Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
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.