Newer vs. Older Animes

Simple question, do you think that the older animes are good or better than the newer animes, or is it the other way around for you?

I'd say, older animes includes animes that were made at about 2003 or even older, including titles like Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon etc. And the newer ones are obviously the ones from 2004 and after, or the recent animes. Or you can just decide which animes are old or which ones are new.

My answer to the question, is that the newer animes are good and better for me, I like the arts of these days, the excellent animations that most of the most animes don't have (if we exclude the remastered versions, that is, the art still sucks for me).

I have to say... being a old weeb from back in the day... i like the pre 2000 anime better.

I can't decide on this

Both old and new era has their own of epic masterpieces.

New Animes

I like both, but I tend to watch a lot of newer anime.

Totally. But not those '02-'04 manga adaptions.

Subjective to each and every anime. I can't say the "old era" was better because I think that some of the oldies are great, and vise versa.

there are good "old ones", crappy ones that got a second season *cough*K-On*cough* and good ones that had potential, but werent meant to have a S2 (Kannagi for example)
There are golden pieces in the current (or past few) seasons (Madoka, Katanagatari)

And even though some people say the newer ones are just all the old Ideas put into a Blender, some of them are quite good.

So I'd stick to the newer ones

Definitely the old school anime. Anime nowadays contain too much moe bullshit.

Just like Kaimax said, we can't really compare the era betwen older and newer ones.
Both era has their masterpieces, and really, this is just a matter of opinion.
Liking or not liking depends entirely on ones taste.

Though I somewhat agree with that, Im gonna have to say that I can't really choose which is better. Both have their ups and their downs it all really comes down to once personal preference. I may be more familiar with recent stuff but the old is also very enjoyable.

You need to watch more Animes. Generalizing things isn't the right way to go.
The oldies are not just filled with Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion, there's plenty of moe/slice of life animes in that era too. MANY.

Try counting this season's true "moe-bullshit" (read: Anime that you only watch for the girls and characters, and have little to no plot)

Nicely said, Kai

Even this season has some epic series, such as Ano ni Mita Hana, TWGOK S2 (don't really have to say for this one), C Money and Possibilites, and Deadman Wonderland.

While I watch a lot of new animes, I gotta hand it to the old animes. My issue is that apparently, the general public's attention span has dropped so much that 13 episode shows are the norm, while 25 episode shows are treated the same way one treats what would have been a 50 episode show. Hell, Code Geass and Gundam 00 are great examples of this, since they were split in half to accommodate this change...

New animes have better art or better animation than old animes, but still some new anime are just so whatever. What matter most for me is their content or story or so. So I didn't vote.

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

Nothing will match the same time and effort DRYL had.

To answer the question. I agree with Kai that this is subjective to each individual. There will be many that say anything made before the year 2000 is a piece a garbage despite the fact that it may have a good story. I can name one arrogant person with this mentality but I'll refrain from that. In my personal opinion, it doesn't really matter to me much as long as the story is interesting but at the same time, new technology that broke the limitations of older anime seem to have invoked laziness on some shows which is a disappointment.

We, can't really blame the public for this one. It all started from the Anime studios and the production team. Securing episodes for airing are getting more expensive with each year, So it's obvious that they will try to make it "compact".

And another reason, that they split "seasons" is for efficiency in the budget usage. With the High Production cost, They want to play it safe. They split it and wait for the DVD sales. A High amount of sales means that the public loved it, and that's usually a green light for them to start making a sequel.

There's also the "Product Life Cycle" theory used here. With Code Geass and Gundam 00 from your example, they did that to avoid the "decline" in both the production part and the viewer part. By doing this, they can make sure that people will watch the end of the season at the "Peak" of the life-cycle, and will make them want more for it in the future. This also gives the story writer/director and other productions staff to take a small breathers and to think about what will they do about the next sequel.


And Seriously, an Anime doesn't need 25 or 50 Episodes to become a "great" anime series. If you can make it beautiful in just 13, or even in 1 movie, why not?
The latest movie of Suzumiya Haruhi (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya) Proved this. It was originally a Full Light Novel, compressed into a 2 1/2 hour movie, and it's still on top of Myanimelist.net's Top list, under Gintama and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood in 3rd place.

On the contrary, series that "usually" goes beyond 25 episodes have a "tendency" to have episodes that is really lacking in quality and simply have forgetful episodes. Gundam Seed and Destiny for example, Almost a 1/4 of it are RE-cap episode.

[color=olive]well i like new animes,I would say that the quality of anime has continued to improve with time. It still seems to be a maturing art form, continuing to explore the boundaries of what can be done.[/color]

should be an option for both, i like about the same amount of oldies, [eva is god.] as new ones, [eva again =D] tho, my fav anime of the decade was hands down gurren laggan, my all around fav is still eva tho.

Older. Probably from selection bias, but the older stuff I saw had much more substance to it.