Is it just me, or has a lot of recent anime aged badly?

[KingCrInuYasha]

I was looking back at some episodes of Inuyasha and I was thinking, "I stopped watching King Of The Hill for this?" Then I was looking at other animes and facepalming in disgust.

Here's my quick summaries:

Drangonball Z
- Ten percent high quality many action. Ninety percent time wasting involving screams, grunts and fighters lookingon instead of fighting.

Naruto
- Started out as nice little show about an annoying ninja (Naruto), then turned into an annoying show about an even more annoying ninja (Sasuke).

Inuyasha
- Basically the result of an overrated manga writer creating a high fantasy story based on the plot points from Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Super Mario Bros!

Neon Genesis Evangelion
- *yawn*

Code Geass
- Hey Lelouch, that guy from V For Vendetta just called, he wants to stop stealing his thunder!

K-On
- Congratulations! You've managed to make the Monkees seem cool to me again!

Air The Movie

Spoiler

- It's Moulin Rouge. The plot is basically a watered down Moulin Rouge. There, I just saved you two, long, ****less hours.

Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bakugan
- Why are these shows still here? *cries*

But that's just me. Boy, I need to get a new screen name.

 

[Sacman]

Dragon Ball Z, Naruto and Inuyasha were never good to begin with...

K-ON, is everything wrong with anime today IMO... taking a basic concept of a music anime that follows a band and watering it down into girls having tea for 90% of the show... because apparently that's what they think people want to see... and wait K-ON is only like 2 years old, how can it age badly if it's still considered recent? and actually what's up with the title? how can something recent be aged badly, something needs to be, you know, aged for it to age badly...

Never saw Air...

and the only reason anyone watches Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or Bakuman anymore is for nostalgia reasons or because they're 12...

and as overrated I think Neon Genesis Evangelion is, I still think it's a damn good show able to kick the ass of a lot of newer shows with one hand behind it's back...

 

[DarkRyter]

How are these recent at all?

The youngest show there is K-ON and that's AT LEAST 2 years old.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Technology marches on, and shows that managed to take cool ideas and make them better do disservice to the shows they came from sometimes.
It's how mediums progress, man. Look back on The Adventures of Tintin, The Dover Boys of Pimento University or Seinfeld to see other such 'aging badly' of once great things.

 

[mrvermin]

Some Anime age poorly, some do not age at all. El-Hazard is one of those that remains timeless, as well as Record of Lodoss War. Anything by Miyazaki-san can be seen over and over again by any generation of Anime fan as well as Wings of Honneamise.

 

[The Clitosaurus]

I find that the anime always pales in comparison to the source material. They look dated because of the fairly low budgets and the amount of filler animation and stills. The artwork is usually of a poorer quality, and I find that the "animation" usually detracts from the action; slow-paced and padded out as it is.

I would advise just reading the manga and being done with it. Then again, anime-only shows are usually developed with less padding, given that they're not working from an ongoing manga.

Also, whilst i've never seen Inuyasha, Naruto and Dragonball both began wonderfully, but suffered once the mangaka behind them lost interest; continuing only because of pressure from editors and fans.

 

[A Shadows Age]

I was looking back at some episodes of Inuyasha and I was thinking, "I stopped watching King Of The Hill for this?" Then I was looking at other animes and facepalming in disgust.

Here's my quick summaries:

Drangonball Z
- Ten percent high quality many action. Ninety percent time wasting involving screams, grunts and fighters lookingon instead of fighting.

Naruto
- Started out as nice little show about an annoying ninja (Naruto), then turned into an annoying show about an even more annoying ninja (Sasuke).

Inuyasha
- Basically the result of an overrated manga writer creating a high fantasy story based on the plot points from Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Super Mario Bros!

Neon Genesis Evangelion
- *yawn*

Code Geass
- Hey Lelouch, that guy from V For Vendetta just called, he wants to stop stealing his thunder!

K-On
- Congratulations! You've managed to make the Monkees seem cool to me again!

Air The Movie

Spoiler

- It's Moulin Rouge. The plot is basically a watered down Moulin Rouge. There, I just saved you two, long, ****less hours.

Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bakugan
- Why are these shows still here? *cries*

But that's just me. Boy, I need to get a new screen name.

No not really, the only thing that has not aged well is the animation. With regards to everything else, that's just you catching up.

 

[thefrizzlefry]

What do you mean AGED badly? You mean to imply that these shows seemed good at one point? I mean, I can't really pass judgment on most of those shows, seeing as how I've never actually seen them, but I've always thought that Dragonball Z and Naruto were ridiculous, grating and ultimately completely devoid of any real substance. It's just bright, flashy pictures with a bunch of dudes screaming serving as the soundtrack.

 

[Atticus89]

Most of the shows you've mentioned are shonen series, aimed at young boys and full of filler since they're based on mangas.

InuYasha is chock full of filler like most manga-based shows.

If you consider NGE recent then you must be pretty old.

If your only qualms with Code Geass and Air is that it's like V for Vendetta or the other movie you mentioned respectively, you need a better excuse to hate them.

And K-ON I haven't seen.

Try looking for stuff that you haven't heard of or find newer series.

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

How are these recent at all?

The youngest show there is K-ON and that's AT LEAST 2 years old.

Sorry, my bad.

 

[Stealthygamer]

AVATAR TLA! REALLY FREAKING GOOD! and had fire shooting out of a guy's nostrils

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Its the long runners that get me. I saw a commercial recently saying that Pokemon had over 600 episodes. I died a little inside thinking how the hell they managed to stretch a show out that long.

 

[Del-Toro]

Dragon Ball Z, Inuyasha, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Bakugan are by no stretch of the imagination "recent", at least not in the context of anime from a North American perspective. Actually, the interesting thing about anime is that a lot of it was already a bit aged when it came to North America, so if an audience's first taste of something comes a few years after it's freshness had worn off a bit, the aging process could be considered to have been made worse.

Most of the shows you've mentioned are shonen series, aimed at young boys and full of filler since they're based on mangas.

This. I'm watching through Dragon Ball Z for the first time and while I see the validity of the OP's criticisms I still wouldn't consider them the deal breaker he does. Maybe I'm just a kid at heart (I'm going on 19) and therefore still in the right mindset for that kind of thing.


==EDIT==

Is K-on actually only 2 years old? I never watched it but any prolonged involvement in anime fandom these days and you'll see enough of the paraphernalia and imagery to give you the impression that it's just always kind of been there unless you know otherwise (I didn't and am only speaking for myself, consider the "you"s proverbial).

 

[Alphakirby]

Sadly,some people don't know when a franchise should die. It's all about the money,selfish bastards would do anything for a quick buck.

 

[w00tage]

I was looking back at some episodes of Inuyasha and I was thinking, "I stopped watching King Of The Hill for this?" Then I was looking at other animes and facepalming in disgust.

Here's my quick summaries:

Drangonball Z
- Ten percent high quality many action. Ninety percent time wasting involving screams, grunts and fighters lookingon instead of fighting.

Naruto
- Started out as nice little show about an annoying ninja (Naruto), then turned into an annoying show about an even more annoying ninja (Sasuke).

Inuyasha
- Basically the result of an overrated manga writer creating a high fantasy story based on the plot points from Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Super Mario Bros!

Neon Genesis Evangelion
- *yawn*

Code Geass
- Hey Lelouch, that guy from V For Vendetta just called, he wants to stop stealing his thunder!

K-On
- Congratulations! You've managed to make the Monkees seem cool to me again!

Air The Movie

Spoiler

- It's Moulin Rouge. The plot is basically a watered down Moulin Rouge. There, I just saved you two, long, ****less hours.

Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bakugan
- Why are these shows still here? *cries*

But that's just me. Boy, I need to get a new screen name.

Dude, 90% of everything you watch is crap. And 90% of the people watching crap think it's pure gold. I'm down to less than 10 animes that I'd ever watch again, and I found them by watching a LOT OF CRAP lol.

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

Your best reason to hate Code Geass is that Lelouch reminds you of V for Vendetta?

Okay, I admit, that's me doing a poor attempt at being a snarker.

Personally, I think the bigger problem has to do with the second half of the show jumping around too much. The first half is alright.

As for Air The Movie, it wasn't that bad.

The rest still stand, but yeah, I could've done a better job at criticizing the above two instead of making the obvious, hollow potshots.

 

[Safe in the Dark]

Oho! My opinions must be valid because I believe them to be true! I don't like something after taking another look at it, so it must have aged horribly!

But, yeah, most of those you named, DBZ, and Naruto, Pokemon and so on are aimed at younger male audiences, for example twelve year olds. Hell, I still like DBZ, but that's just nostalgia and a lot of patience. I do enjoy K-on though, and NGE was a classic.

 

[Jonluw]

I actually like K-ON *shrug*.
It's all about embracing the mindless derping around. If what you want in an anime is something deep or exciting, why are you watching K-ON in the first place?
Different series for different needs, I say. And K-ON fills my need for light, slow, random entertainment.

As for the others: They're pretty much all kids' shows. They haven't aged badly, they just always were bad.
I found Code Geass to be rather fun to watch though.

I wouldn't know about Neon genesis, because I gave up watching it after five episodes of being bored.