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yuna49
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I just think the proportion of crap has increased over the past decade or so. Yes, of course we still get Vinland Sagas and Frierens. All I'm arguing is that they represent a smaller proportion of the total output of anime today than in 2007. And, yes, that is a subjective opinion based on a mere eighteen years of watching seasonal anime. For instance, I have little to say about shows before 2003 or so.
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Blood-
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I think you might be right about the proportion of crap being larger than before. There are more shows being created than ever before but the number of really excellent shows each year has pretty much stayed the same, imo.
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Runnha
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I would say 2006 (for Death Note) or 1999 (for One Piece).
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Jose Cruz
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I had a similar impression revisiting my favorites: this gave me the impression that anime peaked around 2010. Although, in my case, thats was also because I am a moe fan and this genre peaked in popularity around 2010. But overall 2004-2012 makes sense as the peak of anime, since TV anime for "anime fans" began with NGE in 95/96, and following the success of NGE, the anime industry began making shows for a more mature audience and started airing them in late night, starting with Those Who Hunt Elves (1996). The number of late night shows then exploded from 1996 to 2006 (which follows the increase in average scores you posted). By 2006, late night animation production reached a peak of 200 13-episode cours (according to Japanese animation industry statistics). The 2006 peak level of late night anime production has not been greatly exceeded since but has been maintained in most years. This boom in production from the late 90s up to the late 2000s that allowed many great titles to be created and artistic boundaries to be pushed. Still, since the anime industry has been pumping out around 150-200 cours of late night shows per year since 2006, many more great shows have been made in recent years than before the mid-2000s. |
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louis6578
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To judge by every anime in a single year is silly. I think we should just think about the best anime of a given year and ignore the duds. Frankly, there are more bad anime now than ever before, but also more great anime than ever before. I'd argue the percentage stayed the same but the overall quantity increased.
I think we're in something of a renaissance period right now, but if I had to choose my own personal best year for anime, it'd either be 2007 or 2011. 2019 was pretty great too, but Gurren Lagann and Code Geass, not to mention the year of Fate/Zero, Steins;Gate, Anohana, and Madoka, are pretty top tier years in my book. |
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Itachi__Uchiha
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I think 2011 because hunter x hunter is the best anime
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Jose Cruz
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I have the impression that today thanks to streaming we get to check out all the crap while back in around 2007 the crap was only easily available for the Japanese. Sure one could get to the crap if they wanted, but it's not like today that I turn on Crunchyroll on my TV and it's like "look a hundred crappy shows on the menu." This year I have been much more selective on what I watch, since I watched really crappy shows last year. |
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Spawn29
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1998 was an amazing year with many banngers:
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Cowboy Bebop Devil Lady Getter Robo Armgeddon Initial D Outlaw Star Serial Experiments Lain Spriggan Trigun |
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Unicorn_Blade
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Yes, but also that depends on what a definition of a good anime is. I must say I have not seen an anime in... 2 years or so? With the exception of trying to finish Attack on Titan. Weirdly, because the amount of content is insane. Most subscription services offer titles. One of the reasons is that the themes I find interesting are not really a thing. While there may be some excellent titles, they are not really my vibe. And the amount of not so good shows seems to have increased and it's harder to sift through to get to the good stuff. Is there a way btw to see anime that came out year by year? Shame it's not an option to see tha on the list of anime we have seen rather than clicking on every single title one by one. |
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Blood-
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@ Unicorn_Blade: yes, there is a way to see anime listed by the year it was released.
Click on the Encyclopedia tab at the top of the screen. Once the selection box comes up, find Tools at the bottom right of the box, select Search by genre, theme, year and click on it. That will bring you to a page where you have a number of filters to search titles. The second filter from the top of the screen is Production Year and it allows you to search between a range of years. So, let's say you want to find out what was released in 1993, you would just plug in 1993 in both the "between" and "and" boxes. That brings up a list of every series title (and movie and manga titles if you want those) released in 1993. |
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Unicorn_Blade
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Thank you, will play around with that later!
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Errinundra
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I used that search to come up with the dodgy graph.
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