I'm at the point now where I've been watching anime regularly for about 6 years now. Buying DVD's, going to cons, etc.
Honestly, I don't know if it's the "growing up" aspect or whatever else, but so much of today's anime is just shit. I can take a look at my shelf and see the 90's to early 2000's anime I have and say "most of that shit is pretty good." I like to think I have decent taste, and that's what's telling me that these days a good show is hard to find.
Gurren Lagann is great, it reminds me a lot of Dead Leaves. One Piece is pretty much the only shounen that I can watch these days. Bleach and Naruto have become so uninteresting.
I'm beginning to branch out and see some stuff outside my normal genres, and I'm beginning to watch movies a lot more (especially since Tekkon Kinkreet and Paprika)
Maybe I'll bum around the screening rooms more at the upcoming Katsucon.
Oh yeah, another sad state of affairs: the current fandom. Today's young anime fan is a mix of 4chan's /b/tard and obsessive compulsive gamer with anime thrown in. There's nothing wrong with being exhuberent, but sometimes it's impossible to hold a conversation with these people without it degenerating into internet memes and squirting madly for the next Square Enix release.
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