I don't know what the fuck you're saying and don't care enough to click back through five back and forth quoted paragraphs in long posts for context. When this kind of exchange is happening it's best to present your thoughts in context rather than relying on the quote chain. "x is the bigotry of low expectations". I don't care enough to reverse engineer this pithy comment and get it to make sense.
you told me to "shut the fuck up." it was a "pithy comment" (a joke) because i was attempting to maintain... rapport?
We make things that already exist again because our consumer class is retarded and afraid of both new and old things. The answer our wise community elders such as Sphere Hunter have landed on is that all of our most advanced resources of media production should be spent making things that already exist again but superficially new so that we can all pretend to be excited and act like we have a new thing but not actually encounter anything we haven't seen before. Perfect. The whole energies of our media industries spent comforting people who are afraid to go on magipack or experience something by themselves without a video essay that came out last week telling them what to think.
That and apparently we made a fourth Minions movie. I don't think that's comparable to Kamen Rider: Black Sun or Godzilla Minus One.
i haven't seen either of those movies, but i don't doubt that you
can make good media in the perennial character (or "shared universe") genre. i would just like to see much, much less of it. the thought of anything i actually like and feel attached to being "remade" makes me cringe -- and being "extended" or "built upon" by different authors sounds even worse.
The fact you and so many others care about what are considered frivolous genre works by their creators obviously suggests something overwhelmingly superior in this culture. Beyond that you can call this behaviour a problem, but it's a problem you have, not one they have.
You can't suggest that they would be better if they treated their work as a completely different class of activity. The attitude and process that produced Haruhi is the same one that means it'll probably never end. When you ask for a purposeful drive toward an ending in such a working you're asking for it to be what it is but also not.
i don't think lackadaisicalness and insecurity created Haruhi and Bakemonogatari (which, since i didn't state this before, are two of my favorite anime). they are mostly good because the characters are excellent and the anime studios which adapted them (KyoAni and SHAFT) are excellent and took many creative liberties. (in Monogatari's case, the writing is also excellent, which is also why it's better than Haruhi).
when Haruhi has been more "dramatic," this has generally been enjoyed by everyone -- who would complain if the entire series was more like The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya?
i am not asking for K-On to become Code Geass. what i am asking for frustrates me because it wouldn't actually take
that much of a change. it would really just take a bit more confidence by its creators, the confidence that led nishio ishin to decide to
kill togame. Bakemonogatari is better than Nisemonogatari because Nisemonogatari is more lackadaisical. Kizumonogatari is possibly better than both. artistic confidence is
always good.
These people can't meaningfully care about anything. The people who matter become bigger fans of Japan the higher up the human family you look.
i agree with you -- to an extent. people who are "really into anime" generally have poor taste; people who are
actual weeaboos in the sense that they think the same thing is better if it's japanese instead of american, people who would buy a japanese chair instead of an american chair that looks exactly the same -- generally have superior taste.
Imagine if you had spent that time watching The Office. It could be so much worse. You are incidentally touching upon far better things while staring at Japan's lowest stuff.
more likely, i would have spent that time playing video games on xbox live. i started watching anime because i saw an advertisement for Strike Witches on some xbox 360 module, felt aroused, googled it, and found an anime streaming website which put ongoing series (seasonal anime) on the front page. anime is why i have never really played new vegas, skyrim, fortnite, or (gasp) minecraft. i have mixed feelings about this.
I can try to make a kind of sense of this. You're saying it's better to go back and look through anything that could be potentially interesting rather than things you can only appreciate as you engage with them alongside others in a frivolous and passing fashion? Yes, that's the problem I described above.
that is what i meant, yes. i think watching each episode of Madoka "with /a/" was a valuable experience, and it would take a lot for me to trade it away. but most of the time i was watching things like Infinite Stratos and Mayo Chiki.
Seasonal anime is still television. An inherently low format that will only be good for so much.
i don't think Breaking Bad would've been as good as a movie. the advantage of television is feeling more attached to the characters, feeling more like you "know" them and have "spent time with" them. this is a huge draw for anime in particular...
there is much potential to be realized.
The fact we can even consider there could be something of interest there in one country's niche of animated television is remarkable. Did your declining interest in anime coincide with it getting worse, or did you just develop broader interests and watch most of the older stuff that interested you?
i don't know. i was feeling suffocated in life generally. i made a conscious effort to "branch out." this is also when i began to "develop taste" in music and attempt to read books. for a while, i continued to follow anime, but i ended up dropping (or putting "On Hold") almost every series i tried to watch.
Everyone loves Frieren now. I read the manga. I think it's very interesting and compelling stuff for a work obviously made for this kind of passing popular format. It's very cool that this is still possible. Was there ever a period where 4 random series would be amazing every season and something has fundamentally changed since then? Or is this "season" format for the entertainment of a certain class of person in a certain place in life, which no longer includes you?
when there's something worth watching, like Frieren, i'll hear about it without ever browsing an anime website or discussion board, without following anime -- without "being into" anime. the same is true of current-year cinema. i go about my life ignoring it most of the time.
i used to be
into anime, i used to watch it every day; i used to feel like i was wasting time when i was doing anything
other than watching anime. back then, at the height of my enjoyment and optimism, i would've posted something like the OP. but now it's just another form of media -- subject to the "90% is shit" rule. i guess, to be charitable, anime might be more like 70% shit. if you compare that to the turd world, where media is subject to the "100% is shit" rule, anime looks really, really good -- there has never been a single good movie to come out of "bollywood." but why would you do that?
