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I really hope the 2000s moe style becomes popular again. We are having an anime that is styled like 80s anime this summer so anything is possible. I really want the 2000s stuff to fully come back though in a way that reinfluences modern moe anime. I know part of it was just limitations of the time as the style hadn't fully developed and there were many cases where it looked like shit. I know stuff like the more bold shape theory and color theory were mostly from these limitations and not deliberate. But when it went right, it feels like it created excellent vibrant art, stuff that actually felt moe. Nowadays you get too many anime obviously with cute girls as the main appeal, but the designs don't pop and look hyper cute. I suppose part of this is an adaptation issue, even many loli manga now are trying for some realistic more detailed style. Although that might be flawed thinking as I'm sure there has always been stuff with more boring styles. I suppose my issue is just that good stuff is rare. There are some artists like Watanabe Akio who still make are like this to this day. I feel like if we got more anime originals we'd get more cool vibrant stuff as the studios would be allowed to put their spirit into things and this vibrancy is still very much the spirit of a lot of these guys. Hell you can even see it in stuff like Hamidashi Creative which was a project done by new animators and carried that 2000s aesthetic. I do feel like the modern lolicon culture that has been building does have some great things. So maybe we will see a bunch of manga and anime inspired by it soon.