We have lived with Cancer for this long

Anime is a hobby and for some reason people love to complain about their hobbies.  One of the more common complaints that I have heard is that moe anime shows are the cancer that is killing the anime industry and how everything was so much better in the 1990’s. To those that think I posit a counter argument in the show Cyberteam in Akihabara. 

To put it simply Cyberteam in Akihabara is not a good show. This is not a show like Madoka Magica or Tora Dora that are examples of how anime shows of all genres have their gems and excellent works. It is a rather generic magical girl show with some tacked on fan service and stupid looking merchandising toy called a Patapi.

Why do I bring up Cyberteam in Akihabara in the whole moe debate? I mention this show because it first aired in 1998 alongside such classics as Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. Yet somehow the argument that Cyberteam In Akihabara was ruining the anime industry despite it being no better than your usual little sister show or four girls who do nothing type of show that is supposedly some sort of tumor ruining the anime industry.

This leads me to the crux of my argument, anime has always had it’s good shows and not so good shows and the former exist regardless of the later types of shows. Sturgeon’s law exists for every type of art and anime is no exception. In fact trying to list more than five good anime shows from the golden year of 1998 requires bending perception via nostalgia glasses to list Outlaw Star as anything better than average and including Card Captor Sakura in your list (which would be odd if you are trying to project a white hot hatred of all things moe). 

So in conclusion, no show or trend can ruin a good show or the industry because bad shows have always existed and moe can’t kill the industry because even if you could call it a cancer it can’t be the cancer killing the industry for we have lived with this “so called” cancer so long and it hasn’t’ come close to killing the anime industry yet.