![]() ![]() England from Hetalia: Axis Powers has a tight pair on when it comes to his days as an empire.Natsu, a guild member by six years, is the only one put off by all the changes made (though the English dub has Natsu admitting he's not good with change)-now there's a stage, an outdoor pool, a rec room, and the guy who destroyed the old guildhall is now a member ( though most of the guild agreed with Natsu on this)-but once a huge Bar Brawl breaks out like it normally would, he quickly feels right at home. ![]() Fairy Tail: Subverted where the titular guildhall, a simple two-story pub, gets demolished by an enemy guild and renovated into a much bigger, more lavish building.The third is Souji Mikage, the second arc's antagonist, who longs to return to the past when he lived happily with the Chida family. The second is Utena herself, when we find out that her childhood wasn't as fairy tale-ish as we're led to believe. In truth, his sister was a poor piano player and he was the real prodigy. The first we get is Miki, who yearns to return to his childhood, when he and his sister were musical prodigies. A common device in Revolutionary Girl Utena.Naturally, it's quite popular among the oppressed Japanese. Invoked in Code Geass, with a drug called Refrain, that causes one to experience hallucinogenic flashbacks to past pleasant experiences.Plus, they're very prone to age stereotyping, which we don't want on this page. Pretty much any genre or form is subjected to this in Real Life, so such examples aren't really necessary. Disco Dan can be what happens when someone puts the Filter on and refuses to take it off to the extent that they act like they're still living in their favourite time period. Contrast Condemned by History and They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. Another reason for this trope is that True Art Is Ancient. See also Nothing but Hits, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used To Be, Vindicated by History, and Appeal to Tradition. However, one thing is for certain: Those who abuse it or abuse the concept of it tend to be very vocal about it. This is especially true for those who are socially active and hang around a diverse group of people. While adults abusing the Nostalgia Filter has become a bit of a cliché (particularly in media aimed at teens and/or preteens), there are many Real Life adults (of various ages) who enjoy both old and new media in equal measures. ![]() ![]() Never mind that 20 years ago, when it was being marketed towards them, many adults were saying the exact same thing. Almost always, when people complain about how new stuff sucks, they bring up examples of things which were marketed towards the youth of their own generation as examples of "good" or even "classic" works in the genre. You'll notice that this trope sometimes overlaps with the Periphery Hatedom. Sometimes the older work is better, or at least has its own appeal that the present things don't - even beyond "Charm", which is often thrown around to describe stuff mostly to just mean, "It's nostalgic". Of course, this doesn't imply that newer is automatically better or that the Nostalgia Filter applies to every single case. It may also be Sturgeon's Law combined with the passage of time: as new media is released, the vast majority will be mediocre or worse, but over time, a powerful selection pressure causes all but the best material (and in some infamous cases, the worst) to be rapidly forgotten, leaving an increasingly inaccurate impression of the overall quality. And if a person's preference is for something that is out of fashion right now, they may have little choice besides 'hang onto the older version' or 'give up on it completely' if the genre is considered "dead." Conversely, tastes often change as someone ages: what may have seemed brilliant to a child or teen would seem crude or laughable to most adults, but the memories of how great something from one's youth seemed to linger. This is most notable when Values Dissonance comes into play: Modern day art may positively depict contemporary societal norms that would have been frowned on years before. People's tastes are influenced by the media they grew up with. Apart from schoolwork, they simply can afford time to absorb the pop culture or cult genre of the era. These are the years where one is young and undistracted, or less distracted, by the full responsibilities of adulthood and the burdens of getting older. The most impressionable time is during pre-adolescent, adolescent, and teenage years. In the words of Sam Viviano, art director of MAD: " MAD was at its best whenever you first started reading it." A corollary to that is that, if you didn't like MAD, it was at its best shortly before you started reading it. The nostalgia filter is the tendency to view media created in your younger years as better than anything created after. ![]()
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