What is your favorite anime Decade

[Zariel]

I think the ones from around 2005 to 2015 are about my favorite 

[getintherobot]

I think the period between the release of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gurren Lagann is my favorite. The late 90's was peak. Yeah, 80's OVAs might be the peak of actual cel animation, but the stories were often underbaked. The late 90's combine great cel animation with better storytelling and characterization. The early 2000's adoption of digipaint did lead to a bit of a dip in aesthetics IMO, but NGE was still close enough in the past that studios were willing to crank out big, weird stories in hopes of lightning striking twice. Something like Mai-Hime, flawed as it is, only happens in 2005, and I think that's pretty cool. I think of TTGL as the end of this post-EVA era. After that, CGI integration starts to really take off, backgrounds start to suffer, and in the 2010's, pretty much 90% of anime looks ugly as sin. I enjoy plenty of modern shows, and I think anime as a whole is bouncing back in the 2020's, but I will watch pretty much anything from that 1995-2007 range. It's just my jam. 

[SurrealBrain]

Honestly, felt more connected to the scene during the late 90s-early 2010s. This isn't to say we haven't had good stuff since then, but I have only gotten worse at keeping up over time as I get older. I strongly suspect this won't be over soon, if ever. But oddly enough, I'm okay with that.

Edited July 26, 2025 by SurrealBrain

[efaardvark]

10 hours ago, SurrealBrain said:

Honestly, felt more connected to the scene during the late 90s-early 2010s. This isn't to say we haven't had good stuff since then, but I have only gotten worse at keeping up over time as I get older. I strongly suspect this won't be over soon, if ever. But oddly enough, I'm okay with that.

Pretty much the same here.  I started watching Americanized anime like Mazinger Z and Speed Racer back in the '60s and '70s when I was in gradeschool.  I didn't even know what "anime" was back then.  It was all Saturday morning cartoons.  My interest has waxed and waned over the years depending on life events and anime content.  I'm more interested in science fiction for instance so the current fantasy / isekai everything phase has a tendency to not hold my attention very well.  My interest got a boost in the '80s when a HS classmate started doing voice acting.  There was a good (IMHO) stretch back in the mid '90s when stuff like Ghost in the shell came out too.  Hasn't reached that level since but I still find interesting stuff from time to time.  Enough that I'm still here.  If I haven't wandered off by now I kind of doubt I ever will.