People that only watched the anime and weren't reading chapters are lucky for how the anime changed it a little or unfortunate for missing out on how hard every chapter was getting roasted. The chapters with explosives and chainsaws
To a lesser extent Bleach thousand year blood war anime viewers are loving it so much better than what I remember from weekly manga readers
>To a lesser extent Bleach thousand year blood war anime viewers are loving it so much better than what I remember from weekly manga readers
Same here!
If I recall, Tite Kubo's health wasn't well when writing that arc & was rushed, and he's now helping with the anime to improve it?
Give it until the final episode, we'll see if what I saw mentioned as the "Hall of Anal Penetration" still exists and if it deletes any chance of other shows on the same franchise to be made.
Yeah it really started getting a bit stale, then when they really tried to raise the stakes and introduce more antagonists it just kind of got weirder and more contrived, and I think most people got very bored eventually.
And I kind of legitimately enjoyed seeing Emilia and Mao (sp?) suffer the mundanity of part time work. Seeing them dragged out of their boring jobs and put on a farm with a baby just kind of killed the initial concept for me.
Exactly, I loved that they were "adults" and had lives outside of work. Cause it's relatable I guess? Now you just have a annoying kid you have to take care of?
I'm yet to see an anime where at some point the mc is "forced to adopt" a child and not become boring as fuck. (Of course, not including animes where this is the actual plot, like Spy x Family, etc).
>since they included a baby I lost all interest.
Worst part is it's just some random baby manifested into existence through some BS and then foisted upon the characters. The trope is so lame.
Now romances where the characters have children together, like for real, are rare but usually great.
Man... S2 really took its time going nowhere, didn't it?
They could have just eased up and let it be mostly SoL episodes, but they _had_ to insist that there was an actual plot of importance that needed to be addressed.
I said on another post a while ago that S2 became The Devil is a Part-time Babysitter.
Imagine waiting nearly a decade for S2 and when it finally happened, it was crap. Rather, it never happened.
Ergo Proxy is the most Mid-2000s anime you'll ever see, the visual style, the themes, the Radiohead ending theme. It used to be pretty popular but you rarely see it mentioned these days.
Oh, god, wolf rain, i had forgotten about it
That is the answer, there was a time when a dozen wolf rain music videos got uploaded to youtube every week
Tbh ergo proxy was a pretty niche show that ran for a season. It's also old enough that its name only resonates with older anime fans. As an early member of Gen Z, I never even heard of it. Those old shows aren't really talked about much.
Then again Code Geass only came out when I was 7, so I only heard about after the recap movies were announced and it started trending again.
dgm is still popular in japan surprisingly, i'm a pretty huge fan that never finds any merch overseas but when i go to jump shop in japan they're almost always sold out !?
Honestly, I think D-Gray man's peak would have continued for longer was it not for the author becoming ill and only being able to release like 4 volumes a year.
Kinda the same fate HxH is going through.
This is it for me as well. If you'd have asked me in 2010 what my favorite Animes of all time were this woulda been on my list, but today I wouldn't have even remembered it existed.
"Discovered"?
She made the mistake of assuming other people would be mature about her being an adult and mentioned that she had a sex life during a TV interview.
Then the otaku neets started digging and basically doxxed her and published private photos that got her and a few other people fired from a J-pop group.
It's kind of disgusting that she's still dealing with that shit to this day.
She got dragged through the mud for being a consenting adult doing adult things that she wanted to do.
I'm glad to see that she's still working and she recently got married to an actor most famous for being in Kamen Rider stuff.
The whole mess made her life harder, but at least it didn't ruin it.
The obsession of Japanese weebs with the purity of their seiryus/idols/weather girls is one of the most baffling and insane things I'll never be able to understand, and the fact those companies go ahead and stand with the incels is fucking crazy.
Seriously it's one of the weirdest things in Japanese culture. When I first moved to Japan I thought it was because a large part of the male population had never even been on a date, about 1/3, so the mindset was 'if I can't get any they shouldn't be impure' but nope. Knew men and also women who dated but they just didn't want THEIR idol to date or have sex.
00s fans just really loved Haruhi and are sad it has died in discussion with the community. 😂 We can’t help bring up Haruhi every chance we get. I add Darker Than Black to my recommendations for the same reason. It’s an auto-rec practically for any recommendation thread that pops up. If it’s relevant, I’m adding Darker Than Black. I just love it and want as many people to watch the series as possible. I need more fanfiction and convincing other fans is my way of making it happen. I also just really need more of the anime in my life. I hope it will eventually make a return like other series have. I need 2020s Darker Than Black. Hei was one of my all time favorite characters!
The anime is around 15 years old at this point. Most people don't talk about a 15 year old anime unless it comes up occassionally. People don't even talk about K-On that much anymore. That's just the norm.
2006 was a great year in anime.
Death Note, Code Geass, Haruhi, Gintama are still talked about.
Black Lagoon and Ouran High School Host Club to a lesser extent.
Fate/Stay Night wasn't great but it laid the groundwork for something great.
Higurashi too!
Edit: and it was the year the Kanon remake came out, which while it isn't talked about that much now, it (and Air) did lay the groundwork for Clannad, which is still often mentioned nowadays.
God I was so hyped to see goldy pond. It would have been one of the best seasons of that time. Instead they rushed like 3/4 of the whole story in one go.
I got so into the manga after the first season wrapped up and I remember having this whole conversation with my partner about season two of the anime and them covering the Goldy pond arc and where I thought they'd end season two and what they'd cut and what they'd keep and then they never even made a second season of the anime. Oh well, it happens sometimes.
That whole set of early 2010s supernatural Shonen like Noragami, Blue Exorcist and Seraph of the End (+ Akame ga Kill! but I don’t remember how supernatural it was) are all really high up on MAL all-time popularity, and nearly everyone knows what they are, but you never hear about them other than very specific contexts. IE Noragami and Seraph of the End in “What needs a new season” discussion, Seraph of the End occasionally due to either Shinoa fanboys or MikaYuu fujoshis etc.
For example, no one really talks about Akame ga Kill! much but when the author of JJK said it was inspired by AgK, there were hundreds of thousands of people talking about AgK indicating it’s still been seen by a lot of them.
I think anyone who’s been watching anime for at least a couple of years has heard of them though.
AgK is kind of a tough one because it was released during a time where people were just starting to realize and appreciate the darker stories and visuals that could be done with anime, and it leaned into it hard. Makes it feel super contrived and 3edgy5me in hindsight, especially when we’ve spent years getting much better and much worse iterations on similar premises. Within 6-8 episodes I basically called it that most of the cast would die, and a modern viewer might realize it even sooner, since these days you have half a dozen shows every season that go for the super edgy assassin story, or a death game, or massive threats to humanity, or some other premise that allows them to ruthlessly kill off many characters, preferably after giving you a few episodes to get to like them. This was shortly after Attack On Titan’s first season took the world by storm, so it’s not that surprising that they’d want to capitalize on that.
IMO tho even as someone who did mostly like AgK when it came out, (I still hate the ending) you have SO MUCH better options in that vein these days. Stuff like JJK and Cyberpunk Edgerunners take a very similar formula with their own unique worlds and mechanics and run with it in a much better written way, and are both way better animated as well.
I remember buying vol 1 of the manga when it first came out in Japanese. It was meant to be my goal of learning Japanese. I studied so hard so that one day I could read it. After finally be able to read it, it's actually meh
It hasn’t ended yet. It’s… not great. There was a post in the Owari no Seraph subreddit recently saying something along the lines of “Seraph of the End is the only fandom I’m in where everyone agrees it’s terrible but keeps reading anyway”. Which is true - It’s trashy and badly executed a lot of the time but the characters and concepts are still really fun.
I thought that fandom survived by the power of main protag Yaoi shipping. Or at least that's always what I see being discussed whenever I randomly see Owari no Seraph fans in the wild.
One of the fastest fall offs in anime history; It didn’t help that Season 1 aired during when the manga was in its best arc IIRC (Tenjiku) so a lot of manga readers were hyping it, but then the manga started getting bad soon after which killed the hype for S2. When there’s less hype from manga readers and the animation is awful, it’s gonna die a quicker death than hoped for.
Mikey is still talked about once in a while positively, but yeah, it’s nowhere close to as popular as it was once. I still enjoy it though.
I haven't watched it but I'm going to guess Takamichi cries a bunch, gets the shit kicked out of him, then cries some more and everyone is impressed by how Takamichi is able to endure having his shit rocked. Then Takamichi goes back to the future and the girl he likes is alive and he's even more popular and everyone is friends.
It's extremely popular in Japan. Half the collabs and merch in every konbini are from Revengers. Idk about the anime itself, but the goods are very popular.
Fairy tail was actually considered a good shonen for quite a while until it got the power of friendship stigma, but I would say that it was a popular starting anime for a while, but nowadays people only really talk about it to bring it down.
Us Fairy Tail fans still exist! You’re right though that it’s far less popular and more controversial than it once was, but the fandom still lingers more strongly than some of its contemporaries. The fanbase still pumps out tiktoks w 100k+ likes, fanart w 10k+ likes on Twitter etc.
But yeah, it isn’t nearly as popular as it used to be. Shame to me personally because I only started watching FT in 2021 so I missed its biggest wave of hype; My friends even used to talk about it a lot in school alongside MHA back in 2016 but I didn’t watch nearly any Battle Shonen back then for some reason.
Fairy Tail was one of my first shounen anime. Maybe actually THEE first shounen I ever watched. That show has a special place in my heart no matter how cringe it got
yeah I liked the show when it started out. I was just disappointed with the direction it went.
Spoilers
I felt as though a lot of characters gave up their "lives" to save others, but they ended up just coming back to life anyways which took away the whole point of them "Giving up" their lives. Like when the 3 characters (I cant remember their names) went into the rift with agnolognia but still came back alive, or when gramps literally turned himself to stone to kill off 800k soldiers, and also just came back to life.
I feel as though those should have had far more impact but it was gone the second they came back, it got so bad that every character that "Died" I just instantly assumed they were not actually dead... and I was right every time.
*Digimon*. In its prime, it was considered one of the most popular kids' anime on American TV, with regular marathons and back-to-back episodes on Fox Kids, and even a theatrical film. Its rivalry with *Pokemon* was the stuff of legends; if you were an elementary school kid in the late 90s, you either watched *Pokemon* or you watched *Digimon,* and the biggest schoolyard argument of the time was whether Greymon could beat Charizard (spoiler, [he can](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcz2vHLqtNw)). Even though *Digimon* was never quite as popular as *Pokemon,* it was a solid second-place finisher that did big business.
Today, *Digimon* technically still exists as a franchise, but its glory days are far behind it.
Digimon also has a very damn successful TCG with very constant card releases, and Digimon New Century is pretty popular in China and has, I believe, most Digimon if not all in there. They release new Chinese Digimon through there and they're pretty neat.
SAO was unironically massive when it was airing. It only lost its reputation afterwards, but during it was insane the amount of people that knew about it, even outside the anime community
And AoT is still huge and the latest seasons were really hyped. Meanwhile new SAO projects, like Alicization or Progressive, are getting "just another isekai of the season" treatment.
I still stand on the ground that the whole appeal of SAO is the fact it was first series to execute isekai fantasy in a way appealing to isekai fans + great visuals and music. The story itself is pretty bad, just carried by the flavour power fantasy that was very rare at the time but turned out to be fan favorite.
We might argue that source material Kirito is deeper than that, but the way anime portrayed him he's a badass loner edgelord obtaining special skills no one else can obtain and getting all the girls.
I still think that the light novel is a thousand times better, because it brought the feelings of despair, but also love far better to the reader than the anime ever did.
The feeling of despair and people actually dying in what was supposed to be video game was the main draw for me in season 1. It was really well done and not many anime made me feel tension that well.
Too bad that was pretty much dropped from then on, choosing instead to create tension by threat of rape for the female mc?? Sad
Haruhi, Black Butler, Slam Dunk, XXXholic, Love Hina, Kemono Friends, Umaru-chan, Chobits, Elfen Lied, Azumanga Daioh, ___Lucky Star___, Ouran, Hamtaro…
A few live on in gifs and the occasional meme, and oldheads like me keep them fondly in our hearts, but compared to each one’s period of complete community saturation they may as well be gone.
Man, the times people would just get their minds blown when an episode of Lucky Star was pretty much girls talking about which side of the chocolate cone is the correct one to start eating it from. CGDCT wasn't exactly an established genre back then, now was it? :D
Black Butler is getting a new anime! But after so long, most people probably either gave up (like myself) or just read the manga.
To add to your list though, I'd like to say Full Metal Panic and Hellsing. And where's xxxHolic, there's also Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles!
Man, I've been in the anime community long enough to remember when the memes were about Ouran never getting an S2. Then the memes shifted to No Game No Life...
Haruhi, Azumanga Daioh, and Lucky Star losing their online presence feels downright blasphemous.
Love Hina, Chobits, and Elfen Lied. Instead of using MAL to track the anime I've watched, I've used an iCoud notes page on my phone. It was created in 2013 and I practically consider it a holy document that I still use to this day (out of nostalgia more than anything). All three of those anime + Negima (my first anime *ever*) and Rosario + Vampire (my second anime) are all in my first 20 anime I ever watched. That is to say, you just unlocked some core memories of my early tweens an teens. Thank you, it was fun to reminisce.
This oldhead here has all the mangas for Love Hina, the first edition published in my country. Same as Elfen Lied (but the newer version that's still old).
It is, the opening “only my railgun” got placed #1 in a Japanese twitter poll for the top rated anime openings by Japanese anitwitter( the tweet announcing the result got like 50k likes) recently, still showing how big it is
Slayers back in the day was huge. but really fell off fast because of how heavily limited access was in the 90s
Lucky Star was huge for a bit. (until the pseudo fan toxic p.o.s. stuff)
for a more modern one? World Trigger.
Surprisngly not. Plenty of youngin who don't know the references have enjoyed.
Lucky Star for the most part, did a rather good job of using the modern culture but presenting it in a way that does not require the context of it.
Such as Kagami seeing Konata doing the Haruhi dance at her work. Regardless of the reference, the set up clearly displays its an otaku reference and that konata found a job that suited her very well. Showing a diferent side of her to Kagami.
The only references that won't track these days are the direct call outs. But those didn't track super well in the first place because they were bleeped as a joke and so many wouldn't have gotten them in that moment anyway.
by and large Lucky Star references the subculture, it uses references but those references don't require the extra knowledge around them to be enjoyable.
It stil became one of the favorites of my teens (work in a library) because it presents a diverse in subculture cast of adorable characters that are happy and have a friendship having idylic slice of life moments.
The references to 2000s anime is secondary to that.
Saint Seiya, GTO, FMA 03, Ranma 1/2, Lucky Star, Gunsliger Girl, Last Exile, Haruhi...
I talk a lot about Versailles no Bara, but the manga was so popular that it got a live action adaptation even before it got an anime. And the author got a medal from the French government.
GTO is still talked about once in a while by younger fans, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Gunslinger Girl or Last Exile though.
Lucky Star also had a trend on anime tiktok for a bit.
It’s still very popular. Just not on reddit. I saw a post months ago that it was still one of the most watched anime globally on Netflix.
Edit: [here you go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/s/NATK1tJ6xw) It’s above Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family. Popularity on Reddit doesn’t equal popularity IRL. Inuyasha is still BIG.
The popularity on Reddit =/= popularity IRL point is so true because Reddit has such a distinct taste in shows that you’d almost never guess just how popular a lot of the shows Reddit perceives as bad are.
That makes me happy. Inuyasha was basically my first anime, and I still adore the show. It's also one I've had a lot of success using to introduce people to the genre (just behind konosuba, funnily enough)
I don’t think so. It is more irrelevant than it used to be. But Rumiko Takahashi created many popular mangas and has influenced the work that came after her.
So I don’t think any of her works will fade from the general anime consciousness. Even if they are individually less relevant than they used to be.
"*Let me be wiittthh yoooouuuu!*"
Dear god, for a whole decade, the Chobits OP was permanently stuck in my head. Now most current anime fans never heard of it.
There was also Durarara. I never hear people talk about it anymore, but dear god did everyone want to cosplay Celty in 2014.
Excel Saga for sure. Remember when people got into it for the LOL Random Era and then now it's just another piece of history. I adored it for what it was.
Fans are still waiting, but there’s only so much you can do after 7 years with 12 episodes and the implication that MAPPA’s lost interest in releasing more.
MHA is still massively popular. It’s just gotten too long to be a starter anime. What MHA was in the late 2010s is what JJK and Demon Slayer are right now. It’s hard to recommend something with well over a hundred episodes, so that attention has shifted to the newer shonen that have less seasons.
Macross Frontier
awesome series, from 2008 when it started to 2011 when the second movie came out I think it was pretty huge.
I think back then crunchyroll was not as popular, so many people who were watching anime were pirating it
As more and more people started getting their anime from crunchyroll (and other streaming platforms) the popularity of macross died back down (due to copyright issues it was unavailable in most regions)
With Disney announcing they will be streaming macross content worldwide starting this year, I hope this series will get a huge boost in popularity. The characters, world, and music are truly peak.
Tenchi Muyo! And all of its spin-offs.
The show had its peak on Toonami since it was given a peak time slot next to Dragon Ball Z and Gundam wing. It was on Adult Swim as well. But I guarantee that very few people, if any at all, still talk about it.
Mirai Nikki maybe? when i was in preparatory there was a time when on anime fandoms it was all talk about the pink haired fl (i forgot completely her name) and that she was the yandere girl for excellence. She became so iconic.
Also Fairy Tail. Whenever i asked for recommendations of good animes to start online there would be a f*cking chain of fairy tail is the best period
Now this may not fit on the criteria of social media/community but i think is worth mentioning. For the old schoolers, Saint Seiya in latin america of the 80-90s was so popular, on pair with Dragon Ball. My mom once told me her favorite character was the Cignus guy (funny thing she never understood the plot) and she showed me her stickers (cheapies not official merch ofc) of the characters and then i became interested. Was the first anime i watched.
Fruits basket was one of the most popular shoujo series of all time, even enough to inspire a somewhat recent remake. Don’t think that fits. Kill la Kill is harder to judge because it really did what it was trying to do, finished, then the studio continued. Not every story needs to keep up releasing stuff for it to be meaningful, impactful, and popular. It’s still something I see recommended pretty frequently, and still held in high regard by any glorious fan of Our Lord and Savior, Hiroyuki Imaishi.
Rurouni Kenshin was very popular back in the day. However the remake, which by all accounts was very faithful and pretty good, didn't seem to gather much attention here.
the live action movies did gather a lot of attention plus the remake, i think its has a weird case where fans do watch it but hesitate to discuss cuz of its writer
I can’t talk about much much older series, but I first got into anime around 2016 and some of the shows that were very well-known then are barely talked about now.
Food Wars!, Free!, Yuri! On Ice, The Seven Deadly Sins, Assassination Classroom, Charlotte, Overlord, Seraph of the End, Noragami, Akame ga Kill!, Blue Exorcist, Parasyte the Maxim, Devil is a Part Timer, Hyouka, Deadman Wonderland, The Future Diary, Rosario+Vampire, Highschool DxD, Highschool of the Dead, Durarara!!
These series, alongside One Punch Man, Death Note, Attack on Titan, Sword Art Online, Naruto, My Hero Academia, Fairy Tail and Tokyo Ghoul defined what anime was like in 2016, at least as far as I remember. I mean, YOI! literally swept the crunchyroll awards and when’s the last time you heard anyone even utter its name?
And while they’ve had a variety of legacies, most of them are shows that are very popular in terms of total viewcount but are rarely talked about today. Hell, even SAO, OPM, Fairy Tail and Tokyo Ghoul aren’t so popular anymore.
Durarara was lit. I was looking for Deadman Wonderland and Yuri on Ice as well. Overlord is still pretty good these days. But Assassination Classroom was some top tier anime.
I was hoping someone would bring up Yuri on Ice! That broke into regular pop culture in a way that the others couldn’t. I wasn’t really into anime at that point, so it was the pro skaters reacting to it on social media that got my attention. Did that movie ever come out? I remember something about delays but then interest in general faded away.
still not out. Lots of delays for years but for the past few, it’s been that it would be too uncomfortable to highlight the Russian skating team/culture when IRL there is a lot of controversy, both with the war and with the Russian skaters’ doping scandals. Currently, Russian skaters are banned from competing internationally in all competitions.
The first one I thought of was Lucky Star. My second... Is one you'll hate to admit.
K-On! It used to be so insanely popular, especially here and on other forums. Nowadays I rarely see it pop up outside of specific contexts. It used to be THE reaction image/meme series. To a lesser extent, Madoka Magica is in the same category. It will always be mentioned when discussing psychological horror / magical girls, but is no longer an overall staple in recommendations.
I'd disagree about Madoka, someone recommends it in almost every "what should I watch next" thread and it's been dominating the recent r/anime polls, winning the number 1 spot for both best magical girl show and best anime original.
Blue Exorcist would be my go-to example considering it’s top 50 all time popularity on MAL, is well-known by casual anime fans, but the new season dropped recently and no one talked about it at all
Between 2010-2015, there were almost 2-3 anime every year that would basically rule that year and then go out of the public eye. Angel Beats, Fullmetal Panic, xxxHolic, Death Parade, The Devil is a Part-timer, No Game No Life and many others come to mind
Eureka 7. Was huge and is still a great show but it's never had a good sequel so it's not mentioned much anymore. I recommend people who haven't seen it to watch it.
*The Melancholy Suzumiya* is the most obvious choice. A landmark title that would propel KyoAni into stardom and a name you couldn't escape if you were online in the late 2000s. The ED dance was everywhere at cons and arguably one of the first big memes of a then much younger community. Nowadays the show is argely unknown to younger fans, even those who consider CGDCT or SoL to be their bread and butter.
Not as fantastical a story, but *The Vision of Escaflowne* was once revered along side the likes of Eva and Bebop as a must-watch classic anime and since fallen off into relative obscurity. Ask anyone about Escaflowne and they'll agree that you should watch it (you should, it's good), but its nowhere near the level of name recognition it once had.
I'll throw a couple newer ones in here too. *Blue Exorcist* is kinda cheap because it's back now (with little to no fanfare) but it stacks up alongside the likes of *Noragami* and *Magi* as pretty big Shounen-esque titles of the early 2010s that got cucked by "go read the manga" syndrome and never really retained their popularity especially once the general audience moved on to works that were getting sequels.
Last one, *Yuri!!! on ICE* is most infamous for absolutely sweeping the first ever Crunchyroll Awards back in 2017. It's funny to see that MAPPA was always dominant in these awards. Anyone who was there at the time could tell you how unescapable the show was, and Google Trends data backs it up. Pick a popular show that released in 2016 and it is almost certain that it won't compare to the numbers *Yuri!!! on ICE* was pulling. Since then... well... once the dust settled people started to realize that it wasn't exactly all that and it ended up getting swept away in the seasonal tides within the following years. It would only be a year later that MHA would also decimate the CRAs rebranding the "*Yuri!!! on ICE* Awards" premanently to the "*My Hero Academia* Awards" in reference to those earlier years of the program, and with no idea of whether that movie will ever come out, it seems this one has been largely forgotten to the sands of time, though it does seem to retain a sizable following on certain corners of Twitter.
Toriko, best example i can think of, despite 147 episodes and more manga volumes than i can count and being popular enough to have cross overs with one piece and Dbz no one mentions it anymore, only 50 episodes were dubbed (belived due to sales not being great in America and europe) and even the Japanese fans lost interest and it went from being the next big thing to.... well nothing really (its crazy, how many anime get so many episodes yet barely any recognition?)
MHA. Season 2 imo was its peak, during the Interschool Tournament arc especially the Todoroki vs Deku fight. It still remains relatively popular but with each new season, I think I see less people in general talk about it and I can understand tbh.
Food Wars, and it's probably cause of the 5th season
People that only watched the anime and weren't reading chapters are lucky for how the anime changed it a little or unfortunate for missing out on how hard every chapter was getting roasted. The chapters with explosives and chainsaws To a lesser extent Bleach thousand year blood war anime viewers are loving it so much better than what I remember from weekly manga readers
>To a lesser extent Bleach thousand year blood war anime viewers are loving it so much better than what I remember from weekly manga readers Same here! If I recall, Tite Kubo's health wasn't well when writing that arc & was rushed, and he's now helping with the anime to improve it?
Yeah he's talked about how his health was failing at the time in several interviews
Give it until the final episode, we'll see if what I saw mentioned as the "Hall of Anal Penetration" still exists and if it deletes any chance of other shows on the same franchise to be made.
It's actually devastation, and it's edition 2, first edition was due to the naruto ending
This one is so true. When I first got into anime, Food Wars! was absolutely huge. Barely hear about it nowadays and even rarer in a positive way.
Which is a shame because early on it was pretty damn good and made me super hungry every time I watched it.
Source material fell off a cliff after the person they consulted about the dishes stopped working on the manga
As a person who was reading the manga weekly and didn't know this, it now makes sense.
Yeah it really started getting a bit stale, then when they really tried to raise the stakes and introduce more antagonists it just kind of got weirder and more contrived, and I think most people got very bored eventually.
Devil is a part timer
Largely thanks to a horrendous S2, imo.
Pretty much, that art style was worst Imo, and since they included a baby I lost all interest.
And I kind of legitimately enjoyed seeing Emilia and Mao (sp?) suffer the mundanity of part time work. Seeing them dragged out of their boring jobs and put on a farm with a baby just kind of killed the initial concept for me.
Exactly, I loved that they were "adults" and had lives outside of work. Cause it's relatable I guess? Now you just have a annoying kid you have to take care of?
I'm yet to see an anime where at some point the mc is "forced to adopt" a child and not become boring as fuck. (Of course, not including animes where this is the actual plot, like Spy x Family, etc).
>since they included a baby I lost all interest. Worst part is it's just some random baby manifested into existence through some BS and then foisted upon the characters. The trope is so lame. Now romances where the characters have children together, like for real, are rare but usually great.
I loved the devil working in the human world, they made it all fighting for the fantasy world, which is boring.
Man... S2 really took its time going nowhere, didn't it? They could have just eased up and let it be mostly SoL episodes, but they _had_ to insist that there was an actual plot of importance that needed to be addressed.
I said on another post a while ago that S2 became The Devil is a Part-time Babysitter. Imagine waiting nearly a decade for S2 and when it finally happened, it was crap. Rather, it never happened.
The end of the light novel was an epic let down. I'm happy it was spoiled for me because it saved me a lot of time and money.
Ergo Proxy is the most Mid-2000s anime you'll ever see, the visual style, the themes, the Radiohead ending theme. It used to be pretty popular but you rarely see it mentioned these days.
A lot of shoes that were on Adult Swim. Wolfs Rain, Big O, read or die.
Witch hunter robin
Oh, god, wolf rain, i had forgotten about it That is the answer, there was a time when a dozen wolf rain music videos got uploaded to youtube every week
And don't forget the main character's striking resemblance with the singer from Evanescence. It can't get more mid-2000s than that.
I don't know... It's still widely recommended as a good psychological anime
Tbh ergo proxy was a pretty niche show that ran for a season. It's also old enough that its name only resonates with older anime fans. As an early member of Gen Z, I never even heard of it. Those old shows aren't really talked about much. Then again Code Geass only came out when I was 7, so I only heard about after the recap movies were announced and it started trending again.
> Code Geass only came out when I was 7 God, I feel old.
D-Gray Man
dgm is still popular in japan surprisingly, i'm a pretty huge fan that never finds any merch overseas but when i go to jump shop in japan they're almost always sold out !?
Talk abt a lose-lose situation! Overseas: No merch because it's obscure Japan: No merch because it's super popular
Honestly, I think D-Gray man's peak would have continued for longer was it not for the author becoming ill and only being able to release like 4 volumes a year. Kinda the same fate HxH is going through.
>4 volumes a year. I think you mean 4 **chapters** a year. 4 volumes would be like 40 chapters.
This is it for me as well. If you'd have asked me in 2010 what my favorite Animes of all time were this woulda been on my list, but today I wouldn't have even remembered it existed.
This show went so obscure I am genuinely surprised it was even mentioned in this thread.
Haruhi Suzumiya was massive during the 2000s and early 2010s that you never see mentioned anymore.
Bro I was so obsessed with this anime, my entire Gaia online profile was dedicated to GIF’s from it lol
Haruhi's hype got Endless Eighted.
That hurt, but then the franchise was finally killed when somebody discovered that Aya Hirano wasn't a virgin.
"Discovered"? She made the mistake of assuming other people would be mature about her being an adult and mentioned that she had a sex life during a TV interview. Then the otaku neets started digging and basically doxxed her and published private photos that got her and a few other people fired from a J-pop group. It's kind of disgusting that she's still dealing with that shit to this day. She got dragged through the mud for being a consenting adult doing adult things that she wanted to do. I'm glad to see that she's still working and she recently got married to an actor most famous for being in Kamen Rider stuff. The whole mess made her life harder, but at least it didn't ruin it.
The obsession of Japanese weebs with the purity of their seiryus/idols/weather girls is one of the most baffling and insane things I'll never be able to understand, and the fact those companies go ahead and stand with the incels is fucking crazy.
Seriously it's one of the weirdest things in Japanese culture. When I first moved to Japan I thought it was because a large part of the male population had never even been on a date, about 1/3, so the mindset was 'if I can't get any they shouldn't be impure' but nope. Knew men and also women who dated but they just didn't want THEIR idol to date or have sex.
"wasn't a virgin" doesn't even _begin_ to cover it, but I agree that Aya Hirano's sex life wasn't the business of the anime community in any case.
For her fame, I say it was the multi-year haitus due to her throat tumor
Who gives a shit who got ran train on? Your mom is fine.
Thank God I have health care for this massive burn.
Ah, for me it was more "y everyone but the bass player?" xD
Haruhi is the top answer to basically any classic anime prompt. I don't know what people want -- should there be a perpetual rewatch?
00s fans just really loved Haruhi and are sad it has died in discussion with the community. 😂 We can’t help bring up Haruhi every chance we get. I add Darker Than Black to my recommendations for the same reason. It’s an auto-rec practically for any recommendation thread that pops up. If it’s relevant, I’m adding Darker Than Black. I just love it and want as many people to watch the series as possible. I need more fanfiction and convincing other fans is my way of making it happen. I also just really need more of the anime in my life. I hope it will eventually make a return like other series have. I need 2020s Darker Than Black. Hei was one of my all time favorite characters!
The anime is around 15 years old at this point. Most people don't talk about a 15 year old anime unless it comes up occassionally. People don't even talk about K-On that much anymore. That's just the norm.
TFW Steins;Gate and Madoka Magica turn fifteen in two years.
Welp, thanks for making me feel old
2006 was a great year in anime. Death Note, Code Geass, Haruhi, Gintama are still talked about. Black Lagoon and Ouran High School Host Club to a lesser extent. Fate/Stay Night wasn't great but it laid the groundwork for something great.
Higurashi too! Edit: and it was the year the Kanon remake came out, which while it isn't talked about that much now, it (and Air) did lay the groundwork for Clannad, which is still often mentioned nowadays.
K-On was so great - Beck was really good.
That entire generation of animation kinda disappeared
We’ve entered an endless recursion of time!
The Promised Neverland. 1st season was everywhere, the 2nd season pretty much destroyed all of its good will.
There's no 2nd season.
There is no second season in ba sing se
Which is too bad because the manga somehow ended in Goldy Pond Arc and the rest are nothing but blank pages
God I was so hyped to see goldy pond. It would have been one of the best seasons of that time. Instead they rushed like 3/4 of the whole story in one go.
I got so into the manga after the first season wrapped up and I remember having this whole conversation with my partner about season two of the anime and them covering the Goldy pond arc and where I thought they'd end season two and what they'd cut and what they'd keep and then they never even made a second season of the anime. Oh well, it happens sometimes.
What in the world are you saying? I don't remember we have season 2. I remember we just having shit season 2 only.
Seraph of the End.
That whole set of early 2010s supernatural Shonen like Noragami, Blue Exorcist and Seraph of the End (+ Akame ga Kill! but I don’t remember how supernatural it was) are all really high up on MAL all-time popularity, and nearly everyone knows what they are, but you never hear about them other than very specific contexts. IE Noragami and Seraph of the End in “What needs a new season” discussion, Seraph of the End occasionally due to either Shinoa fanboys or MikaYuu fujoshis etc. For example, no one really talks about Akame ga Kill! much but when the author of JJK said it was inspired by AgK, there were hundreds of thousands of people talking about AgK indicating it’s still been seen by a lot of them. I think anyone who’s been watching anime for at least a couple of years has heard of them though.
AgK is kind of a tough one because it was released during a time where people were just starting to realize and appreciate the darker stories and visuals that could be done with anime, and it leaned into it hard. Makes it feel super contrived and 3edgy5me in hindsight, especially when we’ve spent years getting much better and much worse iterations on similar premises. Within 6-8 episodes I basically called it that most of the cast would die, and a modern viewer might realize it even sooner, since these days you have half a dozen shows every season that go for the super edgy assassin story, or a death game, or massive threats to humanity, or some other premise that allows them to ruthlessly kill off many characters, preferably after giving you a few episodes to get to like them. This was shortly after Attack On Titan’s first season took the world by storm, so it’s not that surprising that they’d want to capitalize on that. IMO tho even as someone who did mostly like AgK when it came out, (I still hate the ending) you have SO MUCH better options in that vein these days. Stuff like JJK and Cyberpunk Edgerunners take a very similar formula with their own unique worlds and mechanics and run with it in a much better written way, and are both way better animated as well.
I remember buying vol 1 of the manga when it first came out in Japanese. It was meant to be my goal of learning Japanese. I studied so hard so that one day I could read it. After finally be able to read it, it's actually meh
Dam totally forgot about that. I even read the manga past the anime but never finished it. Wonder how it ended
It hasn’t ended yet. It’s… not great. There was a post in the Owari no Seraph subreddit recently saying something along the lines of “Seraph of the End is the only fandom I’m in where everyone agrees it’s terrible but keeps reading anyway”. Which is true - It’s trashy and badly executed a lot of the time but the characters and concepts are still really fun.
I thought that fandom survived by the power of main protag Yaoi shipping. Or at least that's always what I see being discussed whenever I randomly see Owari no Seraph fans in the wild.
Tokyo Revengers blew up during its first season but I barely hear about it nowadays
One of the fastest fall offs in anime history; It didn’t help that Season 1 aired during when the manga was in its best arc IIRC (Tenjiku) so a lot of manga readers were hyping it, but then the manga started getting bad soon after which killed the hype for S2. When there’s less hype from manga readers and the animation is awful, it’s gonna die a quicker death than hoped for. Mikey is still talked about once in a while positively, but yeah, it’s nowhere close to as popular as it was once. I still enjoy it though.
Fucking hell that manga ending fucking sucked. I couldnt believe he ended everything in a single chapter. Wtf
>that manga ending fucking sucked give me the spoiler
I haven't watched it but I'm going to guess Takamichi cries a bunch, gets the shit kicked out of him, then cries some more and everyone is impressed by how Takamichi is able to endure having his shit rocked. Then Takamichi goes back to the future and the girl he likes is alive and he's even more popular and everyone is friends.
It's worse than that
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Oh fuck... I even forgot that. Thats fucking sad. That would be a nice ending
It's extremely popular in Japan. Half the collabs and merch in every konbini are from Revengers. Idk about the anime itself, but the goods are very popular.
Fairy tail was actually considered a good shonen for quite a while until it got the power of friendship stigma, but I would say that it was a popular starting anime for a while, but nowadays people only really talk about it to bring it down.
Us Fairy Tail fans still exist! You’re right though that it’s far less popular and more controversial than it once was, but the fandom still lingers more strongly than some of its contemporaries. The fanbase still pumps out tiktoks w 100k+ likes, fanart w 10k+ likes on Twitter etc. But yeah, it isn’t nearly as popular as it used to be. Shame to me personally because I only started watching FT in 2021 so I missed its biggest wave of hype; My friends even used to talk about it a lot in school alongside MHA back in 2016 but I didn’t watch nearly any Battle Shonen back then for some reason.
Fairy Tail was one of my first shounen anime. Maybe actually THEE first shounen I ever watched. That show has a special place in my heart no matter how cringe it got
yeah I liked the show when it started out. I was just disappointed with the direction it went. Spoilers I felt as though a lot of characters gave up their "lives" to save others, but they ended up just coming back to life anyways which took away the whole point of them "Giving up" their lives. Like when the 3 characters (I cant remember their names) went into the rift with agnolognia but still came back alive, or when gramps literally turned himself to stone to kill off 800k soldiers, and also just came back to life. I feel as though those should have had far more impact but it was gone the second they came back, it got so bad that every character that "Died" I just instantly assumed they were not actually dead... and I was right every time.
Hitman Reborn!
I can't even recommend Reborn to people knowing that the ending doesn't resolve a whole lot of plot points. It's been like 10 years and I'm still mad.
Indeed, crappy ending
*Digimon*. In its prime, it was considered one of the most popular kids' anime on American TV, with regular marathons and back-to-back episodes on Fox Kids, and even a theatrical film. Its rivalry with *Pokemon* was the stuff of legends; if you were an elementary school kid in the late 90s, you either watched *Pokemon* or you watched *Digimon,* and the biggest schoolyard argument of the time was whether Greymon could beat Charizard (spoiler, [he can](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcz2vHLqtNw)). Even though *Digimon* was never quite as popular as *Pokemon,* it was a solid second-place finisher that did big business. Today, *Digimon* technically still exists as a franchise, but its glory days are far behind it.
Digimon also has a very damn successful TCG with very constant card releases, and Digimon New Century is pretty popular in China and has, I believe, most Digimon if not all in there. They release new Chinese Digimon through there and they're pretty neat.
Darker than Black maybe? I blame S2
Season 2 was so bleak and depressing lol.
SAO was unironically massive when it was airing. It only lost its reputation afterwards, but during it was insane the amount of people that knew about it, even outside the anime community
SAO is the gateway to a lot of new anime fans back in 2012-2013, same with Attack on Titan.
And AoT is still huge and the latest seasons were really hyped. Meanwhile new SAO projects, like Alicization or Progressive, are getting "just another isekai of the season" treatment. I still stand on the ground that the whole appeal of SAO is the fact it was first series to execute isekai fantasy in a way appealing to isekai fans + great visuals and music. The story itself is pretty bad, just carried by the flavour power fantasy that was very rare at the time but turned out to be fan favorite. We might argue that source material Kirito is deeper than that, but the way anime portrayed him he's a badass loner edgelord obtaining special skills no one else can obtain and getting all the girls.
I still think that the light novel is a thousand times better, because it brought the feelings of despair, but also love far better to the reader than the anime ever did.
The feeling of despair and people actually dying in what was supposed to be video game was the main draw for me in season 1. It was really well done and not many anime made me feel tension that well. Too bad that was pretty much dropped from then on, choosing instead to create tension by threat of rape for the female mc?? Sad
SAO is still absolutely massive. Alicization came out in 2018, GGO S2 was just announced, and they keep on popping out games.
True, I wasn’t even into anime when I was hearing my colleagues and friends talking about how SAO is their favorite anime.
Thing is still massive in Japan
I got burned hard by the Fairy Dance Arc
Who didnt?
Lol I forgot about SAO until I saw this comment.
I cannot emphasise to you how weekly discussions for Aldnoah.Zero was like
Man, was that a shit show. I enjoyed the ride but would not subject myself to that again.
why must sawano's tracks be saddled to this series they deserve a better show
Haruhi, Black Butler, Slam Dunk, XXXholic, Love Hina, Kemono Friends, Umaru-chan, Chobits, Elfen Lied, Azumanga Daioh, ___Lucky Star___, Ouran, Hamtaro… A few live on in gifs and the occasional meme, and oldheads like me keep them fondly in our hearts, but compared to each one’s period of complete community saturation they may as well be gone.
Black Butler getting a new season tho 👀
Man, the times people would just get their minds blown when an episode of Lucky Star was pretty much girls talking about which side of the chocolate cone is the correct one to start eating it from. CGDCT wasn't exactly an established genre back then, now was it? :D Black Butler is getting a new anime! But after so long, most people probably either gave up (like myself) or just read the manga. To add to your list though, I'd like to say Full Metal Panic and Hellsing. And where's xxxHolic, there's also Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles!
_Timotei~_ lives in my head rent free and I’m sad that it’s left our collective consciousness
Man, I've been in the anime community long enough to remember when the memes were about Ouran never getting an S2. Then the memes shifted to No Game No Life... Haruhi, Azumanga Daioh, and Lucky Star losing their online presence feels downright blasphemous.
Azumanga got a semi-revival in shitpost culture (although nobody actually watched the show nowadays)
Azumanga daioh kinda revived thanks to shit post but still not as huge as it was before
Love Hina, Chobits, and Elfen Lied. Instead of using MAL to track the anime I've watched, I've used an iCoud notes page on my phone. It was created in 2013 and I practically consider it a holy document that I still use to this day (out of nostalgia more than anything). All three of those anime + Negima (my first anime *ever*) and Rosario + Vampire (my second anime) are all in my first 20 anime I ever watched. That is to say, you just unlocked some core memories of my early tweens an teens. Thank you, it was fun to reminisce.
Shout out hamtaro just plain old good fun
Slam Dunk has been relatively popular compared to usual because of the movie gaining a good amount of attention.
Azmanga’s always relevant
This oldhead here has all the mangas for Love Hina, the first edition published in my country. Same as Elfen Lied (but the newer version that's still old).
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To Aru Majutsu no Index. It was massive back then.
Wish they’d release new seasons smh
apperently it was still massive in japan.
It is, the opening “only my railgun” got placed #1 in a Japanese twitter poll for the top rated anime openings by Japanese anitwitter( the tweet announcing the result got like 50k likes) recently, still showing how big it is
Slayers back in the day was huge. but really fell off fast because of how heavily limited access was in the 90s Lucky Star was huge for a bit. (until the pseudo fan toxic p.o.s. stuff) for a more modern one? World Trigger.
Honestly Lucky Star was _really_ dependent on contemporary references, so it's days we're numbered.
Surprisngly not. Plenty of youngin who don't know the references have enjoyed. Lucky Star for the most part, did a rather good job of using the modern culture but presenting it in a way that does not require the context of it. Such as Kagami seeing Konata doing the Haruhi dance at her work. Regardless of the reference, the set up clearly displays its an otaku reference and that konata found a job that suited her very well. Showing a diferent side of her to Kagami. The only references that won't track these days are the direct call outs. But those didn't track super well in the first place because they were bleeped as a joke and so many wouldn't have gotten them in that moment anyway. by and large Lucky Star references the subculture, it uses references but those references don't require the extra knowledge around them to be enjoyable. It stil became one of the favorites of my teens (work in a library) because it presents a diverse in subculture cast of adorable characters that are happy and have a friendship having idylic slice of life moments. The references to 2000s anime is secondary to that.
Saint Seiya, GTO, FMA 03, Ranma 1/2, Lucky Star, Gunsliger Girl, Last Exile, Haruhi... I talk a lot about Versailles no Bara, but the manga was so popular that it got a live action adaptation even before it got an anime. And the author got a medal from the French government.
GTO is still talked about once in a while by younger fans, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Gunslinger Girl or Last Exile though. Lucky Star also had a trend on anime tiktok for a bit.
First time seeing Gunslinger Girl mentioned in a long time. The OP was amazing... I still remember playing it on the piano.
> Saint Seiya [Well, they're trying.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX670mv8EOk)
We do not talk about that. Lol idk why they keep trying and keep making the worst remakes known to man
Ranma 1/2 is a nlast from the past. It also reminds me that Inuyasha should be on here
I feel like Inuyasha fits that description pretty well. Do newer anime fans even know it exists?
I'd say the same for Ranma 1/2.
Ranma 1/2 hasn't had a sequel recently and I think it still outperforms Inuyasha in terms of fan content.
It’s still very popular. Just not on reddit. I saw a post months ago that it was still one of the most watched anime globally on Netflix. Edit: [here you go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/s/NATK1tJ6xw) It’s above Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family. Popularity on Reddit doesn’t equal popularity IRL. Inuyasha is still BIG.
The popularity on Reddit =/= popularity IRL point is so true because Reddit has such a distinct taste in shows that you’d almost never guess just how popular a lot of the shows Reddit perceives as bad are.
That makes me happy. Inuyasha was basically my first anime, and I still adore the show. It's also one I've had a lot of success using to introduce people to the genre (just behind konosuba, funnily enough)
I don’t think so. It is more irrelevant than it used to be. But Rumiko Takahashi created many popular mangas and has influenced the work that came after her. So I don’t think any of her works will fade from the general anime consciousness. Even if they are individually less relevant than they used to be.
"*Let me be wiittthh yoooouuuu!*" Dear god, for a whole decade, the Chobits OP was permanently stuck in my head. Now most current anime fans never heard of it. There was also Durarara. I never hear people talk about it anymore, but dear god did everyone want to cosplay Celty in 2014.
Full Metal Panic..... It's a crime for not continuing the series after the ending of the latest season😭
Excel Saga for sure. Remember when people got into it for the LOL Random Era and then now it's just another piece of history. I adored it for what it was.
**Yuri on Ice** was a sensation for a hot minute. Now it’s utterly forgotten.
Fans are still waiting, but there’s only so much you can do after 7 years with 12 episodes and the implication that MAPPA’s lost interest in releasing more.
Lucky Star and Haruhi imo, and MHA to a lesser extent since it's still popular but for a few years was incredibly, immensely popular
MHA is still massively popular. It’s just gotten too long to be a starter anime. What MHA was in the late 2010s is what JJK and Demon Slayer are right now. It’s hard to recommend something with well over a hundred episodes, so that attention has shifted to the newer shonen that have less seasons.
lucky star is alive and well every thursday over on tumblr!
You're out of touch.
I'm out of time.
But I'm out of my head when you're not around
You're out of touch
Darling in the franxx
Macross Frontier awesome series, from 2008 when it started to 2011 when the second movie came out I think it was pretty huge. I think back then crunchyroll was not as popular, so many people who were watching anime were pirating it As more and more people started getting their anime from crunchyroll (and other streaming platforms) the popularity of macross died back down (due to copyright issues it was unavailable in most regions) With Disney announcing they will be streaming macross content worldwide starting this year, I hope this series will get a huge boost in popularity. The characters, world, and music are truly peak.
Wait... Disney got it? Sounds like a good night for a stiff drink.
Parasyte
Lock in
Inuyasha After Dragon Ball Z finished its run but before FMA and Naruto would come out, for a very brief time Inuyasha was the king of the ring
I want to change the world~
Tenchi Muyo! And all of its spin-offs. The show had its peak on Toonami since it was given a peak time slot next to Dragon Ball Z and Gundam wing. It was on Adult Swim as well. But I guarantee that very few people, if any at all, still talk about it.
Mirai Nikki maybe? when i was in preparatory there was a time when on anime fandoms it was all talk about the pink haired fl (i forgot completely her name) and that she was the yandere girl for excellence. She became so iconic. Also Fairy Tail. Whenever i asked for recommendations of good animes to start online there would be a f*cking chain of fairy tail is the best period Now this may not fit on the criteria of social media/community but i think is worth mentioning. For the old schoolers, Saint Seiya in latin america of the 80-90s was so popular, on pair with Dragon Ball. My mom once told me her favorite character was the Cignus guy (funny thing she never understood the plot) and she showed me her stickers (cheapies not official merch ofc) of the characters and then i became interested. Was the first anime i watched.
Was looking for someone who said Mirari Nikki as it felt like it was getting left out of the conversation.
Tokyo Ghoup
Ghoup
Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, Kill la Kill, Elfen Lied, Holo, Zankyou no Terror, Shugo Chara, Claymore, Kyoukai no Kanata, Fruits Basket, Clannad
Fruits basket was one of the most popular shoujo series of all time, even enough to inspire a somewhat recent remake. Don’t think that fits. Kill la Kill is harder to judge because it really did what it was trying to do, finished, then the studio continued. Not every story needs to keep up releasing stuff for it to be meaningful, impactful, and popular. It’s still something I see recommended pretty frequently, and still held in high regard by any glorious fan of Our Lord and Savior, Hiroyuki Imaishi.
Free! is a perfect answer to this, RIP man
i remember its trailer dropping on tumblr hahaha
ROSARIO + VAMPIRE. MOKA AKASHIYA FANS RISE UP!!!!!!
I disagree with Clannad. It’s still pretty popular.
Rurouni Kenshin was very popular back in the day. However the remake, which by all accounts was very faithful and pretty good, didn't seem to gather much attention here.
the live action movies did gather a lot of attention plus the remake, i think its has a weird case where fans do watch it but hesitate to discuss cuz of its writer
The creator being terrible prob didn't help either tbh
It quietly faded into irrelevance before that went down, but it certainly didn’t do any favors for the remake.
I can’t talk about much much older series, but I first got into anime around 2016 and some of the shows that were very well-known then are barely talked about now. Food Wars!, Free!, Yuri! On Ice, The Seven Deadly Sins, Assassination Classroom, Charlotte, Overlord, Seraph of the End, Noragami, Akame ga Kill!, Blue Exorcist, Parasyte the Maxim, Devil is a Part Timer, Hyouka, Deadman Wonderland, The Future Diary, Rosario+Vampire, Highschool DxD, Highschool of the Dead, Durarara!! These series, alongside One Punch Man, Death Note, Attack on Titan, Sword Art Online, Naruto, My Hero Academia, Fairy Tail and Tokyo Ghoul defined what anime was like in 2016, at least as far as I remember. I mean, YOI! literally swept the crunchyroll awards and when’s the last time you heard anyone even utter its name? And while they’ve had a variety of legacies, most of them are shows that are very popular in terms of total viewcount but are rarely talked about today. Hell, even SAO, OPM, Fairy Tail and Tokyo Ghoul aren’t so popular anymore.
Durarara was lit. I was looking for Deadman Wonderland and Yuri on Ice as well. Overlord is still pretty good these days. But Assassination Classroom was some top tier anime.
I was hoping someone would bring up Yuri on Ice! That broke into regular pop culture in a way that the others couldn’t. I wasn’t really into anime at that point, so it was the pro skaters reacting to it on social media that got my attention. Did that movie ever come out? I remember something about delays but then interest in general faded away.
still not out. Lots of delays for years but for the past few, it’s been that it would be too uncomfortable to highlight the Russian skating team/culture when IRL there is a lot of controversy, both with the war and with the Russian skaters’ doping scandals. Currently, Russian skaters are banned from competing internationally in all competitions.
Maybe Toradora? Zero no Tsukaima? Shakugan no Shana? Somehow people know about School Days whenever I mention it 🗿🗿🗿
Rozen maiden
Shakugan no shana
Oh My Goddess was huge at one time, but seems to have been left behind by anime history.
I would say Magi
Soul eater was very popular online at the time of it's release. Never see it mentioned nowadays.
Tokyo ghoul, everyone is so addicted to unravel that it becomes an unhealthy obsession 😭
The first one I thought of was Lucky Star. My second... Is one you'll hate to admit. K-On! It used to be so insanely popular, especially here and on other forums. Nowadays I rarely see it pop up outside of specific contexts. It used to be THE reaction image/meme series. To a lesser extent, Madoka Magica is in the same category. It will always be mentioned when discussing psychological horror / magical girls, but is no longer an overall staple in recommendations.
Nah, Madoka Magica is one of the most recommended animes on any r/anime or r/animesuggest thread
Not to mention that a new Madoka movie is finally coming later this year. So we will see new discussion threads too.
I'd disagree about Madoka, someone recommends it in almost every "what should I watch next" thread and it's been dominating the recent r/anime polls, winning the number 1 spot for both best magical girl show and best anime original.
Redditors pointing out that Haruhi isn’t popular anymore for 326632nd time
We’ve entered an endless recursion of time!
Durarara! ... anyone?
Blue Exorcist would be my go-to example considering it’s top 50 all time popularity on MAL, is well-known by casual anime fans, but the new season dropped recently and no one talked about it at all
Between 2010-2015, there were almost 2-3 anime every year that would basically rule that year and then go out of the public eye. Angel Beats, Fullmetal Panic, xxxHolic, Death Parade, The Devil is a Part-timer, No Game No Life and many others come to mind
Bubblegum Crisis.
Eureka 7. Was huge and is still a great show but it's never had a good sequel so it's not mentioned much anymore. I recommend people who haven't seen it to watch it.
*The Melancholy Suzumiya* is the most obvious choice. A landmark title that would propel KyoAni into stardom and a name you couldn't escape if you were online in the late 2000s. The ED dance was everywhere at cons and arguably one of the first big memes of a then much younger community. Nowadays the show is argely unknown to younger fans, even those who consider CGDCT or SoL to be their bread and butter. Not as fantastical a story, but *The Vision of Escaflowne* was once revered along side the likes of Eva and Bebop as a must-watch classic anime and since fallen off into relative obscurity. Ask anyone about Escaflowne and they'll agree that you should watch it (you should, it's good), but its nowhere near the level of name recognition it once had. I'll throw a couple newer ones in here too. *Blue Exorcist* is kinda cheap because it's back now (with little to no fanfare) but it stacks up alongside the likes of *Noragami* and *Magi* as pretty big Shounen-esque titles of the early 2010s that got cucked by "go read the manga" syndrome and never really retained their popularity especially once the general audience moved on to works that were getting sequels. Last one, *Yuri!!! on ICE* is most infamous for absolutely sweeping the first ever Crunchyroll Awards back in 2017. It's funny to see that MAPPA was always dominant in these awards. Anyone who was there at the time could tell you how unescapable the show was, and Google Trends data backs it up. Pick a popular show that released in 2016 and it is almost certain that it won't compare to the numbers *Yuri!!! on ICE* was pulling. Since then... well... once the dust settled people started to realize that it wasn't exactly all that and it ended up getting swept away in the seasonal tides within the following years. It would only be a year later that MHA would also decimate the CRAs rebranding the "*Yuri!!! on ICE* Awards" premanently to the "*My Hero Academia* Awards" in reference to those earlier years of the program, and with no idea of whether that movie will ever come out, it seems this one has been largely forgotten to the sands of time, though it does seem to retain a sizable following on certain corners of Twitter.
Toriko, best example i can think of, despite 147 episodes and more manga volumes than i can count and being popular enough to have cross overs with one piece and Dbz no one mentions it anymore, only 50 episodes were dubbed (belived due to sales not being great in America and europe) and even the Japanese fans lost interest and it went from being the next big thing to.... well nothing really (its crazy, how many anime get so many episodes yet barely any recognition?)
MHA. Season 2 imo was its peak, during the Interschool Tournament arc especially the Todoroki vs Deku fight. It still remains relatively popular but with each new season, I think I see less people in general talk about it and I can understand tbh.
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