Anime sucking lately

Wahaha gech hating Kaleido Star, what's to expect. The man says Eva is everything he hates about anime. So character designs, production values (minus few dodgy eps), music, genre mixing, difficult issues and :gendopose: are also wrong with animu


Anyway, I've been very much out of anime for months now and the starvation theory of early years works. Back then everything was new and exciting, you even managed to tolerate AD Police and Doomed Megalopolis on your shelf because you foolishly bought that shit on VHS and by god you were going to keep it. Nowadays I nearly always limit myself to a few series per season, depending on what catches my interest, judging by character designs and basic setup. So comparing the amount of good series I watch, things haven't changed all that much. All I see is bigger production values (now everything pretty has that sunbleached evening effect to them!), more choice and easier, much easier access to it all.

From an actual anime lover's point of view, things seriously couldn't be better. My issues only come from how many of the older, wonderful series easily get overlooked in favor of the more known (and more readily available) titles but ah well.

Sure, I doubt we'll ever have anything of the magnitude of Mobile Police Patlabor in terms of charm, talent or influence, much like I doubt any romantic comedy will ever be able to top Maison Ikkoku (manga), but recent times have given us completely wonderful miracles like Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (which still stands as my favorite animated motion picture of this century), Millennium Actress, Haruhi, Victorian Romance Emma, Haibane Renmei, Stand-Alone Complex and Pani Poni Dash, and you simply can't complain about those (unless of course you somehow despise comedy or cyberpunk).

Then again, after Yotsuba anime hits, there will be no need to make any more.................................

Jam it back in, in the dark.