04-03-2023, 01:29 AM
Ok, so to give the Forum a new thread and give a new outlet of catharsis I will be talking about how anime actually “sux” now.
I was a big anime fan in the past, the last time I enumerated the amount series I had watched it was in the 300s range. I say this because I want to emphasize that I am(was) a real anime fan. It used to be my favorite way to spend my time, yet eventually I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I had grown bored and tired of it. Why? It wasn’t until Anthony’s post that I was knocked out of my stupor and was able to realize why.
With anime I think there is a divide between works with Vision and Passion vs more socially oriented ones. These works with vision have with them a deeper message that engages the watcher on a spiritual level. Then there are works made to be entertaining, they are held up by Japanese culture and the Japanese personality. Now keep in mind these categories are of extremes and artistic works usually fall somewhere between them. But I feel in recent years there has been a greater shift towards works that appeal to the Japanese culture and Japanese Personality side(social over individual) of thing. That these kind of works by nature of the Japanese personality are connected and influence each other in a feed back loop that relates to the current culture and past anime culture. I think the Japanese anime in recent years has had a large shift to this side and had become a tightly compacted mass without life. A indistinguishable morass, this is where my dislike of anime began.
I had grown tired of the Japanese personality and culture that had made a stand still. I think if you compare a lot of works form the early 2000s with the recent ones you’d see what I mean. I was originally putting off making a thread like this because I wanted to make an anime culture timeline. I think distinct attitudes prevailed in certain times causing most of the anime to have that same attitude, but now it does not feel like it’s progressing. It’s ossified into a low denominator mass culture instead of something for a niche audience.
This is just to get the thread going but I will talk latter about the Japanese personality aspect of thing and explain in deeper detail what I mean by that. Also with my second point I made(earlier and not here) was that it could not be overstated the impact western culture has had on Japan. This centers a lot of the Japanese personality side because it takes western cultural things and simply applied the Japanese personality to them making them seem strange and new. Now Japanese culture has been greatly influence by western culture but what I’m specifically talking about is how a lot of anime is just western stuff with a Japanese veneer. Although you could say they have made it their own in this way I was pointing out how it’s not just a thing of the past but a lot of “recent” anime is highly influenced by western stuff. This pertains to certain genres and how they although now completely Japanese have western roots and this has largely become forgotten. Sure it’s now Japanese because the Japanese personality has been applied but again I was just talking about the phenomenon and it’s implied corollaries.
Anyway I will write more but go ahead and start posting.
I was a big anime fan in the past, the last time I enumerated the amount series I had watched it was in the 300s range. I say this because I want to emphasize that I am(was) a real anime fan. It used to be my favorite way to spend my time, yet eventually I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I had grown bored and tired of it. Why? It wasn’t until Anthony’s post that I was knocked out of my stupor and was able to realize why.
With anime I think there is a divide between works with Vision and Passion vs more socially oriented ones. These works with vision have with them a deeper message that engages the watcher on a spiritual level. Then there are works made to be entertaining, they are held up by Japanese culture and the Japanese personality. Now keep in mind these categories are of extremes and artistic works usually fall somewhere between them. But I feel in recent years there has been a greater shift towards works that appeal to the Japanese culture and Japanese Personality side(social over individual) of thing. That these kind of works by nature of the Japanese personality are connected and influence each other in a feed back loop that relates to the current culture and past anime culture. I think the Japanese anime in recent years has had a large shift to this side and had become a tightly compacted mass without life. A indistinguishable morass, this is where my dislike of anime began.
I had grown tired of the Japanese personality and culture that had made a stand still. I think if you compare a lot of works form the early 2000s with the recent ones you’d see what I mean. I was originally putting off making a thread like this because I wanted to make an anime culture timeline. I think distinct attitudes prevailed in certain times causing most of the anime to have that same attitude, but now it does not feel like it’s progressing. It’s ossified into a low denominator mass culture instead of something for a niche audience.
This is just to get the thread going but I will talk latter about the Japanese personality aspect of thing and explain in deeper detail what I mean by that. Also with my second point I made(earlier and not here) was that it could not be overstated the impact western culture has had on Japan. This centers a lot of the Japanese personality side because it takes western cultural things and simply applied the Japanese personality to them making them seem strange and new. Now Japanese culture has been greatly influence by western culture but what I’m specifically talking about is how a lot of anime is just western stuff with a Japanese veneer. Although you could say they have made it their own in this way I was pointing out how it’s not just a thing of the past but a lot of “recent” anime is highly influenced by western stuff. This pertains to certain genres and how they although now completely Japanese have western roots and this has largely become forgotten. Sure it’s now Japanese because the Japanese personality has been applied but again I was just talking about the phenomenon and it’s implied corollaries.
Anyway I will write more but go ahead and start posting.