Weekly Anime Post 182

You can kinda compare this to the death of B movies, a lot of extremely creative small projects never bot made, and It all started to happen in the 90s.

A24 is the counter example, they basically will give any semi decent director 8 million dollars to make crazy original Ideas.

Is it just me, or does 1995 seems to have been the peak year of anime, before the medium started to decline in quality?, I mean seriously:

Law of diminishing returns strikes again. The jump you had in quality in the 1990s in relation to whatever came before has never been achieved since and the leaps keep slowing down until every year you are just getting the same slop but 10% better. At 10% you are going to go"yeah that is better I suppose" but you aren't going to unless you leave the hobby for 20 years entirely then jump back in.

I don't bother reading or watching anything new by Japs any more. It's just become incestuously otakufied, with sperg authors writing stories about spergs for sperg readers.

Works in the early 2000s and 90s regularly had characters with relationships and mannerisms that were more understandable by normies from other cultures. Apart from the rampant unabashed sexualization of underaged females (yes it still exists today but it was way worse back then), almost everything about the writing was on average better back then from the emotional depth and quality of writing. Modern seinen works are embarrassing in comparison to the older classics of the genre. The best you'll get is slice-of-life slop which never has to take writing risks or go anywhere.

And yeah the 90s animation styles when done properly were superior to the current styles which feel much more simplified and exaggerated at this point. I think the overall skill floor of artists has improved because of new technology and learning materials but peak anime aesthetics definitely came from the 90s.

Yawn neighbor

it was peak japan in general. also the year sony playstation launched for export, representing the commercial and technical peak of japan.

blue LEDs the year before as well, they won a nobel prize for that. and there was that subway sarin attack that ushered in their new era of decline.

You're a fricking nerd

Yes I watched Golden Boy last week english dubbed and it was kino the protagonist is a peak dramatard

In The Elder Scrolls lore, there's a theory that Yakuda is the past, Tameriel is the present, and Akavir is the future. Japan is like that, they're spiritually in the future, so like they felt the spiritual effects of 9/11 in like 98 or something. 95 was the year before the towers fell for them. Spiritually I mean.

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