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Am I getting old or anime is even cringier now? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title. I don't follow the anime communities anymore so take it with a grain of salt.

And I swear every popular one is either trying to become viral due a meme or being the same "I'm a loser yet I fell inside my toilet and discovered a new world full of breedable elfs" type... Hell, I bet that's the actual title of the show.

Also they ALL LOOK THE SAME character art style wise, you know the same pretty clean "digital" style made popular probably by No Game No Life 10 years ago. Yes, I'm sure there's a hidden 💎 there, it's always like that but I'm not talking about that 0.5 percent.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just miss the intellectual depth of anime like the Patlabor, Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell, Akira movies. The last show I loved from beginning to end was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Macross Frontier was alright. I was also one of the odd(?) ones who enjoyed Naruto when it over explained ninjitsu. The art, I understand overhead costs, So I can be more forgiving - so long as art quality isn’t trash. There was a time when anime was ahead of its time. You just don’t see that much anymore 😭

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just miss the intellectual depth of anime like the Patlabor, Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell, Akira movies

One thing I used to do with Google Sets, if you had a list of things that you liked, was plonk them in, and Google would hand you similar recommendations.

Google Sets was just a Google Labs project, and never made it into production, sadly; it was eventually discontinued.

But in general, the Web is big enough that you can still search for a list of items and come up with a recommendations page that contains most of them, and it'll probably have other, similar, items. Not as good as Google Sets, but still pretty usable when looking for recommendations. Google comes up with this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/8m452c/serious_scifi_anime_like_ghost_in_the_shell/

This is a discussion about "serious sci-fi anime" -- I understand that Patlabor isn't sci-fi, but the others are -- and also lists some others. I haven't watched most of these, but:

Paprika
Psycho-Pass
Planetes
Serial Experiments Lain
Texhnolyze
Metropolis
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Ergo Proxy
Wings of Honneamise
Freedom
Memories
Neo Tokyo
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Xam'd: lost memories

I'll stop there, but just pointing out that there are some good tools to filter through the chaff out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ironically, most (all?) of those are from the older times that OP is referring to.