I'm 35 and I rarely watch new shows. Not because 'old good new bad', but simply because I have watched enough anime that most new shows just feel like the same old shit to me.

I'm in my forties. I watch a handful of things every season. I wouldn't say I get excited about it (or much of anything for that matter), but what the fuck is there to get excited about in the first place these days, you know?

You faggots never liked anime in the first place.

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>>289830175
In my late 20s I watched very few new shows and thought I just grew out of it. For god knows what reason I'm suddenly watching a bunch again. Could just be that my life got crappier again.
>>289830266
What does this even mean.

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35.

I haven't followed seasons with /a/ since about 2016, some years I've watched no anime at all and others I might just watch one or two things on a whim. Likewise I might watch something old that I've never see, or re-watch a favourite. I am sort of getting the feeling I'd like to watch more anime again, which probably means I'm feeling increasingly lonley as I age foreveralone.

I read manga daily and follow nearly 200(much of which doesn't get any regular scanlation or gets dropped and picked up again a year or two later), with a rough and unsorted backlog about twice that size.

>>289830175
I'm in my early 40s, and it really depends on the season. DESU, I would be more psyched if I had more time to watch stuff, so far I've only kept up with Dara-san this season.

42 here. Battle shonen has fallen completely off the radar (OPM S2 was the last straw). I pick up a few shows every season, but the stereotype was true - romantic comedy and SoL are most of what I end up sticking with. I'm following Carameliser and Yani Neko right now. I'll binge TGitS later - grew up with SAC, but the manga was one of the first Japanese media I really dug for, and felt a sense of accomplishment when I found it. I'm excited for Dungeon Meshi S2 next year. Kui is a real one, and I about shit a brick when I heard Yasunori Mitsuda was doing the series soundtrack.

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>>289830175
I'm 51
I've been on this site for around 19 years

>>289830175
35. I mostly watch anime with some friends I watch new stuff on my own, but rarely finish it. I don't follow seasons, I pick stuff from what looks good on /a/.

>>289830175
I don't watch much since I'm more of a mangafag. It's gonna take company for me to watch something that isn't an adaptation of something I like.

>>289830175
34 and I watch five new shows every season minimum

>>289830175
34 and I'm excited about 5 shows this season

>>289830175

I'm 30 years old. Rarely do I watch anime these days due to how busy I am.

>>289830539
I think dandadan is better than most shonens that were big immediately before it.

>>289830175
Fellow 1990 Chads where are you?

This place is a fucking retirement home

Old good new bad

>>289830175
mid-30s

I read manga mostly. Lots of good shit out there.

>>289830938
Go make a tiktok about it

>>289831032
You know I'm right

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>>289830938
Its all so tiresome

>>289830938
do you expect time to flow backwards or smth

>>289830938
You will join us

40, been enjoying Yani Neko.

>>289830175
I'm 48, been here since 2004. Anime and manga still work for me, though my preferences have shifted over time. It's a nice respite from all the shit out there.

>>289830175
I'm 33 and I'm enjoying anime as I did back in 2006.
But I barely come to /a/ these days other than to look for manga raws when I've exhausted my usual places.

>>289831165
I expect you to dance, Mr. Bond

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Early 40s. I follow along with /a/ to see what's going on but haven't picked up a new series in a long time. I do sometimes read a manga that anon's talking about. Not like I'm against watching anime now, but nothing has really grabbed me in a long time. Actually a good chance I'll watch the new GITS series since it's pretty unique.

>>289830938
Just think about the passage of time this way: Someone who was an underageB& when 4chan was new in the mid 2000s is gonna be mid 30s at least now. I don't feel like an oldfag but I've been here since 2008.

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>>289830175
43. I still watch but it's hard to get excited about most things the way I used to. There are a lot of times were I feel like I'm on the outs with current discussion. Not just anime.

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>>289830175
There's still new manga I find amazing and/or get engaged in, and some recent anime as well. Also some upcoming shows I'm looking forward to. So it's all good with me.

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>>289831647
>There are a lot of times were I feel like I'm on the outs with current discussion. Not just anime
i can relate. and all i can think about is how it's just going to get worse every year for the rest of my life.

>>289830175
First 3 are sovl
Last 2 look horrible
Good thing 10s anime doesn’t actually look like that
20s anime does though

I don't even like current anime or video games . just come here to shitpost

Unironically turning into unc that just watches sports . WC week on /sp/ is as close to feeling like old /a/ durin new episodes releases

>>289830364
>/a/ being misogynistic was so naturally accepted it made it into one of the questions
kek, don’t show the "election tourists" crowd this picture

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>>289830938
There's no escape.

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To be honest, the board I have the most to do on these days is /lit/, because I do way more reading of books at this point than watching of anime, watching of cartoons, reading of comics, or playing of video games.

I come to /a/ to talk about great old anime, and because I love the posting style of this board maybe most of all. The last seasonal anime I really followed was G-Witch, and the second season of that was so lame I dropped it before finishing it. I'm trying to follow this season's Ghost In The Shell remake but I'm already behind on it.

For whatever reason I just read books much more easily these days than I do consume most other media. Except maybe listening to music.

39, by the way.

I'm 33 is that old enough? I don't really like video games anymore. I still like anime. Actually able to enjoy anime more than ever as I am financially ok. When I was in school, there was always a lot of pressure and I couldn't really watch as much as I wanted.

>>289830175
im 40 and i spent more than 10 years not watching anime after watching it in my teens.
last anime i watched before i quit was FMA. not the remake, the og. i got back into anime with MahoAko and Mushoku Tensei.
maybe you could take a break anon. i recommend at least a decade tho.

>>289830175
I'm close to 40 and I still look forward to and enjoy anime. My problem isn't my age but the fact that I'm stuck in the wage cage. I have far less time for watching (or doing) what I'd like than I used to. There is this sense that life just sucks overall and I'm powerless to do anything about it. But at least anime is one of the things that soothes my soul a bit. If only I had invested in bitcoin when I had the chance. Better luck next life I guess.

>>289832175
>i got back into anime with MahoAko and Mushoku Tensei.
Goddamn subhuman pedo fuck. You should've stuck to not watching anime. Fuck you.

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>>289832253
stay mad bitch!

fuck anime sucks

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>>289831647
>I still watch but it's hard to get excited about most things the way I used to.
I'm a year younger and I kinda feel this, at least about anime. Most stuff doesn't stick with me like stuff that I watched when I was younger...like Rozen Maiden, which lives rent free in my head(pic very related). Somehow I get really into new hobbies though; I'm getting into Gunpla adjacent model kits(not a big fan of Gundam designs outside a few specific mechs).

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>>289831712
I understand and even respect that I'm not the target audience for a lot of things anymore, but when I see all my old internet holes shift focus away from the people who made it I can't help but feel a combination of annoyance, frustration and loneliness. I don't demand the entire internet cater to me, but I'd like to have at least my own corner that's not loaded with smug dullards who think they're hardcore for watching anime made in the last decade.

I'm in my 30s and still like the occasional new thing. I also still play the occasional new video game. My strategy for media though is to wait 10 years to see what people still talk about and only consume that. FOMO filter.

>>289832082
This board is probably sexually frustrated nerds, but election tourists are usually weirdo religious people who should not have been allowed to discover anime.

>>289831810
posters like you should just leave for good. you're the reason the site is the way it is right now.

Why do you faggots use the term oldfag when you clearly don’t understand what it means?

>>289830938
Younger people probably stick to social media or Discord to discuss anime or manga.

>>289832570
if you are an oldfag you probably are 35-40 at minimum.

>>289832570
First check your tone. You're being a tad too uppity.

>>289832570
I'm a cancerfag but I call myself and oldfag lolol get pwnd gramps

>>289830175
Why would new releases of old things ever be good? FLCL is a good example of why that shouldn’t be done.

>>289830175
39 here, yeah i'm excited about some upcoming anime:
Bugle Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qcxnm06hjo
Magic Knight Rayearth remake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISc0dl5R_8
Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrubfjUjlc

And i'm currently enjoying Hanaori-san, Youjo Senki and Clevates II

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>>289830175
It's probably normal, I'm 33 and mostly pick up stuff from the 80s and 90s I haven't seen yet instead of watching seasonal stuff, except maybe Dropkick on my Devil

>>289830557
based

>>289832632
>Magic Knight Rayearth Remake
will have to check that one out

>>289830557
Aren't you too old to be posting anime girl reaction pics? Don't you have any shame?

>>289830175
im a 28 year old boomer it's so over for me

>>289832711
>Don't you have any shame?
he's posting on 4chan so... no?

maybe?

40 here. I still enjoy it, but there are two things that are important.

Sturgeon's Law is real, 99% of everything that is made is shit, especially now when anime productions seem to target quantity over quality. You don't have to watch everything. If you find only 2-3 shows a season that you enjoy or look forward to, that's still good.

I avoid mainstream discussion. The generic anime places on the net are just echo-chambers of a social-media led hype-machine, where the only discussion is being excited for the NEXT BIG THING, enjoying the CURRENT BIG THING, and hating the current SHIT THING, etc.
I watch everything one year later. The BR release torrents came out, so I get the best version, and I can enjoy and evaluate things in relative silence.

Not having anybody to talk to sucks to. The only reason I'm on still 4chan is getting good recs and occasional funny threads from /a/, and I'm sure as hell not touching any other boards.

>>289832744
when I was your age people used to make threads saying 28 is still young and it gets better and 30s is where you come into your own and you finally flourish and have sex, get married and have kids.
I'm just telling you now that that's all BS and it's already over

>>289832175
It sounds like you shouldn’t be giving opinions

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>>289832711
No?
My waifu btw

>>289832816
As I teenager I knew like 8 pregnant girls so yeah 30s is OLD OLD

>>289832862
no its important sexhaving tourists like myself offer perspective.
/a/ is too insular

>>289832808
Did you saw Kirei ni Shitemoraemasuka, or do you consider it shit?

>>289832816
yeah I already kind of see it coming. It might be different if I wanted to change but I cannot see myself giving up my current life for a girl.
however I do see myself becoming more financially stable at least.

34
Currently watching 15 shows

I'm 33 and I wish I could win a 500 m lottery. I'd still watch 30 anime episodes a week in between banging...super model level girls.

Late 30s, watching 5-15 per season and bangin all the tourists mothers in /a/ (but only the milf ones).

I'm 37 and I was in the "new anime is still good" camp but recently I realized that all of my examples of "new anime" were 5+ years old now so I'm becoming a pessimist. I still find something to watch every season though.

>>289833029
>3DPD
gross
If I had that money I'd just construct the best sexdoll ever and she'd look like my waifu

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>anime girls these days voiced by women young enough to be my daughters

>>289833090
Don't get me wrong, if there's a heaven, it's banging all the anime girls you could possibly want. But 3dpd is like wanting McDonalds occasionally when you are tired of filet mignon.

>>289833140
Many popular voice actresses are pushing 50s yet they're still voicing JKs.

>>289830981
Same except early thirties.

I'm still waiting
for Mononoke movie 3
FUCK

>>289830175
I'm 25 and I haven't gave a fuck about new anime since 2018 I think
I'm there to read new HxH chapters with anons and check out if One Piece got good again

>>289830175
I'm mid 30s and I always wonder if such threads are simple bait, or by retards who genuinely cannot tell the difference between 'shovelware' type anime (adaptations) and new anime actually worth watching (originals, "adaptations" that completely ignore the source material, media-mix).

For all the posts about being mangafags, what threads do you even use on this board? The storytimes? There’s barely any manga threads compared to anime threads. I’m surprised you still browse this board at all.

>>289832486
Kek here comes the damage control

>>289830938
Younger people are just a loud minority making shitty twitter screencap threads.

I've recently only been watching older stuff. Not because new anime couldn't grab my attention, but there are still many old series I never got to that I wouldn't have time for if I kept up with the ongoing season on top.
This anon said it best:
>>289832248
>My problem isn't my age but the fact that I'm stuck in the wage cage. I have far less time for watching (or doing) what I'd like than I used to
Ain't that the truth.

>>289830175
I just turned 40 a little more than two weeks ago. I watch the yearly Precure season but yeah, I don't watch as many anime as I could 10 or 15 years ago. Mainly because there are many older anime i didn't watch at their time of airing that I try to catch up.

>>289832898

Haven't seen it yet. I'll probably watch it next year.

>>289830364
>18 votes over 30yo
>1%
Geez at least try to make your shitpost more believable.

>>289834131
>>289833657

35, still regularly pick up around 10 shows a season, this one is particularly stacked though so I've got like 20.
Fun things are fun and I'm not a jaded little faggot so I find the hobby just as good as it always was, the only decline is in how shit and ESL /a/ is these days.

>>289834191
That’s because of shonen fags

>>289832578
How do you discuss anything on social media? It's not in a form suited for it as far as I can tell (form, imageboard etc).

I have never used twitter much less any of the newer, 'younger' ones so I really don't know. Not that I'm complaining, there's too many twitter normalfags here already.

>>289830175
>How many of you are oldfags, like mid 30s or older?
I'm in my 40s.

>I'm that age and I was wondering if there's anyone who honestly still watches and gets excited for new anime?
Kids and 20 year olds still get excited about the newest shonen. It's a cycle as old as time, where the most generic action content still gets the younger people interested.

There are a few who are still dedicated to exclusively anime, I'm sure, but my opinion is that anime is just a medium with its own good content and bad content.

>I haven't really in a long time, I mostly just keep an eye out for new releases of old shows from my youth, is that normal or am I just a bitter old man?
There's a new The Ghost in the Shell anime, currently airing. It's more along the lines of the manga, as opposed to the more serious tone of the first two OVAs.

>>289832137
What do you read? I don't know where to start with novels and fiction, I don't want 'normalfag' stuff like stories about some whore/manwhore or murders. I like reading non-fiction, of the decidedly un-pulp type you're unlikely to find in typical bookstores (modern popular histories and other trash about feminism or something), but I don't know shit about good non-fiction authors.

I suspect the internet, and my access to anime and manga, will become increasingly inhospitable over the next decade and it wouldn't surprise me if I had to drop out of it due to the risks it is coming to pose. So I'm looking to books more and more.

>>289830175
33 and i find new anime to be excited about every season.
I hope i will never become a joyless bitter cunt like you.

>>289835230
start with the greeks

>>289830175
My oldest anime are on VHS. And honestly, my interest in watching anime died with fansubbing.
We had a good sprint during the early digital age, but since then the technical side of the hobby has been stagnant if not degerating. I miss the time when fansbbers were developing new codecs and containers instead soulless megacorpos.

>>289833648
>For all the posts about being mangafags, what threads do you even use on this board?
Occasional threads about manga I read, although most of what I read never ever gets threads. This is the serious discussion part of my time on /a/, everything else is just funposting or lurking. I do follow a few manga which are posted here chapter by chapter, but not more than 5 or 6.

Mostly I lurk /a/ and post in threads about anime series I'm interested in, about girls and horny shit I like, subjects I like etc. For me it's /a/ - anime & manga random. I haven't watched an anime with /a/ since Flip Flappers, even now I am watching anime again I don't really participate or even lurk the threads all that often. And any time a manga I like gets an adaption I basically have to stop going into those threads because they become full of animeonlies and socialmedia newfags &/or normalfags.

>>289834759
They don't actually discuss it. They just larp as fans lol

>>289830175
I'm 26 and watch airing every season.

also PLEASE bring back 90s art style, I detest the 2020s onward style

>>289830175
>I'm that age and I was wondering if there's anyone who honestly still watches and gets excited for new anime?

Another 35 year old Anon (it's funny how many of us must have been born in 1991?), I've got two media consumption habits at the moment:
-Skim through the seasonal list and marathon whatever looks good when it's finished airing. I've been a bit lazy, but I recently saw Witch Hat Atelier, am currently working on Ganglion, will pick up season 2 of Trigun next, and looking forward to Chainsmoker Cat and that new Ghost in the Shell.
-Every once in a while I'll torrent something I haven't seen from the 80's and 90's.

The secret to having anime to "look forward to" is to keep an eye on the studios you actually like and just chill out.
It's been decades and I still keep an eye on Studio Ghibli, Studio 4°C, Science Saru, and Trigger. There's a lot being made these days, infinitely moreso than when we were kids, and we basically get access to it instantaneously, but I think it still pays to treat it like old stuff: sort through the garbage, binge whatever's been peer tested, repeat.

36. I don’t watch it like I use too but I’ll try to catch something if it interesting enough. I mostly just keep up with manga like I always have. I just don’t have the interest with anime and I find the newer stuff kind of whatever. Not because “old good new bad”(the new stuff is good) but I think I’ve seen too much of the same thing. Also I just want to do other stuff with my time than sit down and watch anime. Last anime I’ve sat down and watch was gundam 0083 cause I’d told myself I go through the series years back and have been taking my sweet time with it. Old me would’ve finished the whole series in a year. I also just tend to watch older anime I’ve grew up with in general. I miss the feel and the style of back then. I also don’t care too much for the modern discussion of anime nowadays. Everything is tied to social media and discourse farming, this place is full of bots and is dying but I come back every so often to just read what people are thinking. If I had to say what modern anime peaks my interest it’s mushoku tensei and re zero but I don’t keep up with it when it’s coming out (I’m like 2 seasons behind on re zero)

>>289830175
>oldfags, like mid 30s
fail

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>>289835730
>If I had to say what modern anime peaks my interest it’s mushoku tensei and re zero
Pretty good, I read almost the entire thing before I realized I was being trolled.

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40 here, and watching Danko. Anime is becoming good again, slowly. This is a comeback of real anime, fanservice and all.

>>289830175
33, I am in a period of enjoying anime right now, but my late 20s I was super burnt out. I don't have the same kind of enjoyment that I used to have though. I just slowly watch shows of whatever catches my fancy. I don't pay a lot of attention to the currently airing shows, but I also don't really rewatch a lot of the stuff I've already seen either. I really get a lot of enjoyment out of early 2000s anime, partially because that was when I grew up, partially because that period also feels so innovative with its original anime. When I look back, I think it was all the isekai anime in the 2010s that really killed my interest and things were never quite the same.

>>289830175
41yo. I mostly like sci-fi/adv and anime stopped delivering that long ago. Still check ongoings, you never know. Yay gits.
Discovered mecha recently, quite enjoyable, old titles especially. For some reason i ignored this genre for decades.

I just wonder. Did most of the Japanimation guys of the 90s and maybe even 80s get filtered out of the medium by the 2000s? As in, most of them topped out at 50-100 anime at best, but at like they are hardcore OGs?

>>289830175
What about 50s, 60s and 70s Yuki?

>>289837773
This is incredible to me considering how much mecha there used to be compared to now. The idea of giant robots being cool kind of faded out by the end of the 2000s

>>289838467
How? I never got that. Even Gurren Lagann and Code Geass had their run in the late 2000s.

>>289838467
I hope it's coming back.
For some reason Gunpla is exploding in popularity. Probably because it's still affordable compared to hobbies in a similar niche.
I also want more space shows, maybe even some retro futuristic stuff. We get so few now. I'm dead tired of medieval isekai. Or even medieval settings in general.
Gnosia was a recent scifi one I got really into.

>>289838492
That was basically the last hurrah. I can't think of anything equally big from the 2010s and the decades before that had cultural icons like Mazinger, Gundam, Macross, Evangelion among a host of lesser-known titles. And the west had Transformers.

>>289838661
>And the west had Transformers.
Do they really count as mecha if they don't have pilots?

39 here. I think. I stopped counting at some point.

I completely fell out with modern anime. Once in a while one will catch my attention, but I've learned if an anime is worth watching, it'll still be worth watching in 5-10 years. I've mostly been going through old 00s stuff I didn't see back in the day. Lotta crap, but every once in a while I'll find something REALLY good buried in it.

>>289838591
I wonder how long the gunpla trend will last. Social media breathed new life into it and made it more visible and it's something you can do by yourself in your own home.
I do kind of hope scifi comes back, but I buy into the thesis that we view future technology much more pessimistically now. I also doubt mecha will be part of a new wave of scifi now that actual real robots and autonomous/unmanned weapons are in the public consciousness. A new scifi war drama would probably be all about AIs and drones.

>>289838734
Technically no but they share the same appeal. Cool big robots with guns.

>>289838739
>every once in a while I'll find something REALLY good buried in it.
Got any examples?

>>289838762
>A new scifi war drama would probably be all about AIs and drones.
We've had a couple of those already. Like that Towa no Yuugure show last year. The problem is the shows will definitely glaze AI 5 ways to sunday the way Japan is reacting to AI.

>>289830175
Early 50s. Been watching since mid-90s in college.
Still watch seasonal slop and the occasional "classic", but more like background noise rather than being invested in it.
I find the key is having a short memory along with viewing it as nothing more than the consumable item it ultimately is.
Still haven't learned one coherent sentence of Japanese.

>>289838813
I've developed a strong taste for little girl anime. Let me tell you about Ultra Maniac and Super Gals...

Those aside, it's mostly stuff like Brigadoon or Seraphim Call that you'd find pretty quick when digging through lesser known 00s anime.

>>289832137
I will never brag about reading books

>>289830175
the keyshit era where they had gigantic rectangular eyes on the edges of their faces was the worst one

>>289830364
>5 anons had kids back then

38 and I really want to punch every single Gook posters and Chink posters in this board because why the fuck they only started to defend Gookshit and Chinkshit when they are shit and not worth defending nowadays

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>>289830175
>>289838200

>>289830175
38. I rarely watch new stuff anymore; maybe 3-4 shows a year. Gone are the days where I watched 10 shows a season and participated in all those threads here. I stick around though because every now and again something catches my interest.

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I'm 34 and I watch more new anime than I did when I was younger. Still not someone that watches dozens of ongoing anime at a time though. I'm currently loving Sayonara Lara and looking forward to the new GuP and Madoka movies. I'm also reading a lot of ongoing manga, and learning Japanese the last few years means I can read even more.

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I still watch tons of new anime but none of them really sticks

>>289833648
I agree with this. Thankfully I don't need /a/ to find manga to read. Occasionally there is a thread about something I'm reading (or a thread for the anime adaptation) but otherwise it is a ghost town. I don't only read manga though so even if those don't exist I can still post in anime threads or threads just about anime/manga in general that aren't focused on a specific series. I don't like storytimes.

>>289832629
Planetarian got an anime like 15 years after the vn came out. It was pretty nice.

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>>289830175

>>289832175
Based superhuman pedochad. You should stick to watching anime. Bless you.

If you have no background in theology, history and art you are unable to appreciate and enjoy it as it is intended. This is the reason that a lot of threads devolve into goonerspam and there's no meaningful discussion, there can be no discussion when you don't understand what you're seeing.

>>289830175
I'm still as excited about anime today as I was when I first really got into anime in 2004 with Ghost in the Shell: SAC, back when I watched it on Animax in Southeast Asia as a highschooler.
Prior to that, I watched shows like Doraemon and Dragon Ball as a kid on TV, but I never really knew that they were called "anime". I just viewed all cartoons, whether anime or stuff that appeared on Cartoon Network like Ed, Edd and Eddy, as "cartoons".
But even back then, I understood that GITS:SAC was special. I quickly found out that when I watched other Animax shows. For every dozen or so turds or mediocrities, there was only one GITS:SAC level of quality.
So I'm no idealist. But I'm not a jaded cunt either. I'm not one of those dudes in their late 30s who goes "OLD GOOD NEW BAD" when talking about these things, whether in anime, videogames or whatever (twats who go "YO DOOOD THE 2000s WAS SOOOO MUCH BETTER FOR ANIME" can't even remember 99 percent of the over 2,000 titles that came out that decade).
So many of my favorite works of any medium have only come out in the past decade.
As far as the latest anime I've been excited about, I've got a lot that I've really enjoyed. I really like the Uma Musume anime shows, particularly Cinderella Gray (which was my favorite anime of 2025, and the manga as a whole is one of my favorite sports manga). I enjoy watching romcoms/romances, and I feel stuff like Boku no Kokoro no Yabai and Horimiya completely BTFO the romcoms of much of the past 2 decades, especially the Mari Okadaslop that was so prevalent in the mid-to-late 2000s and early 2010s.
Golden Kamuy is probably one of the best manga made, like ever. I'll never stop singing its praises.

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>>289830175
I'm 35 and I get excited for new anime every season, I also follow some IPs like Precure since almost 2 decades ago as well, this season alone I'm watching like 16 shows, I can watch this many shows because I watch anime with my friends and with my wife as well since she also likes anime, pic related is our AOTS.
You're just bitter anon.

>>289836465
This show sucks lol

>>289840932
These bitter anons love to talk about that kind of stuff, but they never talk about how certain older titles either aged poorly or don't quite live up to expectations.
I read Rurouni Kenshin for the very first time earlier this year. This manga was an example of the latter.
The first half featuring Shishio Makoto as the villain was good (it had problems, but overall it was good).
The second half with Yukishiro "MUH SISTER MUH SISTER MUH SISTER" Enishi was trash though. You know it's bad when it had to resort to a death fakeout with Kaoru.
That's not even going into how the battle panels in the manga were absolutely indecipherable. I couldn't tell like 80 percent of the time what was supposed to be happening.
Meanwhile, One Punch Man may have trash storytelling thanks to Murata being a hack writer, but at least the action panels are clean and beautifully drawn. You can always tell what's happening and the battle panels flow smoothly.

>>289841329
Ah yeah, that's pretty common with Shonen Jump stuff, since they pioneered a lot of the common cliches you see everywhere today. Because of that, it's easy to find some developments as pretty meh because while they were impactful back then, they've been done so many times now that you can see them coming a mile away. I think Saint Seiya is one of the worst offenders of that.

35 here, currently watching 18 current shows plus a lot of manga. There was a time a few years ago when I watched almost nothing, but I’m really liking some things in recent anime.
Lots of more interesting animation (just now we have Lara, MT and Clevatess doing some real fucking great emulation of old styles), and romance in general (yuri especially) developed a lot, we get series with things happening instead of the old tired fag MCs going for a kiss in the last second of the last episode.

I don’t watch a lot of shonen now, that’s the main difference. Fights are the most boring part, thanks isekai gods for focusing on elf tiddies (I’m married to a big tiddy goth btw).

>>289832676
Same but I'm only 30...

>>289841562
>we get series with things happening instead of the old tired fag MCs going for a kiss in the last second of the last episode.
And I'm all for that, romcom with 200+ chapters of nothing happening with a kiss at the end were garbage, I don't miss them at all so I'm glad MCs are finally allowed to kiss and fuck their girls thanks to editors seeing people don't get mad thanks to isekai.

>>289834759
From what I've seen, it doesn't usually seem like proper long-form discussion but there is lots of back and forth otherwise. The quality of discussion though, that I have no idea about since I don't look at it in much detail. A better question is how anyone uses Twitter for discussion or even any sort of interactions with others given the quantity of bots on there.

>>289830175
I'm 43, and frankly there's hardly been any anime in the last few years that I've found interesting. I still lurk here in case something neat does show up.

>>289839708
You mean you DON'T like Uguu~?

I don't believe it.

>>289830175
Turned 30 this year. Used to keep up with seasonals back in the early-mid 10's but nowadays I am more into manga and older anime. Newer shows don't really interest me.

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I hope I'm not alone in being a min-30sfag who's not normalfagged out. I don't want you guys to be foreveralone too but I don't want to be foreveralone by myself either. /a/ is the only social contact I have, life would be too lonely without it.

>>289842079
I'm not alone I have my dakis, figs and tapestries

>>289832744
If you're over 25 and you haven't made it yet you're completely fucked. That was true 15 years ago, it's still true now.

>>289842079
Given how things are for young zoomers and alphas, you will have plenty of young people to keep you company lol.

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34, I study languages as my main hobby (JP/ES) and watching anime in my TL has always been my preferred study method, so I haven't slowed down my consumption at all. I don't really go out of my way to watch all of the newest shows, but they are more likely to get dubbed into every major language, which is nice. I realize that's heresy, but fuck you I don't care.
I don't think I've watched too many current anime this year. I watch precure every year and somehow never get tired of it. I finally got around to watching S2 of Frieren, it was alright. I fell in love with Witch Hat Atelier so hard I'm probably going to rewatch it a few more times this year; same goes for Bocchi. Also I stumbled on a Spain dub for Toradora, actually really good, the characters mostly sound spot on.
>>289833984
>>289840932
Hi /pc/

>>289830364
We call this datamining nowadays

>>289842437
So what do I do then?
Kill myself? Serious question

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>>289842593
Yes, I doubt anyone would do this on modern 4chan/internet and I don't blame them.

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>>289842560
We are here forever indeed.

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>>289832711
what's the age limit for posting anime girl reaction pics?

>>289830938
Even TikTok will be a retirement home eventually

>>289834759
You post what you like about an anime/episode, if people like it then they will just give you a like/repost or say something nice, if they don't like what you say then they will call you an incel with shit takes.

>>289842742
Nah only retards say this

>>289840932
>16 shows this season
You may be mentally retarded. But at least you're not apathic with no energy.
>>289841329
Old shows are better in all aspects to new garbage that is explicitly made for tourists. I can put any show of the past, see panties, gore, shit flying and all type of thematic taboo happenings these new shits will never do while still having a better story, animation and drawing. Taking your bitching about Kenshi for example, the manga always had SOME problems like the original series, but back then we had the god tier OVAs which would never get made today. And the anime was a long runner with +90 episodes. Today you would have to wait a fucking decade to watch full Kenshi animated because long runners are dead.

>>289842759
25.

>tfw when 29
>tfw still enjoy seasonals and ongoing manga
I'm a genuine weeb to the core

>>289842875
Take your nostalgia glasses off anon, a lot of shows on the 80s and 90s weren't as good as people like you say on the animation department, specially shows that aired all year long since they used a lot of stock footage. You might say it's a quality over quantity thing but even the quality wasn't that good outside of big productions made with leftover money of the bubble era, there were a lot of bad shows as well back then indeed.

>>289842962
what do you expect is going to change when you turn 25 that wasn't true at 24?

>>289842875
Interspecies reviewers was this decade, we have a bunch of softcore porn and you’re mad because of pantyshots?

>>289843355
>Interspecies reviewers
tranime

>>289843125
I have no nostalgia glasses, I just not a shit eater like you who only cares about COOONSUMING and seeking social validation for literal children from twitter.
>specially shows that aired all year long since they used a lot of stock footage.
Dragon Ball original had way better animation than Dragon Ball Super despite made by the same studio. It also had way more specials, OVAs, movies, and an anime you could watch from end to finish instead of watching court 3 part 2 of part 5. You're just wrong, you like shit, and you're on the wrong side of history.

>>289843125
>a lot of shows on the 80s and 90s weren't as good

There's a kind of confirmation bias or whatever you call it with old stuff. People remember the things worth remembering and forget the things that were shit. Looking at really old anime season charts is amazing. For every classic there are a dozen garbage shows almost nobody on /a/ has ever heard of.

>>289843355
Hentai and softcore porn already existed back then. The difference today is that 99% of "normal shows" don't have anything objetable and they go out of their way to remove it when they can. Like that dogshit remake of urusei yatsura and the other dogshit remakes.

>>289843774
No, you have them on, as this anon said >>289843835
You just remember the good anime, it's the same thing that's happening with the 00s right now, most people barely remember shitty 26 episodes romcom with an anime original ending for a manga that went over 200 chapters and ended with the main couple kissing, but a lot of people remember Princess Tutu, and to go further back, Do people remember more YYK or Dragon League? It's the same thing really and that's how things work anon, there has always been good anime and shit anime since the 60s.
Rest assured that most isekai will be forgotten in the future just like most battle harem of the late 00s and 10s that only fans of the genre enjoy.

>>289832629
I'm a buyfag so I mean blu-rays and HD rereleases, not actual new installments which are hit or miss
>>289832248
What have you liked lately

>>289838591
>I'm dead tired of medieval isekai. Or even medieval settings in general.
It's really boring. Japan has a really superficial understanding of it that begins and ends with Wizardry so it's basically the worst and most generic fantasy you can experience. But they keep making it

I'm 33 and have been consistently watching seasonal anime for decades. I hate you whiny fucks who never enjoyed anime in the first place outside of a few classics you watched when you were 12. Get the fuck off the anime board if you don't like anime.

>>289843835
Reddit cope astroturfed by marketers and tourists. When a 90s and 80s show is bad is usually because of the plot sucking while the animation is always better than modern shit because it was made by hand. Nu-/a/ being filled with redditors that repeat line for line shit that literal bots say on reddit it's an example the site deserves to be punished with its current death spiral, just like the anime industry. Seeing everything burn to the ground will be fun.

Upper right is best one

>>289844434
You're such a newfag to anime anon, the animation for long runners also sucked if it wasn't made by a big studio like Toei, Sunrise or Pierrot, hell back in the day you will see people mocking a show by how much they reused the moving lips animation for one character while keeping the other one facing away from the camera to save up on costs or how they would show the same cell a few times with a loud noise and flashes all around.
You need to get out of your bubble and actually watch old shows by yourself and not whatever site you're using claims is a good show, try to follow a director or stick to a genre, I'm sure you will stop being a newfag eventually and you will look back at how ignorant you sound right now, I wish you the best.

>>289844123
>Literal comparing a same show of the same genre with the same studio made today vs the past and the old one wins in everything
>LEE NOSTALGIA GLASSES YOU DON'T LE UNDERSTAND
Disingenuous faggot.
>shitty 26 episodes romcom
Exaggerated claim on your part and you're still wrong because 26 episodes would be still better compared to 12 episode cour 3 part 2 shit is the normal today. You're just a redditor faggot.

>>289844645
Could nostalgia seethe be averted by having a shitty childhood?

>>289844702
When DB was airing Toei had less anime to worry about and had a bigger budget because of the bubble era meanwhile when Super aired Toei had more shows to worry about and the economy wasn't doing so hot. Making anime isn't so single as old good new bad.

>>289830175
Exactly 30. Still watch anime but rarely complete any as i have only completed about 9 in the last 5 years, excited for a moment when older projects get announced but in general no. got sick of /vt/ so i just roam around this place /g/ and /tv/

>>289844434
The art can be more tangible since it's made by hand, but the animation quality for tons of these old forgotten shows is just trash. Someone says "Man, 1998 anime was fantastic. I love Cowboy Bebop." But they forget Yoiko was airing at the same time.

>>289844678
>the animation for long runners also sucked
Why would I bother replying to you anymore when you're just a lying faggot? Dude just say you like new shit. Is ok. You're a slop eater. The other anon said that he watches the new shit because he likes it. But faggots like you who pretend to have a point while spewing likes are pathetic.
>if it wasn't made by a big studio like Toei, Sunrise or Pierrot
Unlike today, where they suck despite being made by these studios?
>lips animation
Lol. Just imagine being this much of a fucking redditor.
>save up on costs
Good. Modern anime is trash also because they cost more despite being WORSE than old anime.
>show the same cell a few times
And yet DB original still looked better than DB Super.
>bubble
Redditor faggot.

>>289844767
It depends. For a lot of people cartoons were your escape from your shitty childhood. Or if your parents didn't let you do or watch anything because they were religious fanatics you could make up for lost time in adulthood

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>>289844434
>while the animation is always better than modern shit
t.ourist

>>289844434
>it was made by hand
genuinely what the actual fuck does this even mean, anime is still drawn by hand be it done digitally or analog

>>289830557
you like mecha?

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>>289830175
I just hit 30 this year, honestly with anime it's always a mood thing, sometimes I am watching something newish like all kinds of villainess anime, sometimes I hit older anime, sometimes nothing quite fits right and I watch nothing.
right now I am watching the og Ranma and I am already 70 eps in, it's lovely and has plenty of sexo red headed onna

People still think old good new bad isn't ths most mainstream normalfag opinion out there? Whether its true or not aside, comparitively few stick around to even give new stuff a chance.
Its why remakes are all over the place and why seasonal and manga discussion has gone down by a lot. Probably, its just a slow return to being a niche cringe nerd hobby after a peak between toonami and covid.

>>289844783
>BUT MY POOR TOERINO!!!
So you're already backpedaling your point? This was not about them getting more shows, this was about them doing worse shows. The reason why trivial and doesn't matter. Modern anime having fucked up and dogshit production process is part of the problem of why they suck anyway and is a problem 100% of their own doing.
>the bubble era
Holy fuck. This is the whole reddit package. Some of the best anime ever made was made AFTER the bubble collapsed and were a direct result of Japan tragic stagnation and decline of their economy. But that information is probably never distributed by your redditor friends.

>>289844901
>Cowboy Bebop
I never mentioned Cowboy Bebop. Just more proof you're a reddit that comes with all his prepackaged talking point. The economic bubble, le rose tinted glasses, the survival bias. This type of shit must work really well when you're on that dogshit website and the bots can upvooote your shit opinion and downvote everything they don't like. That's why you repeat the same arguments here despite me not even saying them.

>>289845058
Upvoted sister! Now post a gif from the office

>>289832816
>people used to make threads saying 28 is still young and it gets better and 30s
Couple things: First it really is easier to do life stuff in your late 20s-30s since peoples' lives aren't in a constant state of flux with new schools, new jobs, moving out, etc and there's less focus on what you're doing all the time. Second thing is, you can't fall into the trap of expecting things to "happen" to you. A wife and career don't just appear in your life when you turn 30. The point of saying 28 is still young is that you're not out of time to change. Like you can absolutely leave the basement, start dating, etc in your 30s and 40s and still have the life you want, but you yourself have to put the effort in to make it happen.

I didn't start trying to really live life until I was almost 30. My 30s were great once I figured out social skills and shit. My 40s _could_ be like that, all things being equal, but I've had more minor health problems. That's where the memes are partially true. Not that it does happen to everyone, but you're gonna have more problems with your body after 40 than before. If you're still in your 20s and 30s I'd suggest getting to it before you're waking up with pains in strange places and have a warm relationship with your doctor.

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>>289830557
Based. Were you into tech back then?

>>289845547
That prepackaged collection of buzzwords doesn't make you fit in on 4chan, newfriend.

>>289845362
The normalfaggot opinion is that every piece of anime media made before 2020 was le hecking problematic because it was le sexualizing school girls and school boys. This is in 0 contradiction with anime dying because these people don't watch anime. They only came here because of the pandemic. If the whole industry dies and to be reborn later this would be a positive but unintended side effect of the invaders and the cucks in the industry placating them.

>>289843351
Stop crashing out about being an unc. ZoomerGODs have the rest of their lives ahead of them

>>289845819
I've been around places for those type too. They hold the contradictory idea that anime is problematic, but that old stuff was still better because it was prettier and kawaii, also more "real" and less "gooner bait".
Its easy enough to figure out by the trendy spamming of pink Sailor Moon gifs and coquette Lolita Peach Pit art. They will unironically post >>289845646 and then bitch about how modern anime is porn and problematic.

>>289845665
You can always go where your [I SUPPORT CURRENT THING] opinions are never challenged

>>289845850
but zoomers have long since reached unc status. the next generation is even already getting to that point

>>289846029
You're talking about the unc zoomers. 2006chads and younger are still young

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>>289845960

>>289845960
Old anime was not more kawai than modern anime, maybe only more real and that's debatable because it was way more over the top. If my memory is not fucked up moe was born like a derogatory term for certain type of anime that appeared around the 90s/00s for specific character designs that looked the japanese saw has trying too hard to look cute, but otaku appropriated the term to call elements and anime they actually liked and for the time stuff like Clannad was around it was consolidated. Meaning that people didn't used to look like normal to have moeblobs all over the anime they were watching back then. But these types being hypocrites with this is a given, no human can't endure for a long time watching actual soulless dogshit. Can't wait until everyone loses their mind for being repressed virtue signalers.

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>>289846358
>20 year old clinging to his childhood

>>289830175
40 year old anon.
Ten years ago I made a decision to not pick up any new series, no matter how interesting or popular they might be, all in an attempt to read and watch less. After a few years of this, I realized I didn't need to keep up with the latest things, and if I missed out on something I would have liked, I'm not worse off for it. I don't need to read manga or watch anime for its own sake.

The only reason I still come here is for the few series I'm still reading (One Piece being one of them) and sometimes discuss older series.

>>289830175
Its normal to lose interest in stuff, I'd say. Maybe it comes back when something re-ignites your interest, happened to me often enough.
I'm 35 now, been here since .. I think 05. Watching anime all my life and I still watch a few seasonal shows every season. Mind, its a lot less than it used to be. Mostly I read manga/LNs now, but to me anime/manga etc. its just standard entertainment for me.

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I'd still be reading Berserk if Miura hadn't fucking gone and died.
>Everyone I know goes away in the end

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>>289830175
anime's been downhill ever since i saw this in the theaters when it came out

>>289846678
im 30

kill me

>>289845960
It's always sickening to see young anime 'fans' rail again lighthearted sexuality, the culture wars really fucked the last two generations hard.

>>289845609
How do you 'figure out social skills' and find places to actually connect with people if you are an actual autist wizard and have autist loner hobbies like hiking before dawn and identifying fungi?

>>289846929
Fuck, need to listen to that song again it's been some years.

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>>289830175
38 i still watch new anime but it depends what anime it is.

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>>289842759
It's no age limit only fakes say it's a limit.

I'm 37 and mostly just keep an eye out for things that look interesting. I want to see sayonara lara.

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>>289848844
>I want to see sayonara lara
Why do you want to instead of just watching it?

>>289847788
I think it's a return to the norm. People raised in the late 20th Century have more liberal social norms than the people raised before and after them.

>>289849194
Thats a good question, I guess I could. I kinda have to ration my free time more these days and subbed anime asks for my full attention, I can't put it on and watch while doing a hobby like I can with Bob's Burgers. I'll make time

>>289845058
I watched Hamelin back in February, and it's insane that 70% of the show was still images. I still liked it though

>>289837579
Look forward to the rewatch of your collection. Mine refined my tastes, some shows i didn't understand were recognized as masterpieces and some shows i enjoyed became testaments to my past shit tastes. 19 back then, 35 today.
I seriously dropped out in 2016 when the isekai trend kicked into gear and it's my absolute shame, there are so many anime i haven't watched i'm a forever noob. When i run out of 90s-00s anime i'm planning to start with Konosuba and Bocchi the Rock then see where my exploration of that past decade takes me.
Why can't i watch all of the anime? There's too many of them.

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>>289830938
I fucking wish. I'm so fucking tired of every board being full of response-baiting hyperbolic retards that make it their obsession to prevent everyone else from enjoying anything.

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I leave anime (and 4chan) for years at a time. Then I watch for a few years, sometimes just backlog that has proven itself, sometimes a few seasonals with /a/ in case I get lucky again. (I was 36 when /a/ was good.)

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>>289846767
>40yo dude reading one piece
You've graduated from shonen right?

I'm 32. Watched airing shows and posted on here regularly from about 2009 to 2015. Took a big break from anime for life related reasons, got back into airing shows about year and a half ago, only been posting on here again in the past few months. The issue is there's literally nowhere worth posting about anime online. 90% of anime oriented message boards etc. are full of children or people who cannot hold a conversation beyond "yeah it was good" "I didn't like it". This place may be a cesspool but there will be a thread maybe once a week where someone is actually willing to engage with a subject which is more than I can say for anywhere else I've tried to talk anime.

>>289851182
Not him but I'm not going to just drop One Piece and forget about it when I've been reading it for so long. I of course have branched out further than from when I was a kid though.

>>289851182
It's the only shonen I still read. I picked it up when I was 19, and I'm determined to see it to the end.

>>289851182
There's no such thing as "graduating" from shonen

>>289847988
I used to seriously respond to posts like this but every response was "Nobody really 'works hard' or 'improves.' People who think that actually won the genetic lottery but don't realize they've always been looksmaxxed chads with natural high social status. They can't understand what life is really like."

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Anime's in a tough place because it's been inscribed into the government's business plan regarding profitable export and that's an art killer. A private corp balances art and profit because art makes profit, a government will wring it dry like a mine, it has to deal with too many other problems to worry about long term preservation of veins.
Anon also writes: Careful about the Koreans they work for the Chinese and a plan is in motion to steal Japanese soft power in order to acquire the country by cutting it off.

>>289830175
>mid 30s
>oldfag
Holy larp, Batman. Tell me you're an Internet Hate Machine tourist without actually saying it.
That age range wasn't old enough to be on 4chan during the creation of /a/ and the foundation of modern board culture.

The minimum oldfag age here is 38. Anyone younger than 37 is a perpetual newfag.

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What annoys me about dealing with younger fans is how adamant they are in trying to expand their views past CURRENT THING. And I'm not saying they absolutely have to or anything but I don't think I've ever seen a group so almost universally repulsed by the idea of going backwards and trying older stuff. In the off chance they do they'll binge watch some 50+ episode series and complain it's repetitive or they'll think they NEED to watch it to fit and try to find a way to skip around. it doesn't feel like they actually care about the hobby itself and just want to get in on a trend

It's cool that we can so easily trace the history of anime through evolution in drawing styles since it's always been such a copycat industry. It's been clockwork for 50 years.

>>289845960
Contradictory ideas have never been a problem for leftoid thirdies. They live with it their entire lives, such as how they enjoy European society, European culture and the nations and comforts created by Europeans yet seethe the hardest when Europeans try to defend their interests.

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So this is the thread where grandpas fellate each other about how superior they are?

>>289852638
I don't think its that uncommon, how many people have you met who refuse to watch black and white movies for example

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>>289852917
some of them seem to have graduated to conflating politics with varying and differing opinions on eras of japanese animation

>>289852855
Contradictory ideas like the holocaust didn't happen but it also happened are else Hitler wouldn't be so based. Among many other rightwing jewish tricks.
Sorry i have to speak my political mind when i witness a retarded post.

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>>289852917
This whole thread's opinion on nu-social media is pic related.

>>289852917
There seems to be a psyop where these manipulators want you to dupe you into believing old isn't better the new.

You know, I've heard the argument that its "just nostalgia". Now, that may have held water when I first heard it 20 years ago, but these days? Not so much, especially when you can objectively prove with some mediums (Western video games, sci fi literature) that old is indeed better the new.

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>>289853123
Case in point, you are clearly a foreigner, and you are deeply upset that a European is defending his interests. That, is fundamentally what really offended you, since if more Europeans think like me, you will lose power, but if Europeans debased and harmed themselves like you want them too, its your gain.

And yes, there are many thirdies on xitter that cry about le problematic anime and drawings are le real people because they can't segregate fiction and reality. Even the Japanese noticed. And they're all hypocrites too, but it never bothers them because they live in holding inconsistent beliefs.

>>289853187
I liked Sonny Boy but it's kind of an old anime by now.

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>>289853322
A foreigner to what? Do you know where i live? Oh a foreigner to some hyperborea in your mind sure, get out of your head dude.
My interests are for example my ass not being sold by the far right to a conglomerate because these "non-leftist" they love monarchy and a monarchy is a corporation. Nationalism doesn't belong to the right. As for pearl clutchers, who are they, leftists? Socker dads and anti-porn moralfags? Aren't they on the right? You're lost politically you don't know what's what.

>>289830175
I'm 36, I mostly read manga.
I can't really be assed to watch subs and dubs have been god awful for 2 decades.
Its like, if I'm gonna watch subs and read anyway I may as well just read the manga.

>>289853187
They want to keep selling you new thing, but don't want to take any actual risks actually making new things and expect the name of old thing to attract you.

>>289853707
Raw japanese creativity is in manga. It goes beyond comic books it's not even comparable.
Anime's really been a side gig in my experience. Cool things have been done but anime's derivative and even back then it was, still is. Though literature, music and film are the most respectable artforms.

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I fear the day my dick works noticeably less than it used to. That, and developing arthritis. Aging as a digital generation is going to suck.

>>289851049
I do this with anime, but not 4chan, because where else would I go?

>>289854466
Can't wait for muh dik to break since pulling on it is such a bother.

>>289830364
You sound like me, I struggle to watch even series i really like but I'll read 300 chapters of something 6/10.
I read a ton of manga and maybe watch a couple of episodes of anime a year.
33 yo

>>289847988
You have to dedicate all your time to practicing it.
I felt exhausted by this and decided it's not worth it, better to be a wizard.

I'm 39 and I've been watching around 15 anime per season for past 22 years. I don't know why you guys can't enjoy things anymore.

>>289856685
I enjoy older anime. I enjoy myself. I don't enjoy anime where the girls take out smartphones.

>>289853707
>>289854816
There used to be more original shows. Now they're rare and even when they do come out they're just waifu or yaoi shit anyway. For everything else, might as well only read the manga because you'll end up doing it anyway when the anime only gets one season

>>289852941
>how many people have you met who refuse to watch black and white movies for example
Very few. Especially those who call themselves film buffs.

I'm still on 4chan because I have the morbid curiosity of finding out if it will outlast me, or if I will outlast 4chan

i watch more stuff *about* anime than actual anime these days

>>289857567
The saddest thing is that even for as bad as this place gets, It's still better than the alternative. I've honestly tried to use reddit. I gave it a chance but it's all so vacuous and sycophantic. You're not allowed any negative opinion, even if you're civil. You can't disagree with the public opinion. And you can't say anything bad about the corpos. I do not like putting up with people who like garbage because they think it makes them the good fans. Krakoa was the worst era in x-men history.

>>289857658
Reddit isn’t the only alternative. Try other imageboards. If you have friends, try Discord. Oldfags left this place in droves, you think they all gave up on anime and manga before doing so?

>>289858433
We need other altchans, pretty much every other board has altchans with a low but healthy userbase, /a/ is the only one without a good alternative. dotmoe and smug are completely dead.

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>>289830175
30s isn't old

anyway, I'm looking forward to new madoka

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>30s isn't old

>>289858668
>isn't old
25+ is unc status

00s >>> all

>>289858668
Most anon here won't pass their 60s so 30 is already half their life.
It's all downhill from that, enjoy back pain, getting fat even after doing exercise, everything hurting, seeing your friends less and less because they need to start focusing on their own family, and visiting the doctor every year because your cancer risk start skyrocketing after that age.

>>289845362
It is, especially when they bring up AKIRA GITS and Manime.
>>289858433
Absolutely, I know dudes who hit their 30s and just stopped watching anime, and these guys used to watch 20 seasonals at a time.

>>289830175
I'm 33 and white-knuckling life waiting for S2 of MahoAko. New season of DoroHeDoro looks rad. New GitS also looks OK. Not GREAT, but not awful either. Occasionally shows pop up that seem like my jam. Sometimes I watch them. Since I've started my overnight warehouse jerb tho, my watching habits have contracted. My hentai habits haven't, God help me, but that's also outside the purview of this thread. I just give time to what seems good to me. I'm not wasting whole afternoons binging series I end up hating, like I did when I was younger.
>I mostly just keep an eye out for new releases of old shows from my youth, is that normal or am I just a bitter old man?
Your tastes haven't changed, and you don't SEEM bitter to me about it. It sounds as though you're just doing as I do- strategically allotting your time with what you know you like.

>>289852507
Does this nigger seriously think everyone on /b/ in 2005 was over 18 lmao

>>289830175
I'm almost 40. I'm broke. I need money. What do?

>>289859387
Moot himself was an underage faggot back then

>>289830938
It's true. The zoomers are on xitter, the alphas probably in tiktok jail. Only this places still talks about old anime and still somewhat feels like the old internet.

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>>289830557
Oji-san

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>This show sucks lol
>>289840958
So?

It's like if Shounen sports slop and Kill La Kill had a retard baby with Down Syndrome and it led to superpowered loli lesbians.

>>289859703
Ok but who asked

>>289859869
Somebody did

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>>289852917
>So this is the thread where grandpas fellate each other about how superior they are?

>>289853187
>You know, I've heard the argument that its "just nostalgia". Now, that may have held water when I first heard it 20 years ago, but these days? Not so much, especially when you can objectively prove with some mediums (Western video games, sci fi literature) that old is indeed better the new.
You might notice that there is plenty of nostalgia for every decade (including the 2000s) and it just stops after that, and Zoomers don't understand it as much. This is because absolutely everything across every possible metric has been getting worse nonstop for 20 years.

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Where does the zoomer obsession with youth even come from? We used to joke about becoming wizards all the time, but now we have kids terrified of turning 25.

>>289860334
Can't comment if it's a good idea, but college students in their 30s and 40s are always the best students, and they're often like 5% of the class where I am (large state uni). Always way more engaged and thoughtful than the kids who are there because it's the thing they are expected to do.

>>289860334
>>289860455
I took a class about the Vietnam war at one point and there was someone in there that was a teen at that time and could give input about what was actually going on at the time. He was older than the professor.

>>289860455
>>289860654
>>289860675
I appreciate it, I'm starting to have hope.

>>289830364
I have a hard time believing +24 isn't at least 20% of the board.

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>>289847785
34
The ride never ends anon

>>289830938
What's wrong? Are you a zoomerfaggot? Get off my lawn!

>>289851000
Nice trips

>>289860455
>Just make sure that your degree actually has value after you finish because wasting years and money on it only to never be able to use it is kinda retarded.
Y-yeah who would do that.... Blogpost but anyone have some advice for getting any office job? I get interviews here and there but it's been a year since I graduated.

>>289830175
>f there's anyone who honestly still watches and gets excited for new anime?
made in abyss

>>289861821
Depends on what your degree is in.

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>43
If you're an oldfag and not looking forward to Frieren, just kill yourself

>>289862041
Why are you a 43 year old hopping on the same hype bandwagon as teens that weren't born when you started watching anime?

>>289862041
there are plenty of anime better than frieren

>>289862128
because I liked the anime?
should there be any other reason?

>>289862041
I like the manga. I'm waiting for the manga to come back

>>289862041
I dropped it during the tournament arc. Shit sucks.

>anime about the regrets we accumulate across our lives, and the inexorable passage of time is a hit with old people
who could have seen this coming

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>>289862339
Shit happens.

>>289862041
>looking forward to battle shonen

>>289860313
they have never existed outside of an echochamber. they just become the words they see on the internet. they are walking memes, full of other people's anxieties. we're the last generation that ever experienced an unconnected world.

Imagine beating the fuck out of all the boomers here in their old age home. Haha, it would be very funny.

>>289863845
Mass tech layoffs haven't exactly been a secret.

>>289830175
36 here.
I've been watching anime for over 30 years already.
Anime is better than ever and I'm happy following every season and posting here.

>>289830175
I’m pushing 30
Newer anime doesn’t excite me anymore it’s all the same old recycled shit. I do pick up seasonal shows every now and then so far this season I’m only watching 2
But don’t get me wrong I still like newer anime though what really keeps me busy is going through my huge backlog right now, organized by date
starting with the og boogiepop phantom tomorrow night