That's not what he is saying. He is saying that past years of anime are not objectively better than current years of anime. He is saying you are overly emphasizing the best entries for a number of years and comparing it to each year's output.
The truth is every year is variable, with some being better and some worse, but the overall pattern does NOT show that older shows are better as a trend. It is either equal or newer seasons being better overall due to art and tech progress.
Peace.
The best years of the industry are vastly superior to the modern era in both the sense that the best shows are better and there were far less shows being made so the average is better. There's probably more bad isekai shows alone being made this year than there were total shows in 1995.
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1995 has Evangelion and Gundam Wing out of 17 total TV shows airing. Let's say all the other ones are dogshit, sorry Fushigi Yugi and Gunsmith Cats and Slayers, I never watched that shit, whatever. So 2 out of 17 are great (or 1 out of 17, if you're being mean to poor old Gundam Wing).
There were 222 TV shows aired last year according to my quick math on Wikipedia. This means there need to be what, a dozen-ish Evangelion-level shows and a dozen-ish Gundam Wing shows to match 1995. Or you need to argue, equally implausibly, that the average show is now vastly superior and so it rescues 2023, despite the fact that the average show airing now is titled something like Reborn As A Pedophile In A Fantasy MMO.
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I'm judging whether a year is good or not by the amount of great anime that released during that year, yes. Like every normal person would do.Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
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