It’s more about knowing where to look Mightfo. Marmalade has half a point there. Anime is susceptible to more generalizations because it’s such a niche thing.
thread of a million edits: Anyway, the list you provided consists of a few shows that I’ve seen good chunks of. Champloo and Paranoia Agent – they had a run on cartoon network. I think both of them were weak compared to the creators’ other works. Satoshi Kon passed away in 2010. I don’t know what champloo/bebop guy is up to :\ At a glance, most of the ones I just dump into google do not yield something that appeals to me.
Can you back that up at all? Everything from the constant nostalgic whining I hear, the many classic references I see in comedies, and the fact a handful of shows are remakes and sequels every year shows otherwise.
Heck GAINAX practically created the mid-90s to now, yet they’re doing retro-charged shows and creativity projects like TTGL, and Panty and Stocking on the side.
And nice research of pressing I’m feeling lucky on google. That’s totally going to give you a credible source.
But of course you seem more like the pretentious art house type to begin with.
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All in all, its just the blurring effect.
People don’t seek out what’s critically acclaimed or adjust their tastes to see the quality behind “safer” or “odd” media, that all they see is crap because they don’t even bother.
I’m surprised the OP didn’t post it himself.
And people is the key word there. Its not so much the games have to appeal to the majority.
The majority has to be converted. Its just that without streaming, easy ways to give word of mouth, and unofficial marketing, that’s pretty dang hard to do.
I don’t know what you want from me. I’ll do more googling when I feel like it, I guess?
Neojapanisme’s article has plenty to say on this score, but I’m not going to read it for you. Where the the genre can go and where it does are entirely different things. As it is now the animation industry in Japan is dominated by commercial interests concerned with a small demographic of young men’s expectations. They don’t fit in, instead they buy toys and media to assert their identity because they’re willing to spend the most on what they sell. They won’t court a new audience because it isn’t profitable.
It’s one thing to name a few exceptions – I’m sure they exist – it’s another entirely to try to frame the debate around anime being “just like any other medium”. That’s blatantly disingenuous because of the baggage anime has. If you want to talk pretentious let’s look at Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell 2 from 2004. I nearly walked out in the theater when I saw it, during stretches of the movie’s dialogue almost solely devoted to quotes from western literature. But hey, at least it had great special effects, right?
You do cite Gainax. I have a soft spot for them being a big pretentious idiot and all. But honestly – what has Gainax done since FLCL other than cash in on their pretentious legacy, softcore porn or make manga adaptations? Gurren Lagann was fun for a while but I gradually cared less and less as the fansubs came out in 2007. Panty and Stocking got old over the course of an episode.
Nostalgia has more to do with a bias toward a specific time period. I don’t harbor any particular nostalgia for the 90’s except maybe that it was a more prosperous time for the US’s economy. I was a kid then, though, and technology and information wasn’t anywhere near as accessible. Also, the 00s were a more interesting time for me than anything that occurred in my life back then. I definitely prefer being in my mid-20s in every way, to being a weird kid pirating anime off IRC.
Do you want me to suddenly enjoy Blazblue because I need to understand where a lot of these ugly looking, trite shows are coming from before I lump it in with the rest of the junk? I don’t think it’s imperative that people share my views on anime-themed fighting games, but I’m not going to censor that opinion because a smart person in Japan made an animated film in the past few years.
also you’re not gonna change one person’s mind unless they’re open to change no matter how many vids and top 10 lists someone finds or links(and hooooooooooooooly shit you chose one of the shittiest top 10 lists)