this one is a fuzzy feeling for me
Aura was better.
Yeah that one was pretty good It felt thematically inconsistent and indecisive though
>>283158626You only think that because you didn't understand it
>>283157991
Once in a while you get a nostalgiafag going "hey, remember this?", but otherwise its faded so far into obscurity you'd never know that this series was basically the Code Geass of 2004.
>>283158647Then please explain it
>>283158778digicharat is still very big on the internetmore so in normalfag spheres where whores larp it for attention
>>283158760Not the anon you were replying to but when you say inconsistent and indecisive what do you mean?Personally my biggest gripe was that I expected much more from the "chuuni world". Like in the first episode when for a second it seems to Yuuta that she really did open the train doors. A bit more of it 'bleeding' into reality.Also how lazy and uninteresting the powers were. Basically every chuuni fantasized about huge weapons and energy beams. Would've been cool to see Mori Summer be more spiritual, Mjolnir be more melee, Dark Flame Master be more range/invoker, etc. If it had been a shonen it would've been utter trash.How about you anon?prhrtp
any anime with cute girls playing music now gets called a Bocchi clone
Chobits was massive back then. Even people who didn’t watch anime knew about the series.
>>283158874>Would've been cool to see Mori Summer be more spiritualShe is. Her whole chuuni persona was an ancient sage who spoke the fae and passed their teachings forward. She HAD a big finishing move spell, but it wasn't really her main thing.
>>283158940i see kon pfps more than i see my familyare you even trying to fit the theme of this thread
There are still Strike Witches threads from time to time but it's clearly not as big anymore as Girls und Panzer
>>283159006I think it depends how often you venture into the pseudo-normalfag sphere. Like how Another and Angel Beats are still discussed a lot in those circles, but don't get brought up on /a/ nearly as much.
>>283159042/a/ is the normalfag sphere in questionthe quality of this board will never be the same post 2018
>>283159057You know damn well what I'm talking about.
>>283158999Never really did anything with it though. In battles there wasn't any focus on her calling upon wisps or faes. Can you think of any interesting spell-type interactions between the different chuuni's attacks? They all basically just clashed and power level/fight outcome depended on what the scene demanded.Shichimiya was a devil magical girl, but she was functionally the same as Rikka
Getter Robo is a weird one that's hugely influential but so few people directly engage with compared to the works it influenced. That Getter Robo Arc anime from a 3 years ago just came and went
>>283158874I mean it kept acting like it was going somewhere with its themes and message, specifically through the way plot development and character arcs related to those I mean, but then it kept stopping short and walking back as though perhaps unwilling to commit I've thought about it and wondered how much of that is just me expecting it to be overt where it was actually just subtle and open to interpretation, but I don't think that's what caused the disconnect I felt I might get a completely different impression of it if I watch it again But I suppose maybe I don't care much to watch it again any time soon
>>283159181No you're right. I rewatched it recently and the closing speech about how we're all a little chuuni playing a character we aspire to be in our own lives is kinda cool but it doesn't feel earned. And it doesn't really fit the narrative with Rikka's dead dad
do newfags these days even read onani master?
>>283159542yes
>>283158803I know people overuse the word "schizo", but literally what the fuck are you talking about? Where the fuck are whores "larping" digicharat anywhere? Who's giving them attention for this?
FreezingKampferBusou Renkin
>>283157991Rikka have killed millions of my potential children
>>283157991SnKDarling in the Franxxany non eva mecha
>>283158760>>283159181I see a rule that people who think Chuunibyou was thematically inconsistent and walked back character arcs think that the message is you need to grow up, face reality, and stop being chuuni and that Rikka's character arc is for her to grow up from her chuunibyou when that's the exact belief the show is refuting.
>>283158585>webms you can hear
>>283159368No, it fits perfectly and it's the answer to the big question central to Yuuta's character arc, and arriving at that answer is the reason he was able to help Rikka move on from the death of her father.
>>283157991I don't understand why it got popular in the first place.
>>283158732i just started watching this
>>283162109Entirely because of the woop woop meme that got spammed on every board.
>>283157991>Big series in their time that no one talks about anymoreOutside of pathetic pretentious pastas now and retarded 24\7 spam on /a/ back then, Darling in the FranXX falls under the category.For some unclear reasons this show was outshadowed by soap "Shitolet Sabergarden"
>>283160643Refuting it how though? I didn't actually expect her to give it all up and act stereotypically adult like she tried after taking off her eye patchBut I did expect it to do something other than say "nah" and then act like that was fine
>>283162109KyoAni
>>283162433It's easy to forget that there was a time when Kyoani had enough goodwill that any of their shows would be well received. That sure didn't survive the rapid fire of Beyond the Boundary, Phantom World, Free, Chuuni S2 and Tsurune.
>>283162433hearing about kyoani will never not make me remember this fucking gem of a screenshot from when kyoani burnt down
>>283157991The love triangle was way too cringe and left a bad taste
>>283162530They did? Even back in 2012 I was very wary of Kyoani after endless 8. Yes I watched Disappearance, and I still did not give a fuck they lost all good will in 2009
>>283157991ren was just that bad that it killed the series
>>283157991 >The true reason for the "isekai boom" alongside the author's previous work MaouYuu >Got forgotten so people rewrote the past pretending that other works were responsible instead Kind of sad.
>>283162348Damn I swear it was just yesterday thoughever?Anyway, Franx popularity died off halfway through the show, so it doesn't really count. All the shitposting was glorious, topped only by AOT ending for me.
>>283162753>Damn I swear it was just yesterday thoughever?no you dontstop being performative
>>283160511>SnKPeople still talk about this.
>>283162765>I have an authority on telling you what you think and I feelFuck off jaded sociopathic cunt. Don't reply to me ever again, animal.
You had to be there. Shinobu made me forever love that kind of woman
>>283162675SAO predates it
>>283157991I remembere pic related being everywhere in the mid 2010s and now a decade later I never see anyone bringing it up. It's like it never existed in the first place and the only proof of its existence are various videos on YouTube from 10 years ago
>>283162675Log Horizon has always been niche. How can anyone seriously believe it started Isekai trend? It was seen as the better SAO for people with better taste, but normalfags never even heard about it.
>>283162675I tried to watch the final season. It felt like a bad fanfic compared to S1 and S2.
what is a chunibyo?is it like a charizard?
This was huge for a while and then vanished. Even the sequel seasons were ignored.
>>283158985>>283158940>>283158732>>283162811These were all huge back in the day it cant be overstated how big Love Hina was in like 2001/2ish. I think a lot of the younger crowd know how big K-On was just 15 years ago, but I would be surprised if they even know what Chobits or Mai-Hime is despite them being very very big at their height of popularity.
>>283162976Oh that's a good one.It was a big deal very briefly
>>283162976I don't think the LN were finished when season 1 was out so they didn't have enough content to capitalize off of its popularity in 2010, but it is strange how irrelevant the franchise is now since it was a very big series back when the anime was new.
>>283162831>>283162868Predating it doesn't matter. SAO's original WN version was self-published on the author's homepage (i.e. required explicitly seeking it out) not posted on a public aggregator like Narou (Log Horizon) or even outright taken from 2ch (MaouYuu). SAO upon being adapted into LN got a "privileged" start at the (at the time) indisputably largest and most high-profile Light Novel label, making it start as an elite work due to the author's previous connection to one of the most famous LN editors in the industry.Log Horizon is the opposite. It's the first LN based on a WN from Narou (where most "modern isekai" originate from) and it got published on a low-profile Light Novel label. Despite such humble beginnings it eventually went on to receive an anime and thus set up the example of "crowd-sourcing" new LNs from WN aggregators which became the business model of pretty much all the "modern isekai" as well as the "villainess" and "kicked from hero's party", etc. stories that came afterwards. Compared to that SAO is a traditional "making it big via insider connections to the industry" type of deal.
5 fucking seasons.
For about a decade Aniplex has pushed "blockbuster" shows with common elements (mostly mecha, big name writers attached to them like Okouchi or Urobochi, Sawano soundtrack, etc). They all were huge upon release and immediately forgotten right after.
>>283163112A new season got announced like a year ago, probably coming out in 2026. I wonder if the VA can all pull off the voices anymore, the first season is almost 20 years old.
Ah My Goddess was a big series in the 90s due to the manga and OVA, then in the mid 2000s it got really popular again because of anime remake. Rare case of a series being very popular during different decades and still becoming forgotten not too long after.
>>283163085SAO LN predates Log Horizon as well
>>283162753>All the shitposting was glorious
>>283163310well the ending kinda killed all goodwill
>>283162976>>283163014brehthe series died because narita threw fujos under the bus
>>283158732This still gets mentioned quite a bit on /u/ at least, though usually in the context of how sorry the selection of yuri anime was in the early 2000s
>>283163157Valvrape S1 is a great show. They made some fatal mistakes in S2 like nerfing EruErufu way too much and side lining Saki hardcore. There were too many dropped lore points to count.
>>283162976This was on just about every rec chart I remember seeing.>>283163112>>283163157Can't wait for the new season.>>283163157Fucking Valvrave. Stupid flashforwards with no payoff. Four justowns later, I am still mad.This was being pushed at the time, but it never really got big, did it? Forgotten as soon as it ended except for occasional memes about it.
>>283157991The standard for that.People can blame all kinds of reasons. The last arc dragging on, Ken throwing a temper tantrum to the proposed law, UQ holder, not getting a proper anime etc. But I think it's a collection of all of those things plus not having a lot of staying power.You can apply it to most of his series really. Even Love Hina is mostly forgotten today. You'll be hard pressed to see its DNA in any modern romcom anymore.>>283162853This one and Ao no Exorcist were big back then. Yet no one cared about the manga ending or AnE getting a third season
>>283162976strange that this got a complete adaptation while baccano, the better regarded one both as an anime and source material, was left to rot
>>283163971Blue exorcist's season 1 and 2 still hold up. Season 3 was trash and killed my interest completely. The manga is good enough but a shitty anime adaptation can kill all the interest people have in it.
>>283164259Baccano altered the source material too much, or so I'm told. They couldn't just continue it with a faithful adaption.
>>283158732There's a possibility the series might be revived, or continue in some way. Keep an eye out for news when Sunrise holds the Mai alumni reunion on 11/16.
>>283163112And more to come!
>>283157991Picture incredibly unrelated
>>283158724>Stupid whore he pursues the whole series denies him for REASONS and fucks some grandpa salaryman instead while he gets stuck in the cuck shop to meet her hellspawn>Never gets the superior Zashiki Warashi endingGood God that fucking ending pissed me off.
>>283157991Shows should only be posted if you search them up on Youtube and almost all of the results say "posted 10+ years ago">pic related
>>283163971I was gonna post Negima!, too.Yeah, people can try to blame Ken for making it more than teen girls accidentally falling in love with their shota-sensei + "Abracadabra! Your skirts fly upwards! Oops!!" but it was still a massively popular manga and anime that no one talks about on this website anymore.
Used to have daily threads 15 years ago, yes I'm embarrassed I have been here that long.
An example of a near-masterpiece-quality work that everyone loved, everyone talked about, everyone watched, and never disappointed.But people don't talk about it anymore.
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>>283162976The later seasons of Durarara kind of sucked
>>283157991Yuri on Ice
>>283163310This was so big back in the day that it was a first-generation manga that got localized, back when manga was still mainly sold at comic stores so the volumes were comic book-sized.
>>283168476That was literally murdered by MAPPA because they wanted a bigger slice of the profits than what the committee was willing to give. So nobody got anything, good job.
>>283168667I remember having Sailor Moon manga from comic book stores in the mid 90s, exactly the same size as comics with a slightly harder cover. The paper it was actually printed on was so shit though, slightly more durable than newspaper but would always tear. I wish I still had them.
>>2831579918 more years baby.Just a few more years.
>>283157991Rikka is wife
>>283168743Season 2 is next year
Absolutely loved this slop during its first season at the time, but they never should have kept the franchise going. It's honestly kind of pathetic nowadays.
Super popular for 5 years, then discussions stopped last year because S2 never.
>>283170618This thing's popularity always seemed really forced.
In retrospect, it absolutely wasn't worth the hype.
>>283159542I got my 19 year old cousin to read this and Molester Man because it's my job too ensure he has good taste.
>>283170737Isn't there a movie coming up? They're just too slow, the first season was 7 years ago.
>>283170737Another zombie anime that was popular back in ye olde times
>>283170958Loved this show as a teen.
>>283170804>I got my 19 year old cousin to read thisdid he like it? i feel like youngsters nowadays don't have the sensibilities to appreciate it, their attention span is so short that they would probably drop it on chapter 2-3 because it doesn't feel like a reel from tiktok
The World God Only Knows. Understandably, the latest arcs of the manga were terrible, and when I say latest I mean probably more than a year's worth of publication.
>>283162348This trash was big?
>>283157991Excel Saga? When it comes to comedy shows that lean more towards the absurd I see Cromartie come up every now and then to this day, but not so much with poor Excel.
>>283171496Crazy to think how massive this show was in the 2000s. It's weird how this style of fast-paced comedy anime was so dominant at the time and now seems to have been completely forgotten.
>>283170958Korean Zombie Desk Car is peak anime culture.
>>283171569Yeah, I think one of the closer comedy series following Excel Saga in comedy style was Teekyuu. I guess people into making comedy scripts just aren't into making a high-pace comedy anime these days?
>>283158985Why would you put an android's reset switch into her cooch?
>>283170891In like three days
>>283162811It's so weird to me that Love Hina isn't popular anymore, because I always thought of it as one of those "default anime" series that everyone knows, like Cowboy Bebop or Evangelion or whatever. I guess that hasn't been true in like 15 years, though.
Massive series with young teens at the time, left no cultural impact of any kind and has now been forgotten.
>>283171670In Combatants Have Been Dispatched it was a self-destruct button so that's tame in comparison.
Remember when Higurashi was beloved? Because I remember.
Sora no Otoshimono
>>283171900I blame the bad adaptation
Do the kids still know The Tatami Galaxy? I remember the sequel series coming and going without much fanfare.
>>283162976It ended, so all the hype went with that.
>>283162976I recall having some fighting game with the guy from this in it. That is the extent of my interaction with the franchise.
>>283171333It was axed for a reason
Looking at my anime.txt file, Oreimo jumps at me. That was a big one.
>>283157991Love Live! has slowly fallen off a cliff, with each generation being a marked downturn in relevance. SIF2 being cancelled before it released was embarrassing for what was once one of the biggest names around
>>283162811one of the earliest gifs i ever made, stitching together some hentai cgsshinobu best bu
>>283171792I've seen a few clips here and there so it's not completely forgotten but it definitely didn't have any impact
>>283171792>>283173414Not even the trap is memeable. It might as well not exist
>>283173345You could say the same for IM@S. These idol-driven franchises never have staying power for more than a few years.
>>283173514IM@S was a titan for pretty much a decade, though.
>>283173546Well, not anymore.
>>283173514>>283173546They're definitely the two that mattered the most. I'd say IM@S had a bit more longevity to it, but LL! at it's peak was more dominant (and certainly was the one that had more impact internationally and in the west)
remember K ?
>>283171483big might be an understatement, it was everywhere while ep1-15 was airing. zero two practically broke the weeb internet in the dark winter of 2018.
>>283173663it was kinda shit
30 years later, and is completely forgotten by everyone.
>>283173663I remember the blonde hottie among all the fujobait.
>>283173663I remember enjoying it, but i don't remember any detail besides that one animation sequence, you know the one.
>>283157991>Big series in their time that no one talks about anymore
Nobody ever talks about GetBackers despite it being quite popular in its time and still retaining a modicum of success. One of its main characters was also part of the inspiration for a current popular manga char, Gojo from JJK.I dumped the manga last year and we retained maybe 10 readers throughout the entire adventure
>>283174301I watched that one because I thought Ban Midou looked cool and it was pretty boring.
I got into anime for this, all the gory scenes made rounds all over the internet, I feel it was pretty popular back then
>>283157991Anime may have died in 2009 but how do you explain how many good anime and all-timers came out between 2010-2013? After that, yeah I agree anime died a death especially with the advent of fucking cocksucking Chrunchyroll, aniTubers and other despicable agents but those were great years for anime regardless.
>>283174473The anime goes off into its own thing early on and even had an anime-only ending. Unfortunately, while the manga is obviously far superior, there are somehow no HQ scans all these years later so it was rough going.
>>283174301i mean its very shonen-ai coded and that was never very popular in /a/
>>283174566It was infamous rather than popular. People compared it rather unfavourably to the original Blood+ series. I don't think anyone expected it to have much staying power.
>>283157991School days
>>283174726>codedWhat would you know about /a/ beyond the entire 4 days you've been here?
>>283158585>>283160646https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMK0BUhgcE
>>283158985Ooh ooh, ooh ooh (yeah)Ooh ooh, ooh ooh (yeah)Ooh ooh, ooh ooh (yeah, let me be with you)
>>283174625The death of anime began in 2015 and was complete by 2018.
I remember how popular Hetalia was, at least in the Western sphere. Women especially loved it.
>>283175145Ouran High School Host Club was also popular in the same vein
>>283175145This actually fits the thread. It was huge then but its now a relic of late 00's/early 10s.>>283175143I concur with that timeline. Adds up perfectly. Truly, we're stuck here due to the good memories keeping us hostage.
>>283175145I cannot believe how much this one dropped off. It used to rule the world in the pre-social media days.
>>283171937Bad? The anime was great until they canceled the final season.
>>283157991You're delusional if you seriously think Chuunibyou isn't talked about anymore. It's an incredibly memorable modern classic. It's one of the best rom-coms out there. And with that absolute sex female cast, it's always going to be talked about.
>>283158732This and Nana were those kind of series that I would always hear about, had interest in trying to get into, but never picked either series up in the end.
>>283173622Idk if you could say Love Live at its peak was more influential. I've always seen way more hype for Idolmaster. Especially with the abundance of games and that monster hit 2011 anime.
>>283168743Anon, Bocchi S2 was already announced for 2026, and it's still incredibly popular. The memes and the fanart still going strong 3 years later is an anomaly with so much anime always coming out year after year. It's just more proof that Bocchi is a generational anime. I haven't seen a single anime I enjoyed more than either of those two. Even with the censorship, it's still top 2 of the decade next to Frieren to me with probably Lycoris Recoil at 3. Makeine has to be somewhere in the top 5 too. Top 10 at the absolute least.
>>283174726>coded.Shut up you ESL.
Very big in my early 10s weeb crowd. Might show it to my anime club at some point but yes, you don't see much discussion these days. Should rewatch to see if it holds up.>>283170618>>283170653I watched this a year or two ago and besidesfrom some funny Satania bits it's just really unremarkable and generic and the MC isn't interesting at all. I don't understand why it was so hyped up on here. Even Satania's character trope has been done better elsewhere.>>283175145You still see this talked about in tumblr/tumblr adjacent spheres in a sort of 'hey, remember when everyone was obsessed with that' way.
>>283157991>>283176321>No one talks about Chuu2ffs a VTuber group launched *yesterday* that had it as their main inspirationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgzyBpO8Ouk
>>283177229eew vtumors but also lol
>>283176499>3 years laterWhy does time keep going faster and faster?
>>283176844Man early 10's were great. I know, I know 00's were perfect and all but they were pretty great too. >>283176499>Bocchi>Frieren>Lycoris>MakeinePlease end your life, even if you're baiting. Please. Do it. DO IT.
>>283164816>female writers create an absolutely abhorrent romance
One thing I'm curious about is voice actors. Besides the icons that are still alive or were alive until the 10s, was the voice actor "culture" a thing back in the 80s-90s? I never really see people talking about that part of the industry for the time period.
Do you think Showa era otakus from Japan ever get wistful about the 1970s and 80s anime they grew up with are completely lost to the annals of time?
Just think of so many great anime/manga/LN/VNs that haven't been translated and will never be translated. A goldmine that you will have to learn Japanese to tap into. I'm too old for the brain power necessary to learn Japanese so I'm forever saddened by this fact.
>>283178215100%. I'd watch their favorites with them sometime.
>>283174301fuck, Gojo was Ban this entire time? I can definitely see it.
>>283174566completely overshadowed by Blood+ even back then.
>>283176844You have a anime club?
>>283178257>I'm too old for the brain power necessary to learn JapaneseThis is not true, especially if it's just reading which is the easiest part in language learning.
>>283178608You could chalk it up to me being demoralized because I made a very serious effort before COVID and I was actually getting good both reading and writing with some conversational adaptation in there too but then shit happens and you're 6 years older and getting back on that saddle is incredibly intimidating. plus you mourn the lost time and you waste more of it.
>>283157991There's been almost no talk about LWA for a long time now.
>>283157991Out of all of the big anime from the 00s I feel like Haruhi fell the hardest. It was a cultural phenomenon back then but now it doesn't really have much of a legacy.
everything will be forgotten eventually, only truly groundbreaking stuff that changes the media gets remembered, and even then it's mostly for historic reasons, many zoomers know ngl for example, but I doubt many of them actually watched it
>>283162391>Refuting it how though?Because Touka representing the view of the adults erroneously believed Rikka was being chuuni to run from reality and tried to beat it into her. None of them understood her, none of them communicated with her on her level, none of them gave her the chance to move on. Yuuta could because he went through a chuuni phase too and defended Rikka from Touka, asserting that she wasn't running from reality. But after meeting Rikka's mother, he fell into the adult way of thinking of stop making trouble for others and just conform. But that only made Rikka bury herself. She couldn't say goodbye to her dead father like that. Not killing your inner child is what the whole show is about.
>>283162200The Rikka finger spin was already a popular parody/template meme on sites like Nico Nico Douga.
watched most of this show many many years ago and really liked it but it fell off
>>283157991i still remember it, it's one of my favourites :)
>>283171869I remember the time before Sotsugou
>>283175145>>283176844>hey, remember when everyone was obsessed with thatIt was better when they were obsessed with it compared to whatever the fuck they're doing now
>>283179131Was Dennou Coil ever popular aside from saskuga circles?
>>283174566It was mocked
>>283179275pretty sure it was talked a lot about here, i never followed any other anime related sites so this is where i got all anime recommendations from
Code Geass and SEED are still going strong but nobody gives a shit about Gundam 00 anymore
>>283178215discussions of shows like Urusei Yatsura and Dirty Pair will still ignite waifu wars with certain sects of people
>>283170958we will never forget korean zombie desk car
>>283164259Baccano wasn't popular in Japan. Common case of nips having shit taste.
>>283163157ive been trying to find that "rape, rape, rape, rape..." song for a fat while now anybody know the title? i remember it playing during the christmas stream a long ass time ago
>fell off so hard people don't even remember it ITTZoomers really do not give a shit about Key
>>283180017Never liked it, every single other game from Key I played (LB, Air, Rewrite) was better.
>>283162811And I'll never forgive it for popularizing the dogshit "Nothing happens for 300 chapters and then he picks the most boring girl" harem genre. Fucking piece of shit trash.
>>283178379I remember the timeskip this show had.
>>283178655I also started learning it pre covid and now I'm fluent because I told myself I'd never read another english translation.
>>283166667I loved the manga back in the day. Does the anime get better? I watched the first 10 or so episodes and wasn't super impressed with the visuals.
>>283180017>Zoomers really do not give a shit about KeyDo Zoomers even play VNs?
>>283180017It gets talked about often though? We just watched Summer Pockets and there were nonstop comparisons to Clannad as well.
>>283170565It never stopped being good, actually.
>>283179877Isn't it from Detroit Metal City? Or is there a completely different rape song that I somehow don't know about?
>>283158985>Even people who didn’t watch anime knew about the series.I member. Chi was like the poster girl for anime otaku and weebs everywhere both online and real life. Didn't matter where you looked, if it was anime or Japanese, chances are Chobit merch, mainly just Chi, was somewhere in the background. She would actually stand next to Asuka and Rei in terms of popularity.
>>283180323Was Summer Pockets a solid anime? I've played Clannad/ReWrite/Little Busters! and loved all of them for different reasons, but SP felt kind of like Key hadn't made any of those games. It's not the same thing rehashed, but it felt like they ticked every 'Key' box.
>>283180358no its a rap style song and the dude just keeps saying rape non stop
>>283180474It was okay. As always, I recommend people to read the VN instead.
Haruhi Suzumiya, and I don't even like that anime.>>283159147What makes it even funnier is that if someone does remember Getter Robo, they'll probably rhink it was made by Go Nagai and not Ken Ishikawa. Though to be fair, Ishikawa was an assistant for Nagai (and is Nagai-adjacent as a result), so I can't blame them for thinking that.
We have Shinka threads like twice a week.
>>283180319Zoomers don't play games.
One of the best 3 episode anime
>>283180748There are literally two threads about it on /a/ right now.
>>283177229Inside Identity is easily one of the most memorable anime EDs of all-time. It's such a nostalgic banger of a song.
Excel Saga, but thats probably for the best.
>>283181075>Inside Identity is easily one of the most memorable anime EDs of all-timeAnd the crazy part is that Chuunibyou's OP Sparkling Daydream is even more iconic.
>>283177439Cardcaptor Sakura aside I struggle to remember the last time I was satisfied with one of their shows where the lead has more than one female option.
>>283173504Tell us you're new, without saying you're new.
>>283171869Higurashi still has threads daily, its far from forgotten.
Mushishi is definitely one of themBut like a lot of the shows ITT it's not because they're completely forgotten it's just that most people have seen them and there's nothing to discuss anymore
>>283162811>>283162996>>283163971Akamatsu was ahead of his time and completely fell behind the changes to audience taste/culture as soon as Negima ended. He literally jumpstarted the harem genre with Love Hina and with Negima did the "pick your favorite girl out of 30 of them so that the audience will stick around to see their one favorite get screentime" concept that gacha games make millions off of today. Come UQ Holder and it's a sausage fest with ugly ass designs for the few female characters. He finishes it with a completely self-indulgent ending where the MC bangs all of the girls and yet no one cared. Now he's just some annoying politician that harps on anti-loli censorship and blaming it on feminazis while not doing anything about the actual credit card censorship shit happening in real time.
>>283173345This would have been true if Aiscream wasn't a huge hit and meme earlier this year. I guess in general we've moved long past things like makifags everywhere and normalfag nico/snow halation memes, and barely anyone knows about the newer groups, but somehow love live had a surge in popularity anyway even in the current yearAlso sif2 was not cancelled before release in japan, but it performing terribly there is why the global ver got fucked
>>283182241>Aiscream wasn't a huge hitAiscream was 99% just a TikTok sound clip of it going viral. You had streamers singing it without even knowing what Love Live was. The popularity of it injected some life back into the core LL fanbase (especially since one of the members is from Aqours), but it was almost pathetic how they weren't able to use that viral marketing to gain new fans. With no big game or currently running anime to hook anyone checking out the franchise thanks to Aiscream, anyone who could've become a fan has already left and moved onto the next meme.
>>283181603CLAMP don't generally do male leads. Chobits is probably one of the few series without a farce of a romance.
>>283173514I'm assuming that you aren't counting Gakumas as Idolmaster. It's still going quite strong because they outsourced it to a company that knows what they are doing.I would not expect an anime though since the story mode of the game is full animated cutscenes already.Bandai Namco will turn it to a corpse eventually, but the momentum is good.
>>283180017>born in 1999At the very least, now that I have a job, I'll actually buy the VNs instead of being a pirate.I recognize that I was part of the reasons why all the VN companies died and why so many had to pivot to being gacha games.
Why don't newer generations watch past anime?Even here you barely see people talking about stuff that was synonymous with this board like K-on or Haruhi.
>>283184305Seeing something "from someone else's time" inherently means they "don't get to be a part of it." True or not, people believe it, hardcore. They HAVE to be a part of a culture, and unless that culture is open and inviting, everyone hates it because they aren't a part of it.Humans are extremely closeminded.
>>283162976This anime was strange to watch back thenWatching it felt like I was dreaming of a good anime
>>283184305Same reason why they don't listen to past music or watch past movies and tv shows. Its not advertised and shilled enough. Music kind of has its own reasons but it somewhats lines up with a lot of old shit being banned to watch or listen to due to retarded copyright bullshit from decades ago that will never be settled. Making it even harder for the younger generations to learn about the older stuff.But back to anime, it doesn't help that threads for old shows tend to never stay up due to the influx of seasonal show threads. And then there's just the media tone shift of >"FASTER AND BRIGHT LIGHTS = GOOD" >"OLD AND SLOW = BAD"So you've already brainwashed a generation to like modern stuff than older stuff. That's just how the cookie crumbles.>>283184444Based quads
>>283165563Did people ever care about chrno crusade
>>283171900>>283176215I miss this show and manga. Still one of my favorites
>>283184490I remember it being brought up a few times but mostly for the ending. I never did finish it myself.
Used to be recommended all the time. Never seen anyone actually talk about it though in the past 20 years
>>283184676Dropped my image
>>283162109I watched it because I fucked up reverse searching a clip from Another.
>>283171333this shit the bed so fast after all the goddess got found>>283173345the nico nico still gets used on tiktok but that's all left>>283180783outside from here none remembers it same for yuyushiki yuruyuri gochusa and other cgdct that still get waifufags threads every week here
>>283177337Imagine begging someone to commit suicide because you insist on being a contrarian with shit taste. Skill issue.
>>283179371Some people look back on it fondly after the AUs that followed. (IBO, AGE, WfM, GQuuuuuuX).
>>283180017Nah, people remember Clannad. It's still brought up as a good tearjerker and good VN adaptation.
>>283184305It's an amusing phenomenon. We still hear from the great classics from long ago like Mazinger Z, Urusei Yatsura (before the remake), Sailor Moon, Hokuto no Ken, etc... But people barely talks about the really popular anime from the 00s even though many of those shows are reaching 20 years nowadays as if they lacked something compared to older AND newer anime (only shows from that time that are still talked a out are stuff that is still running today or ended recently like Naruto, One Piece, etc...). That's odd.
>>283157991Which is a good thing. This series was dogshit. Shinka was the only good thing about it
>>283184305I'm sure there are some newfags who go digging into past classics, just as there were people from my own generation who did that, including myself. I seriously got into anime during Haruhi's reign, but I still went back to watch 80's OVAs and some select shows from the older days. I'll say, however, that it was easier to play at being a historian during my time, simply because I had a far more limited selection available to me to begin with. Seasonal offerings weren't quite so bloated yet, many shows remained out of reach due to lack of translations, and of course the total body of animated works was simply smaller overall. Twenty years have added hundreds of shows and movies to the mountain and I guess that would make it more daunting to scale that mountain. Especially in an era where every new season throws so much new stuff at you, all of which gets translated instantly by dedicated live streaming services, whereas I would've had "downtimes" to fill with older works whenever fansubs weren't keeping up with the demand.
>>283162675>alongside the author's previous work MaouYuuDamn, didn't know it was from the same author.
>One of the most selling LN of their time>Promo anime that covers like 1.5 volumes of LN>No S2>Publisher fucked up author and now series frozen
>>283177229>vtumorsWhy should we care about brown culture that is in no way related to /a/ at all?
>>283184305I feel like the genius decision to dumb down smart devices has partly helped with that. When I was getting into anime, there were some websites that you could just watch a whole subbed episode online like these days you could do with Crunchyroll for example, but torrenting was THE shit if you were looking into way more anime. Now there are commercial streaming services that offer you a lot of anime from recent years, besides all the other media content you could force down your gullet if you have the time for it. There is just so much stuff to watch already, not to even mention that older stuff is not necessarily readily available or god forbid, no one has a live torrent seed for it anymore even if you are a newfag who decides that they too want to torrent shit. Then there's also the FOMO with newer anime that eats up your free time just to watch it with your friends. We live in an era where it's absurd how much media there is to occupy our free time with, and if you are into gaming in any fashion sometimes those games demand you to spend time in them to get minimum rewards, battlepass shit and so on.
>>283185777It was essentially a worse NGNL. No wonder it got left to rot
Feel like chaika was pretty popular, probably not as big as the other shows at the time but seemed to have a decently large audience for what seemed more like a niche show
>>283157991I remember seeing this thread 1 day after the show ended.Yet here you are, 23 years later, still talking about it...
>>283157991AnJ despite being super influential and very popular at the time seems kinda forgotten in modern times, we need a new AnJ anime honestly
>>283171483Episode 14 literally broke the internet when it was airing, so yeah
>>283186840It was sort of funny to see it just fall sort of flat on its face with the last episode.
>>283186865It was literally "nakama power", I laughed so hard in the last episode stream. It was a fun ride even if it was trash
>>283186141>It was essentially a worse NGNL>Myth games vs spiced gamesNah, Mondaji was better
ITT: Post old anime
>>283186742His death is still iconic.
>>283186742We got two seasons of Megalo Box.
>>283186742>we need a new AnJ anime honestlyNo the fuck we don't.
>>283159542Unironically i just re-read it yesterday.Shame that one time it got storytimed it didn't really got too much attention, anons don't know what they're missingAlthough in all fairness it doesn't really qualify as "big series" as OP clarified. Maybe pic related? I did remember a bunch of threads years before, not so much now
>>283171496Hmm i don't know, i think we all progressively discarded Excel Saga because it's comedy was TOO absurd, extremely out there at times. I would comparte it more with gag shows like pic related (which was also really fun when it aired)I know it sounds kinda hypocrite considering Cromartie has a gorilla, Mechazawa and fucking Freddy Mercury, yet its humor feels different in my opinion. It's still bizarre sketches one after the other yet somewhat more grounded and relatable (maybe it's just me)
>>283185445I think it's because many of those anime were made specifically for the otaku of that time, and that's not something that new fans watching it some 20 years after the fact are going to get or even want to engage with.
>>283188235Oh fuck I forgot all about this show as well. And yeah, they are both comedy shows that just go the fuck out there with their gags, it was probably a mistake for me to that broadly compare them to each other. It would have been more accurate to note that both Excel Saga and Cromartie go that far out there with their jokes that they are both in their own orbits with their own sort of gagstyle.
>>283188235A lot of Cromartie's humor centers around mundane stuff like dealing with internet trolls, carsickness, not liking a popular show, and Maeda being bitten by a horse.
>>283188538Not to mention that for being a comedy series about a school full of delinquents, the gags are not done in a crude manner as you might imagine with the character cast.
>>283186742>we need a new AnJ anime honestlystop posting forever
>>283157991>Big series in their time that no one talks about anymoreso.... time flops?
>>283186742I'm not going to say you hear people talking about it left and right but I always thought it was pretty well remembered. I have a 21 year old coworker who loves it and it seems to be respected by a lot of people who are more into anime/manga. Sure normies streaming AoT not as much but most who're actually into anime seem to like it. Definitely moreso than say Gundam
>>283164259Baccano was only liked by burgermen.
>>283157991I miss the days when every middle school girl was obsessed with show. Hetalia and Loveless included
>>283189470Yeah, except you're contractually obligated to post a Franxx picture when you utter those words, and OP wanted to talk about other shows.
>>283184987>outside from here none remembers itRikka's finger spin will continue to get memed and remembered for all eternity
>>283158732The reason I found 4chan.
I'm too disconnected from online culture and not terminally online enough to know what's popular anymore.
>>283180319>Do Zoomers even play VNs?Does ANYONE even play VNs?
>>283157991School Rumble
>>283193253Atri apparently sold 500k copies and that was as of a year ago. One point does not make a trend, but it's not a completely dead medium yet.
>>283194215It hurts.
>>283186201If anything, it's closer to the opposite of this thread. Chaika may have never been "a big deal" like many of the other series here, but it's survived in the /a/ collective consciousness for a disproportionately long time, given that it's an otherwise fairly normal, completed LN adaptation. A real trooper.
>>283158732Are you that nostalgiafag? There's a small handful of people on /a/ that actively discuss the series.
>>283159786Not the anon but I think he's referring to the whole phenomenon of zoomers romanticizing and treating 2000s board culture as a sort of antiquity, trying to adopt specific elements as their own while being completely detached from it. But then again you would probably need to expose yourself to normalfag spaces like social media to find out this was a thing.
>>283194528Interesting to compare Scrapped Princess, which was probably ~2x less popular but had 10x less staying power. Pacifica has some great reaction faces, but she doesn't carry around a coffin, use a giant magical rifle in combat, eat in a cute way, or speak backwards.
>>283186201The series was never popular, just Chaika and the retarded edits of her face.
>>283194837>Are you that nostalgiafag?ESL-kun
>>283195225based retard
>>283176844Angel Beats 100% had staying power in the normalfag sphere. It's often one of the first series that gets suggested to newfags who are curious about branching out beyond the big AAA stuff.Which surprised me, since /a/ didn't seem nearly as into it.
Can't tell you enough how much I loved Sgt. Frog at the time. Everyone else I brought it up to did, too. This show's world and characters were awesome and used to get referenced in stuff all the time. It was even going to get dubbed by Nickelodeon at one stage! Good times. I really miss comedy anime, you guys.
Speaking of comedy, does Nichijou count?
>>283195663Nobody's forgotten Nichijou now that City just got an anime.
The early 2010s were truly a magical time. I remember looking forward to the next Demolition D video. Each season had at least a couple of interesting shows. It started slowing down after 2016 but it wasn't noticeable yet. Post 2020 is a completely different era. /a/ is a completely different place.Many shows have pretty much disappeared from the landscape. Eureka Seven, Kabaneri, Rage of Bahamut (not that shitshow that was Genesis), 91 days, Kara No Kyoukai, Kado: the right answer, Onihei, samurai champloo.... Some of these got memory holed good reasons, but it's weird to see how much just get forgotten with time. In 15 years, Gurren Laggan will be an obscure show and will be probably looked at the same way people look at S-cry-ed today. >>283185777It was mid even back then. I'd much rather have something like B-Tooom get a second season. >>283171483It was. I hated it from the first seconds of the first episode with its pretentious monologue. I remember reee-ing at how popular it was in my college dorm. >>283179131It was very innovative but the last third of the show is pretty bad. It needed more episodes like the beard virus. Just kids having fun. >>283184305lower barrier to entry and anime being mainstream means that you kids won't feel special growing your animelist to feel superior to normies.
did someone mentioned this yet?i remember everyone saying s2 never for this
>>283196373Didn't this thing get some new life to it after the movie was released? Although that has been a while back already, I guess. I only remember how I think the author got caught tracing and people were saying that it has ruined their chances of getting more anime to the series.
>>283194528>LN never got translated>Manga did but it spun its wheels on the Freddie arc then ended
>>283184305>Even here you barely see people talking about stuff that was synonymous with this boardThat's only because all the discussion has already been had. People just aren't as enthusiastic to talk about Haruhi for the 200th time as they were the first time. Things got real lively when they announced Intuition.
>>283177229>>283196903This has me wondering whether there's any Shana clone VTubers out there. It seems easy enough to pull off.
>>283196373Sure people are still asking for a season 2 these days.
This thread is fucking dumb. Some things get talked about every once in a while, but because the threads aren't constant, they're invisible to retarded people who don't see those threads and assume they're never talked about.
>>283194215Is this one fun?
>>283200749It's very highly regarded here.
>>283200193DAE le obscure classic
>>283196903The resident Shana-schizo (You) makes Shakugan no Shana at least once a week.
Show was meme'ed to death back when it aired. Was forgotten so fast its not even funny.
>>283158724To be fair Clamp torpedo'ed the ending with what must have been literal ragebait
>>283171792Core memory unlockedholy shitI wrote bakatest fanfic back in the day, probably why I completely wiped it from my memory
>>283202607Based.
>>283162976I genuinely think it's a shame that TRUST ME is forever stuck in 2010 and you only get a new one of those made by the occasional diehard once every year or sosuch a good template for fanart
>>283162976This had an anime studio set up dedicated to it and putting all their hopes on it being the next big thing lol
>>283200749Incredibly fun, I've rewatched it 4 timesI still remember the first time I saw it back in my senior year of high school, comfy spring nights watching school rumble
>>283176332Nana never got finished(even the manga), so if you're a completionist type then you saved yourself some annoyance.
>>283184305People do, but it's hard to generate much discussion about any one particular show that someone might be watching because everyone else probably isn't watching the same thing. There's just so many options that only a few particularly notorious shows have enough interested posters at a given time to generate a conversation.
>>283184305If i am late to the party and reading an older series that has an actual plot, why would i start a discussion thread just for a random fuckwad to roll in and spoil the show. Thats actually why i started reading the One piece manga after some asshat spoiled a future event in an anime thread on the arlong park forums
>>283184305>Why don't newer generations watch past anime?There are zoomers who go and watch the classics. But a lot of the classics are not as good as people say.I didn't watch past episode one of K-on for example and I thought it wasn't good, and Toradora and Bebop were just decent but not outstanding. Other stuff like LotGH, Zero no Tsukaima or Princess Tutu is definitely worth the reputation they have ranging from very solid to kino.And I'm a '99 zoomer, not sure what 2000's zoomers who had iphones even in their earliest memories watch though since there is a real gap between the two zoomer types, not to mention gen alpha.I only started getting into anime seriously and browsing this site as underage around 2011 or 2012
>>283171954KINO
>>28320465998 zoomer here we're at the cutoff, its true the gap between late 90's and 2000's zoomers is unrealdon't worry about not understanding k-on, it was part of an era where ironic weebism was in its infancy and not all anime enjoyers of that time were on the hype train for moeshit
>>283205021>not understanding k-onI understand it, I just don't like it.There are other cute girls doing cute things shows I am fine with. Just didn't like the band stuff, character designs, and thought there wasn't much personality based on the first episode.
>>283205021Late 90s and early 2000s is a completely different generation depending on where you lived. I remember going to my uncle's place who had wifi and handpick shows I'd torrent because I didn't have the bandwidth back home. I'm a 98, my younger brother, a 2003, grew up with a PSP as his baseline. I was still emulating GBA games on a 500mb ram desktop at his age.As cringe as he is, Gigguk does have a point about the elitism that anime fans had back then since it was more of a niche thing.
>>283204204This. I very frequently watch stuff from the 00s that I missed, but who the hell wants to discuss Brigadoon in 2025?
>>283206695More people than you think but not enough to sustain a thread for more than a day.
>>283183292Im@s is still huge and selling out arenas. It's just a different type of otaku than you usually see on /a/ outside of the loli thread. Having to know Japanese is another problem entirely.
>>283180319They do because people on modern social media will shill the same "good" things that 4chan shills that its become it's own injoke where mediatok circlejerks over the VN/Anime shilled as "good". >Subahibi>Fata Morgana>Muramasa>Monogatari >Code Geass>Mushoku TenseietcBut it becomes basically powerscaling but with people saying how good the writing is instead of laserbeam strength and ranking the best pedophiles in fictionHonestly it makes me laugh my ass off
>>283175145Hetalia is still going strong in japan
Good AMV
>>283164259I didn’t like Baccano! that much, and I just finished watching it a while ago. The way the story weaves and intertwines is interesting, but I wouldn’t put it above Shoushimin or Odd Taxi in terms of writing. The premise is really the only thing that show has going for it. At least in Durarara!!, you have the main trio you can actually care about, while Baccano! only really has Isaac and Miria at best.
>>283171792I re-read the novels a few years back and thought it was still really funny. I was shocked when I found out it and Grand Blue have the same author though
>>283171869Higurashi still has a dedicated general on /jp/ which is more than can be said for most of the shows here
>>283171869Higurashi definitely still popular here and in the normalfag sphere. It's just been overshadowed by Umineko, for better or worse
>>283162675I always thought Log Horizon was boring as fuck honestly and I only bother to remember it because of the author coming here and holding Q&As on multiple occasions. Also it was funny when the news came out that he got arrested for tax evasion
>>283202342Because it was pure dogshit only carried by Hestia's boobstring
>>283207967And what kind of otakii would those be
>>283158940(You) could argue that Kon started it all, but there were previous manga and anime with musical band themes, like Beck. the only thing that k-on contributed with is giving a CGDCT an coat of music band, and the characters were vapid AF.Other series with girls doing music things understood the value of also presenting the musician struggles, at least partially and it proved to be a good formula.>>283160511>Darling in the FranxxAt first 02 had some attributes that generated interest, but then, the series were only relevant because how shit it was. We keep talking aboity it because of its golden lolcow status and its "wasted potential" thread cannon fodder.>>283162831>SAO predates>Typical SAOfag postWTF are (You) talking about? .Hack//SIGN was released when SAO were not even a Light Novel, but just a plain novel. Your people historic revisionism attempts are pathetic.>>283166525>Black lagoonS1 was fine, S2 was MEH / a fucking disaster, Roberta's bloodtrail is an abomination.>>283171496>excel SagaHoly based tastes! but what about Puni Puni Poemy?
>>283209958>Holy based tastes! but what about Puni Puni Poemy?I mean, I enjoyed it for what crazy antics it was but I wouldn't say it was as popular as Excel Saga was back in the day. Or at least I don't recall it being as popular.
The comic used to be everywhere on 4chan, now you rarely see it.
>>283210990When it comes up, I see it being called "Pop Team Reddit" now.
>>283209092People claimed it was better than SAO.
