Thread 280679839

Cutoff for retro status is around 2005. This is a bad thing because it means anime isn't changing enough for fifteen year old shows to feel dated

>>280679891
Damn gramps you old as fuck, how long until your high blood pressure from bad sleep schedule makes your aorta burst and you die a painful and miserable "natural causes" death alone

>>280679905
anything made on cel is retro, this conveniently means anything pre-2000s is retro

About to lose it.

>>280679839 (OP)
It's beyond fucked up!
I was on tiktok and stumbled upon a vid of a 18 year old girl listing anime "she saw when she was young"... it was all stuff from the Covid era.

>>280680107
Early digital is retro now

>>280680421
NO!

>>280680088
>thinks the world will be compassionate and let us leave so easily
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>280680118
haruhi was always bad.

>>280680453
haruhi was the true birth of kyoani, and subsequently lead to lucky star and the popularization of CGDCT, it might not be great in retrospect today (despite the movie being a true 10/10) but it is a classic by any definition within the animeverse.

>>280680485
lucky star has had an enormous cultural impact.
Haruhi is nothing.
t. someone who was there during the hayday.
Kagami is a far better stick in the mud than kyon can ever dream of being, because unlike kyon kagami is actually a true 100% hypocrite.

>>280679839 (OP)
Nah retro means 20+ years. Make this thread in 5 more years.

4:3 retro
16:9 (and wider) not retro

>>280680118
GOOD

>>280679839 (OP)
I still watch Lucky Star

fug

where did time go?

>>280680282
>"I watched this show when I was a kid and it fucked me up!"
>it's Re:Zero

>>280679905
Kinda like how, despite the best efforts of radio stations to start playing Linkin Park and Green Day, true classic rock cuts off hard at 1991 and how, despite some trying to say Xbox 360 and PS3 are "retro," no one seriously buys it (even if PS2 is considered that for some stupid reason)
I feel like "retro" is always going to be defined by having a quality that was defined by limitations and old-school mentalities.
Digitally colored anime and digital bloom is always going to feel modern, even if it's from the early 2000s
Cel-animation, detailed shading, and the classic kawaii look is always going to feel classic. That's why everyone thought Kill la Kill looked like a retro anime, even though it was digital.

Like how it doesn't matter if Nirvana is 30 years old, a blues noodly jam band like Greta Van Fleet is what's considered as sounding like "classic rock" or how Halo 3 is almost 20 years old, but 2D pixel art and low poly 3D is what's considered "retro"

>>280679905
It is sort of interesting how you can look at the 70s through early 00s and have a clear visual sense of when what was made. Things like coloring and outlines have very era specific flourish

>>280680282
And I thought I was late getting into anime in 2014

>>280679839 (OP)
>>280679905
>anime isn't changing enough for fifteen year old shows to feel dated
Look at the season 1 flashbacks in P&S season 2 and tell me again the visuals aren't dated in comparison to the new ones.

>>280682878
>Everyone thought Kill la Kill looked like a retro anime
Nigga, who's everyone?

>>280679891
>Harui today is twice as old as Cowboy Bebop was when Harui first aired

>>280679839 (OP)
Where tho, don't try to start shit, all those pre 2000s anime threads are clear about it, anything post 1999 isn't allowed there yet you people always try to start shit with the "Le 2010s are retro" for some reason

>>280680282
>when she was young
In her defence, 18 is a decade too old to be called young

>>280679891
Aging isn't the worst part. The worst part is seeing how much our civilization is changing for the WORST because we opened up doors to mass immigration. The world we grow up in already doesn't exist.

>time passes
AAAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE

>>280679839 (OP)
just find interesting things or hobbies in current era, it's that shrimple

is kill la kill and ika musume retro?

>>280683810
howdy Ivan, how's like not dieing in the trenches?

>>280679839 (OP)
What's wrong? Pull the trigger.

Why is cel anime so soulful bros?

>recommend gurren lagann to one the zoomers at work
>he tells me its too old

>>280683916
I mean it came out in 2006. That kid was like 10 or something when you were all making Kamina glasses photoshops.

>>280682581
>>280682633
it's over, isn't it?

>>280683810
No, the worst part is seeing everyone around me get brainwashed by modern, extremely effective propaganda while I retain sobriety and realize what the politics descended into and how close we are to a total societal breakdown because of them.
Sometimes I wish I was as retarded as you so that I could believe all the political talking heads and be blissfully unaware that they're trying to turn me into their cannon fodder.

>>280684118
A happy somali family wants to settle in your neighborhood. Hey, they invited their cousins and their cousins invited other friends. Now the majority of your neighborhood are somalis. It is loud in the night and knive attacks heavily increased.

>>280681876
16:9 has been the standard for anime movies since the beginning moron

2010 is too similar to right now, retro in name only

>>280683916
what’s with people avoiding media that is “old”, as if the quality of everything that comes out to today trumps everything from the past.

>>280684181
That's flat out wrong. Momotaro no Umiwashi for instance was 4:3.

>>280684399
>what’s with people avoiding media that is “old”
A little lesson in anthropology
Most people (normalfaggots) do things just to be accepted into the tribe, or be part of any community.
Being an active part of the current discussion is very important for this, no matter the actual quality of the discussion itself.
Most old stuff is not part of the current discussion and being different (compared to the specific tribe one tries to be a part of) is very scary to these people.
For you and me, for people who like something for its own sake, watching things that are not current or popular is normal, but for these people is not about the product, it's about what's to gain from the product, which is the social dynamic.
A lot of people like these don't even watch the anime they talk about, they read or watch summaries.

>>280684399
zoomers grew up with Twitter. That shit social media will never recommend you anything older than 3 days

>>280684422
Ok "from the beginning" is a wrong exaggeration.
It was commonplace from the '50s onward

>>280684525
That's not true. Every few months some series from 10-20 years ago gets really popular again and spawns a new annoying fandom that didn't exist before. That happened to Gurren Lagann just last year.

>>280684399
I do avoid older movies from the 60s and before cause people talk weird and the quality is usually subpar and there were common tropes that are kind of annoying
I also wouldn't watch anime from before the 90s

>>280679839 (OP)
Isn't retro supposed to be like 20 years old?

>>280684399
I do avoid newer movies from 2010 and on cause people talk weird and the quality is usually subpar and there were common tropes that are kind of annoying

>>280679905
I mean, 15 years is not that long so shows, that did come out in 2010 shouldn't feel dated.

>>280684873
>people talk weird
>the quality is usually subpar
>common tropes that are kind of annoying
This is some weak ass bait

>>280683916
>Talking about animu
>at work
(You) are the reason this site is a graveyard.

>>280684935
>15 years is not that long so shows
I realized just the other day that 15 years isn't that long but feels that long to me bcause that's 50% of my lifetime so far.
For people even younger it's not strange at all to think that 15 years old show might as well be a century old.

>>280679839 (OP)
>tagged as RETRO
by whom and where

>>280684962
I told them to watch Vinland saga and konosuba so the youngins think I'm some kind of anime master now.

>>280682917
Honestly I find that really weird. It seems like new, distinct aesthetics haven’t really been created since the end of the 2000s. It’s all just sterile and bland

When did the 90s start feeling like the 60s?

>>280685910
>anime master
Huh? Is my generation seriously that bad? I’m a zoomie and watched Konosuba, Vinland, and TTGL years ago. Seems the majority of my generation watches JJK, Attack on Titan, Bleach, and Chainsaw Man though

>>280686508
they're just super normies. anyone who goes to this site is very deep on anime so it makes sense that you've seen those shows.

Well, to be fair, in 2000 I thought any anime made before 1985 was old as shit. Actually, anything made before Akira looked extremely dated.

That said anime has not evolved in a good way since then.

>>280684399
When I was a kid I was watching shows 10-20 years older than I was and thought they were the best thing ever. Zoomers really are fucked.

>>280684399
Every generation has these people, when I was young there were plenty of people my age who had absolutely no interest in media more than a couple of year old. Then there were others who loved retro stuff. Zoomers aren't much different, half the YouTube crap I consume is zoomers talking about movies, games, music much older than they are.

>>280679839 (OP)
15 years is the time between Eva and Oreimo.

>>280684532
16:9 wasn't even proposed as a ratio until the mid-80s by Kerns Powers, and it started as a TV ratio, not a cinema one.
Japan didn't start playing with it in the analog Hi-Vision until the late 80s.
The actual common ratio was 1:85:1, which is close to 16:9, but not quite. All Ghibli films use this ratio, for example, even up to the most recent one.

>>280684399
There are definitely faggots who are the opposite and almost exclusively seek out older movies, music, and anime and avoid newer stuff until time passes and the hype or hate dies down—like me.

>>280682633
RAAAAAAA EEEE YAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>280684399
I'm seeing the contrary lately : a lot of normalfag zoomers are starting to like some pieces they wouldn't care a few years back, for le ebin y2k nostalgia.

>>280684118
Why would anyone want to go to war? We'd be defending the ruins of a bygone civilisation that will soon be replaced by another.

>>280683916
It's the equivalent of being recommended Ranma 1/2 when GL was new.

>>280683958
>That kid was like 10
Anon he might not have even been born at that point

>>280688624
that point in time has already come & gone. i gatewayed a bro into anime with sao back in middle school and he remembers it fondly because it was his first anime.
t. 2002 zoomer (we're soon 24)

>>280688168
Uh, I didn't know this, I always assumed it was 16:9
Thanks

>>280688624
I have definitely seen unironic mirai nikki nostalgia.

>>280682917
we've been doing the same thing with artistic periods
Romanticism, Impressionism, Surrealism, Renaissance, Baroque, they've all got their unique aspects that we can usually tell which time period or even which country it came from

>>280688624
>Bakemonogatari, SAO and Mirai Nikki
That nostalgia boom for them already hit. They're ancient now.

>>280688317
lol same here
Following FOTM and getting invested with all the internet hype sets me up for disappointment most of the time. Just finding and watching something on my own terms is more enjoyable

Yes motherfucker, I swear to God you millennial fucks are becoming more of a hindrance to the progression of the culture with each passing year.
Panty and Stocking is retro.
Haruhi is retro, Pani Poni Dash and Hidamari Sketch's earlier seasons are retro.
Gurren Lagann and Toradora are retro.
The 15 year rule is more than enough to call something retro.
Just think back and try to recall whether there was any argument over whether the following series were retro in 2010: Tenchi Muyo, Ruroni Kenshin, Gundam Wing, Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion, etc.

No. Accept that your sense of time is dilated due to aging and stop making those retarded pre-2000s threads for a distinction that hardly matters to begin with. Whether an anime is digital or not is of less concern than the trends it encapsulates, the character archetypes it features, the animation techniques on display, etc.

>>280679839 (OP)
> This show is almost a month old
wtf Time sure flies

>>280683621
The creators did everything in their power to evoke a sense of nostalgia for Showa-era anime. Imaishi and co. said as much in their documentary. Did the Dezaki postcard memories, sukeban vibe and abundance of painted backgrounds not tip you off?

>>280683621
>>280691635

>>280691444
If you're going to post AI slop can you at least include the prompt so others can see who this is ripping off?

>>280679839 (OP)
>>280679891
>>280683810
Hahaha so true. When I enjoy watching PSG2 I feel that weird feeling. The world is at the opposite pole of what it was back in 2010 now, what seemed to be functional including what the anon have just mentioned, is not working as it intended because the greedy elites don't even budge even when things are not going as they intended. We all know the situation will get worse towards to the inevitable end but we will live on. I hope you all are well until that time, no a hero. Stay strong millennialanons. We will go through this.

>>280680107
1999 was 26 years ago

>>280682878
The X360 and PS3 and Wii ARE retro you stupid fuck

>>280691380
Oh, look rationality ignored once again

>>280692856
Since you went to the effort of replying to yourself.

>>280692332
Culture has stopped. You would normally expect something to have eclipsed Haruhi or Lain or EVA by now, but it's not. We're just circling the drain.

>>280679905
I still categorize anything after 2000 as modern and before that retro. I will not stop doing that.

>>280693597
That's not a problem. Retro is a specific period in time and that's what newfags refuse to internalize. GTA 3 is not comparable to GTA 2 because they're both old as balls.

An anime is only retro to me if it was made in some way that has fallen out of fashion, like cel animation or a different aspect ratio

>>280693651
>GTA 3 is not comparable to GTA 2
???

>>280688624
>will

>16 years ago
I cant remember anything

>>280693737
Grand Theft Auto 3 is not comparable to Grand Theft Auto 2. Google gameplay footage of both and try to tell me, with a straight face, that they should be considered in the same category.

>>280688624
I'm 24 and I don't know how you guys find that shit nostalgic. I'm in the Speed Racer/Kimba the White Lion/Robotech is nostalgic party, with a healthy dose of love for Chobits
>>280693708
>retro are things I;m not used to
Based child

>>280692536
No, they're modern consoles released after the golden age ended.

>>280693772
oh hey the cast of zero no tsukaima cosplaying as characters from a mecha anime

>>280679891
you're still young haha it's all good

>>280679839 (OP)
retro is anything pre 2000s before the move to digital animation techniques,HD 720p/1080p video and set in SD 480p or lower. The swift is so huge and noticeable you'd have to be retarded or a zoomer/Alphi not to notice.

>>280693817
I'll admit to probably being on the younger end of /a/, but isn't that a good indication of what retro actually is when it becomes something interesting and novel to somebody of a sufficient age

Should just create new categories like super retro and ultra retro since a lot of newly retro stuff still has more in common with modern shit than super or ultra retro stuff and lumping NES and PS3 or even PS2 feels wrong.

>>280694093
I feel like you can't really call PS3 retro, even if there's been a clear advance. It's 3D graphics connected to the television with HDMI, same as today

>>280692924
This >>280691380 is my only post ITT
I'm not this anon >>280692856

Again, none of you growing up in the 2000s found it at all strange to call the first Zelda game or Terminator (the movie) or Gunbuster "retro". Yet here we are 20 years later, dragging our feet because a few of you born during a very specific time frame lack the self-awareness to realize that you are timeblind, and that the zeitgeist has moved on. Your inability to form an emotional attachment to anything that isn't your childhood media reminds me of normalfags and certain autistic people. Many of you rarely establish what makes something "modern" and simply determine so based on vibes.
To be fair there is a real question to posed as to whether culture has "stagnated" due to certain technological or economic factors. But it should never approach the stupidity of claims like >>280693597

>>280694093
>>280694298
I've been trying to suggest a new category of "2000's media", possibly "y2k media" for short, to encapsulate those things that are dated but make use of modern technology; Digital anime from the 2000's and early 2010's and 6th and 7th gen video games.

>>280694423
I have an idea: call it "old".

>>280694298
It had RCA, same as PS2.

>>280693817
Ur a fuckin poser. Kimba and speedracer? That was trashy shit for kids then and now. Tryhard hipster zoomie, go watch a real anime like patlabor lmao

>>280694386
retro defines a very specific set of artstyles. If you want to call something "old" then call it old. You don't need to use your faggoty redditor term for everything
>inb4 NO UR STUPIDDD!!!11 NO THEORY OF MIND BLAH BLAH BLAH

>>280694837
>retro defines a very specific set of artstyles
Cite a source or hang yourself.

You guys just can't cope with aging so you have to change to meaning of "retro".

>>280694791
Those were what I was watching as a kid. What do you want from me? Should I time travel to my five year old self watching TV in my living room, take the Kimba tape out of my VCR and snap it over my knee?
>>280694862
>Cite a source
How the fuck can I cite a source for an ill-defined term. Does it really matter if someone else said it before me? It's a form of entertainment, not a fucking science you desparate retard
>orhang yourself.
Wow, this means a lot to you doesn't it? Are you some shitty artist who bases all his business off zoomers' faux-nostalgia?

>2015 was 10 years ago
STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP

>>280694093
>>280694298
I dont like it either, but the PS3 is retro in many respects. Lots of young consumers today cant really wrap their heads around the fact that PS3 launched with like 2 games, but still sold gangbusters just because it had a built in blu ray player. The format wars of dvd vs hd-dvd vs blu ray were a huge part of ps3's success and kids these days dont even touch disks or disk drives, so the entire concept is foreign to them. Not to mention all the outdated cliches in the gen's game. Every other title was an fps trying to be a halo killer and it seemed like there was an industry mandate compelling every game to run its visuals through some piss yellow or gray or toxic green color filter to make the title seem gritty. A lot of the shit like that that showed a game's age started to get phased out near the end of its life cycle when dark souls launched, but those early 7th gen titles have this stink to them that is unmistakably dated and in some sense "retro"

>>280694035
>picrel modern masterpiece Azumanga Daioh

>>280695026
Yea and while ur there slap ur gay parents for forcing you to watch japanese lion king rip offs and turning you into a furry

>>280679839 (OP)
2010 was 15 years ago, old man.

>>280688624
Anime was at its best form of entertainment when MN was airing and every anime after it tried to be Mirai Nikki

>>280688624
I was 19 when I watched Bake in 2009, of course I am nostalgic for it.

>>280682633
>>280682581
i turned 30 a few days ago

>>280683810
>>280684118
>>280692332
>/pol/ schizo babble
Seriously, go back.

>>280696903
Besides the mass immigration comment, those are pretty mildy political comments about the alarming state of current events. Proper /pol/tards get way more schizo than that.

I don't have anything to say. I just wanted an excuse to post this

>>280697096
>alarming state
only /pol/tards rant about immigration

>>280688624
30+ boomer here. I'm nostalgic for Bakemonogatari, SAO and Mirai Nikki.

>>280679891
When you account for time speeding up as you age you only have like 1/5 of it left

>>280697887
>being flooded with ten trillion undesirables is normal and you have be ok with it, otherwise the demon in my head gets angry
kys

>>280680528
>lucky star has had an enormous cultural impact.

Kek, no it fucking didn't. Unless you count inspiring couple of dozens of shitty Youtube poops during late 00's as ''cultural impact''.

>>280695805
I-I now understandu. Domo arigatou Otaku-chama, I have gained mucho wisdom and I kneer in your presence. I now know my taste in Nihonese children's cartoons as a young kodomo was daijobu nai.

>>280683821
This but completely unironically.

>>280697357
worth a watch?

>>280699021
they are more important cultural artifacts than anything to follow

1999 is the cutoff date. If it wasn't for the aspect ratio and poor resolution from primitive digital masters, anime from the 2000s would be indistinguishable from what is being made today.

>>280683821
Joke while you can, kid.

>>280688624
Oreimo too.
All the tsundere and yandere type will make a comeback for le ebin nostalgia in a few years.

>>280700530
>piss yellow subs
I will never miss these

>>280700977
i never really cared, but both my parents were deaf so reading subs was normal.

>>280679891
Get a load of this ōld män

>>280682581
>>280682633
This hits me like a fucking freight train

>>280683774
An 18 year old would have been around 13 in the covid era, Mr. Bear.

I am begging you dudes to look up what "retro" means.

>>280679839 (OP)
We are closer to 2030 than we are to 2020

>>280699876
Yeah. It's pretty decent 2000s super natural fantasy type deal.

>>280703363
she looked a bit thin

>>280703180
we are closer to 2050 than 2000

>>280694386
Millennial here. I kinda half agree with you until you said the "zeitgeist has moved on". If that were the case, then studios wouldn't be going all in on nostalgia baiting with remakes, remasters and reboots of my generation's iconic media. You rarely see studios take chances on new IPs.

>>280699021
yuru yuri anime only exists because of this anime's popularity. what does haruhi have?

>>280679891
Same.

>>280703406
yeah I don't know why it came out like that. It looked fine when actually playing.

>>280679891
Why are you still here old man

>>280692536
These are not retro. N64 qualifies, PSX qualifies, but that's about as new as it gets. Anything after that has the stink of zoomerism on it.

>>280680185
bro

>>280679839 (OP)
>33
>wish I could go back and watch death note and dragon ball Z for the first time
it is really weird how time flies. I look at my parents are they old as hell. I even have a few grey hairs on my head myself. I also can't really connect with people anymore.

The only thing that persists to this day since I was young is my hate for women (besides my mom I love my mom)

It also just amazes me how the entire fucking planet is mostly going to shit

>>280683916
yeah same happened to me. I recommended kaiji and my friend thought it was too ugly and old even though the anime itself doesn't even look old.
>>280688624
We already have people nostalgic for cod black ops and the 360/ps3 era.
It has never been more over and every day it gets more over than the day before.

>>280703180
Yea...where we will own nothing and be happy apparently. Wont lie, im kind of scared of the future.

>>280679839 (OP)
NAAAAAAAAAAAH WHAT ARE THESE UNC AHH NIGGAS TALKING ABOUT BROOOOOO :SKULL: EPSTEIN DIDY 0 AURA BLUDS IN OHIO TS AINT TUFF :SKULL: :SKULL: MANGO MANGO MANGO

>>280679891
I wish I was 37 again

>>280699876
Only if you want to see what bland anime of the past was like. It actually is useful to at least check out a few boring shows from every decade so you don't fall into the trap of thinking that there was some ideal slop-free period of pop culture.

>>280679891
>Reading this on my birthday

>>280680282
>I was on tiktok
leave

If an anime didn’t come out on VHS it’s not retro.

I'm n 18 year old zoomer and i hate myself for it
No one my age range likes what I consume and they're all pretentious moralfaggots or braindead tik tok zombies. Even the ones that enjoy similar stuff to me I can never have a proper discussion with.
Is it an autism thing? I don't fucking know
But at the same time everyone older than me looks down on me (rightfully so) for being a zoomer and a newfag (Started watching about 2021, not pandemic related it was just the time I fully became conscious)
I hate it, I don't belong anywhere. I just want to discuss my interests with people who aren't retarded
It drives me mad, why are people my age so stupid

>>280683908
It's the shading
Modern studios have zero sense of how to do lighting and shading

>>280704885
Nowhere else to go.

>>280706087
you will always have us.
Not me, though, I don't watch anime

>>280706087
People look down on you because you sound like a faggot

>>280706087
You'll grow out of your "I'm very special" phase in a few years.

>>280706087
Pussy.

>>280704982
You're wrong because I said so

>>280706731
Rude

>>280704775
>Angel Beats and K-On came out the same year
They really feel like they are from 2 different generations.

>>280706087
Honorary millennial

>>280694035
I'd argue some of the early 2000s anime is pretty retro now because of all the experimenting going on. There's that 5ish year period from like 1999 to 2004 where so much of what was made looks pretty damn different / unique compared to what came before and after. It's the era of hidden gems and those gems are pretty retro today

>>280706087
you just need to search around to find like-minded people. The fun-loving, easy going based nerds i befriended at 18-20 i still hang around with, i met them all at an internet cafe, random discussions while they were smoking outside turned into friendships for life.

They're soo much more fun to chill with than the more reddit-tier nerds i meet at work that said nerds get kinda mad when i subtly blow them off every time they wanna hang.

>>280679891
>tfw also 37
>>280683810
i know this feel, i grew up in quasi-middle class ausfailia, but i went to a below average, but still nice school. It was 90%+ white, and 10% a mix of abos, gooks/chinks, maoris and 1-3 africans.

That school is at least 50%+ non-white now, and its getting worse visibly. I despise globohomo soo fucking much.

>>280684399
its just neurotic online discourse where everyone is chasing the current trends. Remember Dirty Harry? every clip or scene of Clint Eastwood being based in DH on jewtube has millions of views and every comment is dicksucking him and his based boomer ways.

>>280707540
im curious how well something like Full Metal Panic Fumoffu holds up today, especially with modern zoomers. I haven't had the chance to see if they like it yet.

>>280688535
might be fun

>WHOA STUFF THATS 15-20 YEARS OLD IS CONSIDERED RETRO
Did they have threads like this about like DBZ or whatever in 2010?

>>280707540
Agree. 1999-2004 was gold desu.
The initial transition from cel to digital animation allowed for better storytelling, and new ideas flourished. More power in the hands of true artists.
Later, digital animation just led to spamming more crap anime. AI is giving me deva vu.

>>280706087
>Is it an autism thing? I don't fucking know
Back in my day autism was being able to enjoy your hobbies by yourself without a concern if nobody else liked it or not.

>>280707961
Thing is I don't really care about whether people like what I like, what I care about is whether there are people I can talk with about these things without feeling ashamed or "fake"
I guess /a/ kind of works like that since we're all anonymous here to begin with it's not like anyone would really know nor care.

>>280706087
IF you have any other hobbies(for me it's tcg's and gunpla) you can try and find groups close to you and maybe you'll luck out and meet some folks you can be real with.
4chan going down was a brutal reminder that as shitty as this place is, every other social media platform is way worse and it's impossible to actually be yourself on them.

>>280683810
>>280684118
>>280688535
>>280697096
>>280698939
/pol/tards can't go one thread without going off topic
piss off
>>>/pol/

>>280679839 (OP)
>>280679905
Stuff from the 10s looks exactly the same as today. Even Death Note which is almost 20 years old does not look that dated, which is why it keeps getting recommended to zoomers. Anime visuals stopped evolving.

>>280679891
Getting older in of itself doesn't bother me too much I just wish everything else wasn't so fucked and in a downward spiral. It would be nice to see everything else improve as my body broke down but the trajectory seems to be everything is going down the toilet simultaneously.

>>280679839 (OP)
the anisong oldies group that plays in mogra has until i think 2011 listed as oldies, or maybe it was 2014...

>>280708268
fuck off tranny.

>>280686717
early 90s and 80s anime did look like absolute shit though?

>>280684516
ef is such a good anime

>>280708268
Bet you're vaxxed too, tranny.

>>280695090
The golden age (2004-2008) was almost 20 years ago.

>>280708268
Bet you're vaxxed too, tranny.

>>280708048
If you didn't fit in until now, you aren't gonna fit in, accept and embrace it.

>>280683916
>recommend zoomer
>work

>>280680528
>lucky star has had an enormous cultural impact.
>Haruhi is nothing.
This might be true for your country, but in mine, every normalfag anime watcher was doing the Hare Hare Yukai (even I was doing it) at anime conventions for years. Nobody knew what Lucky Star was, and you were lucky to find that one other dude that did.

>>280683908
shading and the paints used. The whole industry bought their paints off one dude until he died and they were forced to go digital.

>>280708268
why does dot gay exist?

We'll be in 2040 and I just know some complete faggot 25yo neo-alpha on /a/ will pretend Aria or azumanga daioh aren't retro because they were made after 2000s despite the fact this same retard in 2005 would have said Gunsmith Cats was retro because it came out in 1995, barely 10 years earlier.
At some point you people will have to realize there's no "retro" and it's just a made-up term for nostalgiafags around the globe to point out a previous era they experienced.
If you are 50 and played video game since 1980 and still play games from the 80s you aren't a "retro gamer" you just play video games from the past.

>>280679839 (OP)
they do look old and dated

>>280679839 (OP)
All i know about 2010 is that anime felt as if it was not from japan, but western cartoons trying to copy anime style

>>280680107
>>280680282
>>280680939
Antique refers to anything 100 years old or older. Vintage refers to anything 20 years old or older.

>>280683916
People want to feel that society progresess. They asume that everything new is an improvement from something old.

>>280680088
what's this newfag yapping about?

Some nice stuff in 2010. The school anime does have a different feel from more recent ones, and use of digital tricks was different too.
I can understand it being considered dated, but zoomers care too much about this shit. I watched Gulliver's Travels from 1939 today and still had a blast.

>>280698939
You're the one who should kys you racist shitbag schizo

>>280705676
Happy birthday anon

>>280679839 (OP)
"Retro" shouldn't exist in a medium like anime and anyone who only watches old things shouldn't be here

>>280684399
i was like that back then
mostly avoided them because of the art style but once i started getting into drawing, i started liking them ever since

>>280680282
>co-worker wants to tell me about this classic anime they loved when they were a kid
>it's blood c

>>280682669
I've heard that about Attack on Titan

>>280683810
>tfw never get to experience the great european cities at their peak

>>280679905
Old man Cope.

>>280700530
>If it wasn't for the aspect ratio and poor resolution
>Hurr durrr if it wasn't for shitty quality anime from the 2000s would be indistinguishable from what is being made today.

Well duh?

>>280683810
KEK
America was called nigger land even in the 80s, you are just a retard living in a bubble.

>>280708393
>>280708474
No, you fuck off Pol/tard

>>280679891
How does it feel having lived long enough to see your favorite mongolian basket weaving forum go down in flames?

>>280710248
no need to reply to yourself wojack spammer
>>280710410
you either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become the hero desu
I miss being the final boss of the internet.

>>280710410
Feels great.

>>280710432
I wasn't, you retard

>>280710473
sorry for your loss, newfriend.

>>280710574
Stop being a tard

>>280710690
anon just because you werent here long enough to see our villain arc doesn't mean you cant lurk moar

>>280706087

You sound like a millennial in a zoomer's body. Pretty harsh.

>>280710082
The thread is an argument about what differentiates modern anime from retro anime and I was saying that it's not superficial qualities like resolution or aspect ratio.

>>280710410
I started browsing in 07. I don't recognize anything anymore, every facet of this site except the most niche things have gone to shit. /a/, somehow, is still somewhat salvageable, but so many boards are just utterly not even worth using. I know for some of you this is impossible to believe but /v/ actually used to be a really fun place to hang out. Once m00t left it was really over, and the increasing migration from twitter to here is just the nail in the coffin. The mods and jannies are a pale shadow of what they used to be to, none of them are really interesting in keeping 4chan like 4chan, and I suspect it's because none of them even know what that means. Entropy visits everything, even digital things.

>>280710804
/v/ is still not all bad, just near totally bad. It can have some absolutely amazing threads if you know what to look for, such as fanart threads and some board events.

>>280710804
wah wah wah stfu boomshit

>>280710942
Kill yourself, retarded tourist.

>>280710804
you're an idiot. mods aren't dumb, theyre doing all this on purpose
the last decree moot made to drag them in line was overturned and he flipped the table and sold the site to the department of defense in frustration and disgust.

the only board that even has a drop of the old spirit left is /mlp/ because at the end of the day, anon still delivers there.

>recommend a show from 2016 to anon
>"Yea I remember watching that when I was 9"

>Good replies all purged by the usual suspects
Here is Reddit, and it shows what they really fear and are concerned about, burying their heads

>random purge of the only good replies
JANNIES TONGUE MY ANUS

>>280710804
I can see it in how fake the traffic is . 90% of /b/ is porn and bait threads, and /v/ is basically bot central. Even here on /a/ most of the threads are the same garabge day in and day out.
But gookmoot and Rapeape would never do anything about it.

>>280683916
I got one young coworker who says the only old thing he can tolerate is Golden Girls

>>280694157
Correct.
>>280694093
PS3 could be released today and no one would blink an eye.
Retro->5th consoles->6th gen consoles->modern

>>280695127
>Lots of young consumers today cant really wrap their heads around the fact that PS3 launched with like 2 games, but still sold gangbusters
That's exactly the very defining trait of modern consoles (no gaems fifa machines) and the antithesis of retro consoles.

>>280679905
>Oldest anime I remember watching is Ergo Proxy
>2006
Oh good, I'm still hip, fresh, young and with "it"

>>280713540
Nevermind, I forgot cowboy bebop, but in my defense that one is timeless.

>>280707293
it truly was the best iyashikei

>>280683821
>>time passes
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE
Uh yeah, actually
Is that okay?

Fellow zommoers and alfachads I have a question for you.

What is it with millennial boomers and obsession with time passing? Sure every generation gets nostalgia for when they had a full head of hair and their back wasn't hurting but none where so itchy as millennial niggas.

Is it the fact that they have zero pussy and children so they never grew up? Is this part of the eternal manchild syndrome?
Is it the Internet that makes global culture shift every 2-3 years and oldfags just can't keep up?
A combination of the 2?

Retro means pop-culture from 20 years ago. That's it. 20 years have passed since the 2000s so that shit is retro period.
Nobody gives a fuck when cell died or when digital animation became the norm or whatever the fuck rezolutiin or filter they used. In 20 years Friren will be retro anime, simple as.
Not my fault you guys wasted half of your lifespan years jacking off and wage serfing for minimal gains so you now want time to halt and wait for you(pro tip it won't).

>>280713716
>Is it the fact that they have zero pussy and children so they never grew up? Is this part of the eternal manchild syndrome?
Yes, this is the era of the Puer Eternus, you are the same. There are no rites of manhood left, just an eternity in limbo. Not even pussy and children can change this. It's a conjunction of time passing and life accomplishments stagnating with wages, living standards.

>>280713716
Millennials are not unique in this regard at all. I believe that you're seeing an amplification of this sentiment because everyone can voice their opinions online; because, as you noted, the internet has caused culture and micro-trends to accelerate; and because people on average are starting their "adult" lives (in the West this would mean living independently and starting a family) later due to a number of factors. One might expect this last point to decrease the fetishization of youth, not increase it, but that's not the case.

>>280713716
I'm 27 and I don't feel any different.

>>280688624
No way in hell gen a has watched Monogatari.

>>280710804
The worst part is that as bad a state 4chan is in, Everywhere else is still worse. The shutdown was a grim reminder of it.
>Actually watch a lot more series instead of just shitposting about them.
>Had no place to comfortably talk about them.

>>280714650
Even I gave up watching it about halfway through the arcs because there's just too much fucking dialogue. I'd rather read an LN.

>>280713716
>Is it the fact that they have zero pussy and children so they never grew up?
I thought no pussy was a gen Z problem? Being an introverted dork I knew I was gonna end up a kissless virgin but I never expected shit to be so dire than even my normalfag peers barely get any.
Millennials absolutely have an issue with arrested development though. It can be seen in all their writing being the same. Dropping with irony, self awareness and a total lack of confidence and sincerity.

>>280682633
The internet used to be so much nicer

>>280710886
>>280710804
sometimes you just have fantastic offtopic /v/ threads like ye olden days again and things like that is why i NEVER will leave this site

>>280711062
No, you

>>280688624
Bakemonogatari is over 16 years old, its literally older than half the people on this site.

>>280713716
Your generation is literally full of retarded autists, and incompetent fuck-ups. Shut the fuck up, you stupid nigger. 4chan is millenial site, go back to watching your retarded ChinkTok videos, you zomshit.

>>280694157
FFX turned 24 years old today.

>>280694386
In video games time is essentially frozen because progress is so slow. Zelda 1 to oot is 12 years and a million times more progress than skyward sword to totk.

>>280713690
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th are the same era but I guess zoomers had to feel important and make the image unfunny.

>>280695090
I can deal with 2015 being 10 years ago but I can't deal with 2020 being 5 years ago because it feels like nothing happened in that time

>>280715249
Millennials created the groundwork for wokeism and weaponized incompetence used in every context btw. You guys created THAT Tumblr and Twitter culture.

>>280715336
Covid really did just steal half a decade from evevryone regardless of how you felt about it. I actually Improved myself in that time but I feel bad for the younger generation who lost a huge chunk of developmental years. That is absolutely gonna come back to bite everyone as they grow up.

>>280715249
>Your generation.
Came right after yours, not before, not in any point time later, it came directly after millenials were old enough to breed.

>>280715481
That was Gen X you zoom zoom

>>280715249
nah unc
gay ahh ninjas like u fr needa be in a retirement home already bruh

>>280715481
Fucking retard, are you really trying to claim Gen X raised you in a woke enviroment? You gave birth to that shit as a way of being rebellious to the conservative baby boomers and most of the media you created and consumed was about that and a direct portrayal of that. Your muh rebellion, buzzfeed shit, heckin wholesome discourses, tumblr/twitter mentally ill shit led Gen Z to already being born into a woke world with you manchildren fucks who never grew up as their parents

>>280715249
You guys were the first basedboys. Millennials do not like to admit this but it's true. Basedboys were invented in your time, as were manginas and cringy full-throttle political activist rot like Gamergate.

>>280715749
KEKAROO the whole concept of basedboys was literally born out of a myriad of millennial consumer manchildren

>generational war thread #213478947892178941283
This is not anime nor manga

>>280715925
anime started becoming dogshit as zoomers were being born, ready to watch it

>>280715953
Generational wars are not anime or manga

>>280679839 (OP)
Why would Hinata do this ?

>>280715534
Covid barely happened in my country, the government didn't have the legal right to shut anything down. I moved twice, graduated, got three new jobs, got new friends, got fat, saw the Ukraine and gaza wars, trump got out and into office, dad got a dog, my sister started studying and graduated, my chronic anxiety stopped, etc etc and IT STILL doesn't feel like 5 years passed.

>>280699021
Konota: What's with the sad face?
Tsukasa: I got really high, so I got scolded for it!
LeFou: Gosh, that show is boring.
Gaston: Don't talk about Lucky Star that way.
Konota: I give guys erections
Gaston: It's true
LeFou: But that girl's flat
*PUNCH*

>>280716159
I stayed in my room and jerked off for fibe years, I don't know how some of you are able to do all this shit constantly

>>280708451
I thought this was a >1990 was 50 years ago troll post for a second

>>280715743
No, it was gen X that created cancel culture you fucking imbecile. Not gen Y. They created social media to begin with. Zoomshits only have themselves to blame for their retardation, and gen Alphas are literal npc drones with no social skills. You have lost.

>>280715548
.....Ok and? Your generation is still wrecked zoom zoom. Stop being so smug.

>>280716423
And who wrecked it?

>>280716405
>They created social media to begin with
and guess which generation complained about it to the point it got ultra sensitive and heckin wholesome and propagated wokeism to the point where gen z grew up with their retarded conjectures?

>>280716273
I did that too
And half my list is just shit that happened to other people

>>280716405
>gen Alphas are literal npc drones with no social skills
Because you fucking hopeless manchildren are their parents, fucking retard. You are stuck between what you were told growing up by boomers (have a family) and your own retarded conjectures, reaching a point where you did have kids like you were told to but fucking hate them and would rather indulge in your manchild hobbies and leave them to their ipads all day.

>>280716609
Every christmas eve, my father asks me to "find something to do" also known as getting a job, and I just look at him weird and go back to my room to continue gaming like I've done ever since I finished highschool.

>>280716643
Millennialbro...

>>280716609
No you fucking retard, they got that way by associating with zoom zooms. Millenials have no part in this

>>280679839 (OP)
as long it was made before the age of isekai it feels like it's from another era so I don't mind

>>280716648
I'm a zoomer, tranny.

>>280716690
The cause of the problem believes himself to be innocent and so he blames his problem on someone else instead so he can feel better about himself.

>>280716494
You.

>>280716830
I'm sorry you feel that way, millenianigger. I'll continue being a burden that leeches your money until you die.

>>280716849
At least you finally admit you are the problem and without your kind the world would be a good place.

>>280716868
My kind can be prevented by either being a good father or snipping your balls, yet you chose neither because manchildren cannot feel accountability whatsoever.

I recently had a younger cousin over, who commented how cool it was that I still had retro consoles like the PS3 and PSP.

>>280716793
That is your generation in a nutshell

>i-it's not gen alpha's educators' fault that they were educated to be like that, it's because of muh zoomers!
Zero self awareness, typical manchild behavior kek. Zoomers may have their problems but a lot of the shit millennials complain about was birthed by their influence.

>>280716868
What are you gonna do about it? kek
thanks for the free money btw

>the spineless consoomer basedboy generation trying to blame everything on zoomers
KEKAROO

>>280716882
>it's your fault I am retarded
Pro-choicefags have a point after all.

>>280716888
>the basedllenial doesn't have the ability to comprehend the words coming out of his own mouth
BAHAHAHAHAHA

>>280716894
Watch you get replaced by 60 IQ monkeys (that still manage to be smarter than you). Hope the money is worth it :^)

>>280716933
I literally have your genes, I would be a freak of nature if I was anything but a massive waste of finite resources on this earth. But unlike yours, my choice to ruin your life was informed, mature, and necessary.

>>280716975
How can I watch myself get replaced? You will be the one watching this till your meltdown induced heart attack leads to your replacement too lmao.

>>280716976
>my genes
Let to the most creative generations
>my genes, wasted on a zoomer
Led to... skibidi playtime squid game

>>280716975
Basedllennials normalized mixed race couples btw.

>>280716999
Are you retarded? (Rhetorical question, you are a zoomer)
You asked what I'm going to do about it and I gave my answer.

>>280717015
>>280717039
At least your funko pops are irreplaceable and will last for a thousand years.

>>280717016
@grok what generations is the most pozzed, gay, and most likely to engage in miscegenation

Honestly one of the worst threads I've seen on /a/ in a while
/v/ tier garbage

>>280716405
>gen Alphas are literal npc drones with no social skills
Turns out all that IPad time was a bad idea.

>>280717151
Of course a gayllenial would say that.
>>280717147

>>280716944
Shut the fuck up zoomshit

>>280717151
gib bat

>>280717234
>Shut the fuck up zoomshit
What, are you gonna cry? kek

>>280717259
meh

>>280717273
Seethe you zoomshit

>>280717321
Oh no, a gayllenial will seethe at me, I'm so afraid of a rabid NIGGER lmoa.

>>280717345
Shut the fuck up, you are a literal subhuman

>>280717364
Or what, you smelly nigger? Are you gonna piss and shit yourself? NIGGER LOL!

>>280717382
Be silent you tard

>>280717441
Why so serious, nigger?

>>280717457
Shut the fuck up you complete fuckwad

>>280717549
Why are you mad, nigger?

>>280717589
You are mad you zoomshit

>>280717599
Nigger monkey mad lol

Gen Zigger started namefagging in pure desperation, this is just sad

>>280717321
>>280717364
Put on your hearing aids because I am about to deliver a scorcher

>>280717609
>>280717648
Fuck outta here you faglord

How does /a/ do it?

There's been a lot of rage on this website lately. Chill out. Get a cold drink. Watch some slice of life.

>>280688624
>SAO and Mirai Nikki
You've just read my zoomer mind...
I didn't watch a lot of things back then but those two series define my teenage years when it comes to anime.

>>280679839 (OP)
Why do you care what retarded youngsters you don't even talk to think?

>>280718249
The rage is everywhere desu. Generation hate has probably existed since the dawn of civilization but thanks to the internet now everyone can voice it to each other all the time.

>>280718249
Agreed. Any recommendations?

>>280718563
I don't think people born in 1320 had different lives and lived through different trends than those born in 1340.
No generation ever liked garbage as much as zoomers do.

>>280710886
>>280710804
The /an/ threads on any board never fail to get laughs out of me. I came here in 2010 (still a newfag), but browsing for the past 15 or so years, those are always treasure amongst a sea of otherwise garbage. /a/ is okay for the most part, which I suspect is because the mod team cares. It isn't the same as it used to be though.
>Void Stranger poster
My brother from another mother

>>280718792
>because the mod team cares
Oh they care alright. They care about very specific things.

>>280718249
I am going to slice your life into little itty bitty pieces and spread all over the floor

>>280719015
Oh yeah. The Dragon Ball threads are always a mess. I think they are more contaiment threads than anything at this point. Too many deranged posters on here.

>>280718672
Consumption-as-identity slop started with Frued and the influence of his work on mass marketing. Silent generation liked Current Thing, Boomers liked Current Thing, Gen X liked Current Thing, Millenials are really the beginning of your mental picture of what it means to like Current Thing and even then it doesn't make it literally their fault as a generation, that's retarded. You're retarded. The only thing Zoomers bring to the table is lacking the ability to stomach unironic enjoyment of Their Time and Their Thing which is indicative of the exact opposite - that they see the hollowness of it all and want better - but then seething coping wannabe jannies like you reee them out of having the energy for a real conversation about the past. You are obsessed.

>>280709341
It's cute that you think that, it really is, but you have never known what it's like to have authority and never will. Keep signing off your posts with that picrel so we know it's the same obsessed faggot doing it every time. I'm sure it'll make you happy one day.

>>280708622
>we'll be in 2040
Gen-alpha will literally be eating bugs in the work cube while hikkineets get turned into biodiesel to fuel Ubereats jeetbikes. There is no future for anime, there is just this relentless cycle of copes to try and steal its past and present from the unwashed undeserving zoomers as if it'll make any of you people feel whole inside again. Cope harder.

>>280718672
We live in the same damn world.

>>280679905
It's 2003 and if you disagree you're delusional

>>280719899
Two more weeks

>>280686439
We haven't had enough time to distinguish them in hindsight.

>>280679839 (OP)
Generational blame-gaming is the final cope of the bugmen of each generation, it is the refuse and failures trying to imagine they wouldn't be losers if they were born in a different time. This thread has AIDS and you're all going to die alone and miserable, stop wasting my time and lower your fucking tone.

>>280718663
Watch acchi koochi. It very comfy.