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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] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No…I think understanding you may not be the target audience for the shows you are seeing is a good place to start, if you wanna watch anime, check out a different genre. I will watch a couple of genres and skip the rest. There were some real nice ones this season as others have said. A sign of affection was very sweet, apothecary diaries had a fun lead and was a nice historical setting. I’m not sure if it was this season but Somali and the forest spirit, the girl from the other side, the fire hunter…etc.

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

Good idea! Here's some popular genres of today's anime:

Harem
Reverse Harem
Isekai harem
Reverse Isekai harem
Slice of life harem
Reincarnated as a normally-inanimate object (slice of life, adventure, and harem options available)
Awkward teen gets overpowered (usually with harem)
Awkward adult gets overpowered (usually with harem)
Awkward teen almost gets a girlfriend (wannabe harem)
Slime destroying/taming/breeding/harem
Romance: Girl "tames" dark, mysterious/misunderstood boy, girl falls for awkward teen who has secret talent/power, and rich/powerful boy falls for awkward girl
Period drama from period in Japanese history that no one cares about (even the Japanese) but features samurai!
Food obsession (actually this can be any anime these days) / Japanese people fantasizing about eating weird shit
Protagonists with special powers fighting bad guys with special powers and/or spirits/yokai
Useless gods using mortals to complete tasks that would only take them moments
Trying to sell toys/video games
Pseudo anime: Chinese animations re-telling the same three stories approved by China's censors (I hope you like cultivation, the Monkey King, and immortals in "the heavens"!)
Pseudo anime: Korean animations that obsess over beauty (endless male and female versions available!)

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

Pseudo anime: Chinese animations re-telling the same three stories approved by China's censors (I hope you like cultivation, the Monkey King, and immortals in "the heavens"!)

I do, in fact, like the Monkey King.

I first ran into him when reading Lawrence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea series, which I loved as a kid, but of which there are only a finite number.

It wasn't until many years later, when I was an adult, that I discovered that major elements of Dragon of the Lost Sea were drawn from Journey to the West, including the Monkey King. It was like someone had taken a favorite childhood novel, written a related work aimed at adults, and then put it out years later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah the monkey king is great and all but does he need to be a major character in like half of all the animations‽ 🤣

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You forgot the mecha/gundam genre that also has at least a love "square"/harem... But then again maybe there's nothing like that this year