Author: tcdoherty

so anyway I won’t pretend I understand everything in A Dream of Red Mansions (some of the poetry stuff goes right over my head) but that doesn’t stop it from being hilarious

Xifeng is my favorite character because I have a Type, I know

comradewodka replied to your post “I’m not saying that every modern anime looks bad or ugly that would be…”

It sincerely depends. I think part of it is that the industry’s expanded which means we have to sift through a lot of stiff mediocre derivative stuff to find the ones with character, but there’s still incredible stuff going on in its own way. I do miss certain things about the retro styles though for sure, even though plenty of those were also not actually well done either haha

I mean yeah, part of it is that there’s so much to choose from. And this wasn’t a vague post about any specific anime or w/e.

I just mean for each clump of years in anime you can kind of boil them down to a “general generic” anime style and I don’t like the sort of generic anime these days. But more than that, there’s differences in the way shows are animated and the sort of focus that they put on certain types scenes (I was already talking about that with @hakbot a week or so ago and I don’t really want to get into it again here)

But as I said also, I think due to it becoming more popular/maintstream we’re not only getting access to more anime but also access to anime with much better stories than there used to be. The standards are higher. So that’s something too.

I think anime has been expanding a lot and telling some really interesting stories in the last decade or so, stories undoubtedly better than a lot of the animes I grew up with, and I like a lot of them!

but in looks you just can’t compete with anything from the 70s-90s they just had so much presence

I’m not saying that every modern anime looks bad or ugly that would be ridiculous. But you have to deny that the overall, general look of anime these days is a lot less expressive and endearing than it used to be