Old is gold. Simple. This is true of everything because the stream of new stuff can never hold up to a small number of established timeless clsssics.
>>3817>Old anime was before anime catered to normoids and the companies heading studios weren't so jewish that creativity was impossibleThis is not true. Anime has always had mass appeal in Japan. How else would the studios make money? Overwork is nothing new. One of the reasons Gibli was founded was because they hated the working conditions and thought anime had become consumer slop, and that was back in the 80s the hallowed golden age for retro retards. Jewish fist lmao.
>>3818Nothing of what you've said disproves his point, what could've been bad before is much worse now, and now anime manga and everything Japan is mainstream all around the world when before only a small niche of westerners knew about it.
Its the Bollywood effect. Anime sucks now because white Americans and Europeans became its biggest consumers. So Japanese studies had to crank out anime that would satiate the Western demographic, so anime inevitably is becoming more woke or more Nazi-adjacent and nevertheless catering to the Western consumer. The appeal of anime was seeing the artwork of another culture, but with the flattening of space and time that the internet achieved (language being the only remaining barrier), the world has slowly flattened into simulated clones of Americana. When I watch anime now, I'm not experiencing the art work another people make for themselves, but an artificial version of Japanese art made to look like what Westerners think Japanese art is supposed to be so it can be sold to an American and European audience. So anime is fast becoming a minstrel show and you can see this with your seasonal high school garbage, romance slop, and isekai slop. Japan no longer has a culture, its just non-Americans pretending to be American while pretending to be different from Americans whenever Westerners look at them.
Am I being too cynical? Japan now has its own version of 24, you know the wholesome Kiefer Sutherland torture porn American families would tune into to enjoy an evil foreigner being tortured every month by the big American hero? Yeah, the Japanese are making their own versions of that now. They also have their own Law and Order, their own Office, etc. waps gleefully love the minute differences between a North American and Japanese McDonalds meal, but what is this really? Its not delight in appreciating something different, but the same thing slightly tweaked. They serve you the patty with no bun wooo!
The main reason I loved anime was seeing animation from a world that was not like mine. That no longer exists. We now have farce after farce but the main point for me (learning about others and appreciating difference) is gone. And you can see that with the average degenerate who posts on 4Chan (or even this website) being yet another cookier cutter Nazi or cookie cutter woke consumed with fiery hatred for anything that irritates their particular brand of cultural autism.
>>3823Makes sense!,i agree with some points
anime became too much american..the fun was seeing another culture..and Seeing random girls with mini-skirts with planet powers and melodrama
>>3823I can clearly tell that you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>3829True and anime itself has been massively influenced by American and Soviet animation. But never before has the international audience (America and Western Europe basically) had as much pull on how anime is made and marketed. Anime is a minstrel show now. Its manufactured Japaneseism, the illusion of a country as a consumer product. Anime has slowly been corrupted by that.
I really like the cel shaded look of old anime. All the colors are super vibrant to make up for VHS tape de-saturation or something. Even the new re-build movies of Evangelion dont look nearly as good as the original OVA series.
Made by people who were true Otaku and had a passion for the medium.
Maybe it is that newer anime is more insular.Writers for older anime grew up before anime was popular so they have lots of different inspirations (theatre books movies real life experience etc). Now for new writers they grew up watching anime. They have never known anything different so tropes become more repetitive. Sort of like how the pug dog breed has become a more diseased breed because it so inbred.
A lot more visual uniqueness. Most anime I feel look too similar even though the animation is as good or is better than ever
Also, there's a certain charm to how old anime solved problems like their utilization of limited animation. Though the more elaborate movie quality animation like Akira and Princess Mononoke is really impressive
Directors like Osamu Dezaki used smart directing and good storyboards to make the anime more engaging, and animators like yoshinori Kanada used the limited amount of frames to make his animation more energetic
>>3923Depending on what you watch I can see this. Digital anime has led to a lot of laziness. But at the same time anime that used cels were a lot more limited in what they were able to do in terms of art style. You wouldn't get something like FLCL or Shaft stuff using cels. The digital workflow allows a lot more experimentation and variation in art style because they're not working with physical cels but instead layers on a computer that can be messed with more without any permanent, physical consequences.
There is merit in the idea that limitations breed creativity though.
I just like anime in general. Drawing lines in the sand like that never sat right with me.
>>3922Also this kind of argument doesn't sit right with me either. You can very easily counterpick examples. Girls und Panzer references war films from around the world while Nadesico is entirely informed by Yamato and Getter Robo.