Spring Season 2024

[DarthEnderX]

I just noticed that the top 12 series (by audience vote on MAL) for spring were all sequels. I made a discussion thread a few years back, but I'm still not over just how many anime are getting continuations nowadays when there was a time no so long ago that it was pretty much one and done.

That's because most anime used to just be elaborate ads for manga.

But now that anime is so successful in NA, studios are adopting the methods of NA studios. i.e. "people want more of the shit they already like".

[MFauli]

That's because most anime used to just be elaborate ads for manga.

But now that anime is so successful in NA, studios are adopting the methods of NA studios. i.e. "people want more of the shit they already like".

Makes me wonder if that also caused the decline in animation quality. When anime used to be elaborate advertisements for the manga, there was more incentive to make the ONE season of the anime as great as possible. Now that the focus shifted to the anime entirely and a longterm needs to be maintained, that possible brought us the shitty, generic animation we now see in the majority of currently airing anime.

[Ryllharu]

Makes me wonder if that also caused the decline in animation quality. When anime used to be elaborate advertisements for the manga, there was more incentive to make the ONE season of the anime as great as possible. Now that the focus shifted to the anime entirely and a longterm needs to be maintained, that possible brought us the shitty, generic animation we now see in the majority of currently airing anime.

The decline in quality is from the sheer volume of series being aired every season, no other reason.

For the Winter Season (Jan - March) and which is usually the sparse season compared to Spring/Fall:

2024 - 47 series started

2014 - 43 series started

2004 - 19 series started

1994 - 4 series started (for reference: Spring 1994 - 18 series started)


Saying the quality declined is also subjective, because the average animation quality has absolutely improved with notable individual exceptions being a big deal. A lot of TV anime used reused key frames, reused backgrounds, just as many still sequences that people bitch about today.

But everyone remembers the standouts, or actually remembers OVAs as "TV series"

[MFauli]

The decline in quality is from the sheer volume of series being aired every season, no other reason.

For the Winter Season (Jan - March) and which is usually the sparse season compared to Spring/Fall:

2024 - 47 series started

2014 - 43 series started

2004 - 19 series started

1994 - 4 series started (for reference: Spring 1994 - 18 series started)


Saying the quality declined is also subjective, because the average animation quality has absolutely improved with notable individual exceptions being a big deal. A lot of TV anime used reused key frames, reused backgrounds, just as many still sequences that people bitch about today.

But everyone remembers the standouts, or actually remembers OVAs as "TV series"

Eh. Not sure whether I agree with the "average animation has improved". At the very least, the standouts have become rarer. And, I mean, even stuff that didn't look good back then like "Clannad" or ""Ranma 1/2" would be considered great-looking by current standards of animation.

The increase in anime volume that you display is crass, though. Feels like 20 would have been a reasonable number to stay at. Over 40 is just madness.

[Ryllharu]

Eh. Not sure whether I agree with the "average animation has improved". At the very least, the standouts have become rarer. And, I mean, even stuff that didn't look good back then like "Clannad" or ""Ranma 1/2" would be considered great-looking by current standards of animation.

Objectively false.



You know who worked on this? MADHOUSE. Yeah, the studio flexing with Frieren this past season.

This was 2002 and it has the quality of 1997. Stills, pans, zooms to cut costs and shave production time. Trigun and Galaxy Angel this is not.