The 2010 of Anime is the year of decline and shots in the arm.

MasterHavik said:
yeah shows like that make me stay faithful. And pretty much whatever studio trigger does.

Well here's the thing I don't think I am right. I just got an opinion. I just feel if you say this around the time period of a REALLY REALLY good show people will tell you shut up and shove this into your face and say," Anime is fine! See?!"

But I'm like," dude it is not a good thing to wait three months for a really good show." I found the winter season to be very boring and not interesting and filled to brim of just bad to mediocre shows.

Maz said:
If you want to know what the problem is, then you first need to answer the question of "Do you think anime is getting worse, or is there simply a trend in anime currently that you personally don't like?"

Because something lacking in quality and you disliking something are two completely different things. If you don't like "high school anime with shounen elements" that doesn't make them bad, that just means they aren't to your taste.

Next, ask yourself if the actual amount of anime you like is decreasing. Just as @-Stabbed- said, there are more anime coming out each season so it might look like everything is bad, but you could easily end up liking the same amount of anime. 30 could come out and you like 5; 50 could come out and you like 5. In this case, the quality isn't necessarily declining. It's just that there's a larger amount of average anime. Discounting the %, you're still enjoying the same amount though.

Furthermore, are you happy with watching average anime? If you only want to watch stuf that blows you away and leave an impact, then that's you having ridiculously high standards that can't realistically be met. Average will, as the term suggests, always be the most prolific quality. Simply switching from "anime that blows me away" to "anime I thought were alright" immediately opens up a vast amount of shows that suddenly you can enjoy.

If all else fails, switch to manga. Anime is naturally more restricted due to monetary concerns, but manga has far more freedom. If a particular season or year has a certain trend of premises that you don't like, start picking up new manga stories instead. The trends will be less noticeable in manga. Not to mention you'll be getting the full, unadulterated version rather than a half-baked or unfinished adaptation.

black1blade said:

It's confusing 'cus KLK is good...maybe that's what trigger(ayy)ed me.

jal90 said:
You seem to have a good amount of experience watching anime so my advice will probably be of no use, but... be picky. At this point you probably know your tastes well enough, meet people who are alike and see what kinds of shows they are into. Basically filter your viewings and sources of recommendation. And don't worry about trends, just watch the show you want at the moment you prefer, no matter if it's this season's hit or the first Gundam. Statistic evidence over which era of anime is better should be the least of your concerns. Every show is an entirely new experience that can go right or wrong.

Cabron said:
Don't worry OP, it only gets worse from here. ;)

MasterHavik said:
You may be right and yeah I have. I love Azumanga Daioh so much. If I recall that is the Osaka girl, right?

TheDiabolicEsper said:
really ? lol.. i wanna say somthing.....but most people here.. already spoken FOR me.. the words

first finish updating your animelist...
cuz there are tons of good anime wourth watching.. that u prob HAVE'NT watched

MasterHavik said:
I have seen majority of the most talk about shows. I only ended up hating one of them.

I wouldn't say tons but moreso shows that are mediocre to good being bum up to amazing due to how much of a seasonal rot we suffer. I notice how this community gets when we got a true hit(One Punch) or Kill la kill people will start to say," Man we got so many good shows."

TheDiabolicEsper said:


cool ....so your another mainstreamer...

SENPAI NOTICED ME ?

TheDiabolicEsper said:


cool ....so your another mainstreamer...

SENPAI NOTICED ME ?

most of em people who are saying ''OPM IS AWESOME ''kill la kill IS AWESOME''

are avrage anime watchers.. who just got into anime... and screaming it everywhere

MasterHavik said:
If I was mainstreamer.....Show by Rock and I wanna be the strongest in the world wouldn't be on my list as shows I like.:) Same with Maria the Virgin Witch.

DateYutaka said:


lol people have no idea what meian stream is

TheDiabolicEsper said:


am sorry but i cant take your list seriously.. when theres only 15.. on it.. while u talk like u seen everyanime available

MasterHavik said:
If you have checked you would have notice my account was created in jan 2011. It shouldn't be hard to figure out that I didn't start using this account until now dude. I am just adding a bunch of shows I know I have seen and finished.

Also if I was a "mainstreamer". How would I know about Azumanga diaoh? Dude I know my anime just because my list doesn't have 100 shows.(don't worry it will get there). Doesn't mean I have not watched a lot of anime.

TheDiabolicEsper said:


i know.. that is WHY i said i CANT.. take YOUR ''alt'' accounts list seriously

cuz u obviously seem like u seen more anime

MasterHavik said:
I got only one account dude. Are you just making stuff up as you go?

TheDiabolicEsper said:


am sorry but i cant take your list seriously.. when theres only 15.. on it.. while u talk like u seen everyanime available


in the end.. talking here about the anime industry... aint gonna change anything



even i dont know what ''meian'' stream is :D? mind telling me?

Mod edit: Combined double posts

DateYutaka said:


most of the anime you call mainstream is not simple put

Johnnyd3rp said:
Half of my favorites are from the 2010 - 2014.

This thread looks like a grumpy old man claiming how it was much better before. in Italy we say: "qui una volta era tutta campagna", one time it was all countryside.

DateYutaka said:


there as been one semi mainstrem hit made since 2010 anime is less and less mainstream in it home market

YayaChibi said:


Show By Rock is mainstream.
The game, anime, and manga.

YayaChibi said:


It isn't that big, but the sales were pretty high.

Go back to watching cartoons if you don't like anime...
Why do people force themselves to watch? If you don't like anime, you're free to leave.
Instead of ranting about which decade was better, just deal with it.

*yaaawn*

People like you ... get over it lol. Y'all been sayin' anime been shit since 20xx and something smh. Let alone 2010, even this season people be sayin' 'this season's animes suck' but probs the same guys that said 'next season anime line-ups will be great or at least better than this season' last season lolz.

YayaChibi said:


Thank you for jumping in. You literally fix every thread.

YayaChibi said:


This is most likely a troll now. You literally had this account for YEARS and didn't use it until you thought that you should rant about something and decided to do it here?
Okay. Still not triggered. Throw more shit at me guys.
I came here because I was bored and hoping to get triggered so it can give me something to do.

YayaChibi said:
smh

But the OP only has cute girls doing cute things and sexy girls doing sexy things on his list.

YayaChibi said:
I think you should just watch more anime. 16 entries isn't convincing. And the 2010 cartoons are good in your opinion? Cartoons turned downhill in 2010, and not just cartoons for younger audiences, but for adult swim to(And most people think so to). Steven Universe, Over the Garden Wall, and Gravity Falls I feel are the only 2010 generation cartoons that have value of some sort. My Little Pony, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Gumball, Uncle Grandpa, Teen Titans Go, Loud House, Harvey Beaks, hell even Star vs the forces of evil are terribly done cartoons were some had a chance in the beginning and blew it.
At least in anime it has a story, even if it is terribly delivered.
All I can tell you is to watch more anime, and please, no dub. I feel dub makes a lot if animes loose value.
From what I see on your anime list, you stick to one kind of anime almost. Try expanding, and even if the summary doesn't interest you, watch it anyway. The kind of anime you have on your list is either adult or moe themed.
Cartoons don't tend to have any of those aspects, especially the ones you listed. The closest cartoons you can get to an anime is Rick and Morty and Over The Garden Wall, which you haven't listed.
All I can say is just watch more anime because for once in my life I will say this:
I think this is shit taste
And I hardly say opinions are shit taste, even if most people can agree it is terrible.

Pullman said:
Lmao the butthurt responses in this thread are hilarious. People are really unable to not make retarded generalizations. As soon as you have anything to say about recent anime that isn't just the purest of praises people will put you into one category and pretend everyone single person who ever had an issue with recent anime is literally the same person, with the same reasons and same agenda. Who cares about individually reading what someone has to say and then replying to them personally, when you can throw out quick oneliners like:






You can't talk about anime with those people since they don't hear what you say, they hear what they think you think while you're saying something. You can probably fanboy with them about certain shows, but not talk about the medium as a whole, which is a shame.

Personally I lack the experience with western cartoons of the 2010s (aside from Bojack Horseman & Rick and Morty) so I can't really comment on whether I agree or disagree with those trends OP points out. What I can say is that a lot of the shows OP mentioned as being a light at the end of the tunnel for anime, are actually just fairly generic, modern anime that didn't really stand out to me as being particularly innovative or interesting. So I don't think the problem is that modern anime heads in a direction you don't get along with since you do seem to appreciate the most mainstream ones that come your way.

Either your general taste just happens to prefer a lot of these cartoons, some of which I (and probably others as well) find decidedly worse than most anime you mentioned because we probably have a different taste. Or the other option is you just care less about anime and give it less of a chance than your cartoons, or you're giving the wrong shows a chance.

At the end of the day I don't know why OP would expect anyone aside from himself to know what the answer to his preferences is. Figuring out your taste is hard work, but nobody else can do it for you unfortunately.

Pullman said:
@MasterHavik

Didn't you say you liked Attack on Titan? That's the same Wit Studio as Kabaneri so unless you plan on skipping season 2 of AoT I don't think you can just go ahead and avoid all their shows :P.

In general studios are mostly unreliable when it comes to figuring out quality and if they are it's often not because of the studio but because of specific names (directors, writers, animators, producers) attached to that studio. But not every studio has those names, a lot of them work almost entirely freelance based and any kind of patter people think they're seeing from their shows is mostly not real.

Gainax and Trigger have always been among the more charismatic studios with a set staff to some degree so in terms of giving you reasonable expectations for what kind of shows they will make and liking or disliking their 'style' is definitely relevant when looking for shows to watch, but I don't think Wit Studio is one of those cases as well so don't just judge their shows by the studio, look at the source material (or writers when it's original) and director instead.

keragamming said:


Well, yes to you it is, but to him that may not be the case, you do know KLK isn't universal liked, the mal score says it all.

Sorry for stating the obvious, but it seems you needed a slap back into reality, we all have different opinion that is what makes us unique.

davinci12 said:
Good shit post bro, should write a shit post blog

bobby19933 said:
I don't know what your talking about, I think the new anime, especially 2014-2016 has been astounding. But this is all opinion based. Of course most animes are school based or related to children, take death note-high schooler, code geass- high schooler, full metal achelmist-15 years old, watch ones that are related to adult content like prison school, psycho pass, Tokyo ghoul then move to the manga because the manga is really good. Take the new relife anime which is about a 27 year old man getting a second chance to redo his life sort of, though its based in high school it has a good moral to the story and relatable values. But you have to understand not to many anime don't revolve around high schoolers, you just have to accept and move on. Plus to say cartoons on cartoon network is better than anime is plain stupid( opinion based) You mustn't be that old to say cartoons are better. Ill give you a list to watch that I think are good and based after 2010. Say Hunter x hunter 2011, prison school, pyscho pass, one punch man, erased, God eater( based off Japanese video games), Food Wars( echi food making show that's hilarious but definitely for adults) Seven deadly sins, Magi, Kabaneri of the iron fotress, Terraformers, Darker than Black, Parasyte and Durarara which has now like 51 episodes and completed.

Rolfe said:
Because there was no bad anime in the 90s and 2000s, right? This thread is stupid.

Quadrillion said:
Have you watched Kyousogiga? It's my favorite show so far and it was made in 2013. It's a very simple and original story, has a Kill la Kill vibe, but doesn't have any fanservice or waifu wars last time I checked, yet managed to convey a deep meaning in 10 episodes, it made me want to watch and find more anime when I was about to quit. If you lost hope for anime, there are still some manga that are really worth read, though reading and watching is not the same.
I dislike otaku, moe and waifu crap, but look at me, I'm stuck watching 2005-2014 anime and I'm currently watching Log Horizon. I know the quality shows are becoming less and less, but these few shows that come out are really worth watching.

Here-Hear said:
Your taste in anime is almost as shitty as this thread

MasterHavik said:
Oh no there are few shows still worth watching. I am liking Relife and Re:Zero right now....wanna know why? Because they look and feel different.