Pitunov said: 2019 has a great lineup so far but i think it's still can't be called the golden age of anime imo. We have great new anime this season like tate no yuusha, promised neverland, etc. Other than that are just sequels from few years back like opm s2, mob psycho s2, konosuba movie, code geass, dororo, etc. So i think i can't count it as golden age of anime. What do you guys think? If not, why? And when is your golden age of anime? For me, the golden age of anime is between 2006 to 2007 When haruhi, TTGL, code geass, and many other great anime first came out in between that year. Personally I don't believe the golden age of anime will come back lol. |
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| mentioning ttgl as part of the golden age LOL but i dont think it will ever come back |
| Just wait another 10 years and see what period will pass the nostalgia test. |
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| There is no such thing called golden age of anime, what exist is a cycle of boom and burst. |
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| I think this year has a lot of quality anime but it's still nothing compared to the popularity of death note, code geass, ttgl etc. I think its really hard for next golden age to come. For golden age, it needs some pioneering anime like death note. |
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| Nope, it won't come again. Partly due to the average attention span of anime viewers nowadays barely extending past a season and partly due to the massive amounts of shows that are produced every season compared to the amount that was produced a decade ago. Ofcourse there are still great anime coming out, but most of them are "forgotten" within two seasons. People only talk about the new, shiny things, a golden age would be a period that people would consistently talk about. Beyond that the term Golden Age itself is highly subjective, not everyone likes the same kind of things and with the growth of the western anime community I doubt we will ever reach a point where the majority of fans reaches a consensus on what the best shows are. Not only that, but newer anime fans tend to regard anything new very highly, just look at the MAL scores of recent anime. |
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| Personally, I don't believe in the concept of a Golden Era. People who claim time xxxx was the real deal, are usually just too blinded by nostalgia and make their decision based on some fond memories. I think that this isn't exactly a good basis to tackle this topic. I mean, no matter which year or decade you look at, there will always be at least a handful of great title and changes in style or certain trends aside, it's almost impossible to weigh the quality of entire time periods against each other. Sure, I could just go ahead and watch dozens of anime from all years and try to calculate an average meanscore, but it doesn't work that way. How we think or feel about something can't be expressed with mere numbers, that's at least how I see it. |
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| There hasn't been a golden age of anime, and there never will be one. There will always be trash coming out, which we filter out of our memory. There were just as many trash shows in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s as there are now, and it's not gonna change. |
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| Everyone's has a different favorite time period for anime, and I believe that also depends a lot on nostalgia, and their age when they got into anime. |
| There was a golden age? Maybe from merchandise sales perspective... |
alshuApr 1, 2019 4:38 AM
Isterio said: Yes, there is one from 1974 to the early 80s that sets that year as a turning point with Yamato gaining the following of millions of young adults in Japan and the success of Heidi that lead the whole WMT to be a thing. petran79 said: You mean Golden Age in terms of popularity? In that sense I consider the golden age the 70s and 80s, add also the 90s to a degree, when whole families would sit together to watch their favorite series. Similar to cartoons like the early Simpsons seasons. This would be similar to an anime series getting a primetime slot at the most popular nationwide channel, pre-digital streaming and downloading era. While now you have this fragmented TV market aimed at specific age groups and demographic. So it is not possible to reach that level. I don´t knowt if there is an universally agreed upon golden age of Anime in that manner. Mainly because it's the first and most significantly flourishing period in the industry, setting the tone for everything after, not because of total number of series produced. |
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| What exactly was the last 'golden age"? |
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| I don't believe there ever has been, or ever will be a true "golden age" of anime. It's too subjective. Die-hard fans of the classics will tell you one thing, while others think that 2000-2010 was the best time period. Some will argue that we're in it right now. There's no right or wrong. A "golden age" in this context is just a time period that delivered the most (or best) anime that you, as an individual, enjoyed. |
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Jese23 said: Yes the Golden age was in Berserk 1997 series I knew someone would say that before I opened the thread XD |
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Unowen said: Yes, there is one from 1974 to the early 80s that sets that year as a turning point with Yamato gaining the following of millions of young adults in Japan and the success of Heidi that lead the whole WMT to be a thing. At first Yamato got bad ratings and only cult following...but the TV network recognized the potential and reaired it with better advertising. Only then it became really popular. golden age = decent corporate support? Sphinxter said: What exactly was the last 'golden age"? You can find it right next to the last silver and bronze ages...possibly. |
alshuApr 1, 2019 7:20 AM
| If Vinland Saga, Beasters and Dr. Stone, and the other potential groundbreaking new series too just like Yakusoku no Neverland and Kaguya, are adapted just as wonderfully as Death Note, Code Geass and the sort, then most definitely. It’s hard to say at the moment if those that I mentioned above will prevail but there’s always hope. On a more realistic note though, probably not. I assume you’re referring to either the 2006-08 period or 2011-2013 period, and the biggest difference between now and then is the large sum of increase in anime. This, in turn, means the general anime community is split among the large sum of shows and thus anime nowadays becomes ‘forgotten’ much quicker too as new seasons bring forth some 40+ new shows, sequels included. Why not just call this year the “Golden Year of Sequels?” by the way? Because it’s certainly the Golden Year in this respect, if you ask me. Besides, there technically isn’t anything like the ‘Golden Age of Anime’ in the first place as it differs from person to person. But this “Golden Year of Sequels” got to be legit for most, or I daresay everyone, right? Edit: Something more to reinforce the second paragraph. Another factor making the widely accepted ‘Golden Age of Anime’ has to do with the episode count too in my opinion. A 24(+) episode show surely mostly leaves a bigger impression and mark than a cour of Episodes, or at least to me. |
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| For me there isn't a golden age of anime. There's anime from many different years that i love. |
| No, because the one and only golden age was in the 1920s. People here clearly don't understand why anime today is just not quite as good as way way back. We will never have another one my fellow weebs. We need to face the truth of how good the 1920s were. |
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| When was the "golden age of anime"? I have never heard about it. |
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| In terms of the actual quality of anime coming out I think we'll get more better individual anime then before since we will always have boundary pushers as well as incredibly talented people in the industry right now. However, since the industry talents are now mostly concentrated in few studios, the overall number of great anime coming out is decreasing. We might get another golden age when a new wave of talent spills out in the whole industry. It's a term used to describe periods of time when almost every anime coming out was good and memorable and anime as a whole was popular and well-regarded. It's very subjective. I consider the last golden age to be 2005-2007 but we had a mini-golden age from 2011-2014. |
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| If you go by the size of the industry and the number of shows that are being churned out, then this right now is the golden age. |
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| Every year is golden age that has some great gems in it. Does this work enough? |
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Nope, Golden Age ended when studios started using CG animations all over the place and they won't stop because it saves so much money. |
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| There have to be an anime crash so the medium can reborn. The thing is, the market is fundamentally different (became far too mainstream) so it's much harder to fail that hard. |
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Isterio said: @Pitunov I´ll explain it kindly once since you haven´t come to this conclusion and listened to the gibberish some idiots spouted. 2009 isn´t the golden age of Anime. "The Golden Age of Anime" is a made up term fanatics spout whenever they try to overhype "their personal" favorite year or span of time in which their personal favorite Anime came out. Usually it´s the time those guys get into Anime, those people are teenagers around 15-19 years old and at the age where they found out that the cartoons they watched as kids were from Japan all along and that there are different cartoons that tell their stories in a very foreign way compared to their own culture. And usually around that age they found one they conisder to be "mature" or "adult" because it has violence and blood in t and scheming and is far better animated than Pokemon or DBZ because it´s only 12-24 episodes long instead of 300 and took a year to make before it was released. So by default every "golden age" as some idiots proclaimed them to be consists of an individual timespan be it a singular year like 2009 or the 80´s , the 90´s the early 2000´s (2001-2005) those idiots got into their personal favorite Anime. TL DR: There is no Golden Age, people call whenever their favorite Anime came out Golden Age and because their friends agree with them they think it´s universally accepted. Totally this. There's no such thing as a "golden age" in anime, there's only "my favorite period in anime which is when most of my favorites were released". |
raisin-kun said: It's a term used to describe periods of time when almost every anime coming out was good and memorable and anime as a whole was popular and well-regarded. It's very subjective. I consider the last golden age to be 2005-2007 but we had a mini-golden age from 2011-2014. I can point you enough garbage (even some high budget productions) from the same periods and your definition will be invalid. The thing is that you make your conclusion on the basis of the shows you have watched from those periods also on the basis what you consider good or/and important. Someone with with more or less experience watching different titles than you could make a different conclusion but there should be some sort of consensus between all of you to call certain period a "golden age". The other way is to have some sort of authority - a group of anime critics which general opinion is wildly accepted...I would be surprised seeing that happening. Personally I don't care about "golden ages" - we have good and bad stuff in and outside them. |
Isterio said: @Pitunov I´ll explain it kindly once since you haven´t come to this conclusion and listened to the gibberish some idiots spouted. 2009 isn´t the golden age of Anime. "The Golden Age of Anime" is a made up term fanatics spout whenever they try to overhype "their personal" favorite year or span of time in which their personal favorite Anime came out. Usually it´s the time those guys get into Anime, those people are teenagers around 15-19 years old and at the age where they found out that the cartoons they watched as kids were from Japan all along and that there are different cartoons that tell their stories in a very foreign way compared to their own culture. And usually around that age they found one they conisder to be "mature" or "adult" because it has violence and blood in t and scheming and is far better animated than Pokemon or DBZ because it´s only 12-24 episodes long instead of 300 and took a year to make before it was released. So by default every "golden age" as some idiots proclaimed them to be consists of an individual timespan be it a singular year like 2009 or the 80´s , the 90´s the early 2000´s (2001-2005) those idiots got into their personal favorite Anime. TL DR: There is no Golden Age, people call whenever their favorite Anime came out Golden Age and because their friends agree with them they think it´s universally accepted. I mean in 2009 anime was literally dying so that year definitely would be hard to argue that it was indeed a golden age. Though again it depends on what you count as a golden age, popularity, your subjective quality, standards of the industry etc. It just is a really subjective term that can mean a lot of different things to different people. I do hear the 80's and 90's brought up because of the massive money influx into OVA's and shows (allowing for more creativity) though that was mainly due to Japan going through their economic boom. Honestly the industry couldn't be sustained anyway so I personally wouldn't consider it a golden age. Still if we were to judge it by popularity I mean anime is only growing more and more popular internationally by the day so you could argue it has yet to actually truly hit its peak in that regard and therefore its golden age. Ultimately though yeah it just is a meaningless term that is usually just used by those trying to prop up their favorite era of anime. Since I personally like pretty much most anime eras I don't really feel there is a defined Golden Age for anime. |
BilboBaggins365Apr 2, 2019 8:10 AM
| an age is not defined by one particular year. Considering how more anime come out now than ever and it is also more popular now than ever before, Couldnt the 2010s be considered the golden age of anime. Well i guess golden is usually for whatever comesearly on, so like the 70s i guess silver age would likely be the 90s and i guess we are now in the bronze age? maybe it should be the platinum age considering the popularity increase |
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| You can't tell a golden age until at least a few years after it's passed. Preferably a few decades. |
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| golden age of anime won't come until Piracy is done for |
| We're in the golden age of anime tho. |
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| Golden age? We're already there. For real - pretty much any time can be anyone's individual golden age - for me, I might put it at 2011-2012, and point at how my favourite shows came out around then, and that was when some of the really good series really got going, etc. etc. But you know? Someone could just as easily point at 2018 and say, "That year? Look at how many incredible anime came out then. This is a golden age, no doubt about it." And they'd be right. Anime is more popular than it's ever been. This means we're getting a lot of minimum-effort shows each year, it's true. But it also means we're getting a lot of really good shows as well. |
| The golden age of Anime are the 90's to be honest. There are a few 2000's and 2010's Anime that are exceptional, but 90's Anime was mostly good. It is the golden age. |
| People always tend to forget the bad shows of the past and only remember the positive ones; every "era" had their good and bad shows, just as it happens today. imo, anime has not ever been as popular as it is now, meaning that, consequently, more anime is produced nowadays. So, is it fair to not even contemplate the possibility of this era being a "golden" one? |
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