| Anime has started since 1904 or something but most of them are experimental shorts. Then 1960's is the beginning of Anime tv series, most of them are black and white anime for kids. 1970's is the beginning of 1st Generation of Anime fans. The 1970's decade is where so many Drama anime are made because they're influence by Osamu Dezaki's Ashita no Joe; Then Mecha became a trend because of Go Nagai's Mazinger Z and many generic mecha anime are made for kids. Space Battleship Yamato was created and Space Opera became a Trend. Heidi as the 1st World Masterpiece Theater anime started the Slice of Life trend. Verdict : Innocent fans with Good taste, Pass! 1980's is the beginning of 2nd Generation of Anime fans The 1980's decade is the beginning where Anime fans evolved into the very 1st Otaku but most Otakus hate the Drama genre and it made them angry. Most anime made in 1980's are a bunch of Rule of Cool Mecha and Real Robot Mecha (because of Mobile Suit Gundam's popularity). then Urusei Yatsura started the Romcom School Slice of Life comedy trend, this is where Otakus gone crazy and many Otakus claimed it as Masterpiece. Then we got the earliest OVA's which most of them are good. Most Anime Movies made during that decade are High-budget with great Sakuga animation like Akira and a bunch of old Ghibli movies. Verdict : Good taste despite their hatred of Drama genre, Pass! 1990's is the beginning of 3rd Generation of Anime fans Most anime this decade got a bunch of coolest thing with tons of variety and Fantasy genre became a trend (it's all thanks to Record of Lodoss War). Then we get Magic Knight Rayearth which started the Isekai concept trend, Sailor Moon is the cause of Magical Girl genre became mainstream, Tenchi Muyo stared the Harem genre, Serial Experiments Lain cause the Psychological genre mainstream and Sunrise turned the Gundam Franchise into milking cashcow by making tons of Gundam anime during the current decade. Everything in anime industry changed when Neon Genesis Evangelion was made and turned into the 1st Late Night Anime. Japan created the Western Tribute Trio anime such as Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Outlaw Star so it will pander to the western audience then many western people will watch anime. The worst part about 1990's decade is many OVA's are a bunch of Edgy Gore Schlock Garbage and they ended up to be forgotten pile of trash. Verdict : The beginning of Mainstream Otakus but they still had good taste as long as they hate those OVA Edgy Schlock trash, Pass! 2000's is the beginning of 4th Generation of Anime fans This decade is where all anime are drawn in Digital Painting by making the visuals brighter. Some anime had huge amount of variety and some of them flop and become forgotten. Most anime that are made are less space and focus more on Earth because making too much Space setting anime will bore the anime fans during that decade. The worst part about this decade is OVA Edgy Gore Schlock garbage evolved into TV series like Elfen Lied and it became Edgy TV Schlock that went mainstream. Harem and Ecchi is becoming popular because of Tenchi Muyo's success. Light Novel Adaptations are very rare and they still had good quality writing such as Kino no Tabi, Baccano, Spice and Wolf. The best part of this decade is 2006 and 2007 is the best year of Anime of all Time! Verdict : Ok fans, Pass! 2010's is the beginning of 5th Generation of Anime fans This decade is where Japan is having a long economical crisis due to terrible disaster that happened on 2011 and many Schlock Garbage are made and few good anime are made because they had lack of money and most target audience are horny otakus who cares about Escapism instead of Real life. Most Light Novel Adaptations abandoned the good story writing quality in the past and they focus on making Otaku Pandering LN by turning them into Commercial Advertisement to boost the original source material so Otakus will buy it. When SAO was made, The anime community begin to fall apart and many new anime fans became retarded horny beast. Time Reset became a trend in story writing because of Escapism and the writers doesn't want to face their problems in reality. The beginning where Anime is no longer a medium of story telling, Anime turned into COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT medium! The cause of 2011 great disaster affects many Japanese people and they want Escapism and don't want to face Reality, this is why they're Traumatized. Depressed Traumatized Writers can't write good story. Verdict : These new otakus hate reality and wants escapism to escape the horrible tragedy of 2011 great disaster, GUILTY! From what Generation are you? I'm from 3rd Generation of Anime fan because i was born on mid 1990's. |
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| 3rd gen here, wish i were at least second gen but what eva |
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| No, no, I think the real question is when did you start watching. Doesn't matter what gen you are if you started watching during 2010's something and think SnK is God's gift to mankind. |
| I was born during the 4th Gen, but only started watching in the 5th Gen. I much prefer a lot of 5th Gens, but the 4th was a Golden Age as far as what I've experienced. |
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| 70's- oh it's an animation how sweet =) 80's- oh robots? that's pretty cool! A bit short of a skirt on that girl tho 90's- you're going to produce a 'hentai'? What's that? 00's- oh, so something is called fanservi- *the year 2010 pops in* 10's- TIDDY'S |
BRB-kun said: No, no, I think the real question is when did you start watching. Doesn't matter what gen you are if you started watching during 2010's something and think SnK is God's gift to mankind. I started watching anime around late 1990's and my 1st anime is the original Dragonball before DBZ. It means i'm a 3rd generation anime fan. If someone is born from the 1990's then he/she started watching anime on 2000's then they're 4th generation anime fan or someone started watching anime on 2010's then he/she is a 5th generation anime fan. |
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| I guess this makes me a third generation watcher being born in the early 90's and started watching anime from mid 90's onward. |
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| What anime specifically encourage you to nominate 2006-2007 the high point of anime history? |
| Got oppai? |
| Ah I loved the 90s. I guess I'd consider myself 3rd? This was a nice read. My biggest influence was straight up reading Dragon Ball manga as a kid. It was so damn popular in the 90s, at least amongst my friends. Mother fuckin' Goku boys. |
| Born in mid 1990's, and though I did watch a handful of anime as a child of that time, I wouldn't consider myself as part of that generation because: 1: I wasn't aware of what anime was and differentiate from other entertainment mediums 2: I was too young I guess I'd consider myself 4th generation(early mid-00's to be exact) since that's when anime was then solidified as a hobby/past-time for me. Maybe a teeny bit early since my friend would borrow manga from the library like Inuyasha and Naruto which we'd read together. Those years also hold lotsa nostalgia for me but that's irrelevant. |
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| QWell, I've been watching anime before I even began school but not that much, only when I get the chance. I started watching anime a lot during 2012 I think I guess I'm a 4.5th generation anime fan given that I like both the "good" shows and the "bad" shows |
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| I was born during the 2nd Gen (1989) although I am a 3rd gen anime fan, since this is when I started watching anime in the mid-late 90's. I remember watching Cowboy Bebop and Trigun when I was a kid and my friend and I would say that we were Vash and Knives lol. |
CejaraJul 25, 2016 9:34 PM
| I'm from the third gen (1995) and I think that the 5th gen is great |
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Akeno_Misaki said: Verdict : These new otakus hate reality and wants escapism to escape the horrible tragedy of 2011 great disaster, GUILTY! You know, you didn't have to write this tl;dr wall of text just to offend 2010+ anime. And in doing so, you cast doubt on the entire work put into making the rest of the wall of text. P.S. My first anime were made in 1990s. |
| I don't know whether I fall under 3rd or 4th generation based on the years because I don't remember if it was 1999 or 2000 that I watched my first shows but I know it was one or the other. Although they were probably mostly from the 90s due to delayed localizations. Personally I very much follow the trend score wise and priority wise that I prefer anime as it becomes more modern. |
| Solid Third gen, but I'm a fan of 2nd Gen and 4th Gen work. |
| In terms of when I started watching anime I would be generation 5 (born in 1997, starting watching anime in 2014). I like anime from the 90s, 00s, and 10s, but I don't think that's what the OP is asking. |
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| 2000's is the beginning of 4th Generation of Anime fans This decade is where all anime are drawn in Digital Painting by making the visuals brighter. Some anime had huge amount of variety and some of them flop and become forgotten. Most anime that are made are less space and focus more on Earth because making too much Space setting anime will bore the anime fans during that decade. The worst part about this decade is OVA Edgy Gore Schlock garbage evolved into TV series like Elfen Lied and it became Edgy TV Schlock that went mainstream. Harem and Ecchi is becoming popular because of Tenchi Muyo's success. Light Novel Adaptations are very rare and they still had good quality writing such as Kino no Tabi, Baccano, Spice and Wolf. The best part of this decade is 2006 and 2007 is the best year of Anime of all Time! Dude, you didn't even mention the big as hell shonen series that got several thousands and maybe millions of people into anime, sure Naruto and Bleach may be mediocre but they had a huge impact on the industry. |
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| I'm from the 3rd generation but they aired a good amount of anime from the 1st and the 2nd. I guess i'm a hybrid. |
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Phosef-Phostar said: Dude, you didn't even mention the big as hell shonen series that got several thousands and maybe millions of people into anime, sure Naruto and Bleach may be mediocre but they had a huge impact on the industry. Big 3 still exist in the past. Fist of the North Star, Dragonball and Saint Seiya are the big 3 of 1980's. Yu Yu Hakusho, Samurai X and HxH are the big 3 of 1990's. |
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| then Urusei Yatsura started the Romcom School Slice of Life comedy trend, this is where Otakus gone crazy and many Otakus claimed it as Masterpiece. i might be wrong, but i think urusei yatsura, and all the other rumiko stuff were pretty mainstream >Serial Experiments Lain cause the Psychological genre mainstream no, that was EVA.. both older and bigger >The worst part about 1990's decade is many OVA's are a bunch of Edgy Gore Schlock Garbage and they ended up to be forgotten pile of trash. i dont think they were that common >The worst part about this decade is OVA Edgy Gore Schlock garbage evolved into TV series like Elfen Lied and it became Edgy TV Schlock that went mainstream. again, they're not as common as you think... especially if elfen lied is your only example :| >The beginning where Anime is no longer a medium of story telling, Anime turned into COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT medium! it's been like that for way longer... incomplete adaptations made to sell the manga have existed since the morning of the world, though more often as OVAS also, why so few references to shounen and kids anime? i think most people started with pokemon, digimon, naruto, bleach, yuyu hakusho, dragonball, etc but you havent mentioned them at all otherwise, your post reads like a non-ironic version of this -> http://i.imgur.com/aqAN4ZX.jpg TAS's anime history is better https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?uid=251338&show=userpage&do=blog&blogid=29009&page=0 |
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| 4th Generation of Anime fans for me :))) Those good days lol - now the next genereration (Yes 5th Generation -_-) just became extreme ://////////////// |
AnimeAddict117Jul 26, 2016 1:40 AM
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| I am from the 5th generation and I love pretty much every show that came out then. To me it is the most enjoyable generation. I mean Space Brothers came out in this generation and it is the greatest literature masterpiece of all time. Also there are plenty of great ecchi fanservice shows in this generation as well. |
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SlayerOfWaifus66 said: It's ironic that you said the 2010's anime fans are horny otakus considering your profile picture is a girl in her underwear. She's my personal slave and toy. Also all waifus are sluts because they're victim of rule 34. |
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| I'm 4th generation but for my first few years of wathcing anime I could basically only watch 3rd gen stuff since Hungary couldn't keep up with the industry and they could only get the older stuff to air on TV |
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Erg_Orgy said: just of curiosity, is animax still alive in your country? did anything replace it?I'm 4th generation but for my first few years of wathcing anime I could basically only watch 3rd gen stuff since Hungary couldn't keep up with the industry and they could only get the older stuff to air on TV it died in romania in 2014 ,-, |
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| Yup... OP has so much bias in this post... |
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romagia said: Erg_Orgy said: just of curiosity, is animax still alive in your country? did anything replace it?I'm 4th generation but for my first few years of wathcing anime I could basically only watch 3rd gen stuff since Hungary couldn't keep up with the industry and they could only get the older stuff to air on TV it died in romania in 2014 ,-, Sadly it's done for here too, probably some crappy cartoon channel replaced it.Though I haven't watched anything on it for years before it got shut down.They were still mostly airing stuff like Yuu Yuu Hakusho and even older anime, it was great.Animax was the one got me to watch Golgo 13 and I'm at least grateful for that(even if it's actually not even that great lol) |
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Erg_Orgy said: last time i touched my animax it was just naruto, bleach, and some obscure mahou shoujo :Vromagia said: just of curiosity, is animax still alive in your country? did anything replace it? it died in romania in 2014 ,-, Sadly it's done for here too, probably some crappy cartoon channel replaced it.Though I haven't watched anything on it for years before it got shut down.They were still mostly airing stuff like Yuu Yuu Hakusho and even older anime, it was great.Animax was the one got me to watch Golgo 13 and I'm at least grateful for that(even if it's actually not even that great lol) a death well deserved golgo 13 is newer than i thought o_0 would have never guessed 2008 my favourite anime from animax were Slayers, Kaleido Star and Cowboy Bebop ^>^ |
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| Also the 'I'm older-->I'm superior' game is strong in this topic damn |
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| I guess I would be a 4th generation fan, also this thread kinda reminds me of this. |
| I was born yesterday so I am obviously a 1st generatiion anime fan. |
| Why are you acting as if taste is relative to the era you were born in? That's both an incredibly foolish statement and generalisation. You're incredibly biased OP, and I suggest that you review your whole analytical approach to media in general. |
| I am a 4.5 gen fan I guess. It's pretty easy to ignore the horrible fan service filled harems and generic action plots. Plus the animation and effects has come a long way when looking at Kyoani, trigger, or ufotable's work. |
| The beginning where Anime is no longer a medium of story telling, Anime turned into COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT medium! well said , the sad truth ... at least there is some few decent anime every year |
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| 3rd generation, I began watching anime when I was 5 years old (something like that)during mid90's I don't remember very well my first anime but I assume it was captain tsubasa or romance of the three kingdom. |
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| Born in 80s and started watching anime in 90s. Is this another one of those generic old anime is better than new anime thread in disguise where old anime fan elitist brag how superior their taste really are? From my experience watching classic old anime Gundam, old anime is not any better than modern one. Yup,obvious bait is obvious. |
ZapredonJul 26, 2016 5:07 AM
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30 It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist. |
| I won't deny that anime has become much more focused on commercial advertisement for the source material, but don't kid yourselves, it's ALWAYS been about making money. Art is still a product. |
| Oh look it's one of these threads again bashing current anime. Anime has always been a way to make money. Always. Do you think people just aired the things for the love of all in the 1970's-80's etc? Go watch Legend of the Galactic space pirates of symphonia the animation: the second coming and stop coming up with bullshit like this. Current anime >>> your trashy taste. |
| Born in the 2nd generation but most of my favourites are from 4th generation (more specifically 2003-2008. |
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| 10/10 shitpost lol... but anyway...... i was born in 89.... and i love my modern day horny otaku pandering garbage as if that stuff hasn't always existed..... lol this is obvious bait... but so many of us took it |
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| well this is just another "anime is dying" thread in disguise. Well I started watching in 2011, so yeah 2010s fan here. And so far, besides stuck in a videogame world trope, some edgelord shows and CG shorts, I am happy with modern anime. |
| 5th generation here and I am happy so far with most of the animes who are being released. |
| I'm from 3rd generation.3-5 generation animes are all full of variation,however,starting from 5th generation,animes seem to be stereotyped because they are running out of ideas. |
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| Nice shitpost OP Yo, 5th generation here though I did watch many 4th gen anime too. And I like my otaku garbage... :/ Also, ALL ANIME MADE BEFORE 2007 ARE TRASH! You old gens simply had outdated shit taste. Deal with it... |
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