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>>82947
Not true. FLCL was 2001, so I would've been seventeen. Although I didn't see it until like 2004.
No, but seriously--and I realize that you specifically were opposing the use of Nostalgia Goggles, but I am going to use it as a jumping off point anyway--I'd put the best of what comes out today up there with the best of what came out in the "Good Ol' Days." I'll admit that I have more tolerance for mediocre crap from when I was twelve than for mediocre crap from today--i.e., I would watch Tenchi Muyo again even though I'm not really interested in something like Negima, which seems to be exactly the same thing if not slightly better--but as far as the Best Of The Last Few Years and the Best of The Early 1990s, we're doing pretty all right. I love me some classics, but we've come a long way both in terms of visuals and in terms of the depth and complexity of stories that we're able to tell. Baccano would've never made it in the 1990's anime market, nor would FLCL or even (controversial example warning) Haruhi Suzumiya. Even One Piece, which is pure Classic Shonen Style just with a lot of Oda-esque touches, probably would not have become the juggernaut it was--and in my opinion One Piece is easily superior to even early Dragonball.
And the thing is, stuff you remember with nostalgia is only rarely the mediocre stuff. It's usually the cream of the crop. In the modern day, we see all that mediocre stuff because we have to wade through it to find the great stuff. But we don't remember all the bullshit we had to wade through to find the Classics.
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