This week's poll was suggested by residentgrigo. Basically, how much do you care about the animation quality?

You can submit poll ideas here
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Question: The great era for manga/anime was
Choices:
The beginning (50-60s) e.g: Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Kimba the Lion, GeGeGe no Kitarou - votes: 23 (0.7%)
The trendsetter (70s) e.g: Doraemon, Galaxy Express 999, Lupin III, Cutie Honey - votes: 81 (2.4%)
The classics (80s) e.g: Dragon Ball, Captain Tsubasa, Gundam, Jojo - votes: 384 (11.4%)
The state-of-the-art (90s) e.g: Slam Dunk, Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon, One Piece - votes: 1080 (32%)
The millennia (2000s) e.g: Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Ouran High School - votes: 1290 (38.2%)
Current (2010s) e.g: One-Punch Man, Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, My Hero Academia - votes: 518 (15.3%)
There were 3376 total votes.
The poll ended: March 23rd 2019

So does that mean most of the users of this site are in their 30's now?

________________
A just ruler amongst tyrants

I had a feeling 90's and 2000's would be the winners...since they're also my fav 😀

I'm thinking that most users here are probably between 20-30 and in their 30's.

Currently I'm 26yo but have been on MU for over 8 years, though read manga way before that.

I think we did have and age poll some time back (probably years ago XD)
I wonder if we should do another one...

But even if 90/2000's won, I don't think that indicates age quite correctly, since I'm a 90's kid myself but read the 90's manga more than a decade after it was released.
Or maybe that does indicate why I'd also like 90's manga...

I think with "classics" or such well known ones like Rurouni Kenshin, FMA etc their fame speaks for itself and thus new generation would also read them even if they've just started reading manga or hadn't been interested in that genre/style before.
But for those like One Piece, which are still ongoing, its even easier to gain readers since they show up with new chapters regularly. Though some probably might get scared away with the 100's of chapters they have XD

What I'm most curious about is if some of the younger generation readers get scared away from older manga's due to the different drawing style since most mangas these last 5 or so years come out looking practically the same art wise.


As for the the current poll - unless the animation is of super bad quality, I'll watch it if the plot indeed seems to be great. 😉

Last edited by Rouzmary at 3:02 am, Mar 23 2019

________________
~Nothing is Eternal but Eternity~
Enjoy life as much as you can and do whatever you want, because it may be only one.

I also think that age doesn't matter. The "classics" -- be it manga, anime, novels or movies -- are works that are considered models and can speak to all generations. Now, it's true that some people might be put off by an unusual -- in this case "vintage" -- art style, but that's up to each one of us. With time I've learnt that avoiding a manga based on the art style is plain superficial. Plus, you get used to the art style pretty quickly, so you will just need to wait a couple of chapters not to mind it anymore. In some cases you could even end up liking it.

Did you watch Kemono Friends, Season One: The Poll

________________

I only mind in extreme cases of bad animation

I have to be able to watch it without getting sick, things like Mononoke, and Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, freaky artstyles and coloring are my deal breakers.

Story is always the #1 concern.......tv, movies, books, manga, anime, you name it.........could be stick figures drawn by a 2-year-old and it'd be fine by me if the story was good.

Yup, that's how it usually goes for me as well: even if some style at first seems not quite to my taste, I'd still give it a try if the plot is appealing and within few chapters/episodes I get used to it and all is well.

________________
~Nothing is Eternal but Eternity~
Enjoy life as much as you can and do whatever you want, because it may be only one.

Just watched the newly-released trailer of One Punch Man season 2 and this poll seems particularly... poignant

________________
mostly angry, always witty

I only mind in extreme cases of bad animation. Strong art direction can also immediately save minimally animated shows. JoJo says hello.
Golden Kamui´s adaptation mostly looks like shit in most aspects but it at least adapts the story, despite a very rushed pace. That anime is a good and current example of a minimum requirement that an adaptation has to fulfill art wise to be worthy of watching to the end. Original shows could scale lower in terms of animation but not too far, as the actual rock bottom is within throwing distance.

Musashi Gundoh sits on the other end. No TV anime ever looked worse. I obviously didn't last but I just had to watch a bit to see it´s "artistic" glory in action. You should too! It looks a bad as the no-budget hentai from the late 80s to the mid-90s. What an achievement. Hats off to you Monkey Punch.

________________
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
Manga-Masters, My ANN-Lists + Imdb

Not sure where my limits are but if there's manga then there's a limit, of course this doesn't include animation that it's outdated though it makes it harder to get into it.

any threshold is probably fine for me
there was a lot of style duplication in the 70's so it can get a little annoying scanning different themed series and they look like they all have the same artists.
later in the 80's & 90's some writers found acclaim with deliberately surreal and distorted art styles to set themselves apart from the mainstream. I'm thinking Tekkonkinkreet which looks like it was scribbled by the teenaged protagonists
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=4115

and later corruptions of character designs which might favor a moe style which warp facial features, hairstyles, busts and the like, to a point where it breaks your immersion to any story.

if the story is good the art can grow on you

Berserk, the old one, much of the animation was still frames or VERY little going on, it was excellently executed.

naruto, some of the fights have the best choreography in anime, but the animation was very sparse and used shit tons of shmears to imply motion so stills suck but in motion its great.

it takes something truly horrendous to make me say its a dealbreaker. If I can blatantly see something is cg and its animated like crap, it gets me near the point of dropping it but ill still try.

I think it also depends on what the anime's focus is on, as well.

When I watched Yuri on Ice, I thought the story was okay enough (despite the baiting), but what really pissed me off was that they poured the animation budget into animating one or two characters and almost NOTHING on the actual ice skating itself. Garbage skating animation in an anime about ice skating?! It really affected my enjoyment of the series and made me doubt the intentions of the creators (is this really an anime about skating or queer baiting?)

Great art direction or directing in general can really save a badly animated anime for me. This is more permissible for anime that isn't as focused on action. Action and sport animes should always strive for the best animation, because if that part isn't there, then what's the point?

________________
;D

Going by the way I've seen everyone talk about it, and the promo art, the show is fujoshit bait, so the latter.

________________

Same, but the number of people I've met that didn't even finish the first half of chapter 1 of One Piece over a decade ago because "it's ugly" is unreasonably high lol.

I think people are more willing to give it a shot now that literally everyone knows that it's the best-selling manga to ever exist.