>>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 plainer, less detailed. Underscored must be "in some animes" and "simplified a bit" because animation didn't deteriorate across all new animes; many in the early-to-mid 90s were produced with great animation or even better animation, and as late as around 2000 some were still made with great animation (even a few after 2002 - but there we're talking rare exceptions). Should be said the newer simplified animation techniques some studios employed in the early 90s made it possible for certain kinds of difficult-and-time-consuming animations to be done easier and faster. But the price was often worse-looking animation, due to laziness (easier = less effort put in, usually) and due to lowish-quality animation-gear inconducive for things like superdetailed large background artworks and the quality of the film reels were sometimes lower than what they'd had in the 80s which hurt the fidelity/definition of the end product).
But these observations about animation, and other observations - not brought up here - that one can make about how anime in some ways got worse in the early-to-mid 90s, are rather meaningless from our perspective today considering how terminally bad anime got later (the mid-to-early 90s anime situation is like having a few tiny inconsequential holes in your wings, vs the later anime situation being like pointing the nose straight down with max throttle and afterburner while cutting your eyes out with a fork and sawing your dick off with an angle grinder). The point with this text is simply if you were into anime in the 80s as that guy probably was, you would've in the 90s noticed those changes (especially the social ones: anime getting more mainstream; lots of people suddenly discovering anime, who knew nothing about it a few years ago) and likely you would've had a similar sentiment in 96 as he did. Having watched animes from these timeperiods and gotten into anime just before its demise (which helps with perspective), I can definitely see what he's saying. His post makes logical sense and he's mostly justified in his seethage. He was just despairing a bit too much, and called the death of anime a few years too early.