2013-01-06, 07:48 | Link #1 |
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I'll respectfully explain what bothers me about todays anime
Instead of being a jerk about things I'm going to calmly explain what's been bothering me about Anime and why I've been frustrated. First thing is I've been a long time fan and I feel like the Anime community in Japan doesn't care about us old school viewers. Because of this I tend to be bitter about modern Anime in Japan.
Back in the day I had Anime like Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, serial experiments lain, Evangelion, Bubbleum Crisis and many other deep Anime that had story in depth. The men appear too softly drawn and weak in body frame. I never had a problem with this until Anime directors started using this for most of there new series. A few picture examples: http://i46.tinypic.com/8sqc.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/15yt2s2.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/swv9z8.jpg Old school anime had more mature characters I could connect with. http://i45.tinypic.com/mb2znr.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/2r7ocj7.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/2mhsoe0.jpg I've gone through the list of most of the modern Anime and they all have that light color soft hearted feminine boy theme and random fanservice. -Minami-Ke Tadaima = loli -Haitai Nanafa = moe -AKB0048 Next Stage = obsessed otaku -Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru = feminine boy -Cuticle Detective Inaba = feminine again -Maoyuu Maou Yuusha = Another anime for feminine loving boys -Sukitte Ii na Yo = teen drama -Medaka Box Abnormal = Yet another clean cut group of males -Nekomonogatari = same femy -Ai Mai Mi = moe -Boku no Imouto wa Osaka Okan = moe -Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki = moe -Kamisama Hajimemashita = feminine looking guy As you can see they don't care about old school Anime guys like me who enjoy normal and or masculine guys. I just feel hurt that Japan would forget about us. |
2013-01-06, 08:00 | Link #5 | |
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Where's Tiger & Bunny and Redline and Psycho Pass? Fate/Zero has a muscular guy.
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2013-01-06, 08:04 | Link #6 |
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Anime industry, like any other industry priorities money over everything. Since, anime is made for Japanese audience that keep the industry afloat with their money, its their tastes that matter and not the taste of westerners.
Shows like Cowboy just might not be profitable enough for the industry to make. Anyway, how many times has this complaint arisen of late? I remember asking the same thing a while back
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2013-01-06, 08:07 | Link #8 |
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This looks awfully similar to the ones made (atleast)a year ago about the "decline of quality anime and "lack of focus towards the western audience" kind of threads
Also all the examples are kind of stupid and out of context seeing that the genres of today's animes are different from your examples of "yesterday's animes for oldschool viewers" |
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The reason why today you see a lot of young looking characters or "old characters" made to look young is to allow the audience to better sync with them (be it identify, relate or simply be someone they could accept to be on friendly terms). If you want someone to blame for all this, blame all the crazy old geezers for ruining their image of mature, intelligent, authority and so forth; most importantly wisdom. Simply put, the faith today's youth puts on "experience in life" from old age, is virtually zero (if not negative; as in they believe you go crazy as you grow old), therefore you're unlikely to see prominent old looking characters unless it's some mentor figure (because those are a pure representation of authority, experience and wisdom).
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2013-01-06, 08:12 | Link #11 | |
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While yes, a large portion of the industry is indeed catered to pander to an otaku audience, you simply aren't grasping the sheer diversity of anime out there. Just last year, there was Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Psycho Pass, and Fate/Zero to fulfill the sort of character aesthetics you're looking for. Maybe not quite as many as before, but most likely well enough to represent the subset of the audience that prefers that sort of thing. Now, if you're trying to say that shows today don't have any depth, then I would strongly disagree with you. Well, that would depend on how you define "depth" of course. Perhaps you're just looking at the wrong things?
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2013-01-06, 08:14 | Link #13 |
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Ah now i remember why i saw a similar thread before, it's because it's in a way the same as his previous one that was closed
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=116410 |
2013-01-06, 08:41 | Link #15 |
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Am I the only one who looked at all those pictures and noticed that all of the characters in the "bad" list were highschool age, and all of the characters in the "good" list were adults?
Because adult characters (and even some younger characters) in modern anime do look manly when it's an action series.
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2013-01-06, 08:49 | Link #16 | |
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2013-01-06, 09:21 | Link #19 |
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Here's one thing I don't get- If there were supposedly so many great mature Animes back in the days, why is it only the same 3 or so titles that keeps getting brought up?
I mean Anime has been going on for decades right?
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2013-01-06, 09:51 | Link #20 |
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Nice try, but this is just a rehash of the previous closed thread. A reformulated rant against the entirety of Japan not catering to the user's interests.
I'm sorry, but this has already been addressed more than once. Japan's anime industry makes anime for the Japanese. And the production of anime is a business. It's adapt or die for both the Japanese companies and the non-Japanese viewers.
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