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before anyone asks (someone always does) the previous uploads were from a frame blended source and therefore replaced with a better one with no blended frames: https://imgur.com/a/WQzVXFr
one of the best in all anime :D
The fact that this is still the best ever cut for Spencer Wan just really tells how incredible it is for the old days
For anyone that might see the immediate above, that comment is incredibly misinformed in how the age of animation should impact its reception (similar to the comment on post #160606, which geth has addressed similarly). This clip, in particular, isn't nearly old enough to be considered a product of the so-called "old days" (I'm not even really sure what this means); thinking something from around 20 years ago is going to be produced from a significantly different pipeline or ideology is incredibly misrepresenting how technique-wise improvements in this industry happen. I know the comment is 9 months old, but I'd rather risk sounding annoying than have people misinformed.

Edit: Not worth clogging up the comments page for this with a new comment, but yeah Geth's reply is almost exactly what I meant. I personally would, if pushed, concede and say things produced pre and post-Utsunomiya and Iso's work in Gosenzosama Banbanzai may be worth distinctifying, but even then I'd expect the conversation to be very specifically about that, in a general discussion of animation I don't really think it's something worth distinguishing either. And on the age of "two-decade", Eva, Medarot, FLCL, Eureka Seven, many of Naruto's ambitious endeavors from Tsuru and Wakabayashi, are all either around two-decade old or even older, so yeah I wouldn't consider that old.
I think what he (Craig69) meant was…the animation from the golden age if you don't like the "old days" term so much. Also, 2 decades feels and sounds really old if you ask me
TIARA69 said:
I think what he (Craig69) meant was…the animation from the golden age if you don't like the "old days" term so much. Also, 2 decades feels and sounds really old if you ask me
It's a pretty commonly shared sentiment that older animation isn't expected to be as good as newer animation. Like most questionable claims surrounding animation I would guess it partially stems from the video game/film industry where computer technology has advanced in a way where there is a marketable difference between then and now. Hand drawn animation isn't like that though, people (like Norio Matsumoto) are still drawing with pencil and paper just as they did a century ago. The basis of the skill hasn't changed at all since its invention, only the way it's processed and other minutiae related to timing/drawing styles etc. One look at any of the Disney films in the 1930's should tell you just how ridiculous it is to consider hand-drawn animation made a long time ago as inherently weaker, but that notion is still very widespread. https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/139860

Also 2 decades really isn't that old lol...
Well it is old for me, like even one year ago is already a bit old for me…but I see what you mean by that, but I really think what that guy (Craig69) was actually saying was that, the term "old days" is for the anime/show and not for the…(hand drawing thingy?) Something like that
could be! I think it's also a knee-jerk reaction to respond that way since a huge number of people do subscribe to the mentality of older = inherently worse like I mentioned.
My problem is mainly with implying that the industry has changed so significantly within 20 years technique-wise (to kinda repeat my original comment), especially on a site that is meant to be informative regarding hand-drawn animation. It's phrased in a fairly unclear manner too fwiw lol. Also, I feel like I should clarify that I have nothing against the commenter, it's just trying to prevent the spread of an already commonly spread misnomer.

Edit: I'm pretty sure "knee-jerk" was referring to the original comment I left
Know what, I actually have fun talking to you guys…at least I learned some valuable information, and yes…sorry for making the others reading the long comments
Also I don't know if "knee-jerk" is an insult or anything but again thanks for the info
TIARA69 said:
Also I don't know if "knee-jerk" is an insult or anything but again thanks for the info
knee-jerk is an idiom that means "on reflex" or "automatic". It's not an insult
PurpleGeth said:
knee-jerk is an idiom that means "on reflex" or "automatic". It's not an insult
Is there a easier definition of it
TIARA69 said:
Is there a easier definition of it
first impression/saying something without thinking
gammaton32 said:
first impression/saying something without thinking
I actually have been thinking about it
I'm fairly certain geth's comment was talking about me not you lol
LoogiBaloogi said:
I'm fairly certain geth's comment was talking about me not you lol
Oh, that explains a lot