| Well, no shit sherlock. Just look at the anime that are coming out for the past few years or so. It's most noticeable with isekai genre where even the titles are almost identical, not to mention the characters/plot/etc. You get maybe 1 or 2 at best actually good and something different anime in like half a year/a year. |
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| Who wouldn't want more variety? |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| I mean who wouldn't like more variety. Problem is in this case, anime offers plenty of variety. Just cuz the majority of anime nowadays is oversaturated trash does not mean that there isn't innovative work being released at all times. So I don't agree with the statement. I would however like for these more innovative shows to receive more attention. That's not a problem with the industry tho, rather a problem with the audience who would rather watch more generic, uninspired trash than the actual good stuff. |
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| Idk, man.. Sturgeon's law says 90% of everything isn't good. 20 years ago, every season would provide bad and good anime. Feels the same today tbh. |
| i used to agree with his sentiment entirely, and to an affect i still do, but i stopped caring so much about that recently and found that i don't think all anime needs to be art. anime, and for that matter media in general, doesn't need to be art to bring enjoyment. the problem is really just a saturation of the market with what one deems low quality (which is a matter of opinion. i hate most of the new american movies and tv shows coming out and find no enjoyment in any of the ones i've seen, but i know lots of people who enjoy them. i enjoy stuff from the isekai genre, albeit for most of them it's not in a deep way. it's nice to have lighthearted content to take a break from all the other stuff once in a while). but there are still enjoyable (for me) anime coming out these days. plus i have a bunch of older anime to try out. i do think that more people in the media industry need to experiment more (what i would give to have a golden age of movies like back in the late 60s-70s...), but if everyone started doing that or if it became "trendy" to do that (like it's seeming to be becoming in the american movie scene) then it would lose its magic and become a problem too. most of what comes out will not be really thought provoking things, it has been this way for a long time and will probably continue to be so. plus, low-effort media became more common now that the means to make said media became more accessible and "easy" compared to what they had to work with back even in the early 2000s, particularly in animation. but, even the seemingly un-thought provoking things can make an impact on someone or get them thinking. experiences are not universal. in the 90s, it was fantasy anime; in the 2000s and early 2010s, it was magical girl anime; now, in the 2010s and early 2020s, it's isekai. there will always be a genre that tends to oversaturate the anime industry, because it's what became popular. i am interested to see what comes next, as the era of isekai has been going on for quite some time. i do like isekai, but its reign can't last forever. and going by the trends there should be something else beginning to peek over the horizon at this point, although i am not familiar enough with newer anime to know if that's begun to happen yet. it's ironic, because i feel exactly the way anno does about hollywood, but not about the anime industry anymore. the only difference is that i don't enjoy hollywood stuff anymore, yet i enjoy anime stuff from all eras. and that is precisely why i feel that way, and presumably precicely why he and everyone else feels that way. because they aren't enjoying what's coming out anymore, and they feel that the media world should adhere to their standards like it used to. the world will not cater to you. find alternatives, turn to another form of media (era, type, culture, etc.) or even make your own, and cope with it. or don't. |
kazzz120Jul 28, 8:35 AM
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