Every time I keep trying to recommend or even bring up an old series to another zoomer, they always look at me like 'uhh ok sure' as if the idea of a series at least older than Dragon Ball is straight up alien to them.It got me thinking if extreme early adaptability really is the only way for a zoomer to not fall into consuming nothing but mainstream slop that the algorithm keeps feeding them>be me>born 2000>first introduction to anime was through dvds my dad bought>got to watch dragon ball, pokemon and The cat returns>bought cable>watched anything from the club dorothee era; hokuto no ken, city hunter, saint seiya, space adventure cobra, bubblegum crisis, initial d, hamtaro>fast forward to 2026>literally anyone younger than me even by 3 years react as if they got an allergy to the same stuff that should've been popular at their schoolsWhy is it always the same generic modern shonen slop? Not even chainsaw man but jjk or one piece are like the only series they think ever exists. And don't get me started how their excuses always range between 'uhh it didn't age well' or 'but uhh the fanservice' like what the fuck even happened when Fairy Tail was airing?Is it really impossible to unclog whatever is brain rotting zoomers into watching some actual good series? Let alone reading.
Dumb normalfags are dumb normalfags? No way.
>>288160138Funny you us DBZ because that's the perfect microcosm of all this rot. Westmutt anime fans still moo about DBZ and Toonami making anime "mainstream worldwide", blindly say "OG DB is better but DBZ is peak", and they can't accept Dragon Ball Z didn't rip everything off of chop socky kung fu fantasy/sci fi films They'll literally get angry and shut down their brains if they have to learn anything about the show they claim to love that isn't what some fucking greasy YouTuber or Team Four Star told them it's about. Say it wasn't inspired by Superman or Star Wars or JUST Journey to the Wst and explain what it actually came form and they'll start screeching in hysterics about "thinking too deep about it bro" but they'll be quick to tell you 50 pages about why Vegeta is an inspirationAnd that's probably the most pedestrian starter anime besides Pokemon. You can't get through to most of the broccoli hairs through any medium other than short form videos and only if you already say something they either want to hear or already "know"If you've ever noticed, anime trends in America almost totally follow whatever is on Toonami and whatever is trending on TikTok You should almost be thankful for that. Imagine zoomzooms already paranoid about a romance series that involves a character who's 17 years old, needing to be validated that their partner is also 17 years old and no older at every moment, thinking "oh no her partner is turning 18 and she's still 17" is the height of drama and moral ambiguity (or even the male love interest is a pedophile if he doesn't break up)Now imagine them seeing literally any anime girl whatsoever Imagine non-weeb zoomzooms discovering most anime characters have pale skin and idealize blonde hair and blue eyes and how quick they will "improve" series by adding fat gay black/brown women with "natural" hair and "ethnic" featuresYou don't want this demographic seriously into anime
>>288160138why do you think this is "fucked?" why is the concept of a casual fan so alien to you?>hokuto no ken, city hunter, saint seiya, space adventure cobra, bubblegum crisis, initial d, hamtarosee now this is interesting, if you went back in time and you only watched those (You) would be the fucked normalfag to the fans of that timedo you not see the irony here?basically, you're 14 and born in the wrong generation
>>288160138those are larpers that won't watch more than 5 anime
>>288160138>another zoomer blog essayyes you should all hang
>>288160138watching modern mainstream slop badwatching old mainstream slop good
>guys look at me I watch old anime I'm so cool
>>288160138>I'm 14 and was born in the wrong generationYou come off as a very obnoxious person, that's probably why they don't listen to you.
>>288160477I know gatekeeping is the way to go to avoid normalfags ruining the perception of a series.But it really pisses me off seeing how old authors are getting either blamed or straight up slandered just because one of their works either featured bare breasts and nipples or even poking fun at crossdressers (still surprised Nagai hasn't been on their radar, yet).This whole thing sucks because not only there's less and less room to discuss variety but even merch are getting screwed over>>288160515>>>>>>>>if
>>288160138three possible reasons:>availabilityThey want to watch it, but your recommendation is not available on Netflix, Crunchyroll, Youtube, or Disney Plus. They don't want to get in trouble (piracy, sin, etc) for watching it unauthorized.>social mediaThey don't consume anime at all, they just like listening to their eceleb talking about it in the form of recaps, hype edits, and sakuga moments.>writingunc here. I think that newer anime has better writing and pacing than the old ones. And I say this as a person who vastly prefers the old ones more.New anime has enough time to flesh out characters and themes because of the 12 ep+ format. OVAs were largely carried by their worldbuilding and atmosphere.
>>288160138Didn't readNot your blog, faggot
>>288160138Anon, 95% of people only watch what's easily accessible to them, no matter the medium. Nobody "normal" gets past the Netflix discovery cue and that's got nothing to do with age or generations
>>288161908>cue*queueHomophones are for homos
>>288160138Do you recommend it like 'you should watch K-ON because X Y and Z' and shoe them a trailer and where to watch it, or something like that? Or do you plainly recommend them? And how well do you know them? Those can all dictate how well the recieve it.Imagine if you went to the grocery store and were shopping for a dish, and someone recommended you try oyster mushrooms while in the mushroom aisle. You would probably be like 'uh ok' and probably not care. But if one of your friends cooked you oyster mushrooms at their house and you liked it, then you'll probably be more receptive to them and maybe try cooking them at home yourself It all comes down to the presentation and familiarity. That is also why anime shows becoming trending on tik tok and the likes is because they are literally shown in the face of the person on their phone so they see the show right there and can decide if they are interested.
>>288160138Try recommending anything other than little girls troonshit.
>>288162282Mostly just mentions like 'Hey since you like that kind series there's something that you will like too.'
>>288160179fpbp
>>288160138It's because they don't like you.
YesDidn't read past your first line btw
>>288160138>Why is it always the same generic modern shonen slop?Because they're normalfags. There were plenty of people like this, there will be plenty in the future too. The vast majority of people are incapable of watching anything other than the most popular shounen of their time.
>>288160138not my problem
>>288160604Kek that's /a/ in a nutshell ain't it
>>288160138Bro your generation is gonna be drafted to die for israel this December, you've got worse things to worry about than taste in anime
>>288160138I'm not a zoomer but any time somebody recommends an anime to me in casual conversation I couldn't care less either. It's not just anime recommendations but every recommendation now, Hollywood slop, video games, even books. People don't know my tastes and their tastes are always retarded. How are you differentiating your recommendations from the average no-taste slop-eating retard? Nothing in your post made me want to watch anything you're talking about. In fact, I now have a negative impression of all of those because of you.
>>288160138>Older than DragonballZoom-friend same here even something newer than Dragonball that isn't mainstream will get you that thousand yard stare
>>288160138>born 2000unc
>>288169882Everyone becomes an 'unc' eventually. Why are you afraid to age?
>>288160138Anime only got better and better with time, no much reason to watch older anime, you can count the worthwhile ones with your hands.
>>288170106BASED
>>288160976>blamed or straight up slanderedThat's exactly it. The puritanism is the real reason why z and alpha are fucked. Something went horribly wrong with them that they cannot even engage with most media.
>>288160138Just knowing how to pirate as a Gen Z puts you at the top of your class.
>>288160138>talking about anime irlYou bring this on yourself, now fuck off with your blog.
>>288160138>>literally anyone younger than me even by 3 years react as if they got an allergy to the same stuff that should've been popular at their schoolsBefore your generation, the only people that openly discussed anime were the most autistic losers imaginable. The kinds of people that would wear Naruto headbands and run around screaming at the top of their lungs. The kinds of people that got bullied like they were the nerd from an 80s highschool movie. The average person was more likely to interact with the retard class than with the anime losers. That sentiment only really started to change with sword art online and attack on titan.
>>288160515ok but hokuto no ken is good tho
>>288160138damn bro you're so special and uniquelemme suck your cock mmhmhmmhhmh
>>288170873zamn bro....
>>288161932It should be queue, but in this particular case both work fine. They're literally being cued by it.>>288162282LOL of course not. Look at the quality of his thread here.>>288168425Trump got another call from Bibi. He's meeting with his neocons on Tuesday and logistics planes have been flooding into the Middle East for a month to prep. They aren't going to have to wait until December to die for Israel.
>>288160138First time with normalfags?
>>288160138It's up to you to proselytize old anime to your generation on youtube or tiktok or whatever children use these days. Us old men can't reach the hearts of the youth. It's up to you.
>>288160138Did you try putting your recommendations in a 10 second video clip with subtitles on the screen with copyrighted music?
>>288170223>Be constantly told sex is bad/dangerous growing up. >parents and boomers wonder why Gen Z is such a sexless and lonely generation. The chickens have come home to roost.
>>288172969my generation is chaste and virtuous
>>288172969Neither atomization to the point that people forget how to socialize at all nor glorification of seemingly consequence-free casual sex are good for society or its future. All we have done is swing from the latter to the former, without solving any underlying issues, and likely exacerbating many of them.
>>288160138I honestly find it really bizarre. I understand everyone has their own generation and preferences but I don't think I've ever seen a younger generation so repulsed by the idea of exposing themselves to things older than their own generation. I'm not expecting them to prefer it, I'm not suggesting they need to watch them to be considered true fans or have an inborn knowledge of the material. But the adamant refusal to dig deeper than the current hotness is just baffling.
>>288173096Much of 20th century fiction has a worsening effect on society, severing the root in this regard is good. Our artists and poets can meddle with this sort of thing, and use it to create beneficial works.
33 year old boomer here. Old normalfags aren't much better, OP.Most of my friends are 35+ and they're also repulsed by anything older than DB, and this applies not only to anime but games too.They complain all day that there's no good anime to watch and no games to play yet they refuse to try any of the hundreds of recommendations I suggestThen when a big name streamer finally suggests the same shit I did they come running to me>ANON, stop everything and watch/play this shit. It's DA BOMB>mfw I had recommended that exact game/anime/manga months ago and they ignored it
>>288170836Most of those shows were pretty good.
All generations are fucked with enough time.
>>288160138>through dvds my dad boughtthis right here sets you apart from 90% of current zoomerfags, your dad has good taste in anime
>>288173096I think it's two things:1) The internet isn't just enthusiasts anymore, so you hear a lot more opinions from average joes that are less likely to care deeply2) Internet discourse has been creating a rift between generations.... I mean where did this generation x, y, z, boomer, unc etc. shit even come from. None of that existed until the iphone era started
>>288160976get off twitter/reddit/discord
>>288173933I don't know if you realize this yet, but the use of ellipses instantly marks you as someone born before the year 1985. Gen X (and boomers) love this for some reason
>>288160477>Funny you us DBZ because that's the perfect microcosm of all this rot. Westmutt anime fans still moo about DBZ and Toonami making anime "mainstream worldwide",When I got into Dragon Ball my zoomer friends told me to skip DB and start with DBZ kai and I ended up missing my favorite arcs of the show (the fight with Tien) until I rewatched it years later. People are choosing an inferior experience just because that's how it aired on toonami I guess.
>>288170836It's been a while, but I remember it being awful. At one point it felt like half of every episode was just recap. It's been on my backlog to read instead, for a while now, as I imagine that's gotta be way better. Just haven't gotten around to it since I usually like to read things that are under 60-100 chapters.
>>288160138stop being a pretentious jackasstastes are cultural. Aesthetic preferences are not innate. What you find pleasing is a product of the period and place of your social acculturation. Most people do not consume older media because they do not relate to it the same way that they do to things produced in the cultural moment that conditioned their preferences.
>>288173096It's because being social is a core component of any hobby, and the young'uns are getting blasted in two ways1) Discussing the current hotness is a window that goes by pretty quick, especially thanks to how algorithms on social media websites often work, so if you wanna spend time with a series, you gotta do it while it's hot or else you'll lose a lot of the chances to actually interact with people once it's over, and shit can move reeeeeeeally quickly.2) A lot of the fanspace for older material has absolutely been gatekept by existing fans who don't want you to engage in the space unless you pass a lot of checks, particularly that you've read all of it before voicing any thoughts on the series, so a lot of them just don't want to deal with that headache. I mean, this is /a/ after all. Even in the d/a/ilies, there's occasionally some joker that treats the expectation to use spoiler tags as a crime against them personally, and starts bemoaning the state of /a/ given that people haven't read such material yet (even though they're reading it now)So now the only people that really have any interest in checking out older material are those who really have anime and manga as one of their big hobbies, otherwise a lot of them will view it as losing time with the series they want or just an invite to be insulted. There's also a knock-on effect that, even if someone does end up consuming the media, a lot will still sway away regardless because the threat of insult and derision that came with the gatekeeping built a lot of resentment towards the space in them. Especially since, even if you do step into those spaces, there's a lot of unprompted complaining about the young'uns anyways.
>>288173096They're literally trained to reject the old, in school, by their "Year Zero" teachers and professors. The ones that escape the brainwashing love old shit, and hate everything new. They're way less likely to give new things a chance than older generations (Gen X is probably most open to new shit, even if they hate it they'll keep trying whatever else comes out). But there is an awful lot of them that bought in on Year Zero.
>>288160138Anon, that's how things work, people consider anything made before their birth date ancient. Hovewer can't image how anyone born after 2010 can genuinely love anime
>>288174330I'm going to be honest, the OG DB anime and DBZ feel pretty different. And it's likely that someone won't make it through the entirety of the OG series and give up before they make it to DBZ.The manga is more coherent, and much better paced, I recommend the manga first to anyone trying to get into the series.
>>288172969This isn't even the first time this happened. Every few generations, you get one that's considered "puritanical" or "moral-faggy"If I recall, the generation that was born around 1870-1890 was just as notorious for being ultra puritanical moralfags and virtually none of their children or grandchildren liked themThey were so awful that the Lost Generation spent most of its culture shitting on them for ruining everything>>288173096I have Literally the generation before this one was already doing the exact same thingsIt wasn't zoomers who said shit like "Toonami invented anime" or "Star Wars popularized science fiction"
>>288177278>"Toonami invented anime" or "Star Wars popularized science fiction"Nobody has ever said those things.
>>288174594i should specify, i am reading it
>>288177278>"Toonami invented anime">he didn't watch Yu-gi-oh or Fighting Foodons on public television years prior
>>288160138>Every time I keep trying to recommend or even bring up an old series to another zoomer, they always look at me like 'uhh ok sure' as if the idea of a series at least older than Dragon Ball is straight up alien to them.Dragon Ball came out in 1984Before Dr. Slump(Pre-1980) it really is a different worldDr. Slump is the cut-off for modern manga imo
>>288160138People under the age of 30 will only watch what their favorite streamer or tiktok influencer recommends to them. You could name the most amazing show and they won't even look at a review but if niggeryackslobber@twiitch.tv says it's fire than they are going to crash the crunchyroll website trying to get to it. It's sad but nothing we can do about it the programming is too powerful.
>>288178028>Zoomers are the new Boomers, replacing TV with TikTok and Twitch.The world is fucked, huh.
>>288160138Nobody cares. Eat my ass.
