| What is your guys opinions? Would be interested to get explanations as to why you prefer one decade over the other. 70s 80s 90s 2000s Today's Anime This is a very interesting topic because anime has changed so much over time. I will give my vote to the 90s. I don't mean to sound like an ass, but look at the 90s classics and compare to them to todays. Visually, it is really sad for me to look at many of today's Anime. I mean the art style has changed so much. How did Cowboy Bebop turn into little girls with huge eyes, ultra bright colors, and all this nonsense? Actually, I came up with this interesting comparison for the gamers out there. Top 90s Anime is to Xenogears as top modern anime is to Persona 3/4. NIS games would represent the range of mediocre games that appeal to a very narrow audience with a few decent titles, which is what I feel so much of modern anime is. |
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| 2000-today, i guess. Idk, Death Note was made in 2007, Darker than Black even earlier. Both were epic, but today we have Black Rock Shooter and Another ect. Anyway, i guess nowadays they're making more 'intelegent' /action/mystery/more realistic anime, with the exception of Detective conan which was like 30 years ago |
| 'No matter how good you are you alone cannot change the world.' -L Death Note 'I don't like that word. After all, it makes me lonesome. Even though, 'Farewell'. I have to make sure I say it right, Amber?' -Maki, Darker than Black ~ They say too much thinking can create something that's not really there in the first place. So give me a moment, I'm busy thinking about cake. |
| Hmm, this looks familiar. I don't prefer any decades in particular. I've liked plenty of series regardless of when they were released. In b4 monocles and tophat. |
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| I think it's kinda genre depended. All the moe and cute stuff is like 2007-, while good slice 'n' life anime were in the 80s and 90s. There's also stuff like Mecha that was good throughout the decades. |
Bluefeatherraven said: 2000-today, i guess. Idk, Death Note was made in 2007, Darker than Black even earlier. Both were epic, but today we have Black Rock Shooter and Another ect. Anyway, i guess nowadays they're making more 'intelegent' /action/mystery/more realistic anime, with the exception of Detective conan which was like 30 years ago Bluefeatherraven said: 2000-today, i guess. Idk, Death Note was made in 2007, Darker than Black even earlier. Both were epic, but today we have Black Rock Shooter and Another ect. Anyway, i guess nowadays they're making more 'intelegent' /action/mystery/more realistic anime, with the exception of Detective conan which was like 30 years ago Well, by realism many do tend to just take a modern city in Japan and revolve a storyline around a bunch of high school or jr. high students. I don't find it exactly creative and intelligent is debatable. Death Note is also one of my favorite anime and it was very well executed. I am not bashing modern anime as bad as I love a few of them. I am just not a huge fan of a lot of the art style and this genre revolving around school girls. I find it highly distasteful. |
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| 90's most deffinetly. Char designs, most stories, freedom for the writers and athe ability to actually do what they want with an anime. This era also had much of the most creative animes, like Angel's Egg etc. (today we have stuff from Masaki Yuasa, who I think is awesome but barely anyone knows about him) Also the 90's are sentimentally valuable to me, becase thats the stuff that I gew up watching aswell as the use of actual drawn art which was at its peak during this time. |
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| Also, I don't really see how your videogame comparisons apply. Especially with Xenogears, if you're trying to laud it as something overly spectacular. |
| According to MALGraph, my highest rated decade as of now is 1980. |
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| 90 and 2000's at a tie for most anime- That smooth animation quality is great for action scenes. Wow I'm so tired. I should stop coming online at night and post unthoughtful gibberish. |
| Anime was at its best around the years 2006-2008. (opinions may differ of course) |
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| 90s-07 After that the cliche of a wimpy MC becoming the hero of the story started to get really bold and repetitive. |
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| I think it was around 95-07. The shift to digital did hurt anime quite a bit at the start in terms of visual quality, but the variety of groundbreaking titles was astonishing. |
| 90s. There's something about the stuff during that time that I like. |
| I wouldn't call it the best, but my favorite era is apparently the 2000's according to MALgraph. |
OriginANIME said: Anime was at its best around the years 2006-2008. (opinions may differ of course) I agree. |
| 1998: Cowboy Bebop, Serial Eperiments Lain, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Initial D, Cardcaptor Sakura, Kare Kano and even some lesser known but pretty amazing ones like Vampire Princess Miyu and Gasaraki were realeased in the same year. On the whole though, I think I prefer the 90s and 2000 - 2008 shows, of what I've watched so far. |
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| 2000- today i think that all anime i have seen are in this era XD |
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truesoul said: 2000- today i think that all anime i have seen are in this era XD That's two eras. |
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OriginANIME said: Anime was at its best around the years 2006-2008. (opinions may differ of course) Agree, most of my favourite series aired during that time. Haters gonna hate. |
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| the graphics are better in the 2000s |
| According to my ratings, the older the anime, the better I rate them. I don't care, it just so happened this way. I would rather call it a coincidence, there were recent anime which I found to be pretty good. It has been said here before in other threads, but I will repeat it differently, proportionally shit in the past is the same as the shit today, it applies to many things. People only notice more what they consider to be bad anime today because it's more accessible, I doubt most here can name even 20 anime before 1980, but they probably would be quite eager to endorse the last 30 great anime they watched in the last decade. |
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Enjolras1830 said: 63- 94 is the best era of anime and manga the Tezuka era and the golden age [79-94] the era anime can never get back to cuase Japan as a nation in our life life will never be a prosperous as a nation like it was in the 80's - mid 90's sad fact the quilty of anime will always be shown on the state of Japan economicly speaking for exmaple there was more anime on at prime time non satalite or cable TV during this time 79-94 its post 2000 in the maib were more and More UHF anime stated to happen in around 04 alot of anime and Toku [ toku before 04 in mian] started to lose its prime time slots orimr time being for 1400- 1700 then 20-00 - 25-00 butt hell even the rely high hitters n=dont get the Ratings thay should leveing out the top 3 but the big shounen of the moment is One Piece witch has never broken top 3 and gets 15.00 a week thats a 7% viewer shere while Both DBz and Seiya in there times are around 15-18% viewer Share thats is around as high as wat the big three TV anime in japan get now and DB/DBZ and Seiya also never broke the top three What were the anime that came out at 1995? |
Anime_Name said: truesoul said: 2000- today i think that all anime i have seen are in this era XD That's two eras. Two decades, not two eras. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ERA (same goes to the OP) Personally, I have the feeling that older anime have better execution of the ideas, but the ideas themselves are much simpler than the ones in today's anime. For that reason, I tend to rate older anime higher than more recent anime. Hell, just check my MALgraph. |
Tiago97Apr 5, 2012 8:43 AM
| I like a variety of anime, ranging in the years 1982-2007. Beyond that, there is only a handful of titles I like that came after 2007. |
Tiago97 said: Anime_Name said: truesoul said: 2000- today i think that all anime i have seen are in this era XD That's two eras. Two decades, not two eras. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ERA Personally, I have the feeling that older anime have better execution of the ideas, but the ideas themselves are much simpler than the ones in today's anime. For that reason, I tend to rate older anime higher than more recent anime. Hell, just check my MALgraph. Then correct the OP because I am just following his lead on what divisions of time he used for this topic. He separated eras into decades. |
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| its kinda cheating but i though the late 90's through early 00's(like to 2004) were the best years |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| for me - 2000-2005 |
Enjolras1830 said: your young your taste will evolve That's usually what tastes do, no? They change, they evolve, they shift from one thing to another.. Age is entirely irrelevant in that case. |
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Inconscient said: Enjolras1830 said: your young your taste will evolve That's usually what tastes do, no? They change, they evolve, they shift from one thing to another.. Age is entirely irrelevant in that case. Age is relevant as age is one to divide and target audiences into specific demographics. |
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Inconscient said: Age is very relevant.Enjolras1830 said: your young your taste will evolve That's usually what tastes do, no? They change, they evolve, they shift from one thing to another.. Age is entirely irrelevant in that case. You'll notice that older people prefer things that were popular in their childhood. Nostalgia does that. Look at the original star wars trilogy. Those that were born in that generation prefer it to the prequels. Same thing with anime. People that were born in the early 80's may prefer anime in those times since it's a precious childhood memory. As for the OP's question, I think this question is unfair. I think most will view the latest 'era' as the better one purely because animation quality is significantly better now. If you look up recent polls of top 25 anime ( Look for polls done in japan ), you'll notice that most of the anime in the list are from the past 2-6 years. The industry is still far too young to truly judge which is the better era. Now if we were talking American cartoons and go back to the 20's, then this question would make more sense. |
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Yvese said: If you look up recent polls of top 25 anime ( Look for polls done in japan ), you'll notice that most of the anime in the list are from the past 2-6 years. The industry is still far too young to truly judge which is the better era. Now if we were talking American cartoons and go back to the 20's, then this question would make more sense. Funny that you mention Japanese polls, here's one. Those Jap's memories go back father than 2-6 years. I think you're talking about American anime fans like the top 10 on MAL. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-05/one-piece-luffy-db-goku-top-fuji-tv-anime/tokusatsu-hero-poll |
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Yvese said: Look at the original star wars trilogy. Those that were born in that generation prefer it to the prequels. Same thing with all people who aren't retarded. FTFU |
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Anime_Name said: Ah but those are lists of characters, not anime. Totally different imo since there's not many heros/heroines in the past 2-6 years that are memorable.Yvese said: If you look up recent polls of top 25 anime ( Look for polls done in japan ), you'll notice that most of the anime in the list are from the past 2-6 years. The industry is still far too young to truly judge which is the better era. Now if we were talking American cartoons and go back to the 20's, then this question would make more sense. Funny that you mention Japanese polls, here's one. Those Jap's memories go back father than 2-6 years. I think you're talking about American anime fans like the top 10 on MAL. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-05/one-piece-luffy-db-goku-top-fuji-tv-anime/tokusatsu-hero-poll Polls I've seen list Bakemonogatari as the #1 anime of 2000-2012, with K-ON! as #2 =/ |
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Enjolras1830 said: the anime isudaty has been alive since 1917 Assuming you mean 'industry', it's been around since 1907. @Yvese Well you have a point. I have indeed noticed that a lot of older people prefer series like dragonball, things one would consider nostalgic. Pardon my ignorance. |
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Yvese said: Anime_Name said: Ah but those are lists of characters, not anime. Totally different imo since there's not many heros/heroines in the past 2-6 years that are memorable.Yvese said: If you look up recent polls of top 25 anime ( Look for polls done in japan ), you'll notice that most of the anime in the list are from the past 2-6 years. The industry is still far too young to truly judge which is the better era. Now if we were talking American cartoons and go back to the 20's, then this question would make more sense. Funny that you mention Japanese polls, here's one. Those Jap's memories go back father than 2-6 years. I think you're talking about American anime fans like the top 10 on MAL. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-04-05/one-piece-luffy-db-goku-top-fuji-tv-anime/tokusatsu-hero-poll Polls I've seen list Bakemonogatari as the #1 anime of 2000-2012, with K-ON! as #2 =/ You opinion is completely trash as the character lists have everything to do with anime and speaks volumes about the length of referential anime memory the Japanese have. It shows their memory to be more than 2-6 years and your just pissy that it proves your nonsense wrong. there sohows we have better taste than you Who the hell are you talking to? I don't have an issue with the list. I happen to agree with most characters on there and find the breakdown by age ranges to be pretty interesting. |
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