Anime. Japanese Animation. I used to love it. I used to watch it religiously. I used to not be able to get by a day without watching a new anime. Then something happened. Suddenly I no longer loved it. In fact I started to loath it. Not the stuff I used to like mind you, just all the current stuff that was being shoved (like manure) out of Japan.

At first I thought it was just me. I thought It was just me who had changed his opinion of the entertainment media. It seemed like everyone else I knew who also was in anime seemed to be eating it up like it was candy…I accepted this and moved one.

Fast Forward to today and I view a article from Kotaku that seems to have hit the nail on the head. Something he said click:

When foreign cultures talk about Japan, they usually talk about anime and / or manga. Usually, it’s anime. Anime is terrible. It used to be okay. Now, it’s not. It’s inbred trailer-trash in entertainment form: Every season’s new Japanese animation places one-upmanship of every single aspect of the last season higher on their list of priorities than even “make something entertaining.” The same can perhaps be said of all Japanese entertainment, though it’s not relevant anywhere else as much as it is in anime. Anime used to answer the questions of kids’ dreams: “How awesome would it be to be a world-class assassin / kung-fu master / robot pilot / baseball hero?” Now it’s just a bunch of shit pandering to perverts and pedophiles. Anime heroes used to be people with amazing job descriptions; now they’re reasonably young men who find themselves miraculously sharing houses with a dozen girls aged six to nine, accidentally almost touching every other scene. Or else it’s just guys with huge hair and impossible weapons shouting jargon. Long ago, manga aspired to be like Dragon Ball Z: graphically iconic, with a story more coherent than it probably needed to be. Now there’s the ADHD-addled Dragon-Ball-Z-inspired One Piece, a manga for the Twitter age if there ever was one.

I now realize that it isn’t just me. Anime really is crap now. It makes me feel good that I am not alone. Also makes me glad I swore that shit off years ago.