so I keep hearing that modern anime sux
Sep. 1st, 2011 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdI keep hearing modern anime sucks, that there’s a crisis in anime, that there’s a crisis amongst the otaku, all that. I have a geeky audience, here: let’s see what you think.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:40 am (UTC)That said, Captain Harlock's costume is awesome, so I can at least commend your anime fashion sense.
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Date: 2011-09-02 01:15 am (UTC)I suspect electrically-trigged nanofibres myself
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:26 am (UTC)Considering recent anime, I *really* like _Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit_. I also like _Kekkaishi_ and the first _Hellsing_ series.
Older stuff? I have fond memories of _Urusei Yatsura_, _Yusha Raiden_ (and a bunch of other giant robot shows), _Starblazers_, the first _Project A-Ko_, _Xabungle_, _Orguss_, _Lupin III_ (Though the movies more than the series), _8th Man_ (a childhood favorite which still largely holds up), _Halfway Ranma_ (though only the early episodes), and many others.
My all-time favorite, though, is still the three movies made from the original Gundam series.
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Date: 2011-09-02 06:32 am (UTC)I liked dubbed anime when I was a kid, but I had no idea.... :)
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Date: 2011-09-02 10:37 am (UTC)Though I do love GE999 lul. Oh Tetsuro, you crazy little shit.
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Date: 2011-09-02 08:18 pm (UTC)this poll is dead to me.
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Date: 2011-09-02 09:24 pm (UTC)For other modern shows, Ano Hana (etc) is all kinds of awesome (uh haven't watched the ending yet though) and that was this year. In the overhyped category, Madoka has, uh, some problems (I did watch the ending for that, sigh), but it's still pretty interesting. Somebody actually licensed petit whateveritwas (the new Junichi Sato joint, set in Paris) so I stopped watching it, but it was pretty nice - albeit not as good as Aria, but still hitting that kind of relaxing spot.
On shows which aren't actually this year - I missed Durarara altogether when it aired because I wasn't really watching anime at that point, but it came out on US DVD earlier this year (three sets) and damn that was great. Really clever plotting, too, with a twist I hadn't really seen before.
And of course, if we're going back nearly as far as FMA, there's Aria itself (SO GOOD) and Honey and Clover and um, other stuff. Oh. 5 centimetres per second? How awesome was that. Somebody actually made an anime movie/OAV that doesn't suck, and what could we compare it to from 'not modern' anime, Akira? Because um, Akira was fun and all, but... no contest. (Talking of comparing Akira unfavourably to more recent movies, there's also everything that the late Satoshi Kon ever made...)
More general point, I love how bright and clean digital anime looks compared to the older cel stuff. (Well, OK, not when they outsource to a Korean studio that can't draw and have been given forty-eight seconds for the entire episode, but other than that.) Even cheap digital animation looks, to me, a lot nicer than relatively expensive old-style stuff. Oh, and remember when CG was a horrific abomination that nobody wanted anywhere near their anime show (but studios insisted on doing it anyway)? Yeah, thank goodness for modern anime, where not only does the CG not suck but they've generally figured out how to use it in a way that actually fits with the hand-drawn artwork.
So anyway, if there's a crisis in anime, yes there is in the US: the fan bubble burst some years back, and most people are not prepared to pay money for it any more. That's a business crisis and sent several companies under, but it's not a crisis with anime itself.
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Date: 2011-09-03 04:23 am (UTC)We were watching... Um... damn, I forget the title. New, set at an onsen. And wow it is gorgeous, and superclean and bright in the way you mention, so yeah. I'm onboard with that.
I'd ask "god damn, how many options do people want?!" but I'll get to find that out in next week's poll. Muah ha ha! XD
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Date: 2011-09-04 12:01 am (UTC)To be fair, modern anime is mostly shite but that was also true of all periods of anime (and of everything), so.
I like the word 'superclean' :) For some reason that word sort of reminded me of 'ligne claire' as in the comic drawing style, which I also approve of, although I don't think Hergé had digital paint...
And you're seriously going to do a poll about how many poll options people want? :)
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Date: 2011-09-04 01:39 am (UTC)Exactly.
And you're seriously going to do a poll about how many poll options people want? :)
Not quite. But the poll plug-in I'm using lets me add answers without resetting the poll, so one option for the next poll will be "DO NOT ANSWER, give me your answer in comments and I will ADD it. THEN answer!" And we'll see how big that gets.
...is anime as tribalized as heavy metal?
Date: 2011-09-03 03:32 am (UTC)My favourites are Hellgirl, Fruits Basket, Azumanga Daioh, and Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (stylistically, to me, the last one is an epistemological mystery show: is Haruhi God, or Kyon, both, or neither? and exploring the proposition "As above, so below") Elfen Lied gets honourable mention as good trauma porn and a superb emotional roller coaster.
Re: ...is anime as tribalized as heavy metal?
Date: 2011-09-03 04:23 am (UTC)That was my answer too, I think the whole thing is silly! But I wanted to see what other people thought.
(And I have Haruhi toys on my backpack. ^_^ )