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Does anyone miss 2000s otaku culture as well? Neidhardt 03/07/2024 (Thu) 20:44:34 No. 883
you know? moe magical girl anime, dakimakuras, akihabara fetishism, the "i hate 3D girls" kind of otaku ...kinda like takumi nishijou from chaos head
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>>883 i know akihabara in the 2020s is different from akihabara in the 2000s, god knows i could do without seeing the place littered with shitty chinese/korean phone games, but has it gotten to a point where it died out? it could be that i'm relatively new, but i don't think this kind of otaku culture ever really died, not to the point where i'd say i "miss" it... if anything, i'm upset that it never quite caught on outside of japan, otaku culture still seems despised/enjoyed "ironically" or constantly subverted here in the states...
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>>884 ever heard of the leetstreet boys? the otaku power pop group? theyre basically an american version of 2000s akihabara culture, and completely unironic
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>>885 >2008 y-yeah...quite relevant...and not at all the first time i've ever heard of them... it's a cool find, but still...
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>>886 GUITAR HERO HERO EVERYTHING WE'RE FIGHTING FOR
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>>887 note: i am referencing a leetstreet boys song (guitar hero hero)
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>>884 the gentrification of "anime" globally is a big reason shit shows like sousou no frieren is rated #1 on most anime sites. I could at least understand when it used to be FMA followed by some stupid shounen like One Piece.
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>>1147 Totally agree. The modern take at anime is disastrous, makes me think they employ AI and analyze huge amount of data to develop strategies to make people comfortable eating shit. They make 80% of seasonal anime absolute worthless garbage, fill the social media with memes about it (probably, I don't use social media, but I skim some youtube channels once every one or two months), then roll frieren. Back in the 2000s and even the beginning of 2010s frieren wouldn't be anything but another slice of life for those who like it, but now, among piles of stinky shit and carefully crafted advertisement, frieren looks like it's something special and cool. No it's not.
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>>1147 because frieren is good. >>1150 take that back right naow >>1150
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>>1151 >take that back right naow I know you're upset because I attacked your favorite anime but you need to let it sink it that frieren isn't as great as they arbitrarily made it to be. Frieren's popularity is mostly due to advertisement, I don't know what exactly is happening behind the scenes, but it is 100% crafted. I'm not saying it's bad, but it is unfair that frieren gets so many love and attention when there are so many great anime out there that nobody talks about at all. Look, I didn't watch frieren, so I'm not going to judge its contents, but in the light of aggressive advertisement frieren appears offputting to me. So to actually watch it I need to be impressed. I've seen a lot of scene cuts from it and screenshots and none of that impress me at all. Just cool visuals, that's all. Now, anyone talking about Eve no Jikan? Anyone? Anywhere? It is unfair that such interesting and unique anime as Eve no Jikan is ranked #667 on mal. Noir is #2868. Frieren is #1. Just what exactly did frieren do to deserve it? There is nothing unique about it at all. Even atmosphere looks generic and visuals good but boring. Go fuck yourself
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I know I look very aggressive, but if you don't want to overuse your brain and can't comprehend the meaning, here's the short version specially for you. Frieren Is Good But Overhyped
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>>1153 i avoid advertisements. i didn't see advertisements for Frieren. i read the manga then the anime when it came out. >go fuck yourself holy shit why are you mad lmfao >>1154 >here's the short version: waaaahh the anime i like isn't popular enough!!!! now that your needless crying is out of the way, i can't really say if it was overhyped or not. i don't think the advertising was as big as, say, JJK or My Hero which i personally find both to be pretty mid, but like i said i try as much as possible to block out advertising. My Hero had an Overwatch collab and JJK is in Fortnite which is about as norman as it gets. i enjoy Frieren because it's a good show, whether or not it has "hype" is pretty irrelevant to me. you should adopt this mentality and be less angry over things that don't warrant the energy.
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>>883 can't say i was able to experience it. my first ever anime was SAO when i was 13- around 2014. i went to Akihabara this year and there certainly was a lot of Blue Archive advertisements and other gachaslop. i can't say for certain (because i didn't experience it) but i kinda get the vibe that Akihabara is losing some of its charm now that anime is popular and normal. becoming less stylized i guess? i still had a fun time though.
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>>1156 >holy shit why are you mad lmfao my default state, enjoy what you like, i never claimed to be more clever than the consumerism culture
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Frieren is not bad, but it's normie shit. Sorry.
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>>1208 Sony buys kadokawa for the world to grovel before
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Otaku culture sucks. Otakus are like domesticated cattle. Sure, I love anime, manga, and otaku media, its an addiction that like herpes never goes away. Its just slavery for mass produced garbage. So no I don't miss it at all or like the aesthetic. Some of the shows and games were better back then and that's all.
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I feel bad to bring up Frieren again (it was a discussion from last year, after all), but I feel like it/my feelings towards up sum up current otaku culture well. It's not a bad show, Frieren is cute and relatable, the cast is generally likeable, the animation is spectacular, the OST had some cool tracks here and there... But as an affront to all of this, it's so empty. It's watchable, though I did drop it myself kek, but that to me is not good enough. The show starts heavy with it's philosophy and attitudes towards friendships, love, life itself and what it means to both live and die. And what does it turn into? A hollow shonen-slop shell of what it could've been. There's nothing wrong with mindless action, especially when that action is accompanied by some glorious animation. But sacrificing what could've been AOTY, at the very least in terms of themes, for it? Sacrilege, bordering on evil. Things weren't always like this. Things don't have to be like this. But because so many anime watchers are either normies or accept whatever companies throw at them, things are and will continue to be like this >TLDR; Anime nowadays isn't hell-spawn tier Netflix garbage, but it's empty, lifeless. This is bad and I don't personally like it desu
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>>1157 >i kinda get the vibe that Akihabara is losing some of its charm now that anime is popular and normal. anime was clearly always big enough of a thing in japan if it warranted taking over part of a city lol i think the problem there is that (foreign) gacha is taking over, which reminds me... >>1233 i think it's silly to imply that one anime speaks for the quality of literally everything on the market, but frieren does make me think, i think the biggest problem with otaku culture currently (and this probably isn't specific to the english-speaking side of things, i don't know for sure, nihongo dekinai) is just that a lot of it is so based on trends and fads. everyone's into the same handful of shows, some current, most of them older because 90s/2000s/2010s nostalgia is what's accepted now, all of them "safe" because english speakers have the dumbest attitude towards fanservice everyone has to have some justification as to why they like something instead of just enjoying it, and this justification leads people to automatically writing off everything that's not within their already narrow view of the medium as "trash" everyone's into the same handful of games, all of them chinese and korean gacha because they all already have big fanbases and have very low barriers to entry because nobody can be arsed to give actual games that have time and effort put into them their time, let alone their money my problem isn't with anime as a medium, some of my favorite anime ever have aired relatively recently, it's that most anime fans outside of japan are stupid, and the ones in japan seem to really like blue archive for some reason. everyone's so ingenuine these days. how do we fix this? idk lol

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