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4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: an Apple Tree saying “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

Panel 2: an Apple saying “Anime is trash”

Panel 3: the tree winds up…

Panel 4: …and throws the apple as far as possible with a FWOoOSH

  • phar@lemmy.world
    242·
    2 days ago

    When I was in 8th-9th grade I was obsessed with anime. Used to get the fansub VHS mailed to my house to watch them. These were the days of 28.8 and 56k modems. You weren’t watching full episodes of any quality. LOVED anime. Now I can’t stand it. It’s unbelievably cringey to me. I’m 43 but I feel like it’s been very difficult to watch for a long time. I remember in college people were watching Naruto and I was just bored to tears. Voice Acting, writing, etc really is trash for the most part. There’s some exceptions, Studio Ghibli, Akira, maybe a movie or two. But just can’t get into it these days. Anyway that’s my story, tune in next time on old man rant.

    Edit: so exceptions supposed to be some exceptions

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      I feel like the industry as a whole refuses to innovate and modernize and is just stuck in a rut of appealing to 15 year olds with slide deck level animated content and dated and frankly in 2026 offending characteristics, forgetting all of us 30+ people with disposable income who want stories with depth and animation with quality. One thing I always liked about Ghibli is that even if the protagonist of a movie is a young kid it, they never made the movie itself childish or pandering to a younger audience, if anything they were willing to take the risk of gently exposing adult and even difficult topics in such movies like Totoro for example, that one scene of the big sister coming across her little sisters shoe by the pond is seared in my memory.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        This isn’t a problem with anime so much as it is with localization. Most of what makes it out of Japan is shonen, stuff aimed at boys aged about 12-18. There’s also shojo (same age group, but girls), seinen (adult men), josei (adult women), and kodomomuke (under 12s of both genders). Seinen in particular has an absurdly broad range of genres. For example, Ghost in the Shell is a foundational cyberpunk work, but Spice & Wolf is a slow burn romance about medieval barter economics.

      • phar@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        Sure but I don’t want overwhelming options. Maybe one or two. Something where they act like humans might actually act, and no underage grossness please.

        • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
          15·
          2 days ago

          Not sure what your style is but my most recent suggestion has been Dorohedoro. Sorcerers rule one side of the world, and shove non sorcerers into The Hole. They hop in and out of The Hole whenever they want, experimenting on people as they wish. Main character doesn’t know why he has a lizard head, and is immune to Sorcerer magic. Gritty, unpredictable, great world building.

          Another: Under Ninja. Japan is full of ninjas, and of course undercover ninjas as well, hence the title. Can’t say much without spoiling it, but the main character is in a high school trying to out ninja a rival clan that is undercover. Surprisingly serious, great animation, and a few gags.

          In both, IMO, the characters are fairly grounded and act like real people would.

            • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
              21·
              1 day ago

              There’s a LOT in the show, I binged season 1 and came in right when season 2 started and ended this year. 2-3 years between seasons is going to be ROUGH to keep up with, but the world itself has so many layers it kind of reminds me of Fifth Element.

          • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
            31·
            1 day ago

            Dorohedoro is such a breath of fresh air compared to the typical cookie cutter anime, both its art and story and characters feel unique to itself, the only issue is how complicated the storyline is, but I just tune in for the ride even if I can’t keep track of the plot

        • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 hours ago

          ‘Oruchuban Ebichu’. Peak adult anime, you don’t need anything else. It’s also short and to the point.

          And of course, ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is an all-time classic.