Does anyone else feel like there's been a noticeable reduction in overall media quality over the years, and especially in recent years?
Nah, maybe AAA stuff, but in general nah. Anime has remained consistent particularly in it's balance of scuff-to-polish, even with the AAA stuff.
Things are definitely getting worse, but I'd say American media has seen the worst decline.
>>775560There's still good stuff getting made but the proliferation of a million different streaming platforms etc definitely means there's more garbage being made than ever which drowns out everything else
People always say this but they always base their standards off of childhood consumption
>>775738I didn't "consume" either of the shows in the OP as a kid. The clip on the right obviously looks better.
>comparing tv series to ova
Idiot
>>775740Outlaw Star is not an OVA, it's a 26-episode TV anime. Do young dumb anime fans seriously think anything that looks good and wasn't drawn digitally is an OVA by default? lol
I think there is more obvious technical skill in newer anime but the overall aesthetics of it has been worse since the digipaint era. Could be changing tastes or whatever but a lot of limited animation from the 90s-mid 00s just looks better from an illustration pov even if the actual animation is less impressive. It becomes pretty obvious when comparing reboots of 90s shows, Sailor Moon crystal is a fucking eyesore compared to the 90s show. Cardcaptor while made by the same studio and director never quite reaches the peaks of the 90s show. If they remade Utena it'd probably be dogshit.
>>775728Writing is in the dumpster and has been for a while but tv animation quality hasn't changed too much. Invincible is garbage for instance but Xmen 97 is completely adequate and Castlevania is beautiful.
>>775741Sorry maybe anime does suck now. It's Over
>>775568Nowadays AAA games prefer ugly "realism" over style
Could screen ratio have something to do with it? I believe there is no ergonomic reason for widescreen. Our field of view seems to be widescreen, but when you think about for a moment you realize the stuff on the sides is just really blurry shit and only works only for detecting quick motion. What is in focus is close to the old screen ratio.
The other thing is inconsistent styles. Old animation had already two clashing styles, static background layers with many colors and animation layer with few solid colors. With CGI you have to juggle three styles.
>>775782Good point, I really like watching 1.43:1 imax movies in the theatre and it is often touted as the true way to experience movies
>>775782I basically use my widescreen monitor as two vertical monitors, unless i'm playing a game. My computer monitor has been 4:3 for much of my childhood, so i need to ask:
Do normalfags really browse the web fullscreen, in 16:9?
>>775759I feel like AI has completely shattered the perception that capitalist market economics is democratic in some way. I remember people just assuming that the changes in business and the products being offered were just responses to market demands and that people "voted with their dollars." Seeing this bullshit that no one wants or likes just get forced on everyone like its a new law of nature seems to have made everyone aware that the markets are a very much curated affair run by the interests of powerful investors.
>>775828>not using firefoxget a grip mate
>>775829there's plenty of pro-AI dipshits who think because it's in everything that it must be good and popular.
You are overestimating the modern proletarian capacity for critical thinking
>>775560The quality of animation in high-profile anime has nosedived since the 80s/90s, it's not just a recent thing. I'm not educated enough on the topic to explain the likely material reasons behind that.
>>775560No, that's been a common topic since 2019 or so.
>>775757The "style over realism" stuff that drop isnt much better however.
>>775895japan was experiencing an economic boom when it's animation was at it's best. simple as that
>>775905> economic boom> 90slol, lmao
More anime is being produced recently than at any other point. Studios are stretched thin, on the other hand you are also seeing some of the most technically impressive animation for seasonal anime being released even if I agree that the aesthetics of it has been on a decline.
>>775829normies really liked Expedition 33 and to this day I tell coworkers that the game is ugly slop and they just flouride stare at me. The bar for good aesthetics is just so low at this point that more people will be able to shovel in gen ai slop without people noticing.
This is also an argument to draw yourself and take a serious interest in art, as visual training.
>>775906TBF most animators in 90s Japan learnt most of their skills during the economic boom, you could say a surplus of them had carried over from the previous era.
Anyways the truly groundbreaking stuff is found on manga as it has always been, the commercial viability requirement for anime has always hindered it.
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