Message from @Schedrevka
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Anime is, in general, worse. <- Is my argument
I'm sorry Cwow but you really don't seem to know much about the history of anime
i watch a lot of anime, and always have, and i have never seen any decrease in overall quality of anime
90% of it has always been shit
worse by what standards?
Yeah, but when I was in middle school it was all so cool ๐ฆ
the real difference now is that these days 100% of anime reaches a western audience
I specifically chose the cutoff point in mid 90's, since you can definitely make the argument 70's anime is better than 70's cartoons
By the growing standards that come from not being a child anymore
80's anime better than 80's cartoons
when early 90's anime only ever left japan if it was already really successful
90's anime better than 90's cartoons... When viewed as a whole, looking at the entire industry... NOW you run into arguments
if anything i would say the opposite. western cartoons are what has seen a huge decline
while anime has remained fairly consistent in terms of overall quality
I could agree with that. It's nice that they're embracing continuous storylines, but most cartoons today really do suck in comparison to most of the 90's
There's still some quality cartoons though, but they tend to have some really weak parts to go along with the good
you just mentioned Gumball, it's been running for, what, 5 years? give or take? minimum 3 years but I'd hazard a guess and say 6 years
what anime comes even close to that?
lots of long running series
tons of them
but anime has a much bigger focus on shorter stories that can be contained and wrapped up
whereas western cartoons want to be able to go on forever
Yeah Western entertainment feels a lot more corperate to me
if we take out the Big Guns, we get shit like MLP that has been running for some 160 22 minute episodes across 8 years
and then end when it is no longer economically viable to keep producing
yeah that's what I was initailly getting at
gumball's survived this long because it's a diamond in the rough
and that's just how our cartoon market works out
Anime, also operates on a model of commissioning as series by season.
>gumball's survived this long because it's a diamond in the rough
this is a very good point, and sort of what I've been aiming at
it's an actual diamond
it works, because it's that one specific pile of poo that happened to be "shiny", while most piles of poo DON*T shine and therefore fail
it's what anime used to do in the 80's, experiment and improvise
Why can't we get animation like this anymore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNho4Eze5aI
Anime just isn't the same
anime still does that
I'm sure
obviously not all of it, but that was never the case
p.s. when I said western seemed more corperate the keyword was more
not "anime is perfect! ใใใใใกใฐใใ !", because the companies pretty regularly overwork their entire teams, but the result seems more genuine in more cases
yeah of course
but what 201X's anime compares to Gumbal, MLP?