Comments on: What anime actually looked like in 2009

By: kransom

kransom — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:48:52 +0000

Alex – as it notes on the bottom of the page, though, it’s important to remember that the times and ratings are only for the Kanto area

By: Brack

Brack — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:12:48 +0000

http://www.geocities.jp/animesityouritu/ keeps a record of terrestrial schedules and ratings.

By: Alex Leavitt

Alex Leavitt — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:43:08 +0000

Are the schedules available for perusing online in Japanese (and if yes where)?

By: Omonomono » The Wheel of Pandering

Omonomono » The Wheel of Pandering — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:19 +0000

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By: astrange

astrange — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:01:30 +0000

That already sort-of happened with Narutaru. Unfortunately, it was scripted by Chiaki Konaka, so it ended up being completely impenetrable…

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:33:22 +0000

This means we’re probably due a “mature”, post-modern take on Pokemon at some point in the next decade. Gird your loins for that one.

Loins are girded yet slightly tingly in anticipation…

By: Brack

Brack — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:15:19 +0000

It hit me last year when I had to run a panel at short notice and was going to do one to tie into when UK anime conventions had started, and it struck me there was very little interesting to talk about during the early nineties.

My theory is that first talent and then money drained out of television to OAVs, movies and then just down the drain. You still had Kitty funding some good looking TV shows, but in the long run that did them in and left Studio Deen as a production studio whose work now generally looks worse than it did 25 years ago.

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:57:52 +0000

I am super interested in that post on the late-80′s/early-90′s malaise. I was looking at all the stuff I’d watched at MyAnimeList and noticed a big gap in that period in shows that I was giving good ratings too, and then when I looked through the calendars at places like anidb for the period of like 1989-1993 there were something like 3 shows that I hadn’t seen yet that actually looked like they were of any interest to me whatsoever.