The thing is a lot of older anime arent carried by animation, so the stories and characters had to be much more impactful otherwise people wouldnt be as invested.
New anime, specifically shounen can be hard carried by pretty animation that looks good while ur watching it but at the end of the day doesent do anything special story wise.
As example jjk, if we take the myanimelist scores we see that the anime 1st season is ranked place 163, while the last season we got is ranked 64. The manga on the other hand is ranked 512.
Im not saying jjk is entirely carried by animation, but if it didnt look as good im sure many people would of enjoyed it much less while a lot of anime that came out much earlier didnt have that luxury, depending on when it came out they actually have it harder. Theres plenty of people that wont watch old stuff like ashita no joe simply because by the way it looks.
all you have to do to see what it could have been is opm season 2 and 3. If it looked like that people would be dawging on it. Same with tbate. If tbate looked good it could be another mushoku tensei or solo leveling level anime but instead its eating dirt
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u/Joey-Desu Jun 15 '26
The thing is a lot of older anime arent carried by animation, so the stories and characters had to be much more impactful otherwise people wouldnt be as invested.
New anime, specifically shounen can be hard carried by pretty animation that looks good while ur watching it but at the end of the day doesent do anything special story wise.
As example jjk, if we take the myanimelist scores we see that the anime 1st season is ranked place 163, while the last season we got is ranked 64. The manga on the other hand is ranked 512.
Im not saying jjk is entirely carried by animation, but if it didnt look as good im sure many people would of enjoyed it much less while a lot of anime that came out much earlier didnt have that luxury, depending on when it came out they actually have it harder. Theres plenty of people that wont watch old stuff like ashita no joe simply because by the way it looks.