Submitted 6 months ago by SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world to animemes@ani.social
I've had long break (I mean like 7+ yrs) from watching animes and recently started watching new stuff in my free time.
Honestly it's not bad, but the hell with all of them having such a slow pace. Literally none of them have a finishes story, all in long ongoing phase with plans to run for ages.
Kinda surprised by this take, because IMO the biggest strength of the new anime I’ve been watching is that the pacing is much, much better. I’m often blown away by how much is packed into each episode of something like DanDaDan, Gachiakuta, or Sakamoto Days. Even something that I’d consider a little slow, like parts of Solo Leveling or Kaiju Number Eight, still blow older anime like Naruto or One Piece out of the water.
Did you really need to compare it to animes with the slowest pace possible?
That’s just the natural result of so many of them being based off of manga, but there are exceptions! Takopi’s Original Sin and LOOK BACK are both recent excellent anime that don’t suffer from these issues. One of them finishes its whole story in six impactful episodes, the other is a movie that wraps up in under an hour. Both will make you cry.
Eh, not really. I mean unless episode sucks. But I'm mostly having issue with unfinished stories rather than episodes being bad.
Like I've watched multiple 20-40+ episode titles that about ran to sorta culmination point... so I'll have to wait like 3-5 more years to see how they end.
I like when a season actually has a finished story. Even if the next season would use the same characters.
Recently I got that watching episode 1 of Takopi’s Original Sin not because of the pacing but because it was really intense and I needed to relax and I didn’t realize that the first episode was double-length!
I just finished rewatching DBZ Kai. Recently started Super for the first time.
I only watch DBZ Abridged now. I can’t take the real show seriously anymore
This is like an insult for any LATAM DBZ fan… But ngl, I’d want to watch the Abridged version once 😅
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.
I mean, yeah, but it really feels like Isekai is easily marketed in the West
Percentage wise, maybe. But not volume wise.
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.
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.
We remember the best of the best classics, and forget the ones that sucked. When you watch classics, you're watching the ones that have stood the test of time.
Decades from now, some of today's shows will looked back on the same way. Many will not, but we won't even be thinking about the ones that didn't.
I’ve been watching Monster, and am gobsmacked by how consistently we’ll written it’s been
Maybe, but the same writer made the story for Pluto as well and by all accounts it’s also incredibly good.
Hey, me too actually. I can’t believe I’ve actually warmed up to Eva
My to watch list cover the last 40 years so i kinda go up and down the timeline. Old 90s and early 2000 really is starting to feel its age.
Would highly recommend checking out Eureka Seven if you're down for more cool series to check out!🤗
Mechs soaring through the sky on hoverboards ended up being a way cooler aesthetic than I expected.
I’ve been watching through old Gundam shows recently. While some haven’t aged well IMO, others are still really good. Zeta and the 8th MS Team are two examples.
Just started Gundam Seed and not liking the boyband vibe so far
8th Ms team was great. Man I even like Gundam g as well even though many people didn’t like it. Unicorn and seed were also pretty good in my opinion.
8th MS Team ❤
Well if they would pump out re zero episodes faster…
For the 90s I will always watch Nadesico. One of my all time favorites
You’ve got to go earlier, there’s some really neat stuff way back like Astro Boy, Tetsujin 28-go, Speed Racer, etc.
Went back to anime recently, and they feel like they're all becoming the same thing, least checking random ones through Crunchyroll for some months now. Art style is becoming pretty same-y even for older, still running shows, story setting and pacing also seem to be more uninventive than ever, and in action animes, thunder or similar-looking effects sound like always have the same audio track playing. I wonder if those series are already using AI as I remember seeing being proposed in a news a while back.
There’s still plenty of really cool, unique stuff being made. It definitely can be hard to find under all the isekai slop though, so if you’re interested in finding good new stuff I’d recommend looking for seasonal review videos from channels like Mothers Basement or Gigguk.
Will be looking at those 👀
Thanks!
It doesn’t have to be AI. It’s probably more trend chasing. Anime A becomes super popular, so other series try to emulate it. As far as sound effects, the studios are likely pulling from the same sfx library.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Sometimes, I wanna watch something super fast-paced and flashy that really keeps my brain engaged. and sometimes, I just wanna get really high and count how many unique frames Inuyasha actually has in a single episode.