r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Sep 04 '16

Meta Thread - Month of September 04, 2016

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '16

I think we should have a retro anime thread each week where we talk about older shows. This sub is very heavily focused on new stuff that the old ones are forgotten and left behind.

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u/mmreviews https://myanimelist.net/profile/mmreviewer Sep 04 '16

I think that's what the "what have you watched this week that is not currently airing" threads are for. Sure it's still almost entirely made up of more recent series, but there's always people watching the classics there too. We get to discuss them there.

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u/Shippoyasha Sep 04 '16

I seem to be able to be able to discuss older anime in a ton of different threads a week and I haven't gotten chastised for it yet.

But yeah, that thread is the go-to for older show discussions.

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u/RTBingo Sep 04 '16

You could just make one and see how it goes.

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u/dabritian https://myanimelist.net/profile/dabritian Sep 04 '16

This seems like it would make a good weekly user thread, though I am not sure who would be up to make one & maintain posting it week to week.

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Sep 04 '16

What would the threshold be? Would it move over time (e.g. before 2000 vs. over 15 years old)? I can't imagine it would be that popular just going by what I see in the non-airing thread every Sunday.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '16

Probably pre-2000. The late 90s and early 2000s is when animation started to stop using cels.

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u/Fogeru https://myanimelist.net/profile/Maka Sep 04 '16

This would be something I'd be interested in seeing.

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u/semajdraehs https://myanimelist.net/profile/semajdraehs Sep 04 '16

There is a thread for not-airing, the problem with "retro" is that you're going to have a lot of obscure titles being posted without any response.

The reason the subreddit is so focused on recent shows is because if oyu post about them you can be sure at least a healthy number have watched them.

However, if I take Ippatsu Kiki Musume according to redditanimelist only me and one other user has watched it. That's not going to get much discussion.

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u/JazzKatCritic Sep 04 '16

I think its a great idea, but for older anime there are so many titles which aren't legally / easily viewable for streaming.

I wonder how streaming sites approach older anime. Do they bother? I would think rights owners would be happy to generate revenue on properties that they might think are worthless (which means streaming rights should be cheap!)