does anyone else feel like its really obvious

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Anon10/13/26, 22:48No.51329832

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Anon10/13/26, 22:51No.51329838

I don't know, but it is definitely harder to find good original anime these days that arent based on an existing ip, manga, or light novel. I still find plenty of really interesting modern manga though, it just doesnt get popular. In a way I'd say it's facing the same problem video games are. The old stuff is competing with the new stuff for your time, and we've reached the point if saturation where being good doesn't necessarily mean you will become popular.

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Anon10/13/26, 22:57No.51329867

Otaku culture peaked in the 2000s and it is what it is. It was perfect and there will never be anything like it ever again.

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Anon10/13/26, 22:58No.51329875

I went to see Ninja Scroll the other day at the movie theater. It had been so long I had forgotten most of the plot points. Great movie though.

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Anon10/13/26, 23:00No.51329887

I recently found this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHxvQ1wKCuAAnd I was like holy shit! That part at 1:18 where it uses the same chord progression from Pink Floyd's Time, but it's completely redone in a City Pop style with that incredible bass line and the call-and-response, and the super catchy chorus, and the gorgeous synths pads that just weave in effortlessly into the mix. And the sax solo at 3:00. This is incredible

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Anon10/14/26, 04:28No.51330364

That's just civilization in general, not just Japan. The future is poverty and barbarism. But yes, you are basically right.

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Anon10/14/26, 08:12No.51330557

The entire world peaked hard in the 70s/80s/90s. You can't tell me with a straight face modern western "culture" is anything else but unfathomable garbage, utterly devoid of any genuine human virtue. Were civilisational collapse to happen now and all our cultural output of the past 20 years wiped out without a trace, absolutely nothing of any value whatsoever would be lost. This is in no way anything unique to Japan.

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Anon10/14/26, 14:07No.51331035

Yeah You can still find 80s/90s Japan in some areas of the country, either clinging to life, agonizing, or plain dead.

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Anon10/14/26, 14:10No.51331038

Forgot pic related

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Anon10/15/26, 01:00No.51332364

The world was indeed much better before you were alive. Thanks a lot, faggots.

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Anon10/15/26, 01:38No.51332420

I disagree. Japan peaked in the 60s/70s/80s. The late 80s were sort falling off hard musically speaking though there was still some good stuff. By the 90s? Bury it.

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Anon10/15/26, 01:53No.51332445

I recently went to Japan for the first time finally, after wanting to visit badly for over half my life, and I was... mildly disappointed, though I did have fun and did my best to enjoy it. Perhaps I had built it up too much in my mind how sugoi Japan would be, but being a small town American, I already live in a rather nice and beautiful place with mostly friendly people so perhaps I'm spoiled. Japs are mostly bland, dead inside, phone addicted NPCs, not too different from here but at least here people will strike up a conversation or interact with you once in a while. In every public area they never once looked up from their dopamine slabs, just staring down like zombies, not even caring to glance out a window occasionally or anything. They don't often interact with others or smile unless forced to for a customer service job. No one had any children, that was super noticeable, of course I knew all about Abe wanting them to have breeding sex and all that but seeing it in first person felt dystopian to say the least. No children anywhere, just adults and elderly, and a few teenagers here and there. And, their country is not nearly as nice as everyone makes it out to be, I thought America was much nicer in many regards. Not having basic freedoms like being able to carry a pocket knife disturbed me more than expected. I think the only reason I didn't see more homeless is because I noticed they build an insane amount of cheap commie-block looking housing, but I feel like that probably won't continue indefinitely as eventually the housing will get destroyed by natural disasters or simply become too old and get torn down, and I bet you anything when that happens in fifty plus or so years they will also have a similar homeless crisis as America does once their elite decides to milk people for rent and only build "luxury" housing. Though that's just speculation on my part, it feels inevitable, I'm sure their elites are pissed they didn't do it sooner. The trains were much too expensive and I wondered how the Japs with their weak yen could possibly afford traveling that way every day. There were also abandoned buildings EVERYWHERE. A truly shocking amount, like Detroit or something. They weren't as dilapidated and there wasn't as much graffiti, though it was present, but there were still just thousands of abandoned buildings and homes left to rot basically everywhere. There were also shitloads of fat people, you niggers lied to me about Japs not being fat. Also holy shit, there were TONS of jeets and mudslimes there which surprised me, though I guess it shouldn't have with how things are nowadays. I wish I could have visited in the 80s or 90s, god, I bet it would have been so much better. I feel like I got to experience a shitty de-souled version of Japan. I could see and feel how it used to be, and it made my heart ache for a place that no longer exists.

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Anon10/15/26, 03:37No.51332568

My personal love is 2000s japan. There's something about the music and fuzzy digital camera quality that scratches a deep itch in my brain and makes me a bit sad I couldn't live through it.Dance dance revolution, the mp3 player, campy j-dramas, and alternative rock all come to mind.

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Anon10/15/26, 03:42No.51332578

the internet becoming what it is in the present time is why. it's like idk the 80s / 90s were the beginning of it, when the technology for the most part was still new and the 00s was the internet in its general infancy. like it just so happens that it was japan that was very creative and they adopted the internet early compared to most other countries so we got so many gemmies. look at akiba.

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Anon10/15/26, 03:53No.51332591

Don't get me wrong, there are things I enjoy about modern Japan. It's just this kind of stuff thats extra special to me. This is from the queen of lunch time cuisine.Also love Hajime no ippo, azumanga daioh, the original beyblade, larc en ciel, original yu gi oh, original fma, chobits, the gazette, zebraman, and a thousand more things from around that time to name a few.

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Anon10/15/26, 04:10No.51332609

From an otaku and anime standpoint, I think the best times were from around 95-2015. Particularly the late 90s and early 2000s were a pretty nuts time for anime and internet culture. I don't really think there's much interesting about 80s japan. Some anime and nerd culture was fringe and therefore good but that's about it. But then, Japanese stuff was big in America from 80-90s so it had to have something going for it in terms of cultural output, but whatever it was, it wasn't sweaty nerd meetups.

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Anon10/19/26, 09:49No.51341636

Censorship never get along with creativity. Sad but true

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Anon10/20/26, 02:08No.51343348

"new bad!! old good!!" the thread

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Anon10/22/26, 23:08No.51348204

>did it peak back then?? >because i got my taste from the city pop trend that started 6 years ago irony this is practically mainstream music

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