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Loved thsi anime. This came at a golden age of anime where was at an all time high imo. Funimation, Geneon and ADV had amazing titles and got me into collecting dvds with each release. I fondly remember going to my local anime store to see if the new Gunslinger Girl or Burst Angel dvd was released.

90's and early 2000's had a lot of anime with a detailed more rea|istic |ook (Lodoss, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, etc... that "art style") which has always been my favorite. Seems to be much rarer now and a lot more simplistic designs (in general, of course there still are some and plenty back then were not that style, I know). Still not the "CalArt" style of modern Western animation, at least. And I will not t0|erate the b@se|ess inc0rrect s|@nder of Initial D and imp|ied s|@nder of Mushoku Tensei! They're amazing!

1987, lets go down to the video store and rent some anime. . . . oh look we have 7 VHS tapes to chose from.

Doesn’t help that I once had a friend who posted Neo Nazi K on stuff. Yeah are friendship didn’t last very long.

Very soon the old guard will be completely gone and the things we see as trash now will be seen as great in the future. The modern audience is real.

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They have mastered the art of the Almighty dropkick😂😂😂. They coming in like mortar bombs

I don't know anyone that watches mecha who actually thinks giant mobile suits will be the future of combat.

Someone should propel Earth to destroy the colonies instead psych

I like how the meme at the end tries to suggest that shounen fans aren’t mostly pedos

Seinen are for adults who think like edgy kids. 🤣

You aight white boy

What's thw show at 1:55?

it seems so obvious, I can't believe I never noticed...

First off wrong. Mecha is interpretation of Eastern style specifically Japanese style medieval warfare with samurai and main suites being the equivalents to each other. While GM or Grundy being the servants . Again the comparability is in eastern sense than western knights and infantry and tactics. Because again Asian and specifically Japanese who created mecha genre view it through their own understanding of warfare which is again more descriptive of highly specialized units with flexibility fighting on the backdrop of their other less specialized infantry.

It’s hilarious tv anime looks bad to me because I watch dubbed some people don’t notice how bad it looks

well said

Neat. Hadn't heard this before.

The language thing is sort of self evident yet also not something people conciously discuss the impacts of so its interesting to bring up. The irony in this is that I often find seinen manga easier to read in Japanese than shonen, because instead of just..showing the context, shonen bombards you with descriptive words as you said with "and the amount of them". For a foreign language learner what a middle to high schooler can understand can still be very overwhelming (im talking 10k to 20k words, even spongebob ued like 20k words) and they can be the type of words you don't hear a lot in day to day life but might hear in school. For them more words means they can learn those words better but for me its a barrage of Japanese to try to understand. As someone with processing speed issues having less but more precise/uncommon words helps me feel less overwhelmed than a ton of the same set of words in a short timespan. A problem I have is that precisely because shonen/seinen is read as a genre tag that people simply refute it by showing lots of seinen are actually fun and cutesy, then shounen that are dark and edgy, and then calling it a day. But I do suspect, manga that would work in either aside, that there are general differences, otherwise they wouldn't market them the way they do. People also underestimate how much influence editors have and I bet they might generally have different ideals. It likely also differs by trends and time periods, as its marketing based after all. Whatever choice they think is more lucrative at the time they'll make. As much as we restrict it, Teenage boys love violence and sexuality too and japan doesn't seem as strict on it. All the boys in my class were playing call of duty or GTA while I was playing yoshis island. Ofc a seinen can get away with more intense sex and violence but sometimes it slips through in shounen even if maybe they'll get a complaint. Its not that one is automatically more deep and mature, thats all up to execution. Ive seen childrens shows that were mature about things. Teenagers aren't that stupid either. I do tend to notice a different vibe. Shounen tend to be bold, loud, straightforward, like a flame of passion, with the perspective from the teenage characters. Their escapism tends to be in the fantastical. Even in really dire, dark shows, Their ideals tend to be more well, idealistic and hopeful. Stories tend to more directly state and explain a lot of things. The vibe can be a bit more tropy with the power of friendship and the like. I notice seinen have more room to be artsy even if not doing those things. Pacing wise it tends to let things sink in a bit more. The escapism, moe or lightheartedmess in seinen seems to be more for a japanese work life stressed adult to come home to and just..chill(I mean "iyashikei" is a genre for a reason). Or maybe something about younger people from the perspective of an adult or a parent (take how shin chan was a seinen manga but now a kids show). They tend to be calmer by comparison with less intense stuff or buildups happening. Their less escapist works tend to be the gritty ones. Actual Romantic relationships also seem to get more attention in stuff aimed at adults, rather than whatever shounen tend to be doing that feels more like a fantasy or a "will they get together oh wait no we cant change the status quo". If we look at a typical battle shonen, then the seinen equivelents wouldn't be berserk or vagabond, they'd be battle angel alita and parasyte.

Well put. Wasn’t really aware of the difference in vocabulary of each

I thought this was obvious.

Anime has always been good, and always been bad, its just that there is more anime coming out today then ever before so its harder to find the good in the sea of bad.

8:27 they mentioned Dinosaur king

Alt title, every girl is bayonetta

Didn't the Federation also use nuclear biological and chemical weapons and the first half of the One-Year War? It could be that the colony drop was a retaliation for this or part of a tit for tat escalation. Although I've never seen that specifically articulated

Ghibli is overrated

So , against your point, I'd double down. I watched 2000s animes when I was a kid on animax. That was the start for me. Some were from the 80-90 era tho. If we have to compare numbers, the work it took to publish a show or a piece was in it self the realization of the "why" in terms of quality. That's why the ratio of good anime released/total releases in the 80-90 are was like 5-10 times better than today. This is a hard guess, but none the less, take any genre, Shounen, we have a bunch of mid, cliché shows just to keep the view counts and to milk the cow, to the point that I'd even take such away from the box we put them in. School and all, nice, sometimes harem sometimes just not at all to try and be mature. It's action shows, like I'll remember anything 30 years from now. Isekai, we have good shows, we have just shows, then we have so many copycats that doesn't even tell a story or fetch a real comprehensible world in it. Mecha, we had potentials, for the sake of the genre, I'm gonna put Neon Genesis in a different box, cuz the anime it self is just something the creators had to wet 4-5times again to give it's ending any justice. You can't really see anything from the story apart from the drama, and soo I'd say it's more of a psycho drama. I can't, maybe Knights & Magic was somewhere there. One very exclusive part we left in the 80s 90s to rot is Seinen, that many remember as a Retro something and to be honest, it is. Today they make shows for grown up toddlers. And soo, we'll see have todays stuff will be remembered, there's a long way that doesn't seem all nice and tight, and only then we can tell if 90s or 80s were the real gold. I only say it's a bleak chance, cuz I can't remember 1 relatable character that I could personally carry for 40 years over, where as I can and will remember Marlene and Yuji from Blue Gender and the fun little Alicia who was already a meme back then. I will remember Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis and Sylphiel from slayers. Amelia less soo, she was annoying as being the whole point of the character. You'll ask me, "who you remember from after" I'll go "Kazuma, Kazuma!" " Hai, Kazuma desu!", that's all.

This shows that even GIRLS can kick a**

Yeah, exactly? Since when is it bad? Wtf? I totally disagree. I love miyazaki's works, but he himself is just... Well... Kind of a crybaby. Whenever you hear from him, he's just rambling about how nothing is to his liking. He doesn't even like his own son, which can't be anyone's fault but his, essentially. He just cannot get past his nostalgia and thinks that "Oh well, MY generation was the very PINNACLE of mankind". Just like all the other oldheads and probably (at some point) us too. This whole "the youth is despicable" thing literally goes back to ancient civilizations like greece, rome, Egypt etc. Personally i just enjoy everything of artistic value. (it should be original and offer something new and unique or at least something timeless. Like cowboy bebop for example.) I might be an "old" rambler with that too, but personally; I've never liked mindless entertainment. (maybe watching some fail army videos once in a while, but not whole shows or movies.) I just don't like it when any kind of show, movie or game is just without any real substance that goes deeper than surface level and does not even allow you to do so by your own means. For example: I love when games allow you to achieve a certain amount of "Mastery", when they give you the opportunity to master your skills and thus, to some degree; master yourself. Which ultimately is a huge factor for your experience in game. The opposite of that is grinding and pay to win.) ...And i have the impression that this preference also starts to become a thing of the past. Anyways; Crunchyroll features the original lupin anime and even though i was sceptical at first to go there (didn't realize that i've watched "part 6" first, lol.) but was immediately in awe when i saw what the old school animation and the storyboard had to offer. (It weren't really "killer" plots, but very good. Especially for the 70s.) I also enjoyed cowboy bebop, fist of the north star, Elfenlied and even new productions like; "Campfire cooking in another world with my op skill" Which is an underrated anime i believe. (it has very good and creative approaches and even makes fun of overstrained isekai tropes. It's a studio mappa production and thus; of high quality.) Heck, i even enjoy K-On, despite the fact that it's not at all my genre, usually. It's a very refreshing change tho. But i digress: Miyazaki's works are great, same cannot really be said about miyazaki himself. He will never see his errors and change his ways. Unpopular Opinion i assume, but my opinion nonetheless.

yeah i didnt think there was much of a point to this anime beyond the entertainment aspect. my expectations weren't that high to begin with so i mostly enjoyed it.

great point no one brings up. the manga is just better (outside of action scenes) if the anime isnt doing anything interesting during conversations.

great video. hopefully the recent rise in popularity of anime will let the animators receive better salaries. they gotta find better ways to monetize anime, dvds aint it.

Anime in the 80/90/ early 00 were classics you remember and revisit still today ... after that anime turns mostly to soulless fastfood, especially the overpresent Isekai crap nowaday ... might still fill shortly some basic desires, easy consumed, fast forgotten, soon replaced with something identical/similar ... The soul and diversity that once made the Anime Genre is mostly gone today (also something very similar is to be noticed in the Video Game Industry) ... that make it very hard for people to feel something or emotionally (or financially or timewise) serious invest into it Anime ... An other "fail" is the americanisation of animes - it does not refer to the lack of showing nipples (something even present in old stuff like Gundam, Macross or Ranma), but also to not making meaningfull endings to most stories in hopes to maybe create a neverending franchise

2:11 What anime is this? Like I genuinely don't know.

Some of my all time favorites today have grown to encompass: Steins;Gate, Psycho Pass, Ergo Proxy, Higurashi (VN included), School Days, Re:Zero, Asobi Asobase, Konosuba, Danganronpa, Hell’s Paradise, Death Note, 86 Eighth Six, RDNDBGS, Texhnolyze, Another, Angel Beats, Mirai Nikki (mostly for Yuno), Eden of the East, Charlotte, Engage Kiss and Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War just to name a few. But all of these instill a different feeling within me and can be anything from similar to one another or quite different. I personally usually enjoy plots and themes that are of a darker setting or have a lot of concepts of existentialism and philosophy. I love anime that’s rich in its characters and the plot of the anime itself. I also account for things such as music, art style, cinematography, direction, dialogues and voice acting. All of these elements come into play when creating any anime and are all important elements for creating a lasting and memorable experience. I also enjoy psychological thrillers and horror related media, such as Higurashi, which can be VERY dark. My tastes can be quite diverse and even so for what I consider to be some of my favorite anime. But I always usually tend to consider darker plots, themes of existentialism or anime with characters that suffer greatly or face relentless tragedy to be more appealing and considered to be a Magnum Opus by my own standards. However, when such media is quite effective and well crafted, it truly affects you, you can empathize with it and feel yourself moved by its contents. Thus, over time you may find your feelings and thoughts being swayed by what you consume, as an effective artist will pluck the harp-strings of your heart with ease. Sometimes I’ve found myself so moved by a piece of media, a movie, show, anime, music, novel or speech that I can feel it weigh on my psyche. I’m reminded of when I first played through the VN of Higurashi: No Naku Koro Ni and began to feel the madness of Keiichi during the Onikakushi arc. The music, sound effects, writing, characters and theme were all so well down developed that I began to ponder on just how powerful paranoia and terror can be. It should be needless to say, that consuming too much content of such a dark or deep caliber can even be deadly to your psyche and you could find yourself in a fit of despair, wrath or mania. The human mind can be quite malleable to outside stimuli, sometimes acting quite subtly in its effect, or quite drastic. Therefore, I always like to stress to everyone that it’s important to mend your mind, to meditate, find some way to make peace within you or consume something that brings you a sense of childlike joy or silliness. The work is indeed quite a macabre and painful place, yet, it’s not always this way, there’s always glimmers of hope within hopelessness. In a sense, this is how I feel about my guilty pleasures, one of which is indeed harem anime, or romcoms with a heavy focus on the comedy and a laxness and ease to the romance. For example, ‘Girlfriend, Girlfriend’ or ‘Aharen-San’ and ‘More Than a Married Couple but Not Lovers’. It’s something I can usually chuckle at, relax to and feel peace from. There’s plenty of Harem anime that I’ve watched wherein, I’ll feel a sense of embarrassment or perhaps, bashfulness; or find it humorous as a concept or the jokes to be funny. But I very much consider Harem genre to a guilty pleasure, I just believe it has its purposes outside of… well, you know.

All digital anime … Like the Berserk reboot

Tf, MMA with pretty dress 😂

I like how this is some of the most over used precure fight scenes you see across CZcams but not even set to a pretty cure song

Its just my bad memory or at the end of this chapter artyom finds a dark one child? The same that appears in metro last light. If that its true, why in 2034 and 2035 it is never mentioned? I just pretend that the chapter is written by artyom, and he lies to himself by pretending that one of the dark ones survived to make himself feel less guilty. Maybe i just got totally confused and didnt get the ending of this chapter.

"It's copium for modern war, essentially" i would say something against this but really someone else has already made a video on gundam that thows this in the shitter that probably deserves more views that this garbage. that really only got clicks thanks to its provocative title. the better video czcams.com/video/_9E-zHdy7EU/video.htmlsi=G_AmZrz8Ww_Bqlt1

I mean I know Japanese. And you're spot on honestly. Often like the critiques I see of like american dubs also apply to the japanese ones. Hearing the same voices all the time, things sounding extremely generic and cheesy and just bad delivery are also a thing in japanese dubs. You just won't notice if you're not able to put full attention to the animation and the audio because there are also subs. Like I used to think american action movies had great voice acting. Until I learned american and actually turned the subtitles off.

anime was always bad, we just only remember the few good examples in the sea of bad which gives us a skewed perspective that anime somehow got bad, same with music

Anime from 1988 too 2020 were goated

I love Precure because I have always wanted to be a princess. Not a damsel in distress on but a powerful one

What starts as legitimate criticism to UC as a whole, turn into another jab towards Origin No. Origin is not a prequel. It's a remake of 79. Anime adapts the portion of Char's flashback, which happens in the middle. Leaders of Zeon are not the main characters, nor they are meant to be portrayed as sympathetic. It's still from Char's (and Ral's) point of view It's not meant to be this all-encompassing, thought provoking, "how Zeon's propaganda turn the colonists into mass murderers supporters" prequel story. It's a flashback. Of Sayla's and Char's childhood. By the time the flashback ends, the story came back to Amuro's. Origin's main character is still Amuro. It's literally the same story as 79

I know you didn’t expect anyone to see this but I still find it funny that another anime CZcamsr plays spy in tf2

CURE YELL ATEEEEEEE IN THAT SCENE

As a wise man said, anime is a mistake and i couldn't agree more.