>>115935 (OP)While his post deals chiefly with him noticing changes in social stuff surrounding anime and him seething at normalfaggot/NPC behaviors,
(or more accurately, and I'm explaining this because some people reading may not understand this and it may not be self-evident to them, what was bothering him in that regard was anime in the West rapidly becoming more mainstream; more well-known to people - and to types of people - who in the 80s had never heard of anime - - I'm not old enough to have memories of being into anime in the 80s and thus can't claim to know what it was like, but I understand perfectly well it was very different being into anime in say 1986 vs 1996 and fully recognize that anyone who was into anime in the 80s is - from our Western perspective - a proper anime oldfag that those of us who got into anime in the mid-late 90s can't equate ourselves with)regarding Sailor Moon likely part of the reason for his disdain for SM in particular was he saw or sensed in it the terminal downfall of anime that was just ~7 years away.
Whatever that guy's exact thoughts were, whatever his exact reasons for seething were, it's understandable someone watching anime in the 80s (he presumably did) would already by the mid 90s have detected some negative changes in new anime - as some certainly had occurred (but truly minor and rather irrelevant vs the later changes). Take note though that his Sailor Moon seethage probably wasn't at the 96 "Sailor Stars" series or the preceding "Super S" but at Sailor Moon in general, Sailor Moon itself, which began in 92 - and the 92/original series of course already features stuff that guy in 96 disapproved of (while he doesn't say what things in SM displeased him, one can easily imagine what in it he disliked seeing).
If you watch a bunch of anime from the mid 80s then late 80s then early-to-mid 90s you will - or may, if you're attentive enough - notice a reduction in production quality in certain limited ways in some animes. Nothing even remotely as extreme as the absolute turdification of anime that took place some 20-22 years ago. But in the early-to-mid 90s you'll see in for example the animation department (the most tangible thing to talk about and the first casualty both then and later) that the animation had in some animes been simplified a bit, become pla
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