Are they annoyed that it’s catering more and more to creepy isekai slave harem and loli shit?
On a side note, most modern isekai give me the impression of catering to an ever increasingly capitalism fatigued society. People are so desperate to escape and I see isekai taking advantage of that in a rather unhealthy way, whisking the self-insert protagonist away to a world where he is the dominator of others. I find myself disliking most modern anime that people recommend to me because a lot of it has leaned hard into the worst tropes of the genre. That’s not to say that all modern anime is bad and that old anime didn’t have the same problems, but I’m finding the ones that get popular seem to all be shit I hate lol.
Cells at Work looks cute tho
i’ve tried asking Japanese people at bars about anime during the times I’ve been to Japan. And at least from the situation of some random foreigner with broken Japanese in a bar asking them what shows they like, the answer was universally “Yeah I used to watch some when I was younger.” Most people were surprised I even knew what anime was, they didn’t seem to know it was popular overseas. When I asked what they used to watch it was almost always Doraemon, Dragonball, and Sailor Moon. If they’ve seen anything newer it was Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer. They were surprisingly mainstream in their tastes.
One person just laughed, said anime is for kids, so I gave them a “oh, wakarimashita.” (understandable)
I had a feeling that was the case. Interesting. I guess Otaku are the Japanese equivalent of Disney adults lol
