I'm sorry everyone, but Code Geass is the best High-Quality Anime Drama.
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Outside of that moe garbage I cannot really comment. FMA Brotherhood, Digimon Xros Wars, and Inazuma Eleven Go are more or less the newest action series I have seen and the first two of those are not even all that new. I do not know. I guess I tend to wary of talking about the "golden age" of anything for the reasons to which glennmagusharvey alluded (i.e., it tends to be too hard to judge that kind of thing in the moment).
(The other Jane)
dont believie the lides
or something like that
or maybe i'm mistaken
except for one episode that i dont remember really
(The other Jane)
But as for HQAD:
LoGH
NGE's Second Half
Death Note
SEL
GitS
i'll pick it up once i have purchaced other things i need to buy
like headphones and the haibane renmei box set and the alien 9 complete dvd and lesbears on dvd and lesbear plushies and lesbear tote bags
i saw the first ep of it and i've been meaning to finish it due to its being just really short but i haven't ever felt like getting around to it.
At least i remember it being very good, it was my first ever anime series alongside Witch Hunter Robin, i got it out at the library at an age where i should probably not have been watching such things...
but i have not gotten to see it in ages so i could be wrong, though either way it had a big effect on my aesthetic preferences generally speaking
(The other Jane)
Though there are some who would still embrace the rhetoric of the “Golden Age of Anime” for marketing purposes, we all know that that storied era is over. If there was any question about it, the conclusion of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders — part of the undisputedly canonical Big Three that also includes Code Geass and Neon Genesis Evangelion — dispels any ambiguity. While we might dispute whether a particular show belonged to the classic “high-quality cable drama” genre as established by Neon Genesis Evangelion, no currently running show belongs in that category.
And you know what? That’s okay. The final season of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders reminds us how exhausting the “high-quality anime drama” can be — how much pressure there is to watch, to have an opinion, to be up to date on the online dialogue. You probably felt many things when that Dio fight came to an end, but the emotion you should have been feeling is captured in a timeless Daniel J D'arby line: “GOOD.” Freed from the burden of High Art Anime, we can finally get back to enjoying Good Enough Anime— a genre that is truly entering into its own golden age.
It was High Art Anime that made the blossoming of Good Enough Anime possible. First, there were the aesthetic innovations — the greater artistic ambition on the level of the visual experience (more creative shots, lighting, experimental dream and hallucination sequences, etc.), the greater range of acceptable subject matter (including but not limited to supposedly “edgy” themes), the focus on very specific geographical regions (Area 11, Egypt) or milieux (The fashion-conscious eighties) as opposed to the generic “small town or Tokyo” format of most previous anime. All of those experiments have born their fruit in the Good Enough Anime of today, and the result is more visually interesting television that has more room to explore. Second, there are the commercial innovations, above all the explosion in competition to produce original dramatic content among anime studios. Even Madhouse may never be able to recapture the cachet Madhouse enjoyed, but it has given birth to a number of “middle-brow” anime studios (Trigger) as well as more mass-produced content (David Productions).
Against all odds, some of these benefits have even accrued to the traditional anime. For me, Hunter X Hunter is the ultimate Good Enough show — attractive people in an attractive setting, with a plot that (with rare missteps, like Greed Island) keeps moving you along and sometimes even manages to trick you into thinking that you’re pondering an actual idea. There’s a reason we all marathoned the whole thing when it was first released on Crunchyroll, and that’s because it gives us all the beautifully packaged #pureideology we crave from anime at its best.
Remember the time they disguised eight million people as Zero to get them out of the country because Zero was exiled, so therefore wearing his clothes meant you were exiled too...? Anyway, sheer genius.