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Q&A: Legendary Mangaka Kenichi Sonoda

Really? I mean I have heard many times people say that new fans won't like a show because it is to old, but I've never seen it. I've seen kids watch stuff like Tom & Jerry and the classic Goofy cartoons from the 40s, and they never asked if they were old.

That's because they saw those at a young age on Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, home video or whatever. I notice with older anime unless if it was on Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, KidsWB!, Fox Box, or whatever kids network in the late 90's or in the 2000's that is pretty much forgotten expect for a few titles.

Anime fans born in the late 80's-early to mid 90's and later grew up with Pokemon, DBZ and Sailor Moon, so the dated animation won't bother them when they rewatch them. If you show them something like Bubblegum Crisis, Golgo 13, Record of Lodoss War, Crying Freeman, Devilman or any type of anime before the year 2000, the anime will be turn off by them for being "Old and cliche" while the old Pokemon TV show is somewhat of a masterpiece.

The cut date with fans have change over the years, I remember anything before 1995 was too old for anime fans back in 2002. It later became before 2000 is too old like 8 or 9 years ago. Now I see people that say anything made before 2004 is too old for them to watch.