| Let’s be real. if you were watching anime in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might just be an anime boomer. Do you still watch today, or did you get lost in the sea of newer shows? |
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| i was watching anime in the late 90s and early 2000s & im not a boomer and lets be real 90s & early 2000s was peak golden age anime |
| I started watching non kids anime around 2010. |
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| I grew up watching anime from the late 90s to early 2000s and I don't really consider myself an anime boomer as I also like new shows and I think every era has its good and mediocre anime in my opinion. |
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| I casually watched in the early 90's and then started really following it in the late 90's to early 2000's. Then, I lost interest for about twenty years before getting back into it when my kids started picking it up. So yeah, I almost certainly am. |
| "Are you an Anime Boomer?" No, I'm not. |
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| 1998 is when I really got into anime (obviously not counting random anime I grew up watching on TV as a kid), so if your definition of anime boomer is just someone who's been a fan at least since the late 90s, then I guess I am. But I don't think old anime is any better than new anime, so I don't look at new anime or the current fandom in a boomerish, "back in my day" kind of way. If anything, I really like the way things are now. I established my current viewing habits in the early 2000s, when I started focusing mostly on seasonals, and nothing has really changed for me since then. I've never felt lost. It's not like I time traveled to this year and anime was suddenly different from what I remember. I've been watching new anime all along, and the changes have been very gradual over the years, so I never felt left behind, or felt like modern anime wasn't for me. I'd feel equally at home with an anime made in 1995 or 2025. |
palm-treeFeb 6, 9:19 PM
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Dragevard said: Let’s be real. if you were watching anime in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might just be an anime boomer. Do you still watch today, or did you get lost in the sea of newer shows? If that is your criteria for a Boomer being late 90s and early 2000s, then I might as well be called a BU-99CX1 Super Boomer. lol As well as anyone who has been into Japanese Anime longer than I have.  |
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| Well my Dad is a boomer since he watch 70s and 80s anime like Voltes V Daimos, City Hunter, Fist of the North Star. As for myself I am a fan of old anime, my favorite super old anime is Sally the Witch I'm surprised how it age well compare to other 60s anime of course the animation is old but jokes and life lesson still relevant to this day. Old anime or new anime dosen't matter sa long is fun and entertainment and good. |
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| Maybe, I need more criteria to know if I qualify as one. |
 You confuse "Boomers" and "Millenials" (aka Gen Y) here. Millenials are now approaching their 50s, and boomers their 70s. So if you feel nostalgic about 90s and 00s anime, you are probably a millenial. I'm myself Gen-X and was long in college and had stopped watching anime in the 1990s. I haven't any nostalgic feelings for Pokemon, Dragon Ballz and the "Big 3" because was far too old for that shit when it aired. My Gen-X nostalgia material is mainly from the 1970s and early 80s, when I was a pre-teen / child. Also when I watched them, "shounen" meant space opera. Dragon Ballz and the classic "battle shounen" was only created in 1984, and came to the West even later. I long had long grown out of the "shounen" target group by then and neither know those shows, nor have any nostalgia for them. Millenials, feel old now? You should :) |
inimFeb 7, 3:56 AM
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| hell yeah i am... i was born in 2001 but anime from the late 70's!! was popular in Iraq (my home) and we just got freed from a dictatorship so a flood of everything came!! i started watching anime from 2004 ( OG dragonball / naruto / Grandizer / etc. ) so i do count myself as a late boomer ( and yes i watched everything in discs! and vhs as well) and nope, i see theres sooo many good shows and nothing really is special anymore. and as i grew up/ got married/ got a job///// its really hard to have time for anything. |
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| Yeah, even if I sometimes take some time off, I always get back into it. Ends up being quite nice as I usually have some good things to catch-up on |
| I knew this is a Dragevard thread without even clicking. |
inim said: Millenials, feel old now? You should :) Millennials shouldn't feel bad about being old either. Everyone gets old. I remember the 1st time I had a mid-life crisis thinking things would only get worse for me until I was reminded by others in my life about how fulfilling of a life they thought I have lived so far compared to countless other people I know in real life who are actually far younger than I am. Most people I know are simply struggling to pay their debts and even common bills. I am just glad I have never been swamped by massive credit card debt like almost everyone else I have met in my life. Sure my life hasn't always been "Easy street", but even looking back to my high school days and comparing the experience I had to stories of people I have known and met over the years, I at least had friends in high school and actually had the privilege to dated quite a few girls who showed just as much interest in me as I did with them. Most people I have met over the years didn't even get to go to their school prom or even have sex with anyone other than the one they ended up marrying. These days most modern Anime otakus are still even virgins in their 30s and some in their 40s too. I have even met some people in real life who were so desperate to get laid they have actually resorted to finding some street prostitute just to lose their virginity only for them to confess how disappointing such an experience was and likely even getting an STD in the process. I am an extremely rare Anime Otaku who is even Married at all still, where a majority of my old school friends have divorced. I am lucky to be Married to an extremely attractive woman for that matter where it's obvious to even an extreme majority of my friends in real life are clearly jealous of how extremely beautiful of a Wife I am married to. My wife has countless stories she has told me about, even as recent as a few months ago, of other married men at any given social gathering often times trying to flirt with her as if they were trying to get into her pants. lol Some guys sure have some balls on them to think they would ever have a chance to seduce someone who is so extremely faithful. Where my wife has told me countless times before she would rather die then to live a life without me. My Wife loves me that much just as much as I love her and I would rather die too then to live a life without her. While not easy in the least, my college days were good too, even if life after high school was an extreme struggle for someone like me, but I wouldn't ever want my college days to be changed for anything. Even after College, I thought my life was practically over a few times right after I got married and had a kid. Only to be constantly reminded by other friends I grew up with who started suddenly feeling the same way when they started having kids of their own. Even times I thought my career was going no where in the late 2000s. Till one day a few friends let it slip during a conversation one late evening night at a bar after work about how much money they were actually making. Realizing I should just keep my mouth shut and only listen while they kept bitching and whining about their jobs and the income they make. Because they were all practically making peanuts compared to the income I was able to generate at the time. Realizing how extremely inept a majority of people I have met over the years are at negotiating salaries and the income they make even when they make it seem like they are so extremely indispensable at what they do for a living. Fast forward to now, I look at the current state of modern Western Anime fandom and realize a vast majority of Users will likely never achieve the type of life I have ever lived so far due to knowing they are widely very young, inexperienced, and more preoccupied on consuming vast amounts of pirated Seasonal Anime and playing video games then actually doing anything remotely productive with their lives. Where the most successful OG otakus are the ones who have actually ended giving up on Anime for an extreme amount of time during some part of their life. Sometimes even taking over a decade off or more from ever consuming a single Anime. A truly successful Anime Otaku is one that can live the life of one as if they were some modern Anime shut-in NEET only decades later just with all the benefits of such things as independence, a career, stable income, Home ownership, a few cars, real life friends, even potentially a family, etc... Life is even better as an Old Otaku when one is free of debt and have finally paid off all mortgages. I don't know about anyone else, but If I didn't already have a comfortable enough amount of money that I have generated over the years and saved up to be able to start retiring at some point, I certainly wouldn't be wasting any amount of time consuming any media entertainment let alone countless seasonal Anime every year. Millennials should feel old but feeling old is not a bad thing. Particularly if one feels like they have lived a fulfilling life so far. |
ColourWheelFeb 7, 1:21 PM
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| I started to watch anime in 1994. Now I mainly rewatch older anime. The age I really started to feel old was 35. |
Boogiepop1989Feb 7, 2:02 PM
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| My first exposures to anime were the late 90s but I didn't know it was anime. Dragonball Z and Gundam wing on toonami. I was born 91 so I'm a millennial |
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| Millennials and Zoomers will probably be anime boomers around 2050, which is pretty soon all things considering. Anime of 2010s-2020s will be like the anime of the 1970s-1980s in terms of chronology, but I wonder how much will it change? It'd be kinda awkward for it to remain the same. |
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| I actually have been watching anime since the mid-80s. So I'm not sure what that counts as. An anime boomer boomer? 🤔 |
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I actually have been watching anime since the mid-80s. So I'm not sure what that counts as. An anime boomer boomer? 🤔
@Retro8bit As that is still Shouwa, you could be a Showatcher. (Pun sounds terrible) But I'd like that because then Hey Sayer, and the rest everything almost fits. |
| Been watching anime since 1986, so yeah I guess |
| Yes, absolutely, that's me. What do I win? |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
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You confuse "Boomers" and "Millenials" (aka Gen Y) here. Millenials are now approaching their 50s, and boomers their 70s. So if you feel nostalgic about 90s and 00s anime, you are probably a millenial. I'm myself Gen-X and was long in college and had stopped watching anime in the 1990s. I haven't any nostalgic feelings for Pokemon, Dragon Ballz and the "Big 3" because was far too old for that shit when it aired. My Gen-X nostalgia material is mainly from the 1970s and early 80s, when I was a pre-teen / child. Also when I watched them, "shounen" meant space opera. Dragon Ballz and the classic "battle shounen" was only created in 1984, and came to the West even later. I long had long grown out of the "shounen" target group by then and neither know those shows, nor have any nostalgia for them.
Millenials, feel old now? You should :)
Whoever came up with these nonsensical time frames has no idea that a generation means 20-30 years. You can't have a generation that is shorter than 20 years. It's like calling six years a decade. |
| Also Gen Y are not millennials. Millennials are people born after the start of the new century, hence the name...millennials as in Millennium-a period of 1000 years. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97" |
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Whoever came up with these nonsensical time frames has no idea that a generation means 20-30 years. You can't have a generation that is shorter than 20 years. It's like calling six years a decade.
TransferUser said: a generation means 20-30 years. You can't have a generation that is shorter than 20 years Kruszer said: You're both right in terms of the biological and chronological definition of _generation_. The one used in this posting context, and the graphic, is the socio-cultural definition and the image is from Wikipedia's series about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MillennialsMillennials are people born after the start of the new century A generation under this definition is a group with compareable social, political and technological environment. Gen-X, for example, is the first generation to have grown up with color TV, all my childhood TV memories are in Technicolor. Just like for Gen-Z TV always had been in 16:9 ratio, and not 4:3 like for me. In Germany, mass breaktrough of color TV was 1972 along with the soccer world cup. Similarily GenZ doesn't know a world without internet, which of course didn't exist until I had turned 20 (and I was a very early bird already). Most obviously the Baby Boomers are the people born after WW2 ended, a whole generation before grew up with Hitler and war. So generation is only coarsely chronological and may differ slightly per country. E.g. in Germany the re-unification of 1990 did massively change society and your life was different before and after November 1990. The terms sketched in the Graph apply to the Western world and need small adaptions nationally and regionally. I like the comparison to the Japanese emperor eras done in this thread. |
inimFeb 8, 2:40 AM
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TransferUser said:
a generation means 20-30 years. You can't have a generation that is shorter than 20 years
a generation means 20-30 years. You can't have a generation that is shorter than 20 years
Kruszer said:
Millennials are people born after the start of the new century
You're both right in terms of the biological and chronological definition of _generation_. The one used in this posting context, and the graphic, is the socio-cultural definition and the image is from Wikipedia's series about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MillennialsMillennials are people born after the start of the new century
A generation under this definition is a group with compareable social, political and technological environment. Gen-X, for example, is the first generation to have grown up with color TV, all my childhood TV memories are in Technicolor. Just like for Gen-Z TV always had been in 16:9 ratio, and not 4:3 like for me. In Germany, mass breaktrough of color TV was 1972 along with the soccer world cup. Similarily GenZ doesn't know a world without internet, which of course didn't exist until I had turned 20 (and I was a very early bird already). Most obviously the Baby Boomers are the people born after WW2 ended, a whole generation before grew up with Hitler and war.
So generation is only coarsely chronological and may differ slightly per country. E.g. in Germany the re-unification of 1990 did massively change society and your life was different before and after November 1990.
The terms sketched in the Graph apply to the Western world and need small adaptions nationally and regionally. I like the comparison to the Japanese emperor eras done in this thread.
inim said: A generation under this definition is a group with compareable social, political and technological environment. Gen-X, for example, is the first generation to have grown up with color TV, Then it only works for the USA and is useless internationally. Either way, they shouldn't call it generation since a generation cannot be shorter than 20 years. But I guess that's too much to expect from sociologists. But even from a US centric perspective 2013 makes no sense. Nothing of note happened in 2013. Smartphones appeared around 2008/09 and there's nothing else I can think of that dramatically changed our life. |
| Most anime i watch nowadays were made before 2010. So i guess i'm somewhat of a weaboomer. |
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inim said:
A generation under this definition is a group with compareable social, political and technological environment. Gen-X, for example, is the first generation to have grown up with color TV,
A generation under this definition is a group with compareable social, political and technological environment. Gen-X, for example, is the first generation to have grown up with color TV,
Then it only works for the USA and is useless internationally. Either way, they shouldn't call it generation since a generation cannot be shorter than 20 years. But I guess that's too much to expect from sociologists.
But even from a US centric perspective 2013 makes no sense. Nothing of note happened in 2013. Smartphones appeared around 2008/09 and there's nothing else I can think of that dramatically changed our life.
TransferUser said: Almost nothing except for this little incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_financial_crisisSmartphones appeared around 2008/09 and there's nothing else I can think of that dramatically changed our life. |
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| I was watching anime in the 80's. Currently watching The last season of Tensura and some of the seasonal anime |
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TransferUser said:
Smartphones appeared around 2008/09 and there's nothing else I can think of that dramatically changed our life.
Almost nothing except for this little incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_financial_crisisSmartphones appeared around 2008/09 and there's nothing else I can think of that dramatically changed our life.
| @inim I mean in the year 2013. Smartphones and the financial crisis predate 2013 by about five years, so why is 2013 the line to divide generations? |
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Dragevard said:
Let’s be real. if you were watching anime in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might just be an anime boomer. Do you still watch today, or did you get lost in the sea of newer shows?
Let’s be real. if you were watching anime in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might just be an anime boomer. Do you still watch today, or did you get lost in the sea of newer shows?
If that is your criteria for a Boomer being late 90s and early 2000s, then I might as well be called a BU-99CX1 Super Boomer. lol As well as anyone who has been into Japanese Anime longer than I have.
BOOMA!!!! Seriously, Though; i Got into Anime beginning in the mid/late-90's, all on the Firm Foundation of SDF MACROSS, though i was having to settle, - like most other Western Weebs of the day - for SDFM by Proxy of ROBOTECH. it was ALL about the Mecha for me... right on up through the very late-90's or so, when i Branched out into Waifu/Character-Focused series. That Said; i'm still Hardcore as i've ever been... with Equal place in my heart for both Mecha AND Anime Hunnies♥   |
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| The title called the "Anime Boomer"? No, I am not worthy... |
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| In some ways, yes. Mostly grew up on and got seriously into anime though stuff that aired in the 90s and 00s. |
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| No. Too many modern shows have vastly better written and engaging female characters compared to the stuff I watched in the 2000's (even if you have to know what to look for). |
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