| As you probably know, nostalgia is a hell of a drug - old favorites are hard to beat, but it's not impossible. For example, I just finished watching this anime and given how much I enjoyed it I think I'll have to replace one of my older favorites with it. Like I used to have Gintama and AoT among my favorite anime, but not anymore (although in these two cases it was mostly a result of me being disappointed with later seasons). Anyway, going by years, my favorites are: - Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu since 2011. - City Hunter since 2011. - Toaru Kagaku no Railgun since 2011. - Fate/Zero since 2012. - Psycho-Pass since 2014. - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuioku-hen since 2014. - Magi since 2014. - xxxHOLiC since ~2015. - Tasogare Otome x Amnesia since 2016. - The iDOLM@STER since 2019. - Strike Witches since 2020. - Shiki since ~2020 (watched it for the first time in 2014, but only added to favorites after a re-watch). - Mushoku Tensei since 2021. - Getsuyoubi no Tawawa since 2021. - Oshi no Ko since 2023. - Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon since 2023. - Sousou no Frieren since 2024. - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann since... I'm not sure when. So as can be seen from this list, modern anime performs quite well for me, but perhaps the situation is different for other users here? |
| I started watching ton of anime series since I joined this site in 2017, especially ones released after I joined and some of my old favorites haven't aged well unfortunately. While I don't love series like FMA 2003 or Trigun as much anymore, old favorites like FMA Brotherhood and Cowboy Bebop are still fantastic. As well as some of Miyazaki's greatest films like Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. |
| -Orb: On the Movements of the Earth since 2025 (after a rewatch a few months ago) -Gurren Lagann since 2017 -Shinsekai Yori since 2019 -Vinland Saga Season 2 since 2024 -ID:Invaded since 2020 -Hyouka since 2018 -Mahoutsukai no Yome since 2023 -Psycho-Pass since 2019 -Steins;Gate since 2017 -Monster since 2019-2020 -Fate/Zero Season 2 since 2019 There are some recent titles but most of them are still the same as many years ago. |
| I find that older ones tend to be more aesthetically interesting. More creative art direction and editing, for sure. |
Take care of yourself |
| 4 favorites from the 2020s, 3 from the 2010s, 3 from the 2000s. The current decade might already be my favorite, but I didn't forget about the past. |
| -They would compare pretty poorly. |
| I find that most of them hold up pretty well, with the exception of the visuals of course. Though that being said I find that a lot of old school anime are still way more detailed despite the fact that it's dated visuals. |
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| The older series feel more nostalgic. |
No, this isn't my signature. |
| "How do your old favorite series compare to modern anime?" What "modern anime" even means? Like we get a bunch of very different anime every year, it's hard for me to generalise. The modern type of productions have some advantages like technical advancements and more efficient logistics, but also limited budgets and tighter schedules. Not to mention some great animation techniques are forgotten and even lost, just because modern anime creators don't bother planning to use such scenes at all. Tho there's one approach which I call "retro looking modern productions" - like Tengoku Daimakyou, Undead Girl Murder Farce, Dungeon Meshi, Urusei Yatsura (2022) and Shin Samurai-den Yaiba. I like those. One thing I can tell for sure, an anime I started to like recently, I like it as much as titles from the past...that being for different reasons tho. This is why I am not selecting top N of my favourites, but I just add the new ones to the list - https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1115621&msgid=59097780#msg59097780 And yeah, the best selling genre - battle shounen, is as uninteresting to me as it was in the past. I like only a small amount of old and new titles from it. |
alshuYesterday, 4:44 AM
I am actually keeping track on that I don't think anything modern can top what I have now |
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| I actually think a lot of newer stuff has outclassed a lot of my childhood favourites, aside from Nausicaa where so many series keep ripping off the manga's twist ending without the same insight as to why that worked. Meiling from Cardcaptor Sakura was my childhood favourite anime character. I loved how she was the anime girl version of Donald Duck; temperamental, frequently the butt of jokes, often due to her own arrogance, but keeps getting back up and trying again with a perky smile. But despite all that, I recognize she had a pretty unsatisfying character arc ending. As for Cardcaptor Sakura in general, it was fresh at the time, but aged poorly because I grew up and didn't like how the narrative didn't really go anywhere. I was hoping for a bigger fantasy world to immerse in, but Sakura was perpetually stuck in suburban comfort. It took about 20 years before she was finally dethroned by Kanon from Love Live Superstar, a character I dismissed as a cliche shoujo Mary Sue going in. But she astonished me with how insightful and proactive she was, how realistically her depression was portrayed, including the rough edges, and above all, her sincerity where she overcame her depression by being honest and true to herself. At the end of Season 1, I was impressed and thought, this is how strong female anime characters are these days? That even the passive shy anime girl type can be an inspiring hero? This is something I would have loved to see when I was 16. One of the songs is about seeing how far the sky goes after overcoming anxiety, and that felt like the opposite of Cardcaptor Sakura. Instead of spinning its wheels for eternity, Superstar encourages dreaming big, expanding the possibilities of what a person is capable of, and it set a new standard for me to compare other anime to. |
| My favorites are still my favorites, there's just more of them now (90 total). And the more, the merrier. It's pretty rare for me to rate something a 10 nowadays though. |
KruszerYesterday, 5:56 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| Yugioh i think is still fair for the shonen genre, i mean there's still series released about the franchise. Strawberry Marshmallo and Azumanga Daioh for the time are still pretty foundational slice of life shows but the tropes have been improved on Aishiteruze Baby could still hold up today if the artstyle was updated. Sadly, it looks really old despite being 2004 Ah My Goddess, it'd probably still fit in given that chaste relationships and magical girlfriends are still pretty popular, the only difference is there's no fanservice |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
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