I wanna stir up some chaos, so I wanna hear any #anime hot takes you have. Could be about a specific anime, a genre, a fandom, or anime as a whole.
Here's mine: A lot of anime from the 1990s and 2000s that are considered great or masterpieces likely still hold that status only due to nostalgia and them being some of the only anime easily available to a non-Japanese audience at the time. Not saying they're inherently bad, but a fresh watch might remove their luster.
@AWanderingSorcerer If you really care about anime you’re going to have to get into piracy. Shows vanish from streaming or never make it there in the first place, home video goes out of print or is never made available (good luck getting a legitimate release of the iconic Daicon animation!), and some works get memory-holed almost immediately upon publication (eg the Phantom Blood movie).
Piracy can’t entirely solve any of these, but it’s the best hope for continued access to these works both for individuals and for the fandoms as a whole, at least partly because fans care more about these works than corporations do. More than corporations can, in fact.
AWanderingSorcerer
Pasadena CAS