Do you have a favourite anime era?

[Manko-sensei]

Japanese animation has existed since the Second World War and has undergone multiple transformations, as well as it has had its trends and peculiarities that go beyond the stories that are told in this media. One thing that could be appreaciated from the 70s is that certain kind of genres have been more present in certain periods and some series had a greater influence in later decades for a new genre or subgenre to appear or even dominate. The first era or period without a doubt is the one about Super Robots with the iconic Mazinger Z but with many more series akin both in the 70s and 80s. This led to the Science-Fiction era all kind of takes in the 80s that took place in a period when Japan was brimming and money was not an issue for studios, so there was more work than ever behind every episode. The third era that continued from that was the Shonen one that many have grow up with that had the great Japanese recession in the middle and can be appreciated with the later series. With the new millenium came the Romance and Urban Fantasy era where many VNs started being animated and it is commonly known as the "big eyes characters era". The fifth one still had many romcoms but the two genres that rose ranks were indubitably Mahou Shoujo and Mecha-Ecchi, which gained a lot of popularity in this period. The sixth and last is the era of escapism, the current one that doesn't require extra explanation: Videogames, Isekai and Fantasy.
Was any of them your favourite one or your favourite series belong all to clearly different eras? Or maybe you have more than one?

 

[tobias5678]

2014. Few anime but at least it's 24 full episodes OF PLOT.

You get today are LycoReco which does nothing but show thick Takina.

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

Between the 90 and early 2000 for non-yuri stuff. Old 80's stuff is also very good. After that, the big isekai wave did a lots of harm.

 

[OisE]

Between the 90 and early 2000 for non-yuri stuff

What does that mean?

 

[BakedBanana]

2000ish, a lot of the most memorable anime for me come from that era.

 

[TestAddress]

What does that mean?

90s up to 2000s were ALL boy-girl romance.

E.g. Boys Be ( actually the last one, around 2000s WOWOW )

Kimagure Orange Road

Marmalade Boy

In Search of the Full Moon ( 52 whopping episodes )

Pre-Tear ( girl gets to choose who she wants to end up, the man actually becomes HER CUSTOM SAILOR UNIFORM - it comes with 7 men... )

VanDread ( men come from Mars, women from Venus ... literally. Until episode 1. )

This was the "boy meets girl" decade, and making a lot of misunderstandings between them but they get together in the end was SO SOLD back then. Sometimes it had action and sometimes it is game-based or even toy-based.

 

[Nyanyan444]

Spring 2017 is the peak for me.
When isekai genre start to spread, I found my first ever reverse isekai. Yes, it's Re:Creators *Maybe I found another reverse isekai before that but I just don't realize and this the only anime that I admit to be my first reverse isekai. I watch most of the anime that season until I watch less and less and stop entirely until this day

 

[TestAddress]

2000ish, a lot of the most memorable anime for me come from that era.

Aya Hirano voiced two of those gems only to find out stress turned her into sex to success sex-starved ... uh... artist.

 

[despairotaku]

mid-late 2000s to early 2010s

 

[Robinisback]

Anything before 2017, the beginning of Isekai slop.

 

[BzzBzz]

Anything and everything before moeblob era.