I think the fact there’s more trash than ever being produced kind of proves the original point, but I’m also of the opinion that we’re living in a kind of golden age of media production in that the tools for amateurs to create have never been easier to get a hold of; so alongside all the slop there are going to be a percentage of people, however small, with really noteworthy ideas able to express themselves in ways they wouldn’t have been able to in the past, and I think we should celebrate that.
Or, you know, just quote Miyazaki and be doomer about it I guess.
Sina@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I’m willing to concede that one not being trash. Though the art is still over-optimized & somewhat lifeless. In fact if I want to be honest, it’s probably not that difficult to find okay-ish romance-less slice of life shows in the current anime landscape, but I would say that one genre is the exception, not the norm.