[quote name='Aegith']The only true belief is your own, right? You don't know what you're talking about. Apparently I should like an anime just because you like it, and if I don't I'm somehow beneath you. I've seen Bebop on TV a few times. I couldn't stand the character art, music, atmosphere and most of all the setting.[/QUOTE]
Again, you're taking my comments far too seriously. But you can still go to hell for not liking Bebop.
[quote name='NamelessMC']So in other words you're a baby boomer to anime and you weren't around when these shows were new, so you keep comparing whatever "new gen" anime you watch to them?
Dragon Ball Z, by today's standards, is awful. So is Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scroll, Blue Seed, Speed Racer and pretty much 90% of any anime that came out back then, with Record of Lodoss War being in that 10% of anime, that was actually SO good it could last years to come. I'll even go as far as to say Gundam back then isn't good to watch NOW. And it's true. If you watch Gundam Seed/Destiny and then turn around and watch Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, you'll have a hard time as a first time viewer, finding the latter just as entertaining.[/QUOTE]
Obviously you don't pay much attention to what I post. I don't care what year an anime was released. My only expectations are that it tells a good story and has interesting characters. All of the shows that you've mentioned thus far, Lodoss included, I consider to be garbage - and not because they're old, but because I thought they were genuinely uninteresting, forumulaic, poorly written, or any combination of the above. On the other hand, I love Future Boy Conan. I also love Rose of Versailles. Don't lecture me on how to appreciate the "oldies" - when I saw these crappy 90's shows, I saw them IN THE 90'S, and they were still crap. This has nothing to do with comparing old to new.
[quote name='NamelessMC']What you don't get is, just because Lodoss was good, doesn't mean that's the standard for good anime back in the day. Certain anime, are so good in their element that they can last years, because they were executed perfectly.
Bebop isn't one of them. Boohoo for you. Bebop won't last the years to come. When it was released, it was a solid 9/10 or even 10/10. But good enough to outlast its age? Not likely.[/QUOTE]
I beg to differ - Lodoss has been dead and gone in Japan for a very long time, and those who know of it in America are mostly people who watched it back when it was new and there wasn't much to choose from. It's not memorable, it's not interesting, it's not fun. Bebop, in comparison, remains popular with the otaku crowd here in Japan, and is fondly regarded by most in America for being able to satisfy both hardcore anime fans and mainstream viewers alike.
Oh, and finally - your love for the Fullmetal Alchemist anime is baffling. While I did enjoy it, it's a mere shell of what it *could* have been had it followed the path that the manga had taken. The last few episodes (and the subsequent movie) were chock-full of those "terrible ideas" that I mentioned in a previous post. Definitely far from the perfect show you seem to regard it as.