>>280400069
Anime has always been like this. Just look back at the seasons of some previous years. There is a lot of shit and only a few well animated otaku works. You can look on casting too and find that there are certain people who always show up on the good stuff. There are bands of lolicons that Shaft has unleashed on the industry over the years that nearly always make high quality stuff for instance. The only time I could see people believing the soul was dying was 21-23. But things were shit then because the studios were still recovering from lockdowns (Japan specifically also kept locked down for way longer than normal). Now you are starting to see the engines fire up again, which is why there seems to suddenly be a return to normalcy. We've gone back to developing instead of trying to survive.

>>279650234
An interesting idea