Katsuhiro Otomo, director of Steamboy and Akira
>'The skills of traditional animators have become worse, and notable young animators have not come out to the scene. This is a big issue for the industry. '

you tell'em sister

Satoshi Kon, director of Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika
>He makes a comment: the disposable nature of anime today; back in the days, there was more anticipation and fans digested each work better.
>"Animation based on popular manga and giant robots and big-eyed girls with shamefully skimpy costumes will continue to fill the screen. I think that's okay. These productions fill demands; the audiences for them support the Japanese animation industry. Thanks to them, there is room for a non-mainstream creator. Of course, I hope many unusual pieces will also appear."

>this thread again

Ichiro Itano, animator who developed and popularized the technique “Itano Circus,”
> "Particularly in TV anime, producers are self-censoring themselves from the get-go to avoid complaints from viewers," he says.
>"Nowadays people are more concerned with creating a 'product,' so it seems like content is probably becoming a little too similar. As for young Japanese out there who want to become creators, I hope they'll be high-minded and try to make something on the level of District 9."

"Stop liking what I don't like."
-Dai Sato, scriptwriter of Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo

Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of the Gundam franchise

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2009-09-14/yoshiyuki-tomino-press-conference/2

>"All I can say is that the creative process in Japan is obviously showing a decline."
>Stop buying anime magazine and stop watching anime now.
>If you have time go see some real paintings and watch live performance at theaters.

Anonymous, threadposter in 4chan

http://opis.afagg.ot/articleView.php?item=shit

>I don't even have to follow this greentext up with anything, you already know.

Hayao Miyazaki, director of Nausicaä, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away
>"I think Japanese animation is facing a dead end," he said.
>"I think there is a chance that the spread of Japanese animation overseas might only lead to embarrassment."
And he described younger anime makers as the "copycat generation".

Mamoru Hosoda, director of Summer Wars, Digimon Our War Game and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
To Mamoru Hosoda, the solution to overcoming the industry's stagnation is in the game ideas published by Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo), enjoyed by many people throughout the generation with his "suits all tastes" style.

while everything they say is pretty much truth,I don't really care about it.
It's not just anime,everything form of culture is slowly dying right now
You want good music?Here,have some Justin Bieber
You like books?Here's Twilight,it's awesome
Movies? ...

But there is still plenty of good things everywhere and this won't change for 10-20 years so that's why I don't care

Yutaka Yamamoto, former KyoAni director, on the state of the anime industry:
>Nowadays, good animation doesn't good sales, most otakus barely even notice good animation quality, only sakuga fags happy to see animation
>For example, Denno Coil and Birdy: Decode sale fail to live up to sakuga fags's hype, compare to Bakemonogatari and Railgun win the Otaku market.
>Your anime is always going to end up on Youtube. We're reaching the end of being able to sell home video. We're probably going to back to toy-funded business models of past: give anime away, try to sell toys.
>The lack of originality and the desire for exclusivity by the fandom has created a highly transparent industry. Mr Yamamoto affirms that the creators and the fans are “too close.” This is the biggest reason behind the isolation of the anime industry. The creators feel too obligated to please their fans, and the fans naturally expect the creators of anime to cater to them specifically, as opposed to society at large. This negative feedback loop simply exacerbates the problem over time, and now we have an industry that has boxed itself into a dead end.

This is now a Mugi thread

Daily gorespamemr dumping his copypasta with sourceless citation and mostly bullshit mistranslation.

Sage. Reported.

Mamoru Oshii's, director of Ghost in the Shell

http://2chan.us/wordpress/2009/07/11/mamoru-oshii-toshio-suzuki-ponyo-vs-sky-crawlers/

>"The world of hand-drawn Japanese animation became useless long ago, as far as level of achievement and talent. The stuff airing on television these days can just be churned out, mass produced.

>I certainly think that animation is like a handicraft. If you ask me, it’s similar to the miracle that is shrine carpentry. Do you know how many people are weeded out before a single person rises to the top and becomes a qualified shrine carpenter? How much training is required? That’s why I compare animation to shrine carpentry: you simply cannot mass produce it. But now, we’re reaching our limits. If you want to know why, it’s because all the really talented animators that are sustaining the world of hand-drawn animation, the 20 or so of them, are all over 40. So think about it, in another 10 years, what’s going to happen?

>>50175801
Lets do it

>>50175824
The fuck? It's all sourced. Stop being buttpained.

i don't really care.
i have a huge backlog and there are probably plenty of great anime i have never heard of.

Toshio Suzuki, chief producer and president of Studio Ghibli.
>"Honestly, I don't watch much anime. I think there are not many good ones... do I sound like a snob? Sometimes I will take a look at one or two, but they are not so good, so....... it's unfortunate that by the end of January, 78 episodes of animation were shown in Japan; last year there were 192 OAV titles, of which half were really series. I think there are about 9000 animators in Japan - how did all this anime get made? The answer is that only about 10% were made wholly in Japan. This outsourcing is not necessarily a good situation. If it continues, Japan will lose animators and I worry for the future.
>There are fewer youths today who want to be in the industry. There are 2 reasons - that the number of titles leads to lower budgets and lower pay; and more seriously, while they may want to *watch* anime, they don't want to *make* it.

inb4 OP starts samefagging after this dump.

How can anyone deny that moe is killing the industry? There was a time when anime was moving forward as a mature and mainstream medium.

Now the geek stigma surrounding it is greater than ever, and all new titles are blending together as "cute girls doing cute things" material.

Oh boy this thread again.

>>50175840

>>50175883
Is that all you can say?

>I like moe, so I'm going to pretend there is no problem.

You're pathetic.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto, author of Welcome to the N.H.K
>Moe anime is like drug seller, making money by fooling people

>>50175878
Anime has always been made primarily for teenagers and kids, this era of good taste and maturity you long for never existed.

>>50175878
>There was a time when anime was moving forward as a mature and mainstream medium.
No there wasn't.

Every day until you like it

>>50175878

You cannot fight it. All we can do is move full speed ahead.

JOIN US

Anime wont die because kids like cartoons. Albeit they may become mindless it will still exist.

>>50175938
Anime has always been for children and otaku.

Otaku used to get things like bubblegum crisis.
Now they get bakemonogatari

Shoji Kawamori, the creator of Macross
What is the current state of anime in Japan?
>"The state is extremely trying.
>There are too many projects. I think half of them are not necessary, and there is not enough resources for everything."

Mugiworm.

anime is like tv shows, and who watches tv? noone. its all internet. it just needs a better medium.

Hideaki Anno, director of Evangelion, Gunbuster
He feels anime industry is exhausted : A continuing trend of stagnation.
And said "over the past years, there has been no anime "newer" than Eva."

>>50175912
It's only a problem if you're a normalfag. Also...
>No source
>GORESPAMMER's copypasta and translation of misinterpretation

>>50176029
>no source
What the fuck is:
>http://www.otaku2.com/articleView.php?item=679
?

MOE IS SHIT
DEAL WITH IT MOEFAGS

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>>50175602
satoshi kon hasn't made anything in a while. lazy sack of shit. and he thinks he has any right to judge others?

James Blake is a shit musician

I like how you only do one quote per post now.

Feels as though even these people in the industry fall into the trap of comparing a few seasons to all of anime made in the past.

You can't expect every single thing produced to be a masterpiece, It's just as naive to expect even have of them to be something incredible. Its the same with all mediums, books, films etc.

Sturgeon's Law - "ninety percent of everything is crud"

>>50176049
induring butthurt hater, probably OP spamming.

MOE IS SHIT
DEAL WITH IT MOEFAGS

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MOE IS SHIT
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And the BEST thing about this is, no matter how much you or they bitch and complain, it will change nothing. Absolutely nothing.