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May 22, 2020 5:18 AM

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Depends on what you mean older but for me there are only few anime before 2010's that I consider good, so new are better for me (2010-2019) but well in year 2020 animes are really terrible so to compare older are much better than 2020 ones.
May 22, 2020 5:30 AM
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I score them by basically the same criteria with some allowances made for older anime looking dated. So, an older anime might be better or worse than a newer one depending on the older anime and the newer anime.
May 22, 2020 5:44 AM

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TripleSRank said:
eyatOs said:


"iT’S NoT A MaTtEr oF DeNyInG It. YoU ArE FaCtUaLlY WrOnG"

lmao, according to you? LOL. Also using some of the greatest anime ever as the example of the older animation quality. for fucks sake those were blockbuster movies that cost tens of millions of dollars and you actually think every anime of the 80s or 90s cost the same? bruh this site has so many dumb people.

Yes, in your words, “some of the greatest anime ever” came out in the 80s and 90s, which proves that the anime industry’s animation capability was not significantly worse. Ghibli was far from the only studio producing excellently animated shows, at that. The direct-to-home-release OVA format was the way to go to find well animated shows back then. It’s certainly not “every” anime from back then, but then not “every” anime is well animated now, either.

Just because you’re ignorant doesn’t mean you get to make factually incorrect statements and act like other people are dumb for calling you out on it.


who said it's worse? learn how to read, you dolt. today's animation is much better, comparing blockbusters of the 80s and 90s to the average anime of that period doesn't make it look any better

Are you denying that today's animation is better than older animation? what a fool.
imagine defending something just because of the nostalgia and being insecure about how awful they look compared to today's anime.

It's really how it is nowadays, someone insecure jackass like you thinking technology doesn't advance and the animation quality is stuck in the 90s, lmao. what a pinhead.
May 22, 2020 5:46 AM
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Let's take it this way if the old anime didn't exist, we wouldn't have had the ones of today and anyway the animes of today have an inspiration from the old ones.
May 22, 2020 6:17 AM

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can't say much personally but i try not indulge myself in that mindset, i want to give older and newer titles equal chance to enjoy them without having nostalgia bias
May 22, 2020 7:16 AM

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New animes have other pattern than the old ones so I can't say it doesn't matter. Excluding exceptions I like more the new ones. That includes all kind of fanservice and gags that come to this industry. Like borderline animes, edgy shows and research for find new topics. (eg. Ishuzoku Reviewers, Ousama Game The Animation, Akiba's Trip The Animation etc.) The point is that comedy/parody is particular very good stuff nowdays comparing to old animes (Ofc, judging by my taste :3). I've watched not so long ago Ouran Koukou Host Club and I couldn't find that show funny. Also appricite that nowdays the edgy shows doing thier job, so you can facepalm every episode (eg. Mahou Shoujo Site). The old anime feels more like classic shows, so if you're not fan of classic topic then it may have feel boring (despite being deep) and the art/animation can't offer you much compared to new shows. (Like you want comapre old Fate/SN to Fate/SN: UBW).

If the question meaning is "Are you like more the new animation or old one?" then without doubt I can say that "of course the new animation is better".
If the question is about the whole progression of creating anime then I also can say that I can find the bad new animes feels more watchable than the bad old ones.

Once again about the meaning of old and new.
The good examples of this topic are remakes of old animes. Like Fruit Basket, Kino no Tabi, Uchuu Senkan Yamato, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu.
Even if the content is the same the scores are differen. "Old" and "New" matters and there are many factors why ppl sometimes like the new more than old and vice versa.

About the quota "yeah, sure, whatever". Imo it's rather problem of your own expirence and "getting old", becouse after the amount of story you've absorb some cliche traits stops/or start to bother you and you can't be easily suprised.
May 22, 2020 8:22 AM
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eyatOs said:
TripleSRank said:

Yes, in your words, “some of the greatest anime ever” came out in the 80s and 90s, which proves that the anime industry’s animation capability was not significantly worse. Ghibli was far from the only studio producing excellently animated shows, at that. The direct-to-home-release OVA format was the way to go to find well animated shows back then. It’s certainly not “every” anime from back then, but then not “every” anime is well animated now, either.

Just because you’re ignorant doesn’t mean you get to make factually incorrect statements and act like other people are dumb for calling you out on it.


who said it's worse? learn how to read, you dolt. today's animation is much better, comparing blockbusters of the 80s and 90s to the average anime of that period doesn't make it look any better

Are you denying that today's animation is better than older animation? what a fool.
imagine defending something just because of the nostalgia and being insecure about how awful they look compared to today's anime.

It's really how it is nowadays, someone insecure jackass like you thinking technology doesn't advance and the animation quality is stuck in the 90s, lmao. what a pinhead.

Honestly, that's more than a little inaccurate. There are older anime like Nausicaa or 3x3 Eyes where the artwork and animation still hold up really well.

In contrast you have modern anime like Pop Team Epic or Ajin that look like they had the animation budget of a ham sandwich.

Simply put, while animation methods have certainly improved, there were older anime that went above and beyond in spite of their limits while there are newer anime that can't be bothered to take advantage of their superior technology. It can be like comparing a shitty, cheap CG film to an older one that used practical effects brilliantly. The older one will look better even though the newer one has superior tech behind it.
May 22, 2020 9:03 AM

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eyatOs said:
TripleSRank said:

Yes, in your words, “some of the greatest anime ever” came out in the 80s and 90s, which proves that the anime industry’s animation capability was not significantly worse. Ghibli was far from the only studio producing excellently animated shows, at that. The direct-to-home-release OVA format was the way to go to find well animated shows back then. It’s certainly not “every” anime from back then, but then not “every” anime is well animated now, either.

Just because you’re ignorant doesn’t mean you get to make factually incorrect statements and act like other people are dumb for calling you out on it.


who said it's worse? learn how to read, you dolt. today's animation is much better, comparing blockbusters of the 80s and 90s to the average anime of that period doesn't make it look any better

Are you denying that today's animation is better than older animation? what a fool.
imagine defending something just because of the nostalgia and being insecure about how awful they look compared to today's anime.

It's really how it is nowadays, someone insecure jackass like you thinking technology doesn't advance and the animation quality is stuck in the 90s, lmao. what a pinhead.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there’s no nostalgia to be had. I got into anime around 2008 with stuff like Clannad and Haruhi. I didn’t even try to watch much stuff from before 2000 until a couple years ago. There’s nothing to be insecure about either. I’m well aware of which retro shows are and aren’t well animated, just like I am with modern anime. In fact, I’m a bit of an enthusiast concerning sakuga; I absolutely do know what I’m talking about because I’ve taken the time to research and learn about the animation of anime.

I’m completely denying that we have “exponentially better animation capabilities” than we did in the 80s and 90s. The capability was absolutely there; it just went primarily into movies and OVA series instead of TV series, because that’s where the primary market was back then. Yeah, you can say a bunch of shows back then didn’t look as good as, say, Bubblegum Crisis, but you can say a lot of shows today don’t look as good as Mob Psycho 100, too.

I also never said technology hasn’t advanced. Digital animation can be more efficient (i.e. it saves time), but the end result isn’t necessarily better animated than cel animation. You have to compare specific cases in order to be able to tell that.

The only fool here is you. You can ad hominem all day. It won’t make you any less wrong. It just shows you for what you are: A modern-anime elitist who is as ignorant as you are proud. All you can do is hurl insults and spout empty rhetoric. Stop embarrassing yourself already. You even give elitists a bad name seeing that you can’t even form an actual argument.
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May 22, 2020 4:48 PM
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This probably isnt what the question is asking, but I seem to score the first shows I watched (when I started watching anime) much higher than I would have had I watched them now. I guess that I became a lot more critical of shows the more of them I watched.
May 22, 2020 5:15 PM

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I'm not sure if it's just the poor wording of the question but I'll say this much;

On average I think more "good" (as in things i personally enjoy) things came out in the 90s as producers tended to be more creative with what they put money into. I rate everything I watch by the same metric (my enjoyment) but there's not much to say if a certain decade tends to be better than others.

As for the assumption that things seem more original because of when they were done, that's stupid to assume - you're living now with the hindsight of all the stuff made since those original things. If those older things appear better then consider all the other variables surrounding that. Most likely it uses those tropes in a better way, gives them better build up, etc.
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