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6/21/2025, 12:41:57 AM
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I know it might sound like gay culture war shit but yeah I get what you're saying. Sometime around the 2010s or thereabouts I feel like a lot of things started to lose lustre. And yes, I absolutely agree with you, this is beyond just mecha in general, it's a very broad cultural truism that everything now seems broadly shittier than what was offered in decades even before I was born. There are absolutely some positives and other things which were unimaginable just a short time ago, within my lifetime even, but it does not feel like life or media in general is becoming more and more robust and of high quality.
Sadly I think some of this is just era specific. Something like a gorgeous 198X or 199X Japanese OVA was made in a much richer and more economically powerful Japan, filled with people possessed of a very different pool of talent, skill, and actual lived experience, who grew up in a society which was very different to Japan of today, and they were probably under the guidance of executives and producers and so forth with very different ideas of how best to make money (or at least who were more lenient with how this might be done). When people lament things like how a 198X movie might simply literally be impossible to make today they are lamenting a very real loss of specific skills, technologies, people, and ideas which came together at just the right time to make something great or maybe terrible but absolutely a product of the time.
Changing societies (e.g. lonelier and more isolated social experience, general loss of popularity for mecha), changing economics (e.g. price of living is higher, execs more numberbrained than ever), changing technology (digital tools, no "need" for cel skills, loss of dedicated mechanical illustrators, mechanical design philosophy changes drastically) means a very different media environment, though I think at the end of the day things being more and more money and exec-controlled is the number one thing.
I know it might sound like gay culture war shit but yeah I get what you're saying. Sometime around the 2010s or thereabouts I feel like a lot of things started to lose lustre. And yes, I absolutely agree with you, this is beyond just mecha in general, it's a very broad cultural truism that everything now seems broadly shittier than what was offered in decades even before I was born. There are absolutely some positives and other things which were unimaginable just a short time ago, within my lifetime even, but it does not feel like life or media in general is becoming more and more robust and of high quality.
Sadly I think some of this is just era specific. Something like a gorgeous 198X or 199X Japanese OVA was made in a much richer and more economically powerful Japan, filled with people possessed of a very different pool of talent, skill, and actual lived experience, who grew up in a society which was very different to Japan of today, and they were probably under the guidance of executives and producers and so forth with very different ideas of how best to make money (or at least who were more lenient with how this might be done). When people lament things like how a 198X movie might simply literally be impossible to make today they are lamenting a very real loss of specific skills, technologies, people, and ideas which came together at just the right time to make something great or maybe terrible but absolutely a product of the time.
Changing societies (e.g. lonelier and more isolated social experience, general loss of popularity for mecha), changing economics (e.g. price of living is higher, execs more numberbrained than ever), changing technology (digital tools, no "need" for cel skills, loss of dedicated mechanical illustrators, mechanical design philosophy changes drastically) means a very different media environment, though I think at the end of the day things being more and more money and exec-controlled is the number one thing.
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