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.
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.