| No. Current era is stagnant and can barely be credited with any creative innovation or artistic bravura. I cannot even draw bold distinctions between 2014 and 2024 productions, for example, aside from the resolution they come with. Sure, I give props as to how the industry grew exponentially as a healthy business but Sequential Art isn't about profitability. It's about storytelling density, engaging the sense of sight and hearing of the spectator in the most smartly evocative way possible. Back in the 2000s, studios were still experimenting with new tools they had at disposal. The advent of digital era was exciting to see. Currently, I am watching "Mononoke" and it was an animated experience with unique visual flair, characteristic of this era. Same went for titles like "Redline" or "Gankutsuou". |
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| I've not watched nearly enough anime from the 2000s and 2020s, to make a judgement call like that. Let me ask you instead, has an anime powerful enough to usher in a new era come out. Like SAO in 2012 and SNK in 2013 did? |
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| never existed and will never exist. |
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| 1984 - 2009 was the golden era full stop. nuff said anyone else who tells u otherwise is either coping or a noob-tourist or completely clueless i dunno much about modern current day anime as i do not watch much if any apart from the occasional gem ...but from the looks of what i see in the seasonals section you are in the age of slop |
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| I'm gonna say absolutely not T^T I get that every anime era has it's greats and it's generic seasonals that will be forgotten in a year or two... but the generic stuff of the 2020s just looks so much more generic than that of the 2010s and earlier 💀 it's like we've gone from generic anime looking like people copying a fashion trend to downright clones |
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| The golden era/age of anime was from the start of 2002 till the end of 2016. These 15 years is what brought in more new fans to the medium than any other era before and after. We had Toonami/Cartoon Network in 2001-2003 bringing in an English-speaking audience in the West. We then entered the era were every household now has a computer with internet, and with more pirate sites now easily available online and no longer needing them to download via sharing programs, and with more animes now being available though YouTube as well (in a pirate way that is) starting around 2005 The rise of KissAnime and Crunchyroll, and with the rise of YouTube reaction videos to anime episodes starting around 2014. The vast majority of anime fans today (June 2025) started to become anime fans during this era of 2002-to-2016 Starting in 2017, is when I started to see a decline in anime interest. If I had to make an educated guess, its because now everyone has a smartphone, and since then, the attention span of most people is now fried. So now people can barely sit through a 20-minutes-episode of anime for 3-6 months (10-to-30 episodes) |
| Qualitatively speaking, the golden era from animes was 2000's Quantitatively speaking, was 2010's. |
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| Even the golden era (to us) of 2000's anime, or the golden era (to our parents/grandparents) of 70's anime will never compare to even non-golden era of, say, arthouse cinema. Anime is not a "serious" medium, it's like expecting J.K. Rowling to discuss existentialism in Harry Potter books. I say, embrace it and give us more seksi-materia . |
| Personally I feel that the well has one dry for the most part, though you do occasionally get some serious that find a way to do things differently. It's hard to reinvent the wheel. |
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| First of all how do you define golden era? Media sale? Cultural impact? Anime yearly profit? Quality(kinda subjective so I don't agree on this metric)?Quantity being produced? |
| Who even watches animes made in the 2020s? They are mostly lousy. Watch some shows from the 2010s or earlier. For good entertainment. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
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Who even watches animes made in the 2020s? They are mostly lousy. Watch some shows from the 2010s or earlier. For good entertainment.
| @DesuMaiden probably the general populance and a large majority of the population here in mal too |
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Well since this isn’t the olympics who cares what era of anime fights for second place. The 80’s-90’s are obviously the Platinum era of anime imo. I’m sure that most if not all will disagree but that’s okay.
| @Shinji-Spark I disagree because.... I want to disagree 👍 |
Imagine being so triggered by an obvious bait account that you follow them everywhere to post pages of stupid internet drama lmao. But wait, I hear we have a live reaction from Ryuseishun: edit: he deleted his post xD |
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| This is not the golden Era or decade older anime will always be supreme. |
| I am a Completionist. All Anime/Manga will be watched/read. All FILLERS will be enjoyed :) Join my discord - https://discord.gg/CwhqqfGmHw :) |
| No, in fact this is the worst time in anime history and it is not even close. |
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@Wyatt are you this wyatt on twitter? https://x.com/MostlyBlueWyatt
| @deg I'm not, no. What made you ask? Haven't heard of them before |
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| neither we're in the fall of anime when it overextends itself and gets invaded by the americans barbarians |
| I don't know if there is a golden age, but 1999-2012 seems like the best period for anime to me. 2013 and onward is when the industry started to churn out larger amount of slop and less of them stays memorable for more than a few years. It's ironic that anime was getting big during 2013-2019 because that's actually when the quality was going down. Current period is the worst and it looks like anime isn't getting as much attention as it was before due to the general poor quality. |
| Anime nowadays get a lot of influence from outside of Japan, its essence been diluted over a decade now. Thankfully there are thousands of old anime to enjoy. |
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First of all how do you define golden era? Media sale? Cultural impact? Anime yearly profit? Quality(kinda subjective so I don't agree on this metric)?Quantity being produced?
| By the year range with the 10/10's that when placed next to 10/10's of other ranges overshadow them. 2020's anime have no presence let alone imposing shadows. They are cheap. Characters that remain in mind no matter how much time passes, personalities solidified, unforgettable appearances, you can fanfict scenarios that fit them. Sorting the anime I've seen by year the only entries that stand out among the 2020's are Yojouhan Time Machine Blues which while 10/10 to me is just a playful spinoff of Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei, Undead Girl Murder Farce which pulls 10/10 because it resembles anime from a better era, and Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! because it's the finest chuuni feast around but 1 anime isn't going to mark an entire age- and its sequel quickly flubbed what it had going just 1 year later. No matter which age you consider to be golden it's certainly not found after 2019. |
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