Are we going through the golden age of anime?

How many anime that will be remembered in five years have aired in the past few years?
None!
No, this is no golden age.

>>153720100
>How many anime that will be remembered in five years have aired in the past few years?
Kill la Kill.

>>153720213
KlK has already been forgotten.

>>153720100
clannad?
Death note?

>>153720100
Inferno cop.

>>153720100
That's just a sign of how good we have it. So many great shows and in such quick succession, there's always something new to talk about.

>>153720261
Not to me it hasn't. Then again, I still love the old NGE and hate the new one, so maybe my opinion doesn't matter.

Since they still have bath scenes without nudity, must censor genitalia and generally poor writing I'd say the golden age is in the future.

>>153720100
Monogatari

>>153720213
>Kill la Kill.

I remember Panty and Stocking more than that.

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Golden age of anime in my opinion was early 2000s. Especially the years surrounding 2005.

>>153720421
Too far back my dude.

>>153720442
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>>153721099
Haruhi wasn't that good

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>>153721146

>>153719836

I don't know. Did we all get in the delorian and go back to 1985?

>>153720100
You can't possibly know what will and won't be remembered, you fucking chest-beating ape.

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>>153720100
Flip Flappers is a hidden gem, just you wait!

>>153720555
FUCKING THIS. Monogatari is one of the best animes of all time, and that's pretty recent

>>153721146
>>153721952
Haruhi wasn't great but I'd take it any day over the lifeless SoLs now. At least they attempted to have some sort of progression.

Has there even been a golden age in the first place? It's such a subjective idea anyway. For instance, I took some cinema courses at a really good university and the only anime mentions were Akira and Evagelion. But atm, we can't really point to any current anime that can match up to either one of those in terms of their screenwriting and direction... From a cinema angle, the best anime in the current years is Re:Zero. >>153722464 Flip Flappers was also good. As for Konosuba, it's an ok lighthearted anime, but for perception of the Golden Age, people want something more invoking.

It would require a historical analysis of the weight that anime in the past had on the population and do a comparative study to the current era. Also, there's been more anime in the last 16 years that hold the top spots, but it's hard to decipher how much of this is because of anime visuals being better over time; it's not like cinema where the cinematography techniques like Neo-Noir are still held in high artistic regard.

>>153722853
>from a cinema angle the best anime in the current years is Re:Zero

Opinion discarded.

>>153720100
Fondly?
Urobuchi's big three, a bunch of Dogakobo productions up to Nozaki, recent high profile BONES works, some unpopular niche stuff like Mushishi S2 or Rakugo, and the handful shows a year that go at least somehow mainstream like Re:Zero or Erased.
Plus pretty much everything else that's already been posted in this thinly veiled recommendation thread.

>>153719836
Yes.
>konosuba
>hand shakers
>kemono friends

And I'm only listing this season

>>153722756
>lifeless
How are they that different from early 2000's slice-of-lifes? Provide examples and explain yourself.

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>>153722853
>Flip Flappers was also good

>>153722853
>i took a film class and watched ten chinese cartoons so i can preach my opinion like i'm anime einstein

>>153722853
anime is a pretty shitty medium if you're looking for something genuinely good desu. give literature a try if you haven't already

2007 was my favorite year overall, so to me, it's 2007.
>Baccano!
>Darker Than Black
>Gurren Lagann
>Hidamari Sketch
>Kaiji
>Lucky Star
>Seto no Hanayome (I think)
>a bunch of others

>>153722853
"A golden age is a period in a field of endeavor when great tasks were accomplished. The term originated from early Greek and Roman poets, who used it to refer to a time when mankind lived in a better time and was pure (see Golden Age)"

Golden age just means whenever the medium hit a big shift in perspective and new cinematography/direction/whatever techniques began to form. So I'd say the golden age of anime started with Akira and probably ended some time around Evangelion when creativity stopped and they just started using the same cliches and directing techniques they've always been using. Unless you can point me to some post-2000 anime that innovated or started new trends on any directing techniques.

>>153722942
It's a good anime with the qualities of a piece of work that make it different. You fail to see that, unfortunately. Nice response, back to your normal SoL broadcasting.
>>153723052
It was. The visual elements of Flip Flappers was great and overall story trajectory had substance.
>>153723066
>Chinese cartoons
Those aren't given any weight of significance. While I did take a film class, my ideas don't solely stem from that one circumstance.
>>153723175
It's a storytelling medium. It's annoying that people complain that anime adaptions from LNs never meet the quality, it's like, no shit they don't. They are different and anime is way more face paced. But, there are certain qualities that can make an anime more appealing to an LN.
>>153723236
Akira and Eva are the two I can think of the top of my head that had the most effect outside anime society. I can't really say another, but I gave the example of Re:Zero, particularly episodes 15-18.

>>153720100
Psycho Pass season 1
JoJo

You know what's a good SoL that's pretty unique? Non Non Byori.

>>153723343
>LNs
I was talking about actual literature lmao

>>153723406
Ok dude.

>>153719836
if you ask that question unironically you were born 20 years too late.

>>153723406
Not unique imo but yes, it's suprisingly good.

>>153723343
>back to your normal SoL broadcasting.
Nice burnerino, generalization-kun.

>>153723568
you just got rekt bruh

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>>153719836
I didn't start watching anime "seriously"/seasonally until after moving out of my mom's basement (2015) because I'm really deep in the weeaboo closet and don't want anyone ever finding out I watch anime other than "acceptable" normie shit like Shinkai movies, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

That said, I do believe we live in the golden age of anime. Not so much because of what's airing at the moment (though a lot of it is good) but because of how much there's available at the moment. There's decades worth of anime literally at my fingertips. This is no longer the age of having to go to shady stores to get Hong Kong VHS bootlegs, or the age of hunting obscure websites for low quality torrents. Various anime streaming websites and well-arranged torrenting websites like nyaa.se make watching anime easier than ever before. Anime has grown out of the early growing pains of fansubbing and now high quality subs are available everywhere. Websites like Crunchyroll even do simulcasting, allowing you to watch anime hot of the presses only hours after it aired in Japan. And on top of all that, there's a truckload of anime getting added to the pile every season.

This truly is tehe golden age of anime, never before have anime enthousiasts had so many options as we. We are the generation that was born too late to explore the planet, too early to explore the galaxy but just in time to explore Chinese girl cartoons. Rejoice, my brethren, for we are blessed!

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>>153723343
Re Zero isn't anywhere close to the best anime of its year. You want something good and groundbreaking, try this, but you won't because of your bias.

>>153723596
By someone who talks shit about things he doesn't watch and thinks being a film student matters? Definitely.

>>153719836
And with each golden age comes an eclipse, in our case, that will be SnK season 2.

>>153723193

Seto no Hanayome was 2006, which was not a bad year either.

>Fate/stay night
>Haruhi
>Kanon
>Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
>Black Lagoon
>Code Geass
>Gintama
>School Rumble
>Ouran Host Club
>Utawarerumono

You had four+ franchise starters, and three with sequels. Gintama is still running.

Not to mention on the VN side,

>Muv-Luv Alternative

>>153723630

tl;dr

>>153723711
2006 is my second favorite year. I rewatch a great deal of those shows almost every year.

>>153723343
Are you citing Re:Zero as inventing new cinematography techniques or not using a metric fuck-ton of overused cliches? Because it's anything but that. Anime is very stagnant right now, you could hardly call it a "time of great development and importance." Anime is stuck in this incestuous cycle where it only takes influence from itself and not the world around it. You said you took a film class, did they not teach you about the influence of Kubrick or Akira Kurosawa or really any of the famous directors? They all had huge innovation on cinema and basically defined what it would look like in the future. The last anime director I can really cite who had huge influence on how anime was directed was Satoshi Kon. Nothing since has brought anything new to this industry.

>>153719836
Nope. Golden age as passed. We barely even get nudity anymore and more than half the time that's not until Blu-ray release.

During the golden age of anime that shit was broadcasted on regular tv.

>>153720100
Hunter Huner 2011?

>>153723955
>inb4 1999fags

>>153723420
Oh, well yeah I read those too. But it's fun to broaden things and I found an interest in anime because of the way they are able to create stories outside of normal visual broadcasting and movies.
>>153723568
Just doing the same as you are.
>>153723674
What's the name? I think I have it downloaded on my queue. As for Re:Zero, the type of genre isn't relatively new, but they did it very well in spite of Rem's (surprising) popularity messing up the story trajectory and giving the author a big mess.
>>153723765
My argument wasn't that it's currently the golden age, I was pointing out films/anime that I thought were worthy to be a part of a golden age if they weren't so scattered. It's difficult for me to comment on directing techniques, so I was focused solely on the screenwriting/storytelling aspects. While Re:Zero has a lot of issues, it still outclasses many of the anime within recent years. I'm not seasoned enough to comment on directing techniques specific to anime, so I can't comment on that.

>>153722853
>From a cinema angle, the best anime in the current years is Re:Zero

This is a pretty ridiculous opinion, even if you're just a fan of the series. I sincerely want to know why you would think this.

>>153722853
>the only anime mentions were Akira and Evagelion
low-key the most shameful part of this post

>>153724095
Mind elaborating on what Re:Zero does differently that Steins;gate or Tatami Galaxy or Groundhog Day or The Girl Who Leapt Through Time or literally any other time loop/isekai story hasn't done?

>>153721059
KLK is going to be considered a cult classic in a few years.

>>153724302
KLK had tons of (anime) mainstream popularity when it came out, it can't be a cult classic

>>153724095
not that anon but you're literally putting down an entire genre that you've likely not seen much of because then you wouldn't be acting like they're not different from one another and putting down people who like them

>>153724095
re:zero is generic and doesn't do anything new

>>153719836
Nope. All the Isekai adaptations in the future means that it isn't happening soon either.

>>153724302
>>153724623
Just finished watching the show a minute ago, I wasn't a huge fan. It has some nice animations and tits/whatnot, but nothing special to me unfortunately

>>153720261

KLK still in my top 5, so no, not even close.