The Adventures of Butthurt Anime Fan

[mbanu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQScjlXbBE

I thought it was pretty funny. (^_^) I liked how they were able to show how the inter-generational anime fan divide looks to folks from outside of anime fandom, while also clearly being made by fans itself (like the photo of Ninja Scroll-era anime fan as a kid looking like a character from Denno Coil, the Akira reference, etc. etc.).

[mbanu]

One thing I've found really interesting is how common this archetype is throughout the history of anime fandom... the old fan from the parody was once the new fan from even older parodies (I'm guessing by the 0083 reference that this is from the early 90s):

The Different Types of Anime Fans:

Everything made after 1982 is garbage:

The old-timers. The original anime fans. These people have been into anime fandom since the very beginning and were raised on Prince Planet, Astro Boy, Ultraman, and Speed Racer. Hearing them talk, one would think they were imitating the grumpy, old man from Saturday Night Live.

Quote: "We didn't have Bubble Gum Crisis in our days. We had Mighty Atom in black and white... AND WE LOVED IT!"

Everything made before 1982 is too old to watch:

The new kids. The college boys who got interested in anime after they moved in their dorms. They were introduced to anime when Robotech first aired (or possibly a rerun of Star Blazers). Unless it is new, with slick and shiny animation, they think it's too old. These are the type of people who loved Nu Gundam and Gundam 0083 but refuse to watch the original 1979 TV series.

Quote: "Yamato? Harlock? You gotta be kidding, that stuff's ancient..."

(http://www.nt2099.com/OSA/text/misc/ATYPES.TXT)

I feel like there ought to be some lesson here about history repeating itself. (^_^;)

[DKop]

I feel like I need to pray to God to forgive me on how I have fallen into this trap.

But then again, when I see things like this, I go right back:

Plotophile:
Is into anime because of the storyline and drama that it sometimes
provides. They usually think that such trivial things as sex and
violence detract from the plot on hand.
Quote: "Tomino could be a great storyteller, right up there with
Shakespeare, if he didn't put in those stupid mecha battles."

Lets be real, if it wasn't for the mecha battles, Gundam wouldn't be what it is today.

[PinkAppleJam]

el like I need to pray to God to forgive me on how I have fallen into this trap.

I laughed out loud, same here, same here!

Of interest have you read "Database Animals"? I think I wrote about it elsewhere here, but it's a great little book that divides up 1st Gen, 2nd Gen, 3rd Gen and more of anime-watchers in Japan quite well.

A summary in a nutshell goes as follows =
Postwar Black and white TV anime[
70's sci-fi influenced anime (sci-fi cons had an anime section, like the West)
80's shonen jump romcom types of anime
OAVs for the weird stuff and expansions
Videogame tie-ins
90's megaseries (DBZ, Sailor Moon)
EVANGELION
Light Novels and CD-Rom games
Tickbox anime (Glasses-ko, fang-ko, hair'sprout'-ko etc)
Online gaming
Recession
Lolicon fans are the only ones that spend money on old model
Slice of life influenced anime gets made
Web 2.0
Torrenting
Streaming
...Today

Of course this is a whopping generalisation but each overlapping venn-diagram generation hates the one that arrived prior