| Next episode recaps. It's especially funny when the next episode is something lame and boring like a recap episode but the preview tries it's darndest to make it as exciting as possible. Watching this in Yugioh right now and there's an episode that's nothing but a helicopter ride to a destination for the next episode with flashbacks but dang, they really hype it up, I will always have a soft spot for TL Notes I miss "Old fanservice", it felt more natural as charcters would just choose to walk around in ridiculous outfits but nobody questioned it. Like Major Kusanagi just walking around with no pants. |
| 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 |
| Visible yet only occasional film splices. :3 |
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| There were more unique designs for male character's hair styles. Almost all new male character designs are nearly always with short, brown or black spiky hair. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
TheBlockernator said: Next episode recaps. Funny, I'm watching Yamato right now, and while the original 1976 didn't have episode previews, the remake had. Granted, the original did have 1:30 minutes long "whole series recaps" at the start of every episode, though. Also, there's still newer anime with those. Toujima Tanzaburou wa Kamen Rider ni Naritai has those and it is literally airing right now. |
| Next episode recaps are, though maybe shorter and rarer, still a thing for some anime. Witch Watch is a recent example. Some shows have also opted to upload a separate preview on YouTube instead of sticking them at the end of each episode. I loved the big round bump growing after a slapstick punch over the head. Famously associated with Shin-chan but definitely isn't limited to Crayon Shin-chan. Definitely haven't seen one of those in a while. |
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| overall id say the whole vibe & atmosphere, the art style, the mystique & higher quality...thats not to say there are not some really dog shit old skool anime another factor is the way we comsume anime has greatly changed, anime is way more accessible these days, modern anime looks too clean and washed out lacking any sort of substance to the screen... it feels shallow, also the writing is something that greatly lacks these days modern anime churns out below average content all year round made for it seems like tik-tok levels of attention span - no thank you id take quality over quantity any day bring bring back the good old mature gritty adult cast hyper-violent anime im not interested in cute fluffy anime with juvenile children with all pretty sparkly/shiney colors & aesthetics with sad loser protags (im looking at u k-on and oshi no ko) and pretty much all moe CGDCT |
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overall id say the whole vibe & atmosphere, the art style, the mystique & higher quality...thats not to say there are not some really dog shit old skool anime
another factor is the way we comsume anime has greatly changed, anime is way more accessible these days, modern anime looks too clean and washed out lacking any sort of substance to the screen... it feels shallow, also the writing is something that greatly lacks these days
modern anime churns out below average content all year round made for it seems like tik-tok levels of attention span - no thank you
id take quality over quantity any day
bring bring back the good old mature gritty adult cast hyper-violent anime im not interested in cute fluffy anime with juvenile children with all pretty sparkly/shiney colors & aesthetics with sad loser protags (im looking at u k-on and oshi no ko) and pretty much all moe CGDCT
another factor is the way we comsume anime has greatly changed, anime is way more accessible these days, modern anime looks too clean and washed out lacking any sort of substance to the screen... it feels shallow, also the writing is something that greatly lacks these days
modern anime churns out below average content all year round made for it seems like tik-tok levels of attention span - no thank you
id take quality over quantity any day
bring bring back the good old mature gritty adult cast hyper-violent anime im not interested in cute fluffy anime with juvenile children with all pretty sparkly/shiney colors & aesthetics with sad loser protags (im looking at u k-on and oshi no ko) and pretty much all moe CGDCT
| @ItachiDeltaForce There are some great CGCDT anime with amazing character development (K-ON! being one of them). You might be into the action-packed mature stuff but I've had wonderful experiences watching the so-called "cute fluffy anime", which wasn't nonexistent back in your good old days either. |
Don't Worry, Everything Is gonna Happy ♡ |
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@ItachiDeltaForce
There are some great CGCDT anime with amazing character development (K-ON! being one of them). You might be into the action-packed mature stuff but I've had wonderful experiences watching the so-called "cute fluffy anime", which wasn't nonexistent back in your good old days either.
There are some great CGCDT anime with amazing character development (K-ON! being one of them). You might be into the action-packed mature stuff but I've had wonderful experiences watching the so-called "cute fluffy anime", which wasn't nonexistent back in your good old days either.
SapioGalion said: which wasn't nonexistent back in your good old days either. no ur correct i 100% agree....but as per my tastes and standards i choose to ignore &/or not watch those types of anime |
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| A lot of older anime tend to use technology far less making for more socializing without the use of texts/videos/exchanging phone numbers. More stuff used to be allowed to be shown in the past too like GTO having Onizuka do crazy things against his bad students. |
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| a small thing would be the fact that they were good unlike today's anime which is ass |
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| The waters are sparkling. The light reflection feels visceral. The art style generally as more often than not, they have great character designs. |
| 'I am the world's most selfish man.' (俺のわがまま世界１だ) — Ten'ouji Haru |
The water looking like a tall cup of baja blast.  |
42-42-564, whenever you wanna knock in Death’s door.  |
| Boobs/casual nudity. I was watching Haganai recently and one of the girls walked out completely naked with no censorship, which is pretty much unheard of these days. |
Random chibi transformations. They seem to be on the way out, unfortunately.  |
UhOhFanOfTouhouYesterday, 5:33 PM
TheBlockernator said: I miss "Old fanservice", it felt more natural as charcters would just choose to walk around in ridiculous outfits but nobody questioned it. Like Major Kusanagi just walking around with no pants. I think this shit has more to do with fashion trends than fanservice. In the 80s, it wasn’t unusual to see women in public walking around in a mall wearing tight, high-cut leotards, leggings, and sneakers, mostly because aerobics and fitness culture was huge back then. In the early 90s, especially in club and pop-fashion circles, young women rocked extremely short jean skirts, baggy mom jeans, and sometimes deliberately hiked up the sides of their panties as a provocative style choice rather than something meant to be shocking. I even remember in high school, the popular girls would try to imitate those pop trends and let everyone know exactly what kind of panties they were wearing by letting the entire top part peek out. Japan often adopted and held onto Western trends longer or put its own spin on them, which is why leotard-style outfits and similar looks stayed common there even into the late 90s and early 2000s. It wasn’t unusual in Japanese fiction for stylized female clothing to visually flatter the female crotch, which is why “old fanservice” often feels natural rather than forced. It wasn't until the late 90s that girls were no longer required to wear bloomers for gym class and it took almost a full generation for Japanese media to catch up with that fact. Old traditions die slowly in Japan. Even hairstyles that were popular in the West in the late 80s sometimes still appeared in general Japanese media a fucking decade later. lol But if you ask me what small but charming thing about older anime I miss, it was the entire culture around it in the West. It used to be fun to go to Suncoast Video once a week, knowing I only had $50 to spend and carefully choosing something new to buy on VHS or DVD. It was nice being able to still buy anime on physical copies at gaming stores, comic book shops, and even fucking Barnes & Noble, etc.. Even going to conventions back then didn’t feel like a fucking stampede, at least in the West. Today? It’s packed, overpriced, and a lot of the charm is gone that use to exist even in the mid 2000s. Streaming makes shit convenient, sure, but there’s something about the ritual of handling a physical copy, hunting for rare releases, and the excitement of discovering something new in a store that just can’t be replicated. That entire vibe is gone. The thrill, the patience, and the community around physical media in the west has been reduced to just ordering new shit online from two or three places. |
ColourWheelYesterday, 6:14 PM
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| From my naked observations that i liked from watching older anime: 1. Older anime tends to have a more slow paced story (?); 2. The animation art style tends to have a more diverse styles (?); 3. Color palette tend towards, the soft to the eyes colour (?); 4. and Unique dubs from that era (Ghost Stories, and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) That's all that i can think of right now.... Cheers! |
| Old animes are charming because they aren't afraid for being "not looking good". Most of them have certain uniqueness of having some parts not really well animated or defects. And cel animation coloring just makes them look painted just like a literal painting unlike nowadays using computer. Old animes tend to have the edge for having different style when quality is emphasized unlike today where studio keep pumping out more generic seasonals anime that feel the same. Imperfections are what makes most old anime charming. |
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One of the biggest things to me is dialogue. Older anime tends to lean into more natural-sounding dialogue and voice actors, whereas modern anime leans more into stereotypes and one-liners to characterize. It's not necessarily worse, just different (some anime make it work). Modern anime has become a lot more stylized in many ways. Female characters, especially, have become so detached from reality that the "anime girl" has almost become her own species. Instead of mimicking reality, modern anime tends to mimic other anime; as a result, modern anime characters have become ever-distant simulacrums of human beings.
Of course, there are exceptions---and older anime isn't completely exempt from this criticism---but things certainly seem to be trending that way much stronger than they used to. I can't tell half of modern characters apart, but part of that might be because there is just so damn much anime nowadays. The sheer volume of it is insane. And a lot of it is shitty, too. Shitty anime used to come in much smaller quantities lol.
Of course, there are exceptions---and older anime isn't completely exempt from this criticism---but things certainly seem to be trending that way much stronger than they used to. I can't tell half of modern characters apart, but part of that might be because there is just so damn much anime nowadays. The sheer volume of it is insane. And a lot of it is shitty, too. Shitty anime used to come in much smaller quantities lol.
OwlToastie said: that's a generalization that doesn't hold up at all in either direction. tons of old anime with shakespearean dialogue, tons of modern anime with fairly normal dialogue. you don't need to talk about "exceptions" when there is no rule.One of the biggest things to me is dialogue. Older anime tends to lean into more natural-sounding dialogue and voice actors, whereas modern anime leans more into stereotypes and one-liners to characterize. It's not necessarily worse, just different (some anime make it work). Modern anime has become a lot more stylized in many ways. Female characters, especially, have become so detached from reality that the "anime girl" has almost become her own species. Instead of mimicking reality, modern anime tends to mimic other anime; as a result, modern anime characters have become ever-distant simulacrums of human beings. |
| Not all fetish has to have anime. I'm sorry but the recent trends in anime made me want to give up my two decades of anime. Furry? Alpha Omega? I wouldn't be surprised if there's an anime titled next! Alpha Omega: https://myanimelist.net/anime/56768/Tadaima_Okaeri?q=tadaima%20ok&cat=anime Furry: https://myanimelist.net/anime/60765/Kimi_to_Koete_Koi_ni_Naru |
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@krautnelson You're right, that was poor wording on my part. It is very late (or early, really) where I am at ;-;. It is more of a trend than a rule. I will still stand by my assessment that poor/unnatural dialogue is more prevalent in modern anime simply due to the sheer volume of poor-quality/straight-up badly written anime being produced today than 25+ years ago as well as stylistic changes that have developed over that time. It's also quite genre-dependant---action anime of any era certainly isn't known for its character realism. The industry only grows and grows, and things are always changing as the demand for these shows increases. Tastes have also changed as demographics for certain genres have shifted. Studios keep trying to mimic what is successful, and what results is a vomit of tropes and archetypes with no real substance.
Saying that well-done modern anime are exceptions is certainly much to decisive and doesn't quite capture the breadth of anime that could be considered as such. Same with less-than-spectacular older anime. They certainly existed and were in no short volume.
If you disagree, though, I may just have to defer to your experience and take your word for it. You've seen nearly thrice as much anime as me lol.
Saying that well-done modern anime are exceptions is certainly much to decisive and doesn't quite capture the breadth of anime that could be considered as such. Same with less-than-spectacular older anime. They certainly existed and were in no short volume.
If you disagree, though, I may just have to defer to your experience and take your word for it. You've seen nearly thrice as much anime as me lol.
OwlToastie said: poorly-written dialogue and unnatural dialogue are not even remotely the same thing. some of the best-written dialogue ever is completely unnatural and doesn't resemble how real people talk whatsoever. take the Monogatari Series for example: half the dialogue scenes are just straight up manzai comedy, but anybody who claims that that is "poor dialogue" has completely lost the plot.I will still stand by my assessment that poor/unnatural dialogue is more prevalent in modern anime I highly recommend this video here on good vs bad dialogue: https://youtu.be/FhR-9Iu2Q7g I also would love to know how good your Japanese is that you can actually discern how well or naturally written the dialogue is, or how much is just a result of the translators favoring natural wording over accuracy. |
krautnelsonToday, 4:22 AM
| 1) The hair colors. Part of this was probably just the video quality making certain tones seem brighter then and more muted now, but I feel like we lost that "neon yellow" feel that a lot of 90s OVA characters' hair had, for example. 2) Dubs adding in jokes here and there that flowed naturally, fit the character/situation and didn't cause the internet to erupt into moral panic. 3) Random English text used for decoration, on TV screens, etc. I kinda wanna agree about fanservice, but moreso in terms of outfits that were both eye candy and looked cool. Like, no modern gacha babe or isekai harem member really tops the likes of Space Yoko, if you ask me. |
CaptainZaimonToday, 4:41 AM
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| I noticed older anime has more scenes with no music. I feel this quieter moments refreshing especially since a lot of series use the same music score repeatedly to where it can become distracting. It actually makes it easier to pay attention to what is going on. I love a good soundtrack but silence is good too. The atmosphere of cell animation is a lot more interesting particularly that light glowing effect. |
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| Its don't feeling same vibes like modern animes ( Mostly could be same character dynamics & types same plots in modern animes and Whereas old animes no have specific cliches at like in shounen genre ) |
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| Film grain Crackling noise Seizure-inducing special effects |
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| Watching some older anime, some actual brand placements are quite cool to see and help build atmosphere. |
| There were scenes or parts of scenes where "nothing" was allowed to happen; the act of doing nothing, pauses, scenic view with cicadas, someone thinking, reflection without exposition. New anime has no patience, no breaks, no futility. |
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