Summer Season 2024

[MFauli]

It's almost certainly better than using you as a base, lmao.
Geez.

Imaging saying that, when at the same time saying that anime sucked for the last 20-30 years.

I wonder who hates anime more.

I'm saying modern anime has been shit compared to anime in the past, not ALL anime is shit, otherwise I wouldn't watch anymore.

But calling fucking Frieren your FAVORITE anime of all times is just so ... spiteful. I don't believe you.

And yeah, try shitting on my anime taste, when I cite anime like Record of Lodoss War, Claymore, Gantz, Berserk or others. Clearly those are all mediocre shows compared to big brain-anime like Mushoku Tensei and Frieren and Smartphone Isekai.

Oh man, the dishonesty is too much rn, sorry, gotta cool off somewhere .... ugh

[Ryllharu]

I'm saying modern anime has been shit compared to anime in the past, not ALL anime is shit, otherwise I wouldn't watch anymore.

Anime of the past (pre-2008 to set a milestone for sake of argument) was just as shit as it is today, minus two particular banner years (which the 2010s and 2020s have each also had). There was simply less of it by a factor of 3-4.

And yeah, try shitting on my anime taste, when I cite anime like Record of Lodoss War, Claymore, Gantz, Berserk or others. Clearly those are all mediocre shows compared to big brain-anime like Mushoku Tensei and Frieren and Smartphone Isekai.

Watch as I do so!

Lodoss War whatever, there's not that many standout fantasy series as a whole. Still not sure if we're talking OVA or TV series, and there's a big difference between the two. For that era, I've always preferred Slayers for its parody tone that switches on a dime. As for the sake of this discussion...Bakuretsu Hunter also exists from the same era and...uh...is what it is. Also the first three Queen's Blade seasons are weirdly just as detailed as Lodoss War in terms of lore. Is QB a good series? No. But fun.

Claymore? Absolute dogshit adaptation of a very good manga, which itself is not perfect. Not better than the author's other work Angel Densetsu despite being a completely different genre.

Berserk? 1997 version is reasonably close to perfect as far as dark fantasy/historical series go, but the series as a whole never quite hits the same high as the Golden Age arc ever again, but since we're only looking at the anime versions, we can set that aside.

Gantz? It's gore porn when it isn't regular porn. The anime adaptation was again, not great compared to the source material and the source material gets equally bad as it progresses. It's about the same level as Btooom, and only marginally better than the average death game anime. Which are generally quite bad modern or previously.

So aside from personal taste, no. They're really not that exceptional. Just catering to your specific tastes. And aside from Lodoss, there's a rather obvious through-line.