What happened to Sci-fi

There have been plenty of mecha over the last couple of years. I don't care if /m/ is too retarded to find them.

They're not gyarus they're clones

Everything gets worse every year, we don't have a bright future to look forward to like people did half of the century ago, there's only more suffering
Sci-fi is effectively dead in media across the world

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Why is this, why did everyone start focusing more on fantasy than Sci-fi?
Is it because people have given up on the future being something to look forward to, and thus prefer to imagine going to a fantasy instead?

That's that i meant retard

Lurk more retard.

You didn't mention the part about people using fantasy as escapism though.

Because future actually came and its pretty boring. I mean, except for smartphones we basically live still in the 80s, some would argue that even like in the 70s or 60s

No flying cars, not nuclear apocalypse, not functional androids, not habitable space stations, no space travels. SCIENCE! failed so now people relies on magic

Dad blast the Kat clones are hot

Ones not quite as light hearted could be good too. I remember this having some problems, but I did like some of it.

Have all the natives still just stuck to only a single planet and the MC be the only one who can travel between them.

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Still would.

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>SCIENCE! failed so now people relies on magic
In fact, what is even worse is that SCIENCE! explained why SCIENCE! can't do that which we want SCIENCE! to do like magic.
And that kills the magic of SCIENCE!
Like, there's still no contact with another alien species that says hello and why we suck. Nope, we still have to make up fictional alien waifus, which we'll never ever see in our lifetime.
Life has become faster, more hectic, perhaps also easier in some cases, and we are talking a lot more together thanks to the internet, but it's not really glorious and awesome.

It's because the current generation of writers and artists went to school when the Gyaru style/fashion was popular, and are drawing on it for their works (it's long since fallen out of fashion and popularity irl).

That's a good point. People thought that scientific innovation was going to keep accelerating, and while it has in certain ways, in other ways it has been a complete disappointment. It's been over 50 years since the moon landing and instead of our presence on the moon increasing, we haven't returned people to the moon at all.

Why send people to the moon, if we could just send autonomous robots to the moon?
Or if autonomous robots are still too high tech and we need to control them so that the robots don't fuck up things, we could just build a space station around the moon, and then have the smart cosmonauts in the moon space station control the robots.

Moon landing a bad example since the reasons both for the project itself and its cancellation were purely political not technical.

It's called brown sugar you donut.

>In fact, what is even worse is that SCIENCE! explained why SCIENCE! can't do that which we want SCIENCE! to do like magic.
That's a great point, the more scientific knowledge we have the more we understand why things like FTL travel are likely impossible, and why we'll likely never encounter Aliens ever, and that's assuming we aren't the only intelligent life in the entire galaxy.
Anyone who does want to have FTL travel in their sci-fi has to make their story less reliant on actual Science, and rely more on psuedoscience (aka magic) to make the story actually interesting.
Although there are ways to mix sci-fi and fantasy elements, like with something like Shinsekai Yori, where the Psychic powers are kind of like a magic system, but with a much more sci-fi feeling to it.

Kanata no Astra was underrated as fuck.

That doesn't matter, the fact is people see the moon landing as the gateway to human exploration of space, but instead that hope is crushed because politics kept progress from happening.
The fact is that regardless the reasons, the future ended up being completely disappointing.

I think that's a dubious point. Fifty years ago people were writing sci-fi about things like psychic powers despite there being no evidence they existed or conceivable mechanism for them. And it's not like sci-fi writers didn't know these things.
I'd say it's more likely that internet communication encourages petty criticism to flourish, and there's little pettier than complaining about realism. And hard sci-fi has never been that popular, so if they don't want soft sci-fi either, then they get nothing.

Isekai is the new outlet for Science Fiction

Anyway they can vent and twist the same old Isekai shitty formula whilst secretly putting in Science Fiction tropes is really the only way the genre exists anymore shy of series like Psycho Pass, Gundam and a bare few others.

I dropped so probably yes.

>I spend my days on a Mongolian shadow figures imageboard knowing about the schizo thoughts of random cucks around the world and I form my own vision of humanity and life from said thoughts
I'm pretty this is quite different than the 60's

You missed out hard.

I think it's because the optimism for technology has died down somewhat. In the 90s/early 2000s the techno-utopians wouldn't shut up about how technology is great, will set us free and we will live like in Star Trek. Now the talk is about robots, climate change, surveillance, drones, etc etc. At least in the West. It probably makes its way to Japan as well.

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>dropping Kanata no Astra
youtube.com/watch?v=XiMnoKui4Sk

people just want instant excuses to masturbate for the umpteenth time; hence the isekai boom: "you are teleported into the harem world, now fap".
setting up good sci-fi takes time and effort, so why bother.

Aries best girl with the best laugh

Setup for good anything takes time and effort. Low effort basic shit has always existed.

It's because the hype for tech has died down now that we're going through an innovation plateau. Technology has been relegated to shitty consumer garbage like "smart" devices and social media. It kills the wonder of tech.

Starship Operators had a lot of good ideas and moments. It just needed more time to flesh out it's passing and world a bit better. If it was 26 or so episodes with more down time to breath I think it could have been an all time great.

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magic is science, but better

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loli clon is the best.

I feel like people just aren't into speculative fiction regardless if it's sci fi or not. Even modern fantasy is all about self awareness and genre "deconstruction" or a "parody" that does everything it claims to make fun of but pats itself on the back for pointing out how it's totally not like a cliche fantasy show.

Sincerity and awe are just a lost trait.

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those two brown sisters were so fucking hot

>Whats with all those Gyarus nowadays?
With the Olympics coming to Tokyo, there had been requests in the years prior for more diversity in not only Japanese media, but also for Japan to increase diversity in the population and immigration from Africa and the islamic states such as syria, afghanistan, turkey, libya, and pakistan. Diversity is strength.

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This too. Things aren't genuine anymore. This is especially true for the west.

Shit, they made an Astra anime? Did it suck?

especially this one
I can't believe the sket dan guy made this

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Tastes change but the stories don't, they do the same shit now, just in different settings. Take Girls und Panzer as an example, if it had been made in the 80s/90s, the characters would have used spaceships or mechs

It's as if you completely forgot all the hot chicks in Sket Dance.

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I mean the sket dance guy making a sci-fi anime

>Shit, they made an Astra anime? Did it suck?

It was pretty okay. They had to snip some things here and there to fit the episode count but It worked.

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Why didn't the artist include the best girl in that picture?

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>what happened
not enough grimderp and space elves, mostly space elves.

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The clone conspiracy made sense in the anime, but
did the earth thing make more sense in the manga?

It's just sad. Even Star Trek itself isn't immune to it. Everything is just either become a giant noisy action schlock fest or a tongue in check parody of what it used to be.

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Because scifi is typically only being used for aesthetics, not for its intended thematic purpose. It just an excuse to introduce into the setting giant robots or flashy beams or android girls, which can be accomplished just as easily with magic. The narrative of a scifi work in a thematic sense revolves around the impact of technology on human experience, what the definition of humanity means when we digitize our daily lives and anthropomorphize our machines, in the context of both individuality and society.

I wouldn't say it failed. In fact it empowered and benefited those at the top of the totem pole like tech magnates media outlets and guys like Elon Musk. So yeah it sucks because if you're the little all you get is a little rectangular signal emitter that spies on you and sells your data to private/corporate firms, glownigger agencies and the darkweb.

Most things in the manga got more in the ways of explanation, yes.

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>Isekai is the new outlet for Science Fiction
No.