NORMAN, OK — Silently shaking his head while sifting through the plethora of first impression articles for this season’s new anime, 64-year-old local resident David Sutherland looks resigned. The longtime anime fan admitted that is has been 52 years since his favorite show, Astro Boy aired and anime since then has “sucked”.
“Anime before 1964 had amazing storytelling, innovative design, and focused on narrative instead of pandering fanservice,” Sutherland told Anime Maru. “It all started going downhill with Tetsujin 28-go. God that show just ruined the anime industry.”
Sutherland then went on to claim that anime is “all about lolicon now” and criticize newer animation studios such as Toei Animation and Studio Ghibli for prioritizing fan service and commercialization over narrative quality.
“My impressions of the current season? Everything sucks. Gaakou Gurashi sucks. Gate sucks. Sore ga Seiyuu sucks. There haven’t been good anime since Astro Boy,” Sutherland writes on his anime blog. His blog, in which he rants daily about how much he hates anime, has over one hundred thousand subscribers. “If you’re getting into anime now, sorry. The Golden Age of Anime is long gone — it began and ended with Astro Boy. The anime industry now is a wasteland of moe excrement that only exists to hate on.”
When asked what his second favorite anime is, Sutherland thought long and hard. “I guess To Love Ru is ok,” he told Anime Maru.
Well, there’s really no right or wrong side on this bullshit argument going on lately about how “anime sucks now”. Things back in the day weren’t perfect either, they had a buttload of awful crap then too, just a different kind of crap as the moe shit going on nowadays, I love astroboy myself, but it’s far from perfect, and you can find a couple of jewels ammong all the moe and ecchi shit comming out recently. Imo, lets just stop making a big deal out of all this crap because doing so will bring the attention of a bunch of pathetic otaku, it’s pointless and degrading
I think the main reason why people say that is because the old anime that people think of and remember are the good or innovative ones, when in reality there were also a lot of bad anime back then too.
He hasn’t seen The Big O second season yet. That was amazing.
To Love Ru 😀
Well To Love-ru is my favorite anime of all time 🙂
Big fan here 😀
Astro boy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>all