Dubbing in general I think has been considered a rush job for years anyway. Foreign films suffer the same issue with stilted dubbing all the time, and anime just isn't any different. It's also cheaply made (4KIDS was considered an exception to the rule because they actually poured money into their dubs), the voice-actors get paid peanuts to dub, and most of them don't want to be in a cramped recording booth for hours on end. It's a thankless job.
I argue it's gotten worse in recent times due to the limited amount of actors being used, and some highly questionable casting choices with regards to some shows. Funimation and Netflix are probably the biggest offenders of this.
There's a lot of censorship and SJW language in dubs. I would never support dubbing.
But why say this here? It's not anime.
Avatar is "ruined" by SJWs who subconsciously hate Japanese things
That's korra
I'm pretty sure it's because anime stories stopped being written for otaku and started being written by otaku. I put the benchmark at whether if it was made before Sword Art Online and after SAO. Before, anime was just a means of telling stories, often aimed at young people, but there are enough notable exceptions to that rule. I wouldn't call any Oshii Mamoru or Kon Satoshi movie children's fare by any standard. After SAO, that's when the storytelling part of the genre fell apart. I'm not certain what the causes are; it might be from hermit thinking or people's lives getting the standardized high school experience, but trope writing became the standard and the appeal turned solely to the art style. BTW, I also consider Attack on Titan, even the early episodes, indicative of trope writing heavily influenced by Evangelion. The difference is AoT is better at execution than SAO.
I actually got a decent explanation about this from my sister. She explained to me that anime is still aimed at the same market as it was twenty years ago, it is just that I like ‘90s anime better because that was what I grew up watching and the stuff today is neither better or worse, I just no longer am the target audience.
I like some recent anime, but I am no longer the hormone-fueled and insecure teenager I used to be.
This supposes that an industry can't decline and produce art of lesser quality.
It certainly can, but the assertion that it’s happening in this case requires hard evidence, not just “lol I feel like modern anime are shit”.
What kind of "hard evidence" would that be? Statistics?
