Posted by saviour2012 on 10.22.2015, 02:24 PM: 21 century Anime tries to solve different problems than previous gen. So i was thinking about the comparative study between 20th and 21st century anime. As the films made in that era was quite outstanding and at the same time quite depressing. And although the films made in this century are quite good but are with much more relaxed tone. So i tried to find out if there was any defining characteristic that separates the two era in a more general way.
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.22.2015, 03:09 PM: I don't think there is any difference in subject matter, approach, ideals, directing style or inspiration between anime of the 80s and 90s and today. There is more commercialism and more subtlety and clever use of CGI visuals but the driving forces behind the art cannot arbitrarily undergo a gear-change at a date between two millennia, that idea is absurd.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.22.2015, 03:33 PM:
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.22.2015, 06:34 PM: I think you'd need to look at two different generations of anime directors to look for any real change in approach. Talking about the 90s and the 00s is really talking about the same people. I am always struck by how many apocalyptic endings there are in so many anime - no matter when they are written. Paprika was a good modern example of this. I accept that such storylines are a product of the end of WWII but they are still being presented in today's anime, just as they were in the 80s and 90s.
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Posted by arren18 on 10.23.2015, 03:13 AM: I think this is a pretty interesting idea really. It does suggest to me, as Saddles says, a sudden radical shift from one century to another - the turn of the millennium is just a convenient point to use as the divider between different trends. Of course there are counter-examples on both sides, but actually, I've heard similar things before.
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Posted by paperbullet on 05.01.2016, 02:20 PM: I don't think this trend is valid. There are plenty of counter-examples on either side, so... |
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