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malvarez1
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For the most part, I’m still able to watch Yu-Gi-Oh! and Beyblade shows, but I also dropped Pokemon around Diamond and Pearl. It became too repetitive; at least the others have something new to offer.
Regarding Gachiakuta, the main problems with that discourse is that 1: if you’ve read the manga, you know that it doesn’t stick in edgy grimdark mode, but I can see how watching only the first two episodes would give you that idea, and 2: it’s kind of hard to compare to episodes of an ongoing narrative to a complete show like Hellsing. Who’s to say that Gachiakuta won’t be the next big breakout like MHA or JJK? |
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Oggers
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The English Beyblade opening theme is definitely a banger, even when you take in the lyrics about how spinning tops are "a way of life" into account.
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MemoBookworm
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I think a related feeling is shows you haven't necessarily outgrown, but recognize that you enjoyed a lot more as a kid. I watched Sailor Moon for the first time while I was at university, and was struck with so much intense regret that I never watched it as a kid. I enjoyed it at 19, but 10 year old me would have absolutely lost her mind over it. I haven't picked up Gachiakuta yet but it sounds sort of similar, like a show I would have been on message boards talking about as "THE BEST MOST ORIGINAL THING EVERRR" at 14, but as an adult it feels like I've seen this before a lot.
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Nyapan
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I think the only anime I grew out of is Pokemon. I tried going back to it subbed in the XY era and it just didn't click with me even though I loved the show as a kid.
On the other hand, I didn't grow up with Yu-Gi-Oh! (I thought the monsters were ugly) but when I got into it in 2019 I absolutely loved it and it's one of my favorite franchises. Let me preface this by saying that I don't even play the card game and have no interest in doing so. The manga is great and I wish it got the respect it deserves as a Shonen Jump classic. As for the series after the original, I like all of them and in fact the OG is only my 3rd favorite. Yes, the shows are made to sell cards. However, that doesn't mean the staff didn't put effort in to make interesting stories or lovable characters. The dubs absolutely butchering emotional moments for all the shows (among other offenses) really harmed the franchise in that way. (I have nothing against dubs in general but the Yu-Gi-Oh! ones are criminal.) Anyway, all of that to say that it's totally fine if people aren't interested in watching the series but the way it's dismissed as a worthless cashgrab for dumb kids just makes me sad. Then again I also love Cardfight!! Vanguard and Digimon so maybe I'm the weird one here. Last edited by Nyapan on Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:54 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Rogueywon
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I rewatched Ga-Rei Zero back during the pandemic and honestly, I thought it held up pretty well. It's obviously a different show on second viewing, when you know where it's going, but I thought it worked well in both modes. It also has an absolute banger of an OP, which helps a lot.
As for shows I loved at the time but which just don't stand up to a modern rewatch... I found Madlax disappointing when I watched it again after Birdie Wing placed itself firmly in the Madlax expanded universe. I think I'd forgotten, over time, just what a meandering mess the show's mid-section is. Its predecessor, Noir, however, still holds up very well. The less said about El Cazador de la Bruja the better... that show didn't even stand up to a first viewing. |
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tintor2
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It's a shame Yugioh season 0 was never released in English regions. While the animation kinda sucked for its time, the idea of Yami being a dark superhero of games who mindcrushes cheaters was quite innovative, almost like a horror movie. One episode about digital pets pretty much foreshadowed Ken from Digimon 2 who abuses the creatures with a horrible demeanor.
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TokimekiCrisis
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I think the abridged series did a lot to poison younger people's perception of the franchise and just boiled it down to "children's card game" jokes and treat it as a non-serious series. Similar to how Dragonball's abridged series ruined a lot of discussion about the characters like Goku as a father It doesn't help Yu-Gi-Oh's dub is one of the worst out there with numerous changes and censorship and some people refuse to watch anything but the dub so they think the hammy English voices and script are what the series actually is. |
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Nyapan
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That's true as well but at least the abridged is not an official product so it doesn't bother me near as much as the dubs. If at least all the series had legally available subs it would help. Just my luck too that my favorite series Zexal is one of the ones without official subs. |
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Mizlude
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I rarely rewatch old anime so the idea of me not liking something I used to anymore is hard to judge. I grew out of Pokemon in general when it started doing away with it's Japanese roots and became more sanitized for the sake of global consumption but I'm sure if I went back and watched the original series when it had tons of Japanese-style humor and culture in it I'd still like it.
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b-dragon
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Huh. For me most "nostalgic anime" were from my 20s. I didn't really start watching anime until I was laid up in a hospital room for weeks at a time, selling my body to pharmaceutical studies to make rent money during grad school. But I watched a lot of "interesting" selections that Netflix had at the time- Ga-Rei Zero, Rin- Daughters of Mnemosyne, Blassreiter, and Spice and Wolf. I vaguely remember them all fondly (some of them undeservedly so), but would never really watch any again, as it just reminds me of the cold cream of mushroom soup the hospital kitchen would serve. Blech. I guess my nostalgia got corrupted.
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Fluwm
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I started watching Sailor Moon a year or two ago (I'd estimate that I'm roughly halfway through the Toei stuff, maybe a little more) and I very quickly fell in love with the show. But, yeah, I'm right there with you, wishing I'd watched it as a child. I love it now, sure, but at 10 or 12 it would've dominated my life. And even just watching older shows for the first time, in general, can have kind of a nostalgic quality, just based on how much has changed stylistically and production-wise over the years and decades. Like to return to Sailor Moon, it's got this wonderfully episodic structure which makes it far easier to watch at a leisurely pace (like my own) than almost any anime from the past, I dunno, 15 years at least. And the analog animation definitely has a very unique charm to it -- especially those almost pastel backgrounds that are more of a suggestion of a place than anything else. |
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MarshalBanana
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I watched Pokémon up until around 03, I don't recall where the story was at the time, but I lost interest and nothing from what I saw from later episodes made me want to go back. I never got into Bayblade, never appealed to me. Yu-Gi-Oh, was something I liked, but they kept showing the same episodes on TV, and given that it was a 4Kids edited show, I have no interest in going back now.
I found the girls in Sailor Moon very pretty as a young boy. Nowadays, if I were to watch an old Shojo series, there are far better titles to choice from. |
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FunkyDude88
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Anti-Nostalgia for me is one that involves personal emotions and memories. My high school girlfriend made us watch shows Gravitation back in the day and needless to say it was not an anime I particularly enjoyed and did so more for her sake but it does hold meaning for me based on the circumstances alone. I would never watch it again as that part of my life has long since been over. The theme song is still good, though.
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deathfromabove1993
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I kept up with Pokemon up until 08-09 and by that time I was more interested in other anime (Also, my love for Pokemon had faded). Same as Yu-Gi-Oh!
I watched Beyblade when I was a child and enjoying it. However, when I came across the show years later, I hadn't realized that the animation quality (esp. the first season) wasn't really good. |
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mdo7
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Don't know what to say for this, but when it comes to watching older shows, I do watch them, and yes I'm a retro-anime fan (alongside my love for retro-video gaming too). I do watch modern day remake/reboot of an older anime title if it's the one I grew up with or if it's a remake/reboot of a well-known anime (like Ranma 1/2 2023 version).
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