the_wesley•10d agoProlific Poster

Question about how people talk about old anime now

I was looking at the MyAnimeList forums for Neon Genesis Evangelion, and I saw a big change from posts in 2015 to ones from last month. The older threads were full of people just arguing if Shinji was a good character or not, but the new ones are way more about the show's themes and how it handles depression. I think the newer fans coming in from streaming have changed the whole talk. Has anyone else seen this kind of shift with other classic shows?

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ryan_shah3810d ago

Read an article last year about how people talk about Cowboy Bebop now compared to the early 2000s. It said the old forums were all about the cool action and the soundtrack, but now it's way more about the loneliness and the characters' pasts. I mean, it makes sense, the way we watch stuff has totally changed how we pick it apart. Idk, maybe it's just me but streaming lets everyone binge the whole mood at once instead of waiting a week between episodes.

viola_allen10d ago

Yeah the binge thing changes everything. @ryan_shah38, you think that weekly wait actually made people feel the loneliness more, not less?

victorh819d ago

The way we watch stuff now really does flatten out the experience. You lose that week to sit with a heavy episode, which was half the point of shows like that. It turns the whole thing into content to be processed instead of a feeling to live with for a bit.