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Correction, most anime is trash. Yes, even the one you're thinking of. In fact, especially that one.
Aaaand stolen.
I mean most any media is trash. Why is anime any different than, let's say, TV shows? The medium doesn't make it better or worse, it's the actual quality of the particular series that's important.
Look at the synopsis of all of the isekais and then tell me. A large portion of them feature harems, slavery, glorifying slavery, incest and more.
Anime is much cheaper to produce than other types of media, so more low quality content gets approval than it might if it cost 5-10x more.
I would like to introduce you to a genre of telefilms that in Spain is known as "after-lunch film". Most of them are US productions and would put to shame even the cheapest anime.
Are they like "soap operas" in the US, or something?
We have also US soap operas (Beautiful rings a bell?), but these are not serialized. They are just standalone films. The genre is so bad that people joked about them being summed up in 3 different plots:
He kills her
He rapes her
He kidnapps her
Anime? Cheap to produce? I'd love to live in that parallel world lmao
Because it's media for kids, which usually means that it's significantly dumbed down or catered to emotionally developing people. For every Mr Roger's or Arthur, there are 200 caillous
Most media (especially mainstream media) is for emotionally developing people. Generally, if some media is not "for kids" is just because boobs or blood (or both). But let's not pretend most mainstream media (including anime) has more depth than a puddle.
Anime is NOT for kids.
The Great Bride Magus, or Death Parade, or Psycho Pass, or Frieren: After the Journey's End, or Steins:Gate, or Re:Zero, or Mushoku Tensei, or White Snow with Red Hair.
These aren't definitely for kids.
Stop generalizing based on your shitty lack of knowledge.
Death parade, great magus bride, psycho pass, steins gate, frieren, and re zero are definitely tooled for teens. Gratuitous violence, edgy themes, society, recognition of change, expectations, etc. are all things that teens can interface with. These stories won't mean the same thing to them as they do to you, but they stories are not lost on them.
I like several of your mentions btw. Still accessible media, though.
Lmao
3/4 of those are for early teens. Personally, I only go for real, mature adult anime like boku no pico and Elfen lied
In this thread you'll find:
People falling over themselves trying to justify how material sourced from shΕjo and shΕnen magazines is actually intended for adults, presumably because they're adults and they like it.
I couldn't care less about adults consuming media primarily targeted toward teens and adolescents. I'm in my thirties and watch anime myself. At no point have I ever tried to convince anyone that teen and 'young adult' media is anything else. There's no shame it enjoying it as an adult, but it does become increasingly less relevant with age.
Absolutely. Insecurity over intended audience is lame. Like what you like. I have zero judgement. Enjoying kid-friendly media is fine. I'm watching avatar tonight. Doesn't mean that it's not for kids, just because the budget is high and the story nuanced
Quite right. I watch and enjoy Bluey with my partner's kid so much he now tries to get me to watch Gumball instead. Hehehe. Both good shows. Adult wins.
Hell yes. I'm watching Steven Universe despite being almost as old as the universe.
Ehhh... No, they're not. Their story and focus, also their themes, and even their declared demographic (although this one is not that precise, one can declare to be shounen because it's going to serialize in a shounen magazine despite being seinen [that happened to Attack on Titan, for example, that's more adult but was serialized on the Weekly Shounen Jump], or vice versa; and it's the same for shoujo and josei).
Tell me which ones are "for kids". I think you have a bias because some of these are from the fantasy genre or have some more light scenes here and there.
Some anime is for kids, but that's only the kodomo (literally, children) demographic, and some shounen and shoujo (adolescent) can be really deep as well (such as Hataraku Maou-sama!, despite being principally comedy, it has a really good worldbuilding with great exploration of really important topics, or Log Horizon, that actually explores very well some things like identity, humanity, consciousness and the nature of the self).
Love Psycho-pass, Id add Vinland Saga, First season of One Punch Man, Mushishi, GITs SAC,
Though directed at children is such a weird idea, like is Terminator 2 directed at children? Itβs themes are just as shallow if not moreso than Steins Gate Is Back to the Future directed at adults because itβs PG in the US? Blood gore and boobs does not an adult show make. I donβt know why anime has
Ninety percent of everything is crap
Nah, Cowboy Bebop is awesome, as is NG:E, Trigun, Hellsing, and Darling in the Franxx. But yeah, there's so much that it's basically just a lot, and it's certainly reductive to just call it "trash."
At least this year we are getting anime that is not trash, though a lot of people might not like it:
There's also Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu (Playing Death Games to Bring Food to the Table) or Needy Girl Overdose.
Well yeah. Tell someone to not think about ducks and where do their brains go? Duck boobs.
Of course I'm thinking about trash anime. It's my favorite kind.
There is a logical dilemma here, in that Cowboy Bebop is an anime. Avatar we got away with because it's Western, but Bebop is anime.
Agree. Miyazaki, though...
Hey, I was talking about anime, not magnum opus: the filmography
I thought the magnum opus was that one that ended up just being hours of anime food footage