| Threads discussing this topic probably have been created before, but I'm very interested to learn about anime that didn't age well because of the controversial topics they decided to include or even focus on in the anime. |
IrrelevantGuyJul 23, 2020 12:11 PM
| In my opinion, Serial Experiments Lain is an anime that aged absolutely horribly. |
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| Aside the aesthetics, right? to be fair. There are many old anime with great stories that could receive a remake without to change the plot itself. So i think about spies stories and stuff following the fashion of 70 and 80s Cold War. It is a pain to watch something like Golgo 13 today. From late 90's and the decade of 2000's, i guess most of Shoujo+Bishounen anime. The boys are still the same with shounen, but looks like the girls changed their tastes. |
Rob7Jul 23, 2020 2:48 PM
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| Darling in the FranXX it was so popular back then now its forgotten unless its Zero Two fan arts |
| must be SAO, from genre defining, to butt of the joke |
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| I'm just gonna post the same answer as always - Remember when Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu was a thing for whatever reason? |
| I found GS Mikami really hard to watch. It had a lot of humor in it that was funny in it's time, but now not so much... |
| ~Where's Gnasty Gnorc? I'll torch him!~ |
| Elfen Lied. I can somewhat see what the hype was all about back when it first aired considering how it handled pretty dark topics that weren't often found in anime, but now that it's not the case anymore this show, in my opinion, comes off as pretty immature and very edgy in comparison, with a very big use of unnecessary violence just for shock value that back then worked, but now kinda makes it look like the writer didn't know how to handle dark topics without shocking the audience in an attempt to keep them invested. Not only that, but the art and the characters didn't age well either. The characters are for most of them very bland, the few interesting ones barely got any screentime, their depth is very superficial... And as for the art, it looks just as bland and the animation is very bad. |
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| Evangelion (the TV series) for me. I get that it's one of the most influential series ever, but it has a lot of tropes that I don't like in anime. I also found Asuka to be super unbearable. And what the heck were those last 2 episodes? If they didn't have enough budget, why planned that many episodes in the first place? Maybe I'm a bit too harsh on it since I was pretty damn late to the party (I first watched it a year or two ago), but on the other hand, I actually think The End of Evangelion is a great movie. Haven't watched any of the new movies, tho. But I might consider it someday. Also "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" is an opening theme that ages like a wine fine. That is still a banger of a song. Oh, I'm also gonna third Suzumiya Haruhi. The only anime that I would truly call "overrated" and I hate using that word. That "Endless Eight" arc can go to hell. I actually watched all of those stupid pointless eight episodes of torture thinking that there would be something clever underneath them and I was dead wrong. You want us to feel FOR the characters, not for us to feel LIKE the characters. And the rest of the show are just the most generic SOL nonsense with some mystery & sci-fi element shoehorned in. I guess the "meta comedy" was groundbreaking at the time, but that's about the only thing going for it (and the soundtrack I guess) and a lot of other series (like Gintama, Monogatari) has done a far better job at "meta comedy" since. But funny enough, like Evangelion, I actually really liked the Suzumiya Haruhi movie (and the Nagato Yuuki-chan spinoff series). It's just the main TV series that I just couldn't stand. I think the Nagato Yuuki-chan series is far too underrated and waaaay better than Suzumiya Haruhi (TV). |
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| Lucky Star. I love it, but I don’t think newer fans will get as much enjoyment from it. |
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Monochrosanity said: Lucky Star. I love it, but I don’t think newer fans will get as much enjoyment from it. I know what you mean. It's pure SoL at its finest |
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| The first saint seiya tv show, I love it to death but man rewatching those earlier eps was the brutal awakening. |
| DBZ has aged like milk to me. Sure it's undeniable what it's done for battle shonen, but there's plenty of series that have done better with its formula. |
What a beautiful Duwang |
| Random MAL users opinion is random. I'll open a thread about "Anime that are still very contemporary and haven' t aged at all". I'm sure that 1/3 of the awnsers will match with entries mentioned above. |
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| I like Saint Seiya (main show) but it aged pretty bad. Pretty repetitive. I'm surprised that SAO was mentioned, S3 revived the franchise. |
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PerfectAzul said: In my opinion, Serial Experiments Lain is an anime that aged absolutely horribly. I'd be particularly interested to know the reason behind this. |
| uhh... honestly, the way most shows, not just older ones, represent women is fairly archaic like, sao is a pretty good example (especially if you consider kirito's literal rapist scene in the ln.. tho a lot here may defend it as a culteral standard to keep going when the girl constantly says no) but, i guess in context, looking at a lot of tomino's work is eye opening and go nagai requires a lot of patience also, i watched this ova recently, and while the animation is god tier, the use of women is pretty disgusting (still worth watching for animation tho) |
Rob7 said: yeahRandom MAL users opinion is random. I'll open a thread about "Anime that are still very contemporary and haven' t aged at all". I'm sure that 1/3 of the awnsers will match with entries mentioned above. i tend to avoid AD since the responses here are somehow worse than in CD and CE and that says a lot |
| I still fuck with Elfen Lied, but there are shows out there that handle mental illness better. |
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| Most early 2000's harem anime, the only ones that are even remembered well in Japan are Love Hina, Negima, and Sister Princess. Anime such as Futakoi and Happy Lesson have been mostly forgotten today (the latter though aged the poorest of the two). |
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| I fundamentally don't understand the concept at the basic level of something "not aging well". As in, the premise makes no sense to me. Time passing doesn't reduce art's quality. It only increases public ignorance of and prejudicial attitudes toward it, narrowing accessibility. It's still as worthy at its essence as it ever was. To me proclaiming things "don't age well" is just a shallow and dismissive mindset which unnecessarily and artificially constrains and limits people's ability to be open to experiencing a wide variety of things across mediums for no good reason other than banal fickle pure superficiality. |
| I think Black Clover was better at the beginning also One Piece was better in the past and now its still good but less |
| Don't fuck up the present, it's connected to your future! |
Rose_Player said: I don't know, but i think that isekai genre won't age well... That's actually true but moreso in the LN medium, that whole genre in the LN medium will not age well and will end up being forgotten much like 2000's harem anime where only 3 are fondly remembered. |
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| SAO Alicization season 2 part 2 (the one airing right now). Who would have thought it would be a good idea to show tentacle rape in a show made for teen in 2020? |
| My #1 answer is the manga known as Ayako. The only readers who have any chance of understanding the story are those who lived through postwar Showa Japan. I'm baffled it was ever translated. hverfa said: uhh... honestly, the way most shows, not just older ones, represent women is fairly archaic The women of Kirihito are poorly written even by Tezuka's low standards. It's considered one of his best seinen manga, with a MAL score of just under 8. Rob7 said: Random MAL users opinion is random. I'll open a thread about "Anime that are still very contemporary and haven' t aged at all". I'm sure that 1/3 of the awnsers will match with entries mentioned above. This would not surprise me. |
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| @lucifrost i havent read, but my small exposure to tezuka leads me to believe you |
| Ouran high School Host Club fasho. When I watched it i noticed a few things that everyone seemed to overlook since it was an anime that a lot of people watched when they were pretty young, and then people started rewatching it and seeing the same things (not because of me, just generally lmao) |
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| Ikki Tousen. I liked it when I was a kid because it had cool fights and the plot about schools battling was neat. I wasn't yet old enough to realize it was just a fucking wank fest. |
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PerfectAzul said: In my opinion, Serial Experiments Lain is an anime that aged absolutely horribly. Agreed. I just rewatched it a year ago and was very much surprised how badly it aged. I remembered it as a cerebral freaky show that I loved but it feels very antiquated. Jojo S01 is not old but feels ancient. Something that might have worked in the early 80s but now simy feels insulting. |
| That's a thread I'm not going to pull, because if you start pulling that thread you realize everything from your past aged poorly in one way or another...It's just a matter of by how much, and that all increases as time goes on. |
| I feel like the most controversial anime are rather recent, like Mushoku Tensei. I think anime and anime scenes encouraging traditional gender roles, specifically regarding women, will be received poorly today. Personally though, I really enjoy seeing the way people lived and approached life back then so I don't mind. |
| Bastard. Any complain people have with modern isekai can be applied with Bastard as well. |
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| The original Dragon Ball had jokes that you definitely couldn't make in 2022. |
| MOKUSHI KUSHIMO SHIMOKU KUMOSHI MOSHIKU SHIKUMO. |
| Slam Dunk. Didn't resonate with me whatsoever plus it ended incomplete anime wise, felt like such a waste of time since it was over 100 episodes... |
| Some of the titles above were more polarizing, so really time has been the decider, whether forgotten (like Doujin Work or Ramen Fighter Miki), well liked (like a lot of mid-2000s Kyoto Animation anime) or dislekd (like Ikki Tousen), a lot of the titles were argued over whether they were good or bad. Personally, I would say Death Note has aged horribly. It was an anime popular with emos and has all the hallmarks of edgy emo trash that is still put on a pedestal as a holdover from the time when skinny jeans, black eyeliner and My Chemical Romance were cool. Otherwise it is full of plot holes lapses in logic when it comes to world building, an unnecessary second arc and characters who act the opposite as they are described to be. Love Hina is another competitor, though the manga is so much better than the anime in almost every way. However, if we talk about score changes on MyAnimeList, then Mai-HiME, went from being the 9th highest rated anime in 2006 to having a 7.5 score, Dear Boys/Hoop Days also went down in score too (though the score is starting to go back up again). Additionally a lot of 2000s anime come across as generic, even if they were somewhat well-known in the early-mid 2010s (for example, Stratos 4). |
| I have described Buttobi!! CPU as the most "so bad it's good" anime I've watched to date. One factor is the many references to computer technology, companies, and the state of the Internet at the time of its release, which was in 1997. Now of course they are quite dated but being old enough to remember that time period, I found them quite amusing. |
A møøse once bit my sister... |
| already been mentioned in this thread, but I would tend to agree that Elfen Lied has not aged well. |
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| nagasarete airantou aged well, it's a good anime but i think it's not known by many especially the new comers. |
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