Percentage wise, maybe. But not volume wise.
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Rottcodd@ani.social 2 days ago
Just to note…
There was just as much garbage anime in any given year in the past as there is now - it’s just that current garbage anime is current and past garbage anime has been long since forgotten.
Ditto manga, music, movies books, television, whatever. The past generally looks better because it’s only the best of it that’s remembered.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Unboxious@ani.social 2 days ago
Yeah but there’s more good anime too. Seems like every year there are several new anime that are worth watching; it wasn’t always like this.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yup, that’s how percentages work!
Rottcodd@ani.social 2 days ago
That’s undoubtedly true.
But by the same measure, there’s also actually more great anime being put out now that there was in the past - again, just measured by sheer volume rather than percentage.
And while I wouldn’t disagree with that, it goes even further contrary to the rose-tinted view of the past, and thus even further from my point.
I didn’t mean to say or imply anything specific about the standards of one or another era of anime. My only point is that people need to be aware of the fact that they can’t make summary judgments regarding relative quality by pointing to all of the recognized great anime of the past, because that’s necessarily what’s remembered. The basis for any such judgment is necessarily skewed by the fact that over time, the great ones are remembered and the awful ones are forgotten.
That’s all.
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your comment is very to the point, but I think I already knew about it, I just expressed it more simply: old anime are good, but I didn’t say that’s all? There was always enough crap, it’s just that now the AI generates it.
anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 10 hours ago
I mean, yeah, but it really feels like Isekai is easily marketed in the West