No.42428
>The average Japanese teen nowadays prefers McDonald's over sushi.
Japanese are obsessed with McDonald's and Starbucks. Depressing.
No.42429
Japanese teens occasionally enjoy the Japanese versions of McDonald's and Starbucks, while still majorly eating traditional Japanese home cooking. Relieving.
No.42633
>>42426>Anime is dead.And thats a good thing
No.42634
Only thing I am worried about is all the censorship going on mainly due to credit card companies in the US.
Anime and Manga have enough variety and creativity that even if 95% of a year's output sucks the remaining 5% is still enough to keep me thoroughly entertained.
No.42641
>>42426>Anime is dead>The new anime coming out is trash>The otaku identity is now pink and blue tranny rooms on YouTube full of $5000 spent on first result in google anime merch of the latest seasonalslop poser anime like jjk,mha,nagatoro, uzaki-chan,my dress up darling>every other complaint OP has madeOP, as sad it is, you have to understand that most great things in this world will start creeping out of their golden ages and start deteriorating soon enough.
We all have to keep ourselves in check when we even try to give something we love a divine status with unrealisitc expectations.
No.42688
>>42426>Anime is deadfor you
because your brain is rotting from not being so closed to new experiences
No.42689
>>42688what anime do you suggest?
No.42690
>>42688you mean too open to new experiences?
No.42925
Most of what you are complaining about is the western fandom, which has always been cringe and shitty, and identity bullshit.
You can like something without making it your identity or dealing with the fandom.
That said, I am really getting sick and tired of the shitty cheap CGI slop in more and more shows.
It's not even that I am totally opposed to CGI in anime. Land of the Lusturous was great. It had actual effort put into it. And 3d-2d composites when done properly can look decent.
But a lot of shows in the past few years aren't trying. They are worse animated than bad anime 20 years ago. Like unacceptably bad.
There are still shows and studios that make high quality stuff, but the amount of bad CGI slop is on the rise and I find it concerning for the state of the industry in general.
No.42929
>>42925I hate chi and I think there will be more years passing by unfortunately
No.42930
>>42925>Most of what you are complaining about is the western fandom, which has always been cringe and shitty, and identity bullshit. >cringeI don't what it is these days when people on the lower part of the social totem pole attack each other. There was no major, or at least obvious, problem with the fandom until the fandom started being overrun with normalfags and manipulative normalfags, somewhere in the last 15+ years as social media replaced most, if not all, forums.
No.42933
>>42930Fandoms are always filled with drama whores, anti-socal assholes, untreated mental cases, and just plain annoying people.
This isn't a new thing or just a normalfag issue.
There was no golden era where it wasn't shit.
I was there, I remember, and my lenses aren't tinted.
Anime is best when enjoyed largely solo and in solitude. Same with most media consumption related hobbies.
No.42936
>>42933Not him but that's your experience of it. I was able to find new anime through these fandom forums and discuss it people who actually watched anime and weren't telling you to stop watching cartoons.
>Fandoms are always filled with drama whores, anti-socal assholes, untreated mental cases, and just plain annoying people. I mean, at least these people were MY people and not invaders who claim to be nostalgic about things they either never liked at the time or things they weren't even born for.
No.42938
>>42937
That's just blatantly not even remotely true.
No.42939
>>42938that's very true there are more niggers and weird trans looking characters in new media they release.
No.42940
For me it was over when Netflix took over anime culture.
No.42942
>>42941
It's sad that one piece lasted over 500 episodes and it was shit looooooooooooong before then.
No.42944
>>42940was it the moment they made their own anime?
No.42945
>>42943
Someone is clearly just trolling for attention I see.
No.42947
I don't know but it was fun watching Rahm Emanuel complain how safe Japan streets are that a kid can walk alone to school and back while the interviewer kept trying to cut him off.
No.42950
>>42426>rewatching old anime gets tiring Umm some of us have autism
No.42952
>>42950There is also tons and tons of old anime.
So much so that it seems impossible to totally run out of stuff to watch.
No.42957
ANIME IS DEAD
LONG LIVE ANIME
No.43084
I want to be into anime again but I am being gatekept by the undying spectre of bidenflation. Same goes for virtually every hobby. Even old paperback books have more than doubled in price compared to five years ago and crackheads have stolen all the decent books from the library.
No.43086
>>42996
both are worse versions than their oiginal adaptations
No.43090
>>43084people pay for anime? what?
No.43092
>>43084Anime is popular with children and the poor because it's so easy to access for free.
Even if you got something against "piracy" there is ad supported free stuff, stuff uploaded by the publisher for free, and old dvd as well as the occasional vhs are floating around in most places for almost free.
Cost isn't a prohibiting factor in Anime as a hobby.
No.43093
>>43086Very true.
The OG adaptations don't even look bad even by today's standards.
No.43156
>>43086>>43093Okay I'm gonna reverse my opinion a little here. I assumed the new Ranma anime was shit because it's a Netflix series which usually implies slop but I watched it and it's actually quite good. Visually it's nice, well drawn, pretty colours, good backgrounds, keeps most of the nudity and naught humour. I enjoyed it. Soundtrack is a little bland compared to the older version but otherwise it's good.
No.43157
>>43156It messes with the material to please modern western gender politics to the point of outright censorship.
I don't give the faintest fuck about how pretty the colors are. That is utterly superficial.
They corrupted the intention of the artist for the sake of evil bullshit. They can go fuck themselves with a broken bottle.
No.43182
>>43181
My expectations of video game adaptations in general are extremely low.
The number of good ones can be counted on a single hand. Two if you are very lax on defining good. Vast majority take tons of "liberties" to the point it at times doesn't even resemble the source material in a lot of video game adaptations. So it doesn't surprise me that DMC turned out the way it did.