this. Like I did with karekano with the previous video. All the subtitles are lines from the show btw
Could be just me but if felt like the older animes took more chance and were bolder in their storytelling and even character designs.
DUUUUDE!!!! I Love LAIN so much! Glad you used it to for the background man.
Lain is banger
God I hope this video blows up, and your channel too, like seriously u manage to execute a video out of what is a normal topic much more interesting with your style of editing. I mean seriously the way you represent the question and the evidence along with your style of video editing along with philosophical questions and subtle personal experiences made me end up taking more from this video then I expected, even from you dude. And you even manage to make me watch this anime, Lain was it? Imma go give it a try cuz u pulled off the clips and overlapped it with your own so well.
It's still there , but many of them aren't adapted yet or even had an English translation , I'm talking about their source material like manga and light novels
Any recommendations?
@@evilherodiamondcat Yukikaze became an anime, but original books still may lack translation
This TH-camr is a fucking artist it’s so refreshing normally listening to ppl nowadays talk about stupid things and have such poor grammar I like how he uses such words to paint a picture
I've been watching anime for only 10 years. And a few months ago was the first time I watched Lain. And it was the most unique thing I've seen up to that point (or at the very least in the top5 unique things). I had no nostalgia for it, no rose-tinted glasses POV on it, but it excited and enveloped me way more than any other anime in the last 5 years. So as much as I agree with the thoughts presented in this video, I do think that something has indeed been lost, even though I can't quite put my finger on what that "something" might be.
Tbh Lain is kinda special. Other (imo) amazing shows come and go, but I have been coming back to Lain since I first dicovered it in 2014. Even in its time frame of the late 90s early 00s "philosophical" experimental anime in the wake of Eva like Utena, Ergo Proxy, FLCL, Texhnolyze or the Ghost in the Shell stand alone complex, Lain feels more well rounded and complete.
I have definitely some nostalgia for it, but so do I have nostalgia for OP and Conan. Watching it on my dying PC, while having cables lie on the ground amd feeling secluded from the new town I moved to, I obviously felt connected to Lain.
However I would disagree with the notion of "they dont make it like they used to" there still is experimentation in anime and other people will find similar connections to wonder egg priority or sonny boy as I did to FLCL and Lain.
@@carlosdumbratzen6332 yeah that's true, there's still a few that true to stand out. Maybe it's just my lack of knowledge of older anime, but it feel like the "standing out" ones were more abundant in the past.
Though this might also just be "survivorship bias", where anything unique that was good back then is revered now, while anything bad just died quietly and is now unknown, while hearing about some new failed anime "that tried to be different" is way easier.
Did the same. Was a terrific breath of fresh air. Still have yet to see anything like it or have me the same strange feelings. It’s still stuck in my head some of the themes and will still think about them for a while. It really is a great piece of art showing how anime can be an amazing form of art
@@megamcee Yeah, I definitely have a certain fondness for this time period aswell. But I defintely would say that there is alot of survivorship bias there. Just scroll through the Seasons of 1997 and 1998 on MAL and you will find quite alot of junk, where the production value is generally alot worse to what we have today.
Maybe this is another factor. Overall the production value is alot higher than back then, which leads to the truly great shows not standing out that much.
I was born in 2002 so I don't have nostalgia for any 2000's or 90's anime. I still love the era though. Utena is my favorite anime and Cardcaptor Sakura is in my top 5 for sure. I don't watch the new ones because of all the fanservice. It feels especially disgusting as a girl.
Holy shit.
That's my comment. Holy shit.
Brilliant work, there are so many thoughts in my head that I am trying to collect now.
For many years I've listened to songs, and thought to myself "there's no way they can create something better than this" only to eat my words later on. Anime wise, despite not being that old, I've seen more than most because I've dug deep, and yet to this day, despite being surrounded by friends who have fallen off anime because they feel they've seen all it has to offer, or watched a show so amazing they don't think they could possibly find anything on the same level or better, I'm still wow'ed by some of the things that come out at present that remind me why I'm a fan in the first place. No doubt there are great things in the past and no doubt I've encountered things I feel I've seen before... Even more so as I see stories that I feel couldnt possibly be improved on or tackled a different way. And the wealth of options in a period where we get more of it than ever may make one feel as though what's here now is merely reskins of what once were and could never be as great. But like with music, there always a tune you've always wanted to hear but are still yet to hear, or an additional section of a melody that's going to absolutely blow you away.
I wonder if people in the times we idealise as the time of "true originality" felt the same way, leading to them creating the shows we love in the first place...
This video spoke to those thoughts that have been swirling in my head.
I just rambled a ton on a random TH-cam comment section and I'm sure I reread all this it'll somehow come across as completely unrelated. Maybe I'll edit the comment to be more coherent and relevant later, my apologies
Just know though that this video was phenomenal and genuinely made my day.
I miss anime like Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann and Eva plus there's others series that had no manga or source material that went really above and beyond but as far as modern anime goes I think it's fine
Did you ever watch space dandy, it was a little different than what we expected but still legendary , in asking bc it has no manga. And watch flcl if by some chance u haven't seen it a million times yet it has a manga but it's still in a league of its own. I know these aren't hidden gems but out of 1100+ animes they're still one of akind in the absolute best way. Hope this maybe gives u something to watch like the classics, also hajime no ippo and yuyu
@@jhsrt985 Yeah I've seen those and love them a lot especially Space Dandy it's in my Top 10
@@SamTheGumMan117 true of culture I see 🤝
I'm a huge Evangelion diehard, but I think that stuff like Devilman Crybaby, SnK, and (hopefully, if it's a good adaptation) Chainsawman really live up to the standards Eva & other similar series set.
@@IngeniousNinja I mean that's not a hard standard to meet fucking sword art online is as good as eva
i really like your video. it's at the same time a good essay about animation and our relationship with the anime that we like. but at the same time it is a great tribute to Lain. Let's all love Lain.
found your channel after your recent video and i love everything you make, you’re doing great keep it up
Thank you! I'll keep trying my best to do so!
One could say that due to the boom of animation being around the start of anime that there was better quality in shows, such as Akira being considered one of the best animated productions of all time despite being 30+ years old, but just as we marvel at the unbelieveable meticulous detail of the constantly moving 30fps of Akira, their animators of that age would be astounded by what we are capable of.
Finding videos and creators such as yourself truly is rare and like finding a gem in the rubble. Please keep up the awesome work, absolutely love introspective videos such as this!
Dude, I just, I LOVE your videos. Your commentary made me think. *think.* Feel my conscience and physical brain get to work after hours of being idle. And it's an amazing feeling when that happens. :)
I'm happy to hear all of that! This video took a lot of thinking as well haha to get my idea and concept across
Just re-watched this video cause it's so awesome(and I also feel like I didn't fully appreciate it first time), the concept it tackles is so fun to talk about and one of my favorite philosophy topics, great work Hiding
This is an amazing video man! I hope you enjoy doing stuff like this, because it is really cool stuff!
Thank you! I do, it's a good creative outlet for me
Man, you had to remind me of Kor's Every Anime In series. That was such a fantastic project while it lasted. Anyway, this video style is great. Great work here!
I’m just sad that romance animes like lovely complex aren’t really being made as often anymore. I’d love to see something like that come out soon😭
edit: I just saw u made a video on this and I’m gonna go watch it rn. Really happy I found ur channel again, you’ve grown so much in every way possible and it’s so cool to see.
the little swirly bars were confusing at first, and hurt my eyes a little like halfway through, but once I figured out why they are there (or at least one functional answer as to why) I was cool with it.
Not related to the actual anime, but the op of serial experiments lain is absolutely wonderful. It’s one of the songs I recognize everywhere and I just love it so much. Boa is such a lovely band.
Checked out the video because I recognized you from Rant Cafe. Really like the philosophical and psychological approach to anime analysis, was not expecting that in the least.
I really liked the more experimental, stylized video format you chose for this one.
That being said, the idea that media is naturally always somewhat derivative, and that the experience of being blown away by the creativity of media we grew up with is just the result of a lack of context, is only partially true imo.
Even in areas where I have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the traditions a work of fiction stands in, the observation that they will fall on different parts of the 'derivative-original' gradient and some works will be innovative masterpieces while others aren't, and that there are periods of innovation and times where the dominant strategy of media creation is churning out content based on pre-established formulas, doesn't disappear, it only gets reinforced.
This doesn't just apply to art, there are periods of innovation and periods of stagnation in philosophy and the sciences as well. This kind of fluctuation just seems to be how things work.
Beautiful video as always. Loved the SEL format + Haibane Renmei music.
Thanks! Haibane Renmei has an amazing ost
This has convinced me to go watch some new anime to see what will become the next era's nostalgia.
There's atleast a handful of recent ones that will stand the tests of time I'd say
This and your last video are literally two of my favourites on the whole platform
I'm glad to hear that. I want to keep making things like this. It's artistically fulfilling and people's positive reactions make me wanna try harder
To mean anime has just become part of grander industry, many are created to reach audience and made streamline tailored to being 'good'. This increased bar makes everything kind of blur together. It's that feeling that many feel, when a series blows up into mainstream and it feels less special and just generically good. Before we had unique experimental rough diamonds that just seem to come naturally but now everything is clean cut diamonds created to be valuable and ironically makes everything seem less valuable.
I almost did not watch this video due to the title being so commonplace, but the content of the video responds to it perfectly. Finally got around to joining your Patreon because of how thoughtful this one is. Wishing you the best.
Would be interesting to see follow-up videos that consider ideas like phenomenology, or directly comparing similar but not identical concepts between different shows (like the idea of truth here vs. the representation of Truth in FMA, for example).
Two things: One, Serial Experiments Lain is one of my favorite anime ever (probably gonna do a rewatch now, maybe Boogiepop) and two, really digging the new style where you overlay lines from the material you are talking about with your own lines that both contrasts and emphasizes the idea. Very unique and I imagine pretty hard to consistently pull off. Keep it up. No pressure though, I liked the old style as well. Just do you.
I'm enjoying this new style. It's a lot more artistically fulfilling and people are reacting positively which makes me happy. I have had trouble posting consistently in the past, so I feel if inconsistency is such a problem I should worry less about how often I post and more about every post being an experience. That's my thought rn atleast
@@HidinginPublic Very understandable. I personally like it when I can see the enjoyment the creator has for the project. And unique approaches tend to keep my attention. Anyone can talk about an topic or anime, but only you can make something that represents you. Another creator that I like, Explanation Point, has a very unique style and most certainly takes awhile between posts, but I'll pretty much always go right to those kinds of videos because they have that realness that most creators can only sometimes manage.
I can't speak for everyone of course, but as long as your stuff is uniquely you, I'll likely keep watching it.
A little late, but I really like the style you're using in this and the previous video. It's engaging in a way a normal video isn't.
Thanks, I like the creativity that goes into making this style of video. Makes me think and work out ideas where normally I would have just placed footage
I think that fundamentally the only thing that's changed about anime would be our frame of reference for it, like you mentioned things are only seen as unoriginal or derivative if the view in question has seen the inspiration. A story being good on it's own in a vacuum is important but a story cannot come from a vacuum, stories have always been playing with ideas that the author has seen elsewhere, responding to or adapting to other stories or people and their interpretations of those ideas. This is more apparent the better your frame of reference is, so having a bigger one makes everything seem more derivative or less original, when in fact the opposite is true.
A novel interpretation or view on an idea that's been well worn should be seen as just as if not more impressive than a novel idea itself. For example Gurren lagann is very much a response to NGE, playing with the same ideas of human suffering and depression, but interpreting it in a polar opposite way, and while Gurren Lagann is amazing on it's own if you have a full frame of reference it only becomes better.
Furthermore stories that have very little novelty about them but still manage to be incredible stories are even more impressive with the frame of reference that nothing they've done is new, they just did it better than anyone before them. For example the idea of hard work versus natural talent is pretty common in anime/manga, and Black Clover doesn't really do anything new with the concept, but instead executes on it masterfully and sticks with the concept and they're interpretation wholeheartedly, compared to something like Naruto that played with the same concept but contradicts it's own interpretation as time goes on. Without a big enough frame of reference what is really a simple meal well made instead appears to be something new and extravagant.
Only by having a bigger frame of reference can you actually understand how original or how well constructed a piece of media truly is.
@@thecod2345 Doubling even more so on "drawing frames of reference" is that SAO while getting big, isn't even the better work on the same theme of the author, since Accel World came out like the same year but also was a light novel MUCH further into the author's career for experience and to develop other such themes in the whole VRMMMORPG-kei genre percolating in Narou net at the time.
I'd also just as much question about what we've DEEMED as unoriginality is just as much limited by our own scope, like how Heek assumed that Gurren Lagann is a direct response to NGE....when the former draws on at least a whole 20+ years of Super Robot anime tropes and shounen hot blooded ness before hand -see Shin getter Robo or really just Shaybs video on WHAT INSPIRED GURREN LAGANN (it's Ashita no Joe).
Or better yet how limited our vision is when we OVER prescribe certain long-held communal interpretations like that NGE even is as much "just" a most cynical take on suffering depression not known to be deeply imbedded if not in the Super Robot genre, than the Real Robot counter-genre of Gundam and other Tomino works.
There's just the opinion that I completely disagree with that "all works are both derivative but Progressively better than what it's drawing from" is just as much a Survivor bias of the shows that succeeded from other well known names and completely ignoring all the other large swathes of anime that fell to the way side;
I don't think ANYONE cites Rounin Kenshin in the current Shounen landscape nor decently well crafted works like Gash Bell or Hitman Reborn despite them very much having as much been large parts of the burgeoning 2000s shounen battle genre as the BIG THREE, but perhaps just as much because they WEREN'T those big 3, much have been heavily discarded and it feels very revisionist to imply everyone going forth are just "Bleach, Naruto and One Piece" inspired
@@thecod2345 I don't seem to understand your point somehow in back in the day one. Although I kinda understand it as since there's few anime before , you had more time churn out more from your series. While Today is basically a race to the point of oversaturation, like no matter what you do you can't be 70 percent original at least , so might as well do it as long as you execute it perfectly(this one fits the Isekai,romcom,harem,battle shonen). Although there are still good ones that don't have adaptation that are in the manga and light novel(most light novel adaptation nowadays are Isekai , which is bad because we have more than just Isekai for novels too)
Wow your video goes in to many different topics very fluently with a great artistic flare based on serial experiments lain. You tell off people from discrediting new anime because of nostalgia and unoriginality/inspiration while also doing a deconstruction of the concept of truth that shows how much knowledge and insight you have gained from studying philosophies and doing all that in a way that makes the viewer ask questions about their own likes and opinions with their own lack of knowledge of context.
Its also a cool coincidence that I just finished watching serial experiments lain for the first time a month ago in its 24 year life span
with no context and nostalgia in my mind here is my thoughts on that anime. It was slow at the start but the pay off at the end was worth it. Like this video it made me ask questions about my self and reality that put me in a little existential crisis (lol). It was very well thought out and has concepts of the internet/metaverse that are still relevant even today despite being made in an era that still used dial up. The concepts and philosophies that it went over made it a 9/10 but I kind of want to give it an 8/10 because it was a struggle to push myself to want to watch the earlier slower episodes.
I love how passionate, artistic, and well spoken you are in your videos aswell as humble and self aware you are
I hope you are doing well and will continue to support you on your future works
wish you the best
I think anime is relatively the same as it was in the past; just that two things changed being there is so much more anime to watch and it seems “original” anime relies on manga adaptations to feel “fresh” as that seems to be the standard medium to try new things.
It's really more that the two things are the amount of anime being produced and the amount of money flowing in and out of the industry (and who's pockets that money is flowing in and out of). Even in the 60s most anime were manga adaptations, and that really never stopped being the case.
@@otastorian that I did not know thanks!
Modern Japanese animation does have its issues, there's no denying that. I could go on my own rant regarding it all. But at the same time, I'm still finding shows that catch my interest every season and manage to enjoy them with little issue. I've watched literally hundreds of Japanese animated shows from over the course of decades and regardless of the year or season, I can nearly always point out a couple shows I enjoyed in that period of time. Some for being thought provoking, some for being comfy and relaxing, some for being flashy eye-candy, some just for being weird, etc. There's always something for any given reason.
It's harsh and cynical but I can't help but feel people who fixate over old vs new Japanese animation are stuck in the past. It's common for a lot of people's first experience in any given medium to be their perceived "Golden Age" of said medium. But once that "new" feeling wears off, different trends come and go, and even your own tastes change, that cognitive dissonance makes you long for the older times, even if it's a very skewed view in the first place. As someone who started in the early-to-mid 00's, I understand the sentiment.
But at the same time, the people who fixate on the new lack the frame of reference. Multiple times I've seen people call certain trends original despite it being decades old or only just making a modern resurgence. Multiple times I've seen people call certain other trends tired and generic despite only popping up a couple years prior. It's all a repeating cycle of people saying one thing is better than another because of...reasons.
And frankly, I'm tired of it all. I think I'm at the point where I just want to watch and enjoy stuff. In the end, there's always something to find, regardless if it's old or new.
Aw man I always wanted a proposement of Hyper-Reality Post-Modernism about the flawed collective consciousness of the Anime Community that "Anime used to be good", all over Lain footage.
Overly erudite language aside, I appreciate the post-POST-modern reconstruction that is how you develop a personal attachement so even when "Anime" as some big grandious and nigh undefinable/agreeabled upon genre supposedly changes, you are still able to maintain your emotional connection, if at least one you HAVE had with a work (shout out to Card Captor Sakura).
So, despite all the Aristotlean and traditionalized and sanctioned Stoicism wankery of finding some "true objective truth" of the nature of the world and knowledge, a possibly fruitless and completely implausible task for a finite human lifespan (in cognitive memory AND in just living) ironically, it is the emotionally depth and attachments that are MORE real to us.
And I'm so glad to have seen that message conveyed in this vid...also play Va11-hall-a
style and message mixed so harmoniously. i get so excited when i see you’ve released a new video and this was my favorite yet.
Happy to hear that. I want to continue investing more into my content like this
I need more voices to bridge the gap between this 'taste' thing anime watchers so arrogantly hold sometimes. And I mean it both ways. The "older anime is better" camp. The "If it's not new don't @ me" camp.
I convinced myself it is what it is. Media consumption, viewing habits, this is what the market has conditioned us to do. This is so ingrained to the culture I like, I struggled to believe people are actually open to try unfamiliar things. "It is also a form of respect to acknowledge they can't accept something~" But really, if I apply that to my younger self, who'd put more importance on my own taste than others, how much of that attitude were ACTUALLY arrogance?? More than I hate to admit.
They gravitate to their niche, find like-minded folks, and build fortresses. On a bad day they gone to war I guess.
When we're sharing and recommending what we love with each other, it should be an EXCHANGE. Not stating reasons I won't watch 'because...', and play attack and defense with what's near and dear to their heart.
Fantastic video, and a wonderful message that'll enrich ANYONE who loves this medium. And apparently I AM LATE TO THE LAIN PARTAY.
Good video hiding, its cool that you added animations to the video
Thanks! Kall did a great job with them!
I recently found your channel absolutely loving the videos so far.
Glad to hear!
Loved it! What was the version of Lain's ending song you put also.. at the end! 😅
we're all connected
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you're really going off on the production for these recent videos, good shit
Thank you Mathwiz. They've been really fulfilling to me.
Instead of "Has Anime Lost Something?", I feel like it's more of "Has Society Lost Something?"....because the way human society has changed through the recent years and generations will inevitably have a direct or indirect influence on how fiction is created nowadays, especially with anime and other cartoons.
Utterly fantastic video. I really needed this right now.
I think expression and art are one of the most important things humanity, or individual people, can do, precisely because of the context/understanding conundrum you present here. Our connecting and sharing experiences (no matter how fractally different, they share the same space) is one of the only ways to truly overcome or work through that issue universally.
Some people will watch whatever's recent, rather than the medium of anime itself.
That itself isn't wrong, I just think they're missing out.
1:41 it was at this point I had to check myself to see if I was having a stroke
I've been really tired with the increase of isekai, harem, and just anime directed towards a male audience. every season it's the same anime repackaged just with some different detail abt it. I would say im also tired of the somewhat same generic art style.
love your videos. Hope u keep doing TH-cam years to come.
Anime hasn’t really lost anything it’s simply what the current market is producing that people want to pay for. People complain about all of the isekai but that’s what sells. I inquired some time ago about how much it would cost to crowdfunding entire Anime for the continuation and finishing off of the soul eater storyline. And the simple answer was it doesn’t matter how much you raise because some light novel about some guy getting teleported to another world already outraised you tenfold. No one wants to put their money where their mouth is for original stuff anymore. Sure we might get one off passion projects and the other thing here or there but that’s it until people actually wanna support new content, and no I’m not talking about Funimation and Crunchyroll and other streaming services. supporting those companies does absolutely nothing for what gets produced in Japan.
People never want to put their money where their mouth is; it’s much easier to complain.
@@LoomDoom Facts.
@@LoomDoom The modern business world takes the safe route and bases its decisions on connections, nostalgia, or current trends. There have been periods when spy themes have been popular, followed by periods when dystopian themes have been popular, and finally periods when superhero themes have been. The same holds true for contemporary online comics, light novels, and fanfiction-edited media. Recently, webcomic dramas have gained popularity. Companies don't always choose risk because it can be hit or miss in comparison to adhering to the most recent fads and trends. At least we have more resources and access to a larger selection of anime from every era, past and present. Yes, the current mainstream options may not be to everyone's taste, but the wide variety of anime from the past and present offers a way to offer in ways that weren't presented in the past. There are still unique made anime being made today, it just you need to look closer or help/ support those smaller projects. The trends are based on the Japanese audience demographics which can be different compared to the growing international audience these past few years. In essence, media is created through what is in demand or from the known sources that are being selected and developed. Companies would keep it within their existing property trademarks they have than with new risky ideas/ projects. I don't really think the practice of approving projects based on existing light novels, webcomics, manga, or trademarks will change anytime soon, but that shouldn't stop creators from attempting it since few new ideas have succeeded from the vast number of works being produced. Your ability to be unique or inventive is what makes you stand out or differentiates you from the rest of the pack.
@Smash 123 or just put your money where you mouth is. Talk is cheap, action is priceless..
What a fantastic video,
Also this remind me what made me love Lain so much
I need to rewatch it one day.....and also Haibane Renmei
I remember watching Lain back in high school. The series fascinates the chunni side of me so much that I, "in persue of creating a god," half a decade later, am studying computer engineering. But, even then, that feels like just a surface of how much it affects me.
Now that I have grown older and started to look at it with more critical eyes, the apotheosis of an unwilling god is just a vehicle for social commentary. On how the internet, while connecting more people, also makes that connection superficial. On how, as people idolize someone (in a strict sense), they too start to view that person in a less humanizing way. They begin to be, well, less "connected" to their idol. Looking back, these have shaped me as a person much more than anything, whether or not I realized it since then.
It is such a gem that I can _never_ recommend it to anyone. Its complicated story structure and the artist's attempt to express their worldview is something that is not presented much in today's anime landscape. You can hardly get something like Lain, Perfect Blue, Ghost in the Shell, etc. Don't get me wrong, they still exist, but it's hard to sieve through the humongous list of seasonal animes. Nowadays, you get an overwhelming number of samey isekai, revenge fantasy, adaptation cash grab, and whatnot. It's hard for someone to watch w/o turning their brains off, but if they do so in the former "genre," that kind of defeats the purpose.
Even though Lain is still relevant, now far more so than ever, I feel like such sophistry will be lost on whomever I recommend it to and will just leave them with broken, nonsensical, old anime. In a way, I think I'm just one or two rituals away from being in this occult. Maybe, just maybe, Lain is -God- .
I have never watched Lain so I don’t fully understand everything in and referenced in this video, but this was really an amazing experience. Your recent videos have really been something else and I look forward to more. Great job!
go watch Lain
I don't know what has changed. It just seems like an overall shift in the culture surrounding the creators with the passage of time.
Just the vibes have changed. Anytime I try to point towards one specific change I can disprove it for myself because I've seen a show that breaks the theory.
It's just the vibes as a result of cultural shift.
Right now I agree that we are seeing everything and not the best that will stand through the test of time. I bet you the only real difference will be the cultural vibe in the end.
This video is beautiful, art. And I like how it's general, not only tied to anime.
Sugoi.
I had the same perception as yours but you expanded it better which made me understand more of what I was actually thinking. Good job though . Although another note , the real thing we might be missing soon are the people working on the industry , they are dying
Always looking forward to videos from people like you on TH-cam.
Keep shining, dude
Your channel seems like an underrated gem and I've barely seen one video. Subscribed. I also have a special place for Lain-chan. Nice to see people talking about SEL. Can't wait to see what you put up next. Keep up the good work. Oh and have fun in the Wired :D
What I fear is that in chasing US dollars anime is losing it's will to explore uncomfortable topics in unpolarised ways, and is having to dumb down it's themes.
What drew me to anime was it's breadth and depth of emotional expression and intellectual exploration - far wider and deeper than any western media - but these themes and subtleties seem to be reducing year-on-year. Attempts at deeper communication than the standard hero's tale are met with confused disappointment and bewilderment in the west - case in point, the truly awesome multilayered social and spiritual messages of Darling in the Franxx, completely lost to the western audience who just saw cool big robots fighting mecha-bugs and cute teenage romances, and got completely confused when the plot took those kids through their cognitive dissonance, woke up to their true reality and the undercurrent that had been there all along became the main plot ... and in the process exposing the lie at the basis of all religions. I have yet to see any commentary on DitF that notices what it was really saying.
I also notice that the current season "yurei DeCo" is flying under everyone's radar with it's nuanced discussion of a world where content moderation controls everyone's lives...
How long will Japan keep making shows that show respect for the cognitive capacity of it's own youth that are misunderstood, rejected, or condemned in the US?
I love your new style of making videos, showing off some talent as a voice actor, subtly enough but surely a boost to the enjoyment factor of these videos. Thanks for this philosophical insight on your views and stuffs
I can really tell you found your voice. Feels like you're enjoying the process of being creative. Keep it up.
I am enjoying it! Thank you, I'll try to keep doing so
@@HidinginPublic haha didn't expect you to see let alone reply so quickly, enjoy the wave of positivity i'm sure you're gonna get! you deserve it, thanks for sharing your creative works with us HiP
I like the visual accompaniment for when you said "our lens is getting repairs". Goes well with the James Webb Space Telescope news.
Defintely gonna save this to watch later! I think I get the gist tho. Anime defintely isnt as original and weird as it used to be. Ironically the ones that are get swept under the rug.
I kind of miss the Edgy anime days. Ergo Proxy, Hellshing, Trigun, Seirial Experiments and even Space Dandy.
I'll be interested to see what you think after you watch it later! I have a feeling based on your comment it's a bit different than what you think from the gist
@@HidinginPublic So i watched the vid and I think(although you didnt mean to) nullified my arguement. When I began thinking that "classics" are better and how I wanted something original we actually have gained more than we lost.
Our knowledge of what was lost is not accurate. We have so much knowledge and ideas of whats "good" and "normal" but thats only a small grasp cause we as humans are usually limited to our own context and norms.
Good shit man. Real good work
I REALLY love this style of video! I'm also taking it as a sign to finally pick up serial experiments lain; I've been meaning to watch it for forever, it seems.
ever since i noticed it, this survivorship bias (of sorts) of media has really interested me. the majority of cinema, literature, comics, etc. being put out has always been mediocre, it's just that the classics were (sometimes) good enough to stand the test of time and be remembered, so we think of those past eras through that lens, forgetting the piles and piles of "unoriginal" and less-than-stelar work that was out there as well.
i do think there's just more of everything being created nowadays, to the point where it's overwhelming trying to dive through all the forgettable stuff to find anything that can speak to us, though maybe that's because i'm not really coming at it from a place of seeking "originality" --i think ideas, characters, premises, etc. that are similar to what has been done can still be explored in meaningful ways, and i think it's more about the quality of its execution than anything. but then again, that's also a very subjective thing to appraise.
also, at around 12:12, "ephemeral" is used to mean "eternal", but it means the opposite :[ hopefully this is not too nitpicky to say.
but great video, and thank you for sharing your thoughts in such a creative and meaningful way again!
i just keep watching watching early 2000 dubbed anime, the vibes are impeccable and you can get high and not have to read subs
The vibes are indeed impeccable
That early digital aesthetic is weird. It seems kind of washed out and dull, but not in a bad way. Boogiepop Phantom is especially good. And Rahxephon.
another absolute banger. keep making these man, they're so good
That's the plan!
I hope this guy does well, I think that’s what the vast majority of us are thinking.
I sure hope so. To doing well and to people thinking that
Man , unreal , you said things inside of me , and id like to share these words , thank you for these kind of videos unfound anywhere
Thank you for connecting with and enjoying them! I will try to continue!
I have not seen so many anime to get bored about the actual anime. For me the old and the new is the same. It has the same chance to be good ore bad. They have different styles and this might be a reason someone are preferring one over the odder. At this point I am watching seasonal anime and watching older anime as well. Usably 2-3 new ones and one old one. But I do finish the old one faster then a season of anime and then start a different old one.
I love that whirly filter you used in the video. Reminds me of CRT scanlines
Please take this as constructive criticism: The concept of the video and how you chose to approach was super interesting, but it could have been much better if it wasn't so unncesarily complicated in the first half. It ended up feeling pretentious and the delivery overshadowed and obstructed the actual message behind what you were trying to say. I know philosophy relates to the topic, it always does, but it's okay to be clear about it and to tie the knots in a direct way. At the end of the day, a message is meant to be understood.
Accurate and very representative of my own thoughts on it as well. I fully understand being enamored with your subject matter and wanting to portray it in a way that's evocative of that same subject matter, but it just ends up being distracting and feels somewhat "head up your own ass"-ish when we really just want good points brought across in a way that respects our intelligence without obfuscation.
The fact of the matter is, yes: Anime is lacking something. It lacks intelligence, drive, gravity, emotional resonance, humanity and a grasp beyond the immediate. Something shows like Lain, Eva, Texhnolyze and others seemed to emanate - but it only lacks those qualities _sometimes._ That's mostly because production back then was still somewhat counter-trendy in many ways - with things like the Utena Movie and Jin-Roh managing to exist in the same year Lain started - and the medium wasn't _totally_ grossly bloated, Tetsuo-style, as it is these days. Even then, modern anime is _still_ 1000% better than the huge majority of modern Western production, so it's got that going for it.
There's still heart out there to be found, and smart shows to watch, and some legitimate gems, but they're so, so hard to find with so much mid-level trash to sift through.
@@_Jay_Maker_ Agree with you 100% Anime needs to grow up. Both the people who make and consume it need to before this medium will ever be taken seriously as an art form. There were glimpses of this happening in the 90s (especially the 90s when anime was really being discovered in the west), the 00's, even sometimes rarely today, but it still has yet to grow out of the Otaku pandering that it has built its wealth and notoriety on. This is exactly what folks like Miyazaki talk about when they express their hatred of the industry. Rabid consumerism isn't something art can be built upon sustainably. Many criticize big budget Hollywood studios for much the same reason. Anime desperately needs some kinda art house OVA renaissance imo or it just isn't going to break out of its self-fellating niche. And this niche isn't healthy for its creators or its audience.
Just like with Video Games.
As time went on. Things started getting more expensive, Creativity/taking risks lessened, budgets start becoming lower than necessary, Mass Production and getting content out there whatever way possible within strict time constraints is at an all time high.
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Wow man respect your videos are so good they are like mini movies about life
Hahaha thank you
Classic anime definitely had a charm you don't see now
It's a different charm. One we either won't recognize for years to come or won't be recognized until the rising generation looks back
I miss Yoshitoshi ABe, too. Hearing the Haibane Renmei soundtrack always strikes a cord in me. I'm happy just knowing some other people feel the same way
He has a TH-cam channel. www.youtube.com/@abe-tube/videos
its changed with time as do all things
Change is only good when it makes things better
@@trumpflavourednugget9325 who gets to decide what's better?
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@@thepinkestpigglet7529 no one, it's subjective, it's up to you to decide for yourself whether the change was better or not.
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 me
This edits in this video made it feel so trippy. Great job my dude!
Thanks! I'm sure it would be a whole other experience to watch if actually hopping around
If you watch the Archipel interview with Yoshitoshi ABE, the character designer of Lain:( th-cam.com/video/VbadywNSKTs/w-d-xo.html ), you do get a sense that maybe anime has lost a certain sense of experimentation. In it he says:
"Honestly at the time I didn't know anything I just pushed through and did what I was told. For Haibane Renmei...I drew an experimental 16-page manga, then Ueda came to me and said we should make an anime of it...I ended up writing 12 episodes of the series...Ueda is a special case,but it was a time when we could do such things, after having worked on TEXHNOLYZE, I haven't made another original project for more than ten years"
Idk I feel experimentation is sort of easier today as well. Mob Psycho, Made in Abyss - properties that would have been impossible if not for the cult following they gathered independent of the industry. Even something like WATAMOTE is noted to only get an anime due to cult popularity on 4chan
@@HidinginPublic Sounds legit. As far as things go though, I think there's more experimentation in manga that there's ever been in anime. Something like PunPun will probably never be adapted, or Memories of Emanon.
Another banger!!?!?!?!? Love your content man, please keep it up
Thanks! I'll keep doing my best!
Thank you for all you do, we appreciate your time, effort, and dedication 🙏🏼💙
Thank you! I appreciate the support
Well, you know what they say:
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
That truth definitely transcends time.
Absolutely wonderful video as always, my dude. Although, I do find it pretty funny that I've already seen multiple comments fall into the same bias that you explained literally a quarter of the way into the video.
PSA to ani-boomers: No, anime has not "become mediocre." In fact, the drastically increased quantity of new releases each season has actually increased the amount of great shows that come out year by year. The reason you think there's so many more mediocre anime nowadays is because 1. There's way more shows coming out in general, 2. Mediocre anime of the past have been forgotten because of their lack of notoriety, and 3. The aforementioned bias explained in the video.
TLDR: Stop being a bunch of salty boomers, sheesh.
Haha glad to know you actually watched the video before commenting
Tho anime has changed as all things do, thay have become a world wide industry and that obviously influences the medium, i think people think Anime today is mediocre because there are a lot more anime, that can be bad and awesome, so people look at the huge list of anime today and dont know how to find the gems, i remember seeing some pretty bad old anime so is not a new thing
I love your style of video. It’s just so unique and cool. Very good video can’t wait to see more from you.
Thanks! I'm excited to make more and love the positive reaction
Anyone want to explain this? Is this countering people who only like old anime?
It's more about the lack of context we have as western fans, and how we should respond to time passing us by
@@HidinginPublic explain more. We can't enjoy anime to the same extent because we don't have the same context? And I didn't understand the second thing at all.
The video has random weeb Japanese mixed with the english which reminds me of the voice in my head reading subtitles until I recognise a weeb Japanese phrase
Your themed videos are beyond cool, I especially loved the Kare Kano one‼️
Thank you! I hope to experiment more with this style in the future as well