Forum - View topicAnime that you've "outgrown?"
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nobahn
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This question is is inspired by this question.
What anime -- if any -- have you outgrown? For me, the answer to that question is undoubtedly Voltron. It had great graphics (at least, for its time, it did), but it was just another daytime children's show. Reflecting back on it, I am reminded of -- of all things -- 1 Corinthians 13:11 EDIT: I have changed this thread's title after ruminating over what TitanXL wrote. Last edited by nobahn on Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:57 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Alan45
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In my case none. I was already and adult (and old according to most here) when I first encountered anime, and my taste hasn't changed since I started. On the other hand, I have gotten into a lot of stuff I wouldn't have considered when I started.
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Raftina
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Old anime, i.e. those made before 2000, possibly even 2005. At one time, I was pressured with the idea that I had to keep a very open mind, that I was diminishing my experience with anime if I took into account older graphics when deciding what I wanted to watch, and that I should treat the medium evenly as a connoisseur.
Now? I see anime as an interesting pastime. I feel no compulsion to give titles that sound displeasing "a fair chance." As it happens, I find old anime graphics, particularly those before digital coloring, to be dilapidated and, in most cases, highly unpleasant. Combine this with my immense dislike of character designs prevalent in 90s anime like Slayers, and it's pretty safe to say that I rarely go back to the last millennium anymore. |
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TitanXL
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Reverse card, open! C.S. Lewis! I've never really 'outgrown' a show. Any disinterest I gained in a show stemmed from the direction it went rather than anything to do with 'maturity' or 'age'. I can still enjoy the shows I liked when I first got into anime today.. though some of them do feel dated as the medium has evolved since then (Original Pocket Monsters VS Diamond and Pearl Pocket Monsters.. that franchise definitely improved as it went on and the old series feels extremely dated by comparison) |
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nobahn
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It is interesting that you should bring that up; I tried to get my mother interested in Princess Tutu, and she wouldn't/couldn't enjoy it (and she likes ballet!) because the framework is set up as a children's story. |
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Chiibi
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Ugh.......pretty much anything that has ridiculous shoujo drama for shoujo drama's sake with a bad, cheesy love story that just won't END. And a heroine full of stupid for good measure.
[Insert Fushigi Yuugi and Marmalade Boy here] And anything that is so over-the-top full of testosterone that a female audience more than likely would find nothing to enjoy: Dragon Ball Z. Is it weird that I hate DBZ but love Gurren Lagann? 
I don't think so because Gurren Lagann has GOOD female characters that actually do things that don't include sitting around and bitching about how stupid the men are or quivering with fear until the big strong man comes to the rescue...it's also very well-animated and has great drama and the characters are much easier to empathize with, not to mention, MUCH better-looking and likable and it has very cute, albeit tragic love stories as well. DBZ.....just feels like it's for little/teen boys who love big explosions and violence and.......nothing else. Hey! Michael Bay, I found your perfect anime!! 
WHHHHAAAT but but but Princess Tutu is SO NOT for children....it's really dark and surreal and sophisticated and.....! *rant* Tie her up and force her. :'D *shot* |
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Raftina
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One of the reasons I liked Princess Tutu was that it was like the classic fairy tales of Grimm, Perrault, and Andersen--dark, surreal, and sophisticated. |
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getchman
He started it Posts: 9135 Location: New Hampshire |
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i guess pokemon. i haven't watched it in over 5 years
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Chiibi
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I know right!! I would LOVE to see a new anime series that tells all of the fairytale classics the way they were supposed to be told. It has been done before but it was so long ago...the episodes have practically dropped off the face of the earth so a remake/updated version would be awesome. |
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Rhyono
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I have the same utter dislike of how horrid many older things look in comparison to now. Therefore, I also do not tend to watch old things. I don't remember how or why, but I watched Berserk and quickly overcame my disdain of how it had vertical streaking. It's one of my favorite animes of all time, albeit it does not influence me enough to give other old things that look atrocious a chance. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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If you caught me just a few months ago, I'd have Dragon Ball. I probably still will, but just the Z half of the story. I've been watching the 86 anime for the first time through wholly and seriously, and I'm quite surprised how entertaining it can be. Fights don't linger, Goku and crew still have some charm to them, lots and lots of Bulma and Launch... What I've outgrown isn't the sense of adventure and fantasy, it's 20 episodes in a row of constipated yelling and powerups. I love how perverted Dragon Ball can be at times, something DBZ is sorely lacking. What a humorless show that is. Maybe I should check out Toriyama's other early works if they're like the first 60-odd episodes of DB.
In response to the idea of old anime being straining on the eyes or whatever, that's why BluRay remasters should help to revitalize that a bit. Some older shows are downright beautiful once restored, then the only complaint one could lobby is not liking older designs and the cel look. The Aim for the Ace movie just came out, can't wait on that even though those designs are dated for the era it released! |
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Ggultra2764
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Any of the long-running shounen anime franchises like Naruto or Dragon Ball Z that air for a hundred-plus episodes. There are many titles with significantly shorter lengths, no filler and less repetitive developments with their plots that I've seen since becoming a fully committed anime fan over ten years ago. Seeing excellent gems like Serial Experiments Lain, Monster and Perfect Blue, they make me want to explore more with anime than the hundreds of episodes loaded with repetitive developments and filler found within a long-running shounen anime.
Seeing as I'm now starting to dig into more older titles from the 1990s and earlier like works from Leiji Matsumoto, Lupin the 3rd and Legend of the Galactic Heroes, hearing talk like this makes me weep. 
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Kruszer
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I don't really outgrow things I just sort of rewatch them less. My patience for watching long shounen stuff has been declining though, to the point where I will skip the obvious filler. This is of note because, one my big gateway anime was Dragonball Z, which is one of the worst offenders, though I've just started giving that a rewatch through the Kai remake.
I also would "outgrow" any show that had a low rewatchability factor such as things I felt were good but a chore to get through, or series I enjoyed for the most part but had endings that soiled that enjoyment to the point where I didn't want to revisit them. |
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Ortensia1980
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Has to be Dragon Ball Z for me. I'd always make sure that I was home so that I wouldn't miss a thing, but I could care less about it now. And since they'd drag out things for god knows how many episodes, it really wouldn't have mattered how much episodes I missed, like during the Frieza saga when Goku and Frieza were fighting on the planet which was about to blow up. How many episodes did that fight even last?
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maaya
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After about 15 years of watching anime, it feels like I've outgrown almost all of them. But I think it's partially due to animes being so repetitive content-wise and not being part of the intended audience (teens or otakus) of most series also doesn't help. I still enjoy enough manga series, but those don't get animated that much (josei / "mature" shojo or seinen a la Bokurano, mainstream fantasy a la 12 Kingdoms). I avoid rewatching older series that I liked back then, because I fear that I'll like them a lot less now.
It is a children's show though, and a good one indeed. |
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