You know, at some point, all your beloved classics were seasonal anime, too

>Moe
>Tons of mediocre or just unremarkable, forgotten anime
>Ripoffs of more famous anime
>"BUY THE SOURCE MATERIAL" adaptations
>A remake of a classic anime but worse.

The more things change the more stay the same.

As much as I love 1998, I don't think there's anything in recent times as bad as Lost Universe was, I rewatched it recently and can't believe it was considered a classic by the early internet.
youtube.com/watch?v=hYl1a3DOc44

> is just regurgitated shonen and moeshit
fpbp
while i enjoy moe shit sometimes, it's beaten to the bone and i'm sick of it

Sentimental Journey had a cute OP.
youtube.com/watch?v=YXzwcLBkF-w

>that cgi
Oh wow

Ok and?
This only proves that they stood the test of time and still prove to be good to this day

Back then I disliked Zenki and Lost Universe because I thought they were shitty while everyone raved over them.
I think it was more of the novelty than the actual quality of the shows themselves.

90s CGI aged like literal shit
youtube.com/watch?v=8gB_guq_DPc

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Because instead of just tossing aside the modern shit, give it time to become immortal

>meanwhile every season now
Amazing how nostalgia can skew perspective.

Don't forget how the said OP's reuses parts of the actual episodes.

Goofy 90s comedies like that are my pleasure, I don't care how bad they are. There's something campy, cheesy and soulful about them that a lot of the actual classics, gr(sh)itty seinen and 2deep4u psychological shows of that era lack.

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Name 6 shows from 2019 that are as good as Kare Kano, Lain, CC Sakura, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, or Initial D.

Fucking this.

Retarded zoomer strawmans need not apply

People only cared about Lost Universe because it was Slayers in Space.

>-oomer
Go be underage somewhere else.

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And now ad hominem?

Beastars
One Punch Man 2
Mob Pshycho 2
My Hero Academia 4
Takagi-san 2
Snk 3 part 2
Kaguya-Sama
Kimetsu no Yaiba

I can see those shows becoming "timeless classics from the golden age of Japanese animation" in 20 years, when nostalgia sets in.

>One Punch Man 2
>My Hero Academia 4
>Takagi-san 2
>Snk 3 part 2
>Kaguya-Sama

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>that fucking lineup for 1998
Blows the shit out of this year's lineup, even if there wasn't a pandemic.

Why 2019 specifically? 2019 was a notoriously underwhelming year. That would be like me comparing 1994 (a bad year for anime) with 2017.

Regardless, it's not really had to "top" Trigun (only considered a classic in the USA because of the lack of exposure to anime in the country at the time), and Initial D is rife with QUALITY and pisspoor animation and is only remembered for it's quotable dialog and memorable soundtrack. Kare Kano falls apart in the second half as well.

That only leaves Lain, CC Sakura and Cowboy Bebop as the truly "great" anime there, and Lain's greatness only depends on your enjoyment of psychological anime plots as it doesn't really have impressive animation, and frankly I think Lain's overall themes were explored better in stuff like Dennou Coil.
Cardcaptor Sakura wasn't even the best shoujo of its year, that title goes to Fancy Lala. I'm not shitting on Cardcaptor Sakura though since it's genuinely great, but there's been better mahou shoujo since (Precure, Symphogear and Princess Tutu come to mind), and there were much better mahou shoujo before CCS too.

Now that leaves Cowboy Bebop. Cowboy Bebop from a technical perspective is a fantastic show, but technicalities aside, it's a generic Space Western that fails to surpass similar shows that came before it (Space Cobra). Also, Space Dandy's from 2015 and superior to Cowboy Bebop in nearly every aspect.

>Why 2019 specifically?
Because we are comparing 1998 with current times and 2020 isn't over.
Make a list for 2018, 2017, 2016 or 2020 if you want.

>Also, Space Dandy's from 2015 and superior to Cowboy Bebop in nearly every aspect.
I agree with most of what you said and I'm not really a fan of OLD GOOD NEW BAD NEW GOOD OLD BAD but this is pretty wrong. You're entitled to your opinion but it sucks.

Post 2000's Shonen still feels more derivative though(although this just might be selection bias since we're only watching the best stuff to come out of previous decades).

I was a teenager back in 1998 and I remember how Karekano was considered underwhelming because people expected way better from Anno (I watched the first three episodes on an anime event and people's reaction was "meh"), Trigun was pretty much a cult classic that everyone raved about it, same with Lain. Absolutely no one talked about Initial D (I only saw people actively discussing it around late 2009 / early 2010; why people only discovered it until that time is something I don't understand).
Card Captor Sakura and Cowboy Bebop were insanely popular thanks to being aired on many countries' open TV channels; I watched Card Captor Sakura on Cartoon Network even.

We know you're just strawmaning; no need to pretend you're interested on real discussion.

Battle shounen is arguably the only genre that's gotten objectively inferior over the years, but the decline of battle shounen started in the mid-1990s, not the post-2000s.