The oldfags were right, we all eventually get to an age where SoL and CGDCT is the only genre that can truly sustain your soul.
Only if it's well-written SoL. Too much sloppa.
Yet somehow even as Japan gets ever older we get fewer and fewer proper SoL series each season
>>289362694That golden age of SoL from the late 2000s to early 2010s was such a magic period
>>289362694The day I finally realized I liked CGDCT/SoL is the day I started actually watching a lot more anime.
SoL and CGDCT are literally cope genres for losers that have given up on themselves and are just killing time until they die
Other genres that finish the main plot should continue as SoL.
>>289363910I work hard every day, and thats why I need cute anime girls injected directly into my veins to relieve stress via SoL.
>>289362694Tamayura is such cream of the crop SoL. I'd go far as to say its one of the few that can challenge for K-On's crown
>>289362694I'm 29, and I've been watching anime since I was 6 . CGDCT was boring then, and it's boring now.
>>289363910thats all anime kid
>>289364292Still a child.
>>289363877this is the true meaning of growing older. it's when you realize that fun things are fun, no matter the genre. that's when you accept things you previously thought you wouldn't like, like CGDCT/SoL and you start watching whatever makes you happy inside.
>>289363910trvke
>>289364339Yeah I watch all kinds of genres now. But cute girls doing stuff was the real gateway to all that. My watch list went exponential after I randomly took a chance on a slice of life show with a cute cast and found out I really liked it. Now if something looks interesting in a pic or clip or I'm just randomly looking at stuff from a studio I've enjoyed previously to see what else they've done, I'll go ahead and watch it.Before that I would really only watch an anime if it was pretty narrow in genre and I had a recommendation from my one friend who was into anime. I realize now he was actually hiding his power level and wasn't recommending CGDCT to me even though he was an avid reader of those types of manga back then (he'd buy stuff at cons but I never paid too close attention) and probably anime too.
>>289363910Literally every single thing you do is a cope for existential dread to stave off the endFucking idiot
>>289362694>>289365037K-on was a gag manga, the anime ruined it.
>>289362694This genre nearly killed the anime industry.
>>289365846Like everything else they do, KyoAni took a mediocre work and turned it into a masterpiece. Keep being mad about it.
Old fag hereReading random isekai when get bored
>>289365853Worse. It infantilized it.
>>289365853You mean post millennium new wave moe, the style that churned so much money it transformed Akiba. Or the post 2006 ultra commercial version of it culminating with kyoani burning millions of yen on one-off adaptations, seemingly never running out of money. Or the post 2010s when girl und panzer cashed in 20+ millions of dollars in cinemas.>>289368163 As if the 00's invented moe. Ignoramus, watch more anime.
>>289369825It's very funny to me that there still exists people that think anime was nothing but dragon ball z, hokuto no ken and berserk before the turn of the millenium
>>289369825The post 2006 version is the issue and what everyone is referring to when they complain about moeshit. Early 00s moe like Azumanga Daioh, Galaxy Angel, Magical Pokaan and Nurse Angel Komugi-chan that knew the moe was meant to be a spice rather than the main dish was great. KyoAni took what was a fan term of affection and turned it into a forced selling point where the characters would turn to the camera and say "moe moe~" to force memes about it.
>>289369825>short term gains by pandering to pedophilesMoesloppers hate the current zeitgeist which makes even more money, what’s your point?
>>289371179>KyoAni took what was a fan term of affection and turned it into a forced selling point where the characters would turn to the camera and say "moe moe~" to force memes about it.From the lineup of Kyoani anime made at that time Haruhi was a parody(with some serious parts) and Kanon and Clannad were (melo)dramas. None of them treated moe as the "main dish". Only LS fits the bill but even that was, at least partially, liked for being extremely reference heavy not just for the moe factor. Also I hope you know that kyoani made Komugi-chan as well.
>>289371282Nta but I think his point is that it didn't kill the industry if it actually made money. >pedophilesAnime has always pandered to pedos, it only started getting censored after 2010 and moved away from that.
>>289371289Yes, the Haruhi series itself was a parody of early 00s harem series/moe archetype cliches, but the company clearly honed in on Haruhi rambling about "muh moe youso" and went all in on marketing it based on that. Haruhi on its own was fine, but it directly led to Lucky Star, which was the true beginning of moeshit. KyoAni's Key adaptations were fine too (although Ayu in Kanon 2006 was lolified way too hard compared to the VN and 02 where she felt like she could be a JC), which is why it's such a shame that they abandoned Key for random 4-komas and obscure novels to moefy.>Also I hope you know that kyoani made Komugi-chan as well.They just co-operated with Tatsunoko, which was the main studio behind Soul Taker and its spinoffs.
>>289371449So at least you admit that they haven't made series that only focus on moe >Ayu in Kanon 2006 was lolified way too hard compared to the VN I don't see it, Itaru's art makes her look pretty loli-like. Are you talking about the characterization? >which is why it's such a shame that they abandoned Key for random 4-komas and obscure novels to moefy.Like what? Hyouka doesn't rely on moe as its only appeal and neither do Tamako Market and Amagi. Most of Kyoani's works rely on melodrama > 4-komas They did like what? 3 of them? LS, K-on and DM(which isn't an actual 4-koma). In reality they barely did any CGDCT and as a whole the CGDCT genre lasted very little. It's also not a genre with no good entire, Hidamari Sketch is good
>>289371449Key themselves stopped being as good as they used to be, rewrite was the decline and the end of an era. I only wish KyoAni got to adapt Little Busters.
>>289371692>So at least you admit that they haven't made series that only focus on moeYes, KyoAni isn't all bad, they just made some terrible choices that had a terrible effect on the industry (although it would be remiss of me not to blame Manga Time Kirara as well, as they're the factory pumping out most of the source material for the genre). They've largely moved on from pushing moe at this point, too, although I will say that the way they try to force wholesome/melodramatic emotional moments into series nowadays like in Dragon Maid and CITY can get annoying too.>Are you talking about the characterization? Yes, 06 really exaggerates her immaturity compared to the VN.>Like what?You're forgetting how they completely changed the art style and designs (the original Hyouka novel looked like something out of Irasutoya's stock art, for example) and how they added anime-original characters in adaptations such as Chuunibyou.>They did like what? 3 of them? LS, K-onAnd those were what set off the trend.>DM(which isn't an actual 4-koma)Yeah, I don't really have any issues with them adapting that, even if it's rather ironic considering what a /d/fag the author of the manga is.>It's also not a genre with no good entireTrue, I like some CGDCT series too, but the way it dominated the anime industry from the late 00s to mid-10s really was exhausting and bears to be criticized. That said, isekai is even worse than moe ever was about that.
>>289372030>You're forgetting how they completely changed the art style and designs (the original Hyouka novel looked like something out of Irasutoya's stock art, for example) and how they added anime-original characters in adaptations such as Chuunibyou.And? That still doesn't mean that those series mainly relied on moe(with the exception of maybe chuu2). A person that was here only for the moe would have a very hard time enjoying Hyouka. >And those were what set off the trend.>they just made some terrible choicesCGDCT manga have been adapted before them and they were going to get big anyways with or without the success of these 2 anime. IT's more about what people wanted. >t the way it dominated the anime industry from the late 00s to mid-10s really was exhausting Like 3/4 are at most CDCGT anime got made every season, it wasn't that big of a deal.
>>289368163What are you even trying to say here?
