I checked on an OLD online friend who used to always recommend stuff like L.O.G.H, Angel's egg and, Texhnolyze and would shit on seasonal/S.O.L/"generic" anime, now his favorites list is mostly stuff like Precure, Aikatsu, and, Hidamari Sketch, it's basically as if his tastes changed ENTIRELY

is this the end goal of anime elitism?

>>280500014 (OP)
anime elitism or elitism in any media is a faggotry act. just rate whatever the fuck you think about something. stop being a pseudo-intellect for no reason. you will never be happy if care too much about ratings and shit. that's not what chads do

Your friend finally grew up and stopped caring about garbage for 16-year-old teens. Be happy for him.

What a shit thread

>>280500014 (OP)
Based thread.
Muh superior semicircles was never deep.

>>280500014 (OP)
The I only watch mature anime for mature people like myself is a phase for insecure posers who cares too much about having the most "correct" taste on things but secretly enjoys the trash they claim to hate so much.

>>280500014 (OP)
Nice, so much stuff I need to watch
>now his favorites list is mostly stuff like Precure, Aikatsu, and, Hidamari Sketch
He has grow up. Do you know why CGDCT is so popular in Japan? Salarymen are MISERABLE and use it as an escape to a simpler time. Your friend may be suffering from depression.
>>280500235
This. Once you're old enough, you should simply go read a book. But also stop being a miserable faggot and watch anime in your free time just to enjoy and stop pointless debate on basketweaving forums.

>>280500014 (OP)
Precure is indeed very attractive to otakus. Although otakus dare not say in front of others that they watch such childish children's cartoons, they will still secretly buy Precure's products and often use Precure's pornographic films to masturbate.

>>280500602
I don't get it. At least Nanoha and Madoka have sexy girls with developed bodies

There's a reason why Boku no Pico has been /a/'s main recommendation for decades.

>>280500014 (OP)
I'm the creator of this pic and DBZ is pretty much the only anime I like nowadays

>>280500014 (OP)
How can anyone identify all these gooks on sight? They all look the same.

>>280501024
Sooner or later you'll realize that Precure's character designs are extremely erotic.

>>280500014 (OP)
no, it's easy, you see, everyone else's taste is shit but mine.

>>280500014 (OP)
A lot of them either trooned out, were in discord servers with people that trooned out and absorbed their tastes, or just realized they love lusting after cute anime girls way more than posturing over pretentious shit. Either way, they all tend to be massive cunts.

>>280500125
average for this board's standards
>>280500102
Yes, honestly i prefer battle shonen or rom-coms over a lot of so called "elitist anime"
>>280500120
based, based
>>280501432
I didn't know Precure and Aikatsu were popular amongst transexuals, I thought they mostly just watched the more surface-level stuff such as Madoka and Bocchi

>>280500014 (OP)
Degradation. People don't get smarter when they age, it's the opposite.

YES
I think animes elitism should RISE UP
you never see ppl here or on facebook or any social media like myspace, talk about SAO
fucking Sword Art On Line was THE elitist anime of ALL TIME. until few years ago when it just died.
good times brother. good times.

>>280500014 (OP)
Ah yes, the great philosophical anime franchise Lupin III.

>>280500602
I want to breed Mayu

The actual elite anime fan has tons of experience, an open mind and wide taste. If you pseudcuck yourself out of most anime you aren’t elite you’re a midwit tryhard.

>>280500120
Now he cares about stuff for 6 year old girls and lonely salarymen

>>280500014 (OP)
This picture is what I imagine the average /v/tard likes and thinks about when they complain about "troonime" (as in, they want the COOL anime, not the cringey and gay anime)

>>280502554
This so much. If you watch something its because you enjoy it, if you drop something, its because you realized you didn't get enjoyment out of it.
All these debates about charts, sales and popularity are pointless and made by tryhards who want to feel less like the losers they are.
Its that simple!

>>280502614
They're not allowed to like Lain, Rose of Versailles, or Utena anymore since trannies also like them or whatever.

>>280500014 (OP)
>Eva is different from the other mechas
>Wait Gundam is kinda similar
>Utena is a deconstruction of maho shojos
>Wait it has nothing to do with the genre and nanoha/precure actually did more to shape and change the trend while being also pretty fun and creative like Utena

At a certain point you realize there's not as much slop as you pretended.

>>280500102
It makes sense, especially for the kind of people that were seeking some sort of solution for the world in this kind of media. Once you realize there is no solution to humanity that doesn't cause more harm than it fixes, you realize the best option is to just enjoy your own life, and sometimes that can be just enjoying the simple pleasure of indulging in fairy-tale fantasies like precure or watching cute girls doing cute things like hidamari sketch.

If you don’t enjoy studying bad anime are you really elite?
If you can’t find the good in the bad as easily as the bad in the good, are you really elite?
If you pride yourself on how much anime you hate, are you really an anime fan?

>>280500014 (OP)
Makes sense, remember the chart
0 to 10 = shonen and toy shit
10 to 20 = seinen/edgy shit and mature anime
20 to 30 = seasonal and trendy anime
30 to 40 = moe/CGDCT/SoL
40+ = isekai

Your friend will soon have another change.

>>280503294
All have worthwhile anime within them as an adult.

>>280500014 (OP)
>le true enlightenment is... liking for well animated garbage for kids and housewives that will be quickly forgotten in the annals of History
Anti-intellectualism is cancer and your friend is a nigger.

>>280503376
You can intelligently (actively) enjoy media of all kinds.

>>280503376
If you're so obsessed with stuff that would be remembered you would just watch battle shonen adaptations. The fact that people like you don't like is that you can be thematically strong and have a good story without having to be dry and dreary bullshit like Texhnolyze. But to these kinds of people, being light hearted or comedic automatically invalidates anything else you do.

>>280503710
There is not a single battle shonen adaptation that is critically acclaimed. The industry mass produces garbage and the things in that image are so scarce that I can't help but to feel ''teen deep'' people have a point.
Not to mention nobody cares about independent Japanese animation. If all of this shit is terrible for pretentious people then nothing is good

>>280500014 (OP)
test

Liking "serious anime for serious people" is an entry level affectation by people who are obsessed with status. They don't even really like anime, they just affect intellectual interests in the hopes other people think they are smart and interesting. Most people grow out of this kind of chuunibyou behavior by their mid 20s for various reasons, and only a few of these types of people bother to watch anime once they become aware it won't make them cool.

Actually watching anime usually cures people of the kind of narrowminded opinions you see from these wannabe intellectuals, which is why they avoid it. They are deathly afraid of actually enjoying "low brow" entertainment because they take themselves so seriously.

>>280503869
Critical acclaim and being remembered are two different things. Plus it depends what you mean by critical acclaim. Who are you counting? Because even if you look at top Japanese charts things like One Piece and other battle shonen are usually high on there.

>>280503869
>>There is not a single battle shonen adaptation that is critically acclaimed.
And? Why does that matter? Why not be the first critic to acclaim it? Not interested in having original opinions? Just want to fit in with the rest of the snobs and circlejerk each other's "high standards"? What a shocker.

Lot of truth bombs ITT glad to see /a/ has grown up

>>280500014 (OP)
Liking hidamari sketch is a telltale sign of high iq and refined taste. Liking Hidamari more than logh is a telltale sign of mental and emotional maturity.

anyone who cares if their taste is "based" or not is a giant fag

>>280503376
>it's bad because it's for kids
Peak midwit take. Also Precure will be more fondly remembered and culturally relevant than whatever slop you champion.

>>280504317
What if I enjoyed both for what they are?

>>280504317
Both are decent series hogged by fart sniffers, though it seems LoGHfags are at least somewhat self aware these days.

>>280504398
It will be remembered in the same way Sazae-san is.

>>280504317
Both good

>>280500014 (OP)
Precure and Doremi are the logical conclusion of LOGH, Angel's Egg and Texhnolyze.

le logical conclusion to le anime is derivative magical girl shit. Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>280504690
watch more anime babu chama

>>280504690
Imagine getting baited by a post like that, couldn’t be me

>>280504639
They're the logical conclusion for faggots that copy eachother's tastes, yeah.

>>280504803
your seasonal thread is over there, lil pup

>>280500014 (OP)
Being hyped up by cringy pretentious retards who see them as tools for their own bullshit doesn't make an anime bad. Indeed some of those in your pic are actually great. Much better than shameless late-stage 00s otaku garbage.

>>280501668
Precure and Aikatsu are mostly popular with older men who just want something cute and happy as escapism from their shitty real lives.

>>280504866
>anyone that doesn't exclusively watch the same assortation of troon approved shit that everyone has already seen anyway is a seasonalfag
And other copes by midwits forever stuck in the pseudointellectual hole they've dug themselves in.

>>280504690
>derivative magical girl shit
>derivative sci-fi shit

>>280505180
You're very out of touch if you think "everyone has already seen" Doremi and Precure. Even more so if you also think that doesn't apply to LoGH, Angel's Egg, and Technolyze.

>>280505180
>approved
>post-covid /a/ tourist can't even conceive of the idea that it's possible to watch shows outside the influence of curated lists

>>280500014 (OP)

Yes, unfortunately it is.

Also i never heard anybody call lupin III or giant robo deep.

>>280505265
It's not anyone elses problem that you like to compare yourself to the underage to make yourself feel better. Most in this game longer than the average normalfag has seen at least most of those.

>>280505319
Read the reply chain again.

There are three categories of balding 'llennials who watched anime since high school.
1. Arrested development shounentard: whines about One Piece and only watches shounenshit and the odd FOTM like Dandadan, always dubbed.
2. Tranny: almost certainly a former or current brony. Watched toddlerslop "ironically", then forgot about the irony. Uses sad anime girl avatars in social media. Desperate to recapture childhood joy. Highly delusional.
3. Wizard: still a virgin incel. Watches anime seasonally. Talks to no one about it. Has no friends. Spends the remainder of his free time scrolling the catalog. Seasonalslop all looks the same. Needs to feel something, anything. Feels nothing.

>>280505451
I don't think I will. I accept your concession.

>>280505795
Shounentards and wizards are practically the same

>>280505881
Accept these balls in your mouth, faggot.

>>280500014 (OP)
>is this the end goal of anime elitism?
It ended a while ago. Most of them didn't change to seasonals, though, they just stopped watching anime

>>280505795
I'm none of these though.
>>280505451
Glad you agree that everyone has seen LoGH, Angel's Egg, and Texhnolyze and that they're not special elitist anime like some people believe.

>>280505397
No, no. They're super deep.

>>280505795
None of the above.

>>280500014 (OP)
>The opinions of this ONE PERSON I'm familiar with have changed
>Extrapolation: this is a reflection of the nature of elitism in anime circles
it's a bit of a leap, don't you think?

>>280507282
I realize so, untl i checked on a handful (yes not many to give a proper reflection) of my old friends from that community who also had a generic "elitist taste" and they also shifted toward liking Mahou shoujo, Kodomo and Ido anime in varied degrees

>>280502734
its simple actually
everything after 2007 is slop
everything before 2007 is kino (the baka hentai battleschool haremslop of the 2000s is retroactively granted kino status)

Why can't you like a lot of genres and shows that are different from each other? Why do you have to stick to one camp and screech like an autistic retard at others? I mean seriously, I don't even know if you faggots like anime anymore.

>>280508151
They don’t.

most /a/nons are extremely suspectable to peer pressure and bullying
an image like this would destroy them

>>280500014 (OP)
Idk, I like some anime of your pic and I love Aikatsu as well

>>280500014 (OP)
Aikatsu is peak tbqh. It sounds like that dude got better taste over time, which is a good end goal.

Seasonals have an inferiority complex. What else is new?

>>280500014 (OP)
If you think anime elitists are the people who watch these shows you're just out of touch with reality frankly. I have never in my life seen a hatred more raw, relentless and genuine than a lolicon grappling with the idea that there are even people who watch anime that aren't lolicons, whether or not they hate lolicons or not. Literally forever mindbroken by Dragon Ball, it's a form of age regression and these are pretty much the only people who ever harp on about being "cultured" or "gatekeeping" because they watch a fucking anime. Calling these shows "elitist" is just your cope for the fact that someone insulted you for not liking them, as if that matters either.

>>280500014 (OP)
>as if his tastes changed ENTIRELY
Many such cases, people really want to fit in after joining "patrician" discord servers.
>>280508151
Because they treat anime as social and signaling thingy.

That shit appeals to teenagers
Aikatsu and Precure appeals to old men

>>280510723
Aikatsu and Precure also appeals to insecure teenagers who want to be more hipster than 2deep4u crowd.

>>280512631
SO MUCH THIS
SO MUCH THIS

>>280508151
ccuuttee design

>>280500014 (OP)
If you actually care about anime elitism you're also part of the problem. You're better off getting over people who can't get over themselves.

I had a phase in my late teens/early twenties where I was into CGDCT and Precure/Aikatsu/Pripara but I grew out of it. Now I watch pretty much everything that has both males and females in it and isn't either yuri or yaoi. Still like the masterpieces (the anime that's considered pretentious to like) btw.

>>280515153
Shows like these are the best

>>280500102
First post BASED post!

>>280500014 (OP)
>is this the end goal of anime elitism?
Yes, he completed his hero journey and returned to his village: shows for little kids.

>>280505795
Sounds like an american problem to me.

>>280510300
Dubs of truth. It's the people who take pride in being an unlikable friendless loser who are most pretentious fans.

>>280500014 (OP)
bro is close to figuring out the spiral

>>280500014 (OP)
Those are all kino though.

>>280500014 (OP)
>it's basically as if his tastes changed ENTIRELY
More likely expanded. He probably still enjoys Texhnolyze and so on a lot, but gave some SoL and Mahou Shoujo a try and ended up enjoying it.
If he's from back then, it might also have been just teenage snobbyism, teens, especially nerd ones, are quite arrogant about their tastes in media.
>>280502705
I hate the culture war. For us Vietnamese wood carving enjoyers it's especially bad, since both left and right attacks it.

>>280500014 (OP)
My guess is that he's 30+ and dropped posing.
Precure's formula is very easy to enjoy and Aikatsu season 1 is fucking magic and everybody should give it a chance, you probably won't give a damn in the first five episodes but it keeps getting better. Just watch one episode every few days to not exhaust the formula marathoning.
If somehow your friend starts saying that the good old anime is shit he was always a poser. Or needs to go to the deeps and Montana, abandon society and commune with nature.

>>280522185
So glad you mentioned Aikatsu, i tried watching that a while ago and found it too repetitive even though i totally enjoy S.O.L anime but i was trying to watching many episodes per day, next time when i give it a try i will watch it much more mindfully

>>280500014 (OP)
I have an LED friend who thinks like that.
The actual answer to your question is rather simple. Just watch what you enjoy. Anything else is just retarded.

>>280522713
Thanks to Netflix and piracy people have been getting the custom of binging series when you have every episode.
But for most cases it just hurts the quality of the series.
For formulaic kid shows were you're always having the episode's fight/song it just murders them by the tedium of seeing the repeated footage over and over in similar plots in one sitting.

>>280519726
is this precure?
never watched it, but she looks very erotic

>>280523533
is this the reason why Kodomo anime seems to be "dying" relatively?

>>280500014 (OP)
hard to be elitist when all you have these days are shounen, ln and naroushit adaptations

>>280500102
Elitism is necessary for gatekeeping

>>280500014 (OP)
>your friend became a moetroon
Sad!

>>280526320
Gatekeeping it's just a cope way to say you like something unpopular

>>280500014 (OP)
Maldy shounenigger/romcomfag/ecchishit-addled subhuman did this pic
Your shounenshit will never win any Tezuka or Seiun

>>280500014 (OP)
when you reach a certain age you realise anime isn't very deep and even if you go for the "deep" stuff, it won't give you status. it's not like a good taste in music, film, or literature. so they try seeming intelligent on another medium or just watch whatever dumb shit because it's just anime anyway.

>>280508233
this image could destroy villages.

>>280525277