mark my words
it already is
I don't think anime will ever truly be mainstream. There is simply too much prejudice against animated content. There will never come a time when my parents will seriously try anime.
>>287334027I'm sorry, Goku
>>287334027Hello person from 5 years ago.
>>287334154More like ten years.
>>287334027Woah, this time traveler is posting from 1995
>>287334112Don't be silly. It's still a niche, it's bigger than it was betore, but it's still a niche just like kpop is a niche. Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Naruto are outliers, not the norm.
>>287334528So you're claiming ALL anime will be mainstream in 5 years?
>>287334027It's not getting more mainstream than it is now.There'll be more mainstream anime, sure, but the medium has too much of a history of weirdness and ecchi, and there's a bias towards thinking animation is only for kids in the rest of the world.The only question is what it'll be. Omniscient reader will be as popular as Solo Levelling, but it's not going to reach Your Name or Chainsaw Man levels.
>>287334528>It's still a nicheto everyone except sentinel island and papua new guinea?yeah i guess you're right
>>287334027It's already mainstream. Every kid talks about it now, it's referenced everywhere, you even got weeb shops in malls. There's a popular anime themed pizza place where i live too.
>>287335307orv is not going to be as popular as slop leveling becuase it has character development and shounentards are allergic to it. the next superpopualr shit is probably one random battle shonen with good animation, happened with kny and jjk.
>>287334027Anon it's 2026, not 2016.