I'll grant that I may be approaching this from a position of "Nostalgia" (although the main bulk of my consumption of anime was really around the time of early-mid Adult Swim era, so way after the period that I think has the most interesting style here); but I also think that like, your reason for disliking it doesn't factor into why I would like it if that makes any sense?
Like, if you tried to animate a version of Paranoia Agent where the default version of "reality" looked like that style, it would be really weird & wouldn't make sense. And would make it harder to tell the difference between when things are supposed to be "normal" & when they're not. (though of course with that show, that's a little bit the point I suppose)
But that's not what I associate the art style with, I associate it a lot more with stuff like Slayers & Outlaw Star; which are completely different kinds of shows, the goals of the stories, and thus the art style used are completely different from one another. And I suppose part of the reason why I like this art style over the others presented, is because of that association.
The anime I tend to associate with the 90s style are mostly DBZ, Pokemon, and their contemporaries which were... fine, I guess? Like, they got me into anime in the first place as a kid, so I don't hate them or anything, but none of them was ever as important to me as Ranma 1/2, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Macross were. Sailor Moon probably would have been, if I hadn't been repressing any and all potential threats to my apparent masculinity while it was on TV, but even if I hadn't been, SM carried forward more of the 80s style anyway.
It has some nostalgia value for me (though not as much as the 80s style, tbh), but it also kinda breaks suspension of disbelief.
I'll grant that I may be approaching this from a position of "Nostalgia" (although the main bulk of my consumption of anime was really around the time of early-mid Adult Swim era, so way after the period that I think has the most interesting style here); but I also think that like, your reason for disliking it doesn't factor into why I would like it if that makes any sense?
Like, if you tried to animate a version of Paranoia Agent where the default version of "reality" looked like that style, it would be really weird & wouldn't make sense. And would make it harder to tell the difference between when things are supposed to be "normal" & when they're not. (though of course with that show, that's a little bit the point I suppose)
But that's not what I associate the art style with, I associate it a lot more with stuff like Slayers & Outlaw Star; which are completely different kinds of shows, the goals of the stories, and thus the art style used are completely different from one another. And I suppose part of the reason why I like this art style over the others presented, is because of that association.
The anime I tend to associate with the 90s style are mostly DBZ, Pokemon, and their contemporaries which were... fine, I guess? Like, they got me into anime in the first place as a kid, so I don't hate them or anything, but none of them was ever as important to me as Ranma 1/2, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Macross were. Sailor Moon probably would have been, if I hadn't been repressing any and all potential threats to my apparent masculinity while it was on TV, but even if I hadn't been, SM carried forward more of the 80s style anyway.