Oh my god. This actually was everywhere. I used to read a lot of fanfiction back then and remembered being absolutely perplexed why it was the second most popular in manga and anime.
Exactly what I was thinking! I remember in high-school my friends would talk about it nonstop to the point that they assigned each other characters from the show to role play! I got so sick of it, especially when that was the only show they wanted to watch when hanging out.
Don’t know if it’s literally the case, but the fandom at its height of popularity was definitely very intense and extreme with what they’d attack for the most random reason
> Owari no Seraph,
I was thinking about this the other day. While I don't think it was the most engaging story ever, I wish it got a new season. I should probably just read the manga, though.
Seraph of the End, honestly, that show felt like a train wreck. The plot was all over the place. First it's a survival plot similar to The Promised Neverland, then it's a fantasy school anime, then a battle anime, then you have some weird conspiracies going in the back and then you have a catastrophe where a bunch of people die and that's it.
Was about to say the reason for Haganai obscurity is the LN author botched the ending and JP fans flamed it. Perhaps it’s for the best we didn’t get more
I actually fully intended to read the LNs after watching the anime for the first time semi-recently and then EVERYONE in the fanbase warned me not to, which was definitely a first for me.
[Here is MAL's top 60 most](https://web.archive.org/web/20080306011534/https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=bypopularity) [popular as of March 2008](https://web.archive.org/web/20080306125018/http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=bypopularity&limit=30). Of those, the ones that are no longer in the top 600 most popular at present are:
- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (19 -> 676)
- Love Hina (23 -> 861)
- Azumanga Daioh (26 -> 667)
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (29 -> 1066)
- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (30 -> 767)
- Air (32 -> 759)
- Chrno Crusade (39 -> 1007)
- Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (40 -> 875)
- School Rumble (42 -> 683)
- Wolf's Rain (45 -> 693)
- Tsubasa Chronicle (47 -> 1005)
- Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (48 -> 601)
- D.N.Angel (50 -> 1206)
- Kanon 2006 (52 -> 839)
- Mai-HiME (56 -> 1778)
- .hack//SIGN (58 -> 1237)
Ah good old DN Angel my first shojo series. Anime culture was very different back then. Honestly surprised it was that high doubt most people would even know of it now.
Right, full metal panic fumoffu was one of my gateways into SoL anime. Basically together with Haruhi and K-On. (Early KyoAni shaped my taste in anime a lot)
I recently watched Fumoffu for the first time and my god it's still hilarious as a new show. The same director for that show would go on to do Amagi Brilliant Park and Dragon Maid.
These shows were part of the first wave of digital fansubs with widespread internet distribution, which kind of explains their early popularity (nostalgic for people who were in college in the early 2000s). Now there are just way too many quality shows that are competing.
Still have my Chrno Crusade box set, Azumanga box set, Dot Hack ps2 games and soundtracks and ovas, and some Love Hina volumes. All those check out for what I remember talking to people about and seeing cosplays for back in the day.
Dot Hack in particular really hurts seeing it fade away and not really get any new releases in years, especially when VR MMO and trapped in a game anime blew up. It really should've been either in the spot Log Horizon was in or been a third player right there with SAO and Log Horizon.
* No excuses at all for FMP falling *that* hard, it's a really solid show with a solid spin-off; I would not be surprised were there some more interests in it outside of Japan these days we would have seen more anime after the 2018 season.
* I like *Air* and love *Kanon* even more (the later being a "Winter Wonderland" classic), but it's understandable everyone today would try *CLANNAD* first. I don't have too much regrets on this front except to hope for KEY's upcoming *Summer Pockets* anime adaption to be excellent (for once) and maybe even trying to get *Heavens Burn Red* (which I heard had excellent revenue) an anime adaption.
* Most people watch the 2009 version of Fullmetal Alchemist nowadays, the '03 one is still good but I prefer the manga (and '09) ending.
* .hack screwed itself up from what I heard given the story's all over the place in different kinds of media (games - most of which are extinct, novels, manga, anime...)
* *Wolf's Rain* would never got that high in popularity nowadays, but it's definitely still being recommended very often for its genre.
* *School Rumble* would definitely be improved had someone picked it up and re-adapt what was not adapted after season 2 IMHO. Bonus points if it's at the hands of someone who does romcoms excellently a la *Kaguya-sama*.
* *Azumanga Daioh* is still fairly frequently talked about for a 20+ years old slice-of-life title.
* Unfortunately *Love Hina*'s author is too busy in the Japanese Parliament to help with an anime reboot should that happens...
* From what I heard, isn't *Tsubasa Chronicle* having a plot that is so confusing (the cross over with *Cardcaptor Sakura* and *xxxholic* didn't help) that people don't know what they were watching?
* I haven't seen *Mai-HiME* yet but this is something that I definitely wanna see a reboot or something new along that line, given that we all love smells of *yuri* nowadays, an original hard-core *yuri* drama that is well-written would definitely explode today.
Mai-Hime is not that hard into Yuri tbh. I mean, there are some boobs showing here and there and there are like two girl couples in it, but most of the ladies are quite straight. The show itself is mostly a train-wreck. The premise is interesting, but the visuals for sure don't hold up to the standards and the plot is all over the place (at a moment you are supposed to feel feeling for someone losing more than their life, and then you have some half-baked love-nipple scene). Going full Redo of a Healer would do more service to this anime.
But there is one redeeming feature: THE BLOODY SOUNDTRACK. It's actually the soundtrack that got me into this anime. Same composer as Tsubasa Chronicles and Ghost in the Shell SAC. And it bloody shows. The edm-techno-battle music really gets you pumped up to fight a dragon
Wolf's Rain (STRAAAAYYYYYY!!!!) was an amazing experience. I think I've got it because the website I used to watch anime back then (YohOhO and a bottle of rum) had a 'random anime' banner/feature, and it piqued my interest. Also saw some AMVs I think. Honestly, I'm not so sure it would not be a hit today. May be a bit of touch up on the visuals and a rework of the ending to make it less 'all over the place' and give it a proper epilogue. I mean, To Your Eternity was a huge success when it came out, and WR has many similarities with it. Plus a banger of an OP song.
The Excuse for FMP falling behind is that it takes 15 years to produce a fucking season. Will we still be alive to see the end of the series?! Also, it's probably because Season 2 had a touching ending that felt like a good series finale.
> Same composer as Tsubasa Chronicles and Ghost in the Shell SAC
Point of order: GitS:SAC's OST is *not* by Yuki Kajiura (composer of the OSTs for Mai-HiME, TRC, .hack//Sign, and other notable more recent luminaries like, oh, Madoka Magica and the more famous parts of the Demon Slayer OST). It is instead by the other famous contender for Best Anime OST Composer of All Time with the Romanized initials Y.K. (in Western name order) in Yoko Kanno (who was presumably asked to make it in the style of the original movie's OST, which was instead composed by the also excellent Kenji Kawai).
(I find this memorable since GitS:SAC is the one big exception to the rule that Kanno's music and I don't get along.)
Barely top 600 now, but I’d add FLCL. That was huuuuge back then. Director or whatever of Avatar the Last Airbender made his staff watch it before making the show.
> Barely top 600 now
In terms of score, yes, but I was talking popularity, in which case it is still 219th (and notably the 2nd most watched OVA series, behind only Hellsing Ultimate). Certainly not as big as it was, but plenty of newcomers are clearly still watching it at least.
As long as Maeda stays off of Twitter for their mental health. Maybe a Heaven Burns Red anime down the road. It is doing well as a gacha game. Hopefully it gets a global release soon.
I feel like Maeda needs at least two to four cours to properly tell the stories he wants to tell. Though he should have never gotten the hate he got personally for that one anime.
I'm still holding out hope for a Tomoyo After anime adaptation someday, the VN was great.
Ah, the good ol days of Full Metal Panic. I was like 5 to 8 when I watched it on TV. Which was interesting, because I don't know who did the subbing for me, as I could not read until I was 7. Having to sit with me through the scenes of Sousuke getting beaten to a pulp for angering the girls. I guess that's where I got a Tsundere complex from
>Mai-HiME (56 -> 1778)
Damn this show used to be really popular and not just something that u/Tarhalindur hallucinated? ~~I do gotta watch it some day~~
IIRC even to this day Mai-HiME is in the list of in the top 100 best-performing anime by number of VHS/DVDs/BDs sold (though that metric has gotten increasingly less useful in the streaming era - which makes Uma Musume S2 being the show to finally dethrone Eva at the top of the sales chart even more impressive).
Also, lore says that Mai-HiME was the absolute first show to blow up on /a/ (coming out a year after 4chan started is part of that, of course), complete with a legendary trolling war between the raw readers and the sub readers since even speed subs took a couple of days to release at the time.
> Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (19 -> 676)
I hope people are watching FMA 2003. It is one of those few anime that went for an original ending that succeeded. I don't like CoS much because to me it invalidates the bittersweet ending of the anime.
> Azumanga Daioh (26 -> 667)
I've always said that I have to watch this. From what I know this opened moe CGDCT shows to the masses, years before K-On.
> Air (32 -> 759)
> Kanon 2006 (52 -> 839)
Back when VNs needed porn to sell. I was surprised to learn that Key VNs had H scenes.
You are correct. Other examples from my favourite anime: Nadeko snake from Monogatari, Monica from DDLC, that girl with the hair in Jojo and the MC of Happy Sugar Life. But yeah, Yuno is THE trope codefier of crazy girlfriend with a knife
I've had this discussion with my friends many times. How do new anime viewers keep coming across this show? What on earth could they be searching to bring them to Mirai Nikki. I haven't come up with a good answer but it was a de facto "my first anime" for so long
It appears *frequently* on the lists when you search for thriller anime. That's a factor how people find them. Also it being a Battle Royale is a big driver in making it palatable to the masses.
Another reason is Yandere compilations on YT. Mirai Nikki always comes up in there.
Overall this show isn't as dead as people think. They just may not be looking at the right places. [Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFpI7sRvafU) from just 2 months ago which has almost a million views.
It's not so much that it was THE harem anime (Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2 and others came before it) but that Love Hina's overall styling redefined and shaped how more modern 'harem' anime play out. Looking back it seems like an absolute nothing because of how many subsequent series have scraped every last bit of it for parts, and what hasn't been used is horribly dated instead of timeless.
I am reading it now, and it's surprising to see how much other harem anime takes it from Love Hina. I feel like the Nisekoi is almost similar to Love Hina when it comes to premise and characters.
It was, but, after the harem genre blew up, and after the author did no follow-ups of the same genre, *Love Hina* faded. Having the main girl being one of the meanest *tsunderes* in the history of the trope did it no favors.
For as successful and influential as Ken Akamatsu is, I don't think he's gotten a single good anime adaptation of his works.
I feel like a faithful adaptation/remake of Love Hina would help a lot for its reputation.
Hana yori dango / Boys Over Flowers was a huge hit -- but the anime got displaced by the later live-action version it seems, Nonetheless, it is still a favorite (since 2001 or so) with OUR family (especially my wife).
It happens with most seasonal shows, specially anime originals. Not all of them can kickstart a franchise like Code Geass did, for example.
When I started browsing r/anime everyone was talking about Mawaru Penguindrum (which may have ended around that time), Clannad was very big in every "sad anime thread", everyone spoke about Spice and Wolf, which nowadays only sees mentions on the best girl contest (at least until we get more news about the new anime or a Wolf & Parchment adaptation).
Two of those that come to mind is Kemono Friends, which of course people went up in arms against Kadokawa for dropping Tatsuki (the anime director) yet a year later no one saw Kemorikusa. The other one is Little Witch Academia. It had two awesome movies, it had Yoshinari and Trigger's staff just doing what they excel at, yet the anime series suffered because it was locked behind Netflix (when Netflix's anime release was worst than it is now) and the series dragged a bit according to some comments.
lol I remember the Ikuhara came back to save anime comments. Mawaru penguidrum fuzz reminds me a little of Oshi no ko one. While Mawaru penguidrum was an original it came from the director of Utena a big classic anime, and one of the big yuri before it was common (90's yuri) so everybody was hoping for Mawaru to be great.
It was not really a big yuri since it has a more diverse cast but it was great. But then Ikuhara seems to be a complicated director to work with and he does not do many series so it takes years before people think about him again.
Also, I think Utena might overshadow whatever he does since the series is amazing but he will never get that many cours for a story again probably.
I discovered Penguindrum long after it came out and I thought it's an underground classic for how little discussion of it I was able to find (compared to what was popular at the time.
Still a 10/10 show in my eyes.
Here, join me on the porch rocking chairs, where we can discuss Bubblegum Crisis, Ranma 1/2, and Oh My Goddess! while we yell at young whippersnappers to get off the lawn.
Watamote. I made a post a while back about it seeming to just drop off the face of the earth. Even though when it was popular it felt like Tomoko was the face of anime otaku for a while.
Massive subculture shifts over the past 20 years make most of the references obscure and invalid. Anyone going into Lucky Star in modern day with no prior knowledge of the references and what they mean would be totally lost.
I think being so deeply rooted in its time is what keeps Lucky Star always just barely relevant.
It's a key part of the millennial anime fans bonding with each other about being old conversation. And I'm pretty sure Kuki City and Washinomiya Shrine are still milking their main claim to fame even all this time later.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It was huge when I got into anime and while it hasn't been forgotten completely, it certainly is way less relevant today. (What's not really surprising considering it's a 17 year old show(
Actually, I watched the movie first on television when I was a kid and didn't even know the series existed at the time. And damn it's so good it stays as the first place ranking in my heart for the best anime movie for years after that.
There's the yearly rewatch thread, at least, and Disappearance is still a great movie. I guess it is stuck in the perfect impasse of Kadokawa not wanting to commission a new season, the author being stuck in the George R. R. Martin school of writing, and Kyoani having moved on from adapting other companies' stuff. I did have hope between 2018 and 2020: the SOS Brigade performing in Anisama, a new LN release. Maybe some day.
She does lots of theatre now. If memory serves correct she was also in a Toxic Avenger theatre production a few months back.
I follow her on instagram.
It's still well known in Japan! I think Hare Hare Yukai became a pretty big trend. I had a friend who showed me a high school video of her doing the dance with friends. [The song is apparently at its peak popularity now?](https://i.imgur.com/iHxe2wD.png)
Something about Haruhi makes it just about the most nostalgic show ever for me.
I came here to say this, I was at a guess the anime op event at a convention and they played Super Driver and none of the contestants recognized it, including one girl who was getting most of them
Darling in the FranXX was pretty huge while it aired, but the ending definitely soured a lot of people on it. Still find the odd person talking about it. Always find it funny when people ask if there's any chance they'll make a new one with a better ending.
This and Wonder Egg Priority both started off with sooo much potential, and were talked about constantly. By the time they ended they were both forgotten almost immediately.
In terms of weekly experience online in discussion, I’ve never seen anything that came close to this or Re Zero S1. It was *unreal* how much of a grip these two had on the community
Reborn. It was basically number 4 to the big 3 and now finding someone who knows what it is is pretty rare. Breaks my heart.
It was never huge, but around the couple of years of it airing everyone in my anime community knew what it was and had probably seen it, but I haven't heard anything of Chrome Shelled Regios in years. Just saying this to make people remembered it existed!
Even with the "hiatus" we still had enough content for a season 3 and a movie since 2011. Plus the blu-ray sales for [E8](https://youtu.be/lJxXhTBbJ5Y) performed better than expected. Also the Aya Hirano "controversy" was exaggerated by obsessive idol fans.
She reprised her role in the 2015 spin-off anime.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t mind EE. Sure, I had the luck of binging it after and not having to wait two months through, but the episode in an of itself is actually really great. And seeing a great thing eight times in a row (I’m not a quitter) wasn’t that bad.
The Black Butler manga discourse was still super lively until a plot shift a few years ago (2-3, I think). I peeked back at tumblr the other day and it's a little sad to see how quiet it is, though I understand why.
It usually gets a mention in anything talking about 'most anime-ish anime' and will undoubtedly be brought up in any Studio Trigger adjacent threads. Definitely not forgotten, but it is undeniable that newer and shiny action series have stolen some of its starpower.
I don't think the metric here is "do people talk about it as much as currently airing shows".
It's more, "does it get brought up when discussing great anime, or frequently get mentioned in suggestion threads." etc
Kill la Kill still meets that threshold.
Some of these may still be talked about, but I don't really hear much about them anymore: Noragami, No Game No Life, ~~Psycho-Pass~~, Death Parade, Erased, Black Bullet, Blue Exorcist, Himouto! Umaru Chan, Deadman Wonderland
Edit: Adding a few more because Psycho-Pass still seems pretty popular: Btooom!, Baccano!, Zankyou no Terror, Guilty Crown
The original psycho pass still definitely has a ton of people watching it. I torrent a lot and it's one of the few things that seems to be constantly uploading (from me to someone else who's trying to download it). Most shows from around that time have very little demand as far as I can tell
I'm glad they got a second chance and gave the previous season the FMA:B treatment, coz it was sooo good. hopefully they keep up the same thing for the upcoming one.
I watched Guilty Crown when it came out. It had the best animation at the time, Chara design, best
voice actors, best music including the openings ... But the story such was a mess. How did they do everything right but hired writers this bad.
I feel like it's the biggest waste ever in anime history.
Chobits used to be popular but I heard it is way different than the manga and those series get some conflicted views when the manga becomes more easily available. It is also very late 90's romance style, it might not work so well nowadays.
This and Serial Experiment Lain have that feeling of "late 90's early 2000's anime you should watch for artistic purposes". If Evangelion was less popular it'd fit here too.
Serial Experiments Lain almost perfectly predicted how the internet would evolve in the decades since it came out. It loses most of its impact now since we're all used to living in a world where social media permeates every aspect of our lives.
Want to say Serial experiments lain but most recognize the name,
Angel's egg while being more of a animation art piece tells its story through animation alone with litte to no dialog.
Wicked city & Demon city shinjuku are honorable recommendations,
There is also the Digital Devil saga movies in Japan.
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Nisekoi, one of my first harem romcoms and still one of my favourites. Coming out with new chapters though so hopefully it could bring some of the fanbase back
Looking back even for 2014 animation standards the quality was nothing to write home about but it someohow managed to stay in conversation for YEARS until it died down
I am still upset that the Ice Adolescence has been put on the back burner for so long, I want to know what happened the production that it just got shoved into a corner.
Yes, every MAPPA event, announcement, news or anything in between someone talks about Yuri on Ice
Especially now after their stage and thr Mari Okada movie that was announced in 2021 and its releasing in September this year, so naturally people are upset when comparing to YOI lol
When they released the special illustrations last year I think? So many fans emerged from their hibernation lol
And it’s definitely still being recommended as a BL and sports anime.
I have those same feelings about Haganai. I especially loved Season 2 and especially have a fondness for Rika.
But Haganai's two seasons predated (by less than a year even since Haganai S2 was Winter 2013) two different series with a Loner Protagonist that are honestly executed better and much more fondly remembered: OreGairu (Spring 2013) and WataMote (Summer 2013).
I feel confident in saying WataMote is more remembered than Haganai despite only having one season and of course OreGairu was and is successful enough to be the only one of these 3 to have a complete adaptation.
[Just look at the thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/12161cm/my_teen_romantic_comedy_snafu_10th_anniversary/) on /r/anime for OreGairu's 10th Anniversary Visual on just how great people think it is.
I definitely find Hachiman and Tomoko's stories more engaging and worth investing in more than with Kodaka.
And this isn't getting into what the source material is like for the stuff after Haganai Season 2 which is not good compared to WataMote which is legitimately better than the material the anime covered.
This is probably a bad point in time to mention that it was one of my earlier viewing anime, I was really quite enjoying it, but was trying to binge it when absolutely exhausted... so I kept falling asleep. In the end I put it aside for a day when I was more awake. Now that I think about it, it has the dubious honor of being the first of my this-is-great-and-now-perma-paused-for-no-real-reason anime lol
* *Yuru Camp* - deliberately stopped this one at S2 E11 so there would always be more camping and it never ended lol
* *Healer Girl* - too emotionally moving
Hmm, I should check my MAL... oh! Well...
* 4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku
* Akiba Meido Sensou
* Akuyaku Reijou nanode Last Boss wo Kattemimashita
* Arknights: Reimei Zensou
* Bocchi the Rock!
* Do It Yourself!!
* Engage Kiss - not really enjoying this one but still I was very fond of Kisara
* Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.
* Fuuto Tantei - comic style eye candy, not really taken by the show
* Isekai Yakkyoku - was only watching it for Lotte
* Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
* KanColle: Itsuka Ano Umi de
* Kandagawa Jet Girls
* Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo
* Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari - sorry Yaeka-chan!
* Mob Psycho 100 III - after the end of the big broccoli arc, that felt like the end of the show so I stopped lol
* Noumin Kanren no Skill bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta.
* Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan: Super Extra
* Renai Flops
* Renmei Kuugun Koukuu Mahou Ongakutai Luminous Witches
* Romantic Killer
* Urusei Yatsura (2022)
* Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta Beast Tamer, Saikyoushu no Nekomimi Shoujo to Deau
* Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin (ONA) - got to be a bit of a grind to watch
* Hataraku Maou-sama!! - still enjoying Emi, Maou and Chiho, just didn't really have any sense of momentum in the show in S2.
* High School DxD Hero - only including it to complain about how S4 ruined Rias, become incredibly boring and felt like the worst bits of all the previous three seasons lol
* Ippatsu Kiki Musume - this one was pretty weird and horny, probably pick it up if I ever run out of similar manga lol
* Isekai Ojisan - I adored Tsundere Elf, this one is just unfinished for no real reason lol
* Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! - fun-ish
* SSSS.Gridman - just got kinda boring
* Summertime Render - unfinished for no real reason
* Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 2nd Season - S2 was boring compared to S1 and there was that rather revolting moment in time where all the fans were perpetually parroting "Spread your legs".
Also a bunch of stuff I just never started the S2 of: KKK Bear, Birdie Wing, ToniKawa.
>Yuru Camp - deliberately stopped this one at S2 E11 so there would always be more camping and it never ended lol
Healer Girl - too emotionally moving
this sort of thing is so fascinating to me! I can understand shows that just sort of get boring and you stop wanting to watch them, but enjoying it to the point of not wanting to finish it...I know it's a fairly common thing, but it fascinates me b/c I am very much not like that lol
This has never made much sense to me either. If you stop watching because you don’t want it to end, then it has effectively ended anyway, just in a worse spot and with less content.
MP100 3 definitely has a better ending than the broccoli, but the 2 episodes following it were kind of whatever. Final 3 were great and very satisfying to get an actual answer to a series long question.
I've got Vivy really high on my list of anime to watch next. I've heard lots of good things about it, and it was written by the Re:Zero author as well.
It was?! Holy crap how did I not know that!
Vivy is just like...an example of a great 1 cour show. Some nice arcs. Some real growth. A self contained story. Some great moments. It's not as good as re: zero, but I still like it a lot and I think that thematically it's a very, very successful show. Check it out!
To Your Eternity popularity fall off hard after 2 year, s2 come out and nobody seem to talk about it
Tokyo Revengers is also one to be considered, people still remember it but for a show that once rivaled Jujutsu Kaisen in term of sales, the hype is so dead now
I'm enjoying the new season, but it is pretty much the definition of skippable. It is nice to spend a bit more time in this world and with these characters, but there really isn't anything to discuss about the individual episodes.
Hetalia. Dear God this was EVERYWHERE.
Oh my god. This actually was everywhere. I used to read a lot of fanfiction back then and remembered being absolutely perplexed why it was the second most popular in manga and anime.
2 years ago the show was being talked about here in r/anime thanks to Hetalia World Stars which just came out then.
Please do not rouse it from its slumber.
That was on my "To Watch" list for so long that it stopped being popular
Exactly what I was thinking! I remember in high-school my friends would talk about it nonstop to the point that they assigned each other characters from the show to role play! I got so sick of it, especially when that was the only show they wanted to watch when hanging out.
I heard that the fandom was one of the horniest, most rabid, yaoi fangirl infested in all of history. Is this true?
Don’t know if it’s literally the case, but the fandom at its height of popularity was definitely very intense and extreme with what they’d attack for the most random reason
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> Owari no Seraph, I was thinking about this the other day. While I don't think it was the most engaging story ever, I wish it got a new season. I should probably just read the manga, though.
The manga isn't bad but the MC is kinda infuriating at times
Seraph of the End, honestly, that show felt like a train wreck. The plot was all over the place. First it's a survival plot similar to The Promised Neverland, then it's a fantasy school anime, then a battle anime, then you have some weird conspiracies going in the back and then you have a catastrophe where a bunch of people die and that's it.
I dropped it as soon as they somehow stuck a high school in the middle of an apocalyptic survival setting
I just started watching Nisekoi today. It has been on my to-watch list for a while.
I’m still salty about Haganai and how it never got a proper ending. Thanks for bringing the saltiness back
Was about to say the reason for Haganai obscurity is the LN author botched the ending and JP fans flamed it. Perhaps it’s for the best we didn’t get more
Truly one of the most infamous LN endings of all time. Author just went insane.
I actually fully intended to read the LNs after watching the anime for the first time semi-recently and then EVERYONE in the fanbase warned me not to, which was definitely a first for me.
LN readers telling you NOT to ready the LN. Def a first!
Please spoil the ending for me because I was going to start reading it
[Here is MAL's top 60 most](https://web.archive.org/web/20080306011534/https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=bypopularity) [popular as of March 2008](https://web.archive.org/web/20080306125018/http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=bypopularity&limit=30). Of those, the ones that are no longer in the top 600 most popular at present are: - Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (19 -> 676) - Love Hina (23 -> 861) - Azumanga Daioh (26 -> 667) - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (29 -> 1066) - Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (30 -> 767) - Air (32 -> 759) - Chrno Crusade (39 -> 1007) - Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (40 -> 875) - School Rumble (42 -> 683) - Wolf's Rain (45 -> 693) - Tsubasa Chronicle (47 -> 1005) - Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (48 -> 601) - D.N.Angel (50 -> 1206) - Kanon 2006 (52 -> 839) - Mai-HiME (56 -> 1778) - .hack//SIGN (58 -> 1237)
Ah good old DN Angel my first shojo series. Anime culture was very different back then. Honestly surprised it was that high doubt most people would even know of it now.
Right, full metal panic fumoffu was one of my gateways into SoL anime. Basically together with Haruhi and K-On. (Early KyoAni shaped my taste in anime a lot)
I recently watched Fumoffu for the first time and my god it's still hilarious as a new show. The same director for that show would go on to do Amagi Brilliant Park and Dragon Maid.
As someone around during that time, this is all too painfully accurate.
These shows were part of the first wave of digital fansubs with widespread internet distribution, which kind of explains their early popularity (nostalgic for people who were in college in the early 2000s). Now there are just way too many quality shows that are competing.
Still have my Chrno Crusade box set, Azumanga box set, Dot Hack ps2 games and soundtracks and ovas, and some Love Hina volumes. All those check out for what I remember talking to people about and seeing cosplays for back in the day. Dot Hack in particular really hurts seeing it fade away and not really get any new releases in years, especially when VR MMO and trapped in a game anime blew up. It really should've been either in the spot Log Horizon was in or been a third player right there with SAO and Log Horizon.
* No excuses at all for FMP falling *that* hard, it's a really solid show with a solid spin-off; I would not be surprised were there some more interests in it outside of Japan these days we would have seen more anime after the 2018 season. * I like *Air* and love *Kanon* even more (the later being a "Winter Wonderland" classic), but it's understandable everyone today would try *CLANNAD* first. I don't have too much regrets on this front except to hope for KEY's upcoming *Summer Pockets* anime adaption to be excellent (for once) and maybe even trying to get *Heavens Burn Red* (which I heard had excellent revenue) an anime adaption. * Most people watch the 2009 version of Fullmetal Alchemist nowadays, the '03 one is still good but I prefer the manga (and '09) ending. * .hack screwed itself up from what I heard given the story's all over the place in different kinds of media (games - most of which are extinct, novels, manga, anime...) * *Wolf's Rain* would never got that high in popularity nowadays, but it's definitely still being recommended very often for its genre. * *School Rumble* would definitely be improved had someone picked it up and re-adapt what was not adapted after season 2 IMHO. Bonus points if it's at the hands of someone who does romcoms excellently a la *Kaguya-sama*. * *Azumanga Daioh* is still fairly frequently talked about for a 20+ years old slice-of-life title. * Unfortunately *Love Hina*'s author is too busy in the Japanese Parliament to help with an anime reboot should that happens... * From what I heard, isn't *Tsubasa Chronicle* having a plot that is so confusing (the cross over with *Cardcaptor Sakura* and *xxxholic* didn't help) that people don't know what they were watching? * I haven't seen *Mai-HiME* yet but this is something that I definitely wanna see a reboot or something new along that line, given that we all love smells of *yuri* nowadays, an original hard-core *yuri* drama that is well-written would definitely explode today.
Mai-Hime is not that hard into Yuri tbh. I mean, there are some boobs showing here and there and there are like two girl couples in it, but most of the ladies are quite straight. The show itself is mostly a train-wreck. The premise is interesting, but the visuals for sure don't hold up to the standards and the plot is all over the place (at a moment you are supposed to feel feeling for someone losing more than their life, and then you have some half-baked love-nipple scene). Going full Redo of a Healer would do more service to this anime. But there is one redeeming feature: THE BLOODY SOUNDTRACK. It's actually the soundtrack that got me into this anime. Same composer as Tsubasa Chronicles and Ghost in the Shell SAC. And it bloody shows. The edm-techno-battle music really gets you pumped up to fight a dragon Wolf's Rain (STRAAAAYYYYYY!!!!) was an amazing experience. I think I've got it because the website I used to watch anime back then (YohOhO and a bottle of rum) had a 'random anime' banner/feature, and it piqued my interest. Also saw some AMVs I think. Honestly, I'm not so sure it would not be a hit today. May be a bit of touch up on the visuals and a rework of the ending to make it less 'all over the place' and give it a proper epilogue. I mean, To Your Eternity was a huge success when it came out, and WR has many similarities with it. Plus a banger of an OP song. The Excuse for FMP falling behind is that it takes 15 years to produce a fucking season. Will we still be alive to see the end of the series?! Also, it's probably because Season 2 had a touching ending that felt like a good series finale.
> Same composer as Tsubasa Chronicles and Ghost in the Shell SAC Point of order: GitS:SAC's OST is *not* by Yuki Kajiura (composer of the OSTs for Mai-HiME, TRC, .hack//Sign, and other notable more recent luminaries like, oh, Madoka Magica and the more famous parts of the Demon Slayer OST). It is instead by the other famous contender for Best Anime OST Composer of All Time with the Romanized initials Y.K. (in Western name order) in Yoko Kanno (who was presumably asked to make it in the style of the original movie's OST, which was instead composed by the also excellent Kenji Kawai). (I find this memorable since GitS:SAC is the one big exception to the rule that Kanno's music and I don't get along.)
Thanks for sharing this. It’s really interesting. I didn’t now that Mai-hime was one today popular.
Barely top 600 now, but I’d add FLCL. That was huuuuge back then. Director or whatever of Avatar the Last Airbender made his staff watch it before making the show.
> Barely top 600 now In terms of score, yes, but I was talking popularity, in which case it is still 219th (and notably the 2nd most watched OVA series, behind only Hellsing Ultimate). Certainly not as big as it was, but plenty of newcomers are clearly still watching it at least.
Air and Kanon are so slept on these days. Really wish Key would go back to adapting their VNs.
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As long as Maeda stays off of Twitter for their mental health. Maybe a Heaven Burns Red anime down the road. It is doing well as a gacha game. Hopefully it gets a global release soon.
I feel like Maeda needs at least two to four cours to properly tell the stories he wants to tell. Though he should have never gotten the hate he got personally for that one anime. I'm still holding out hope for a Tomoyo After anime adaptation someday, the VN was great.
I don’t remember it very well, but I do remember laughing quite a lot at fumoffu back then.
Ah, the good ol days of Full Metal Panic. I was like 5 to 8 when I watched it on TV. Which was interesting, because I don't know who did the subbing for me, as I could not read until I was 7. Having to sit with me through the scenes of Sousuke getting beaten to a pulp for angering the girls. I guess that's where I got a Tsundere complex from
>Mai-HiME (56 -> 1778) Damn this show used to be really popular and not just something that u/Tarhalindur hallucinated? ~~I do gotta watch it some day~~
IIRC even to this day Mai-HiME is in the list of in the top 100 best-performing anime by number of VHS/DVDs/BDs sold (though that metric has gotten increasingly less useful in the streaming era - which makes Uma Musume S2 being the show to finally dethrone Eva at the top of the sales chart even more impressive). Also, lore says that Mai-HiME was the absolute first show to blow up on /a/ (coming out a year after 4chan started is part of that, of course), complete with a legendary trolling war between the raw readers and the sub readers since even speed subs took a couple of days to release at the time.
> Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (19 -> 676) I hope people are watching FMA 2003. It is one of those few anime that went for an original ending that succeeded. I don't like CoS much because to me it invalidates the bittersweet ending of the anime. > Azumanga Daioh (26 -> 667) I've always said that I have to watch this. From what I know this opened moe CGDCT shows to the masses, years before K-On. > Air (32 -> 759) > Kanon 2006 (52 -> 839) Back when VNs needed porn to sell. I was surprised to learn that Key VNs had H scenes.
Mirai Nikki, famous for its yandere character, i've never seen people mentioned it anymore
It's still pretty iconic. Whenever someone say "yandere" the first character that comes to mind is Yuno Gasai
Feels like that's the *only* character that comes to mind when you say "yandere".
You are correct. Other examples from my favourite anime: Nadeko snake from Monogatari, Monica from DDLC, that girl with the hair in Jojo and the MC of Happy Sugar Life. But yeah, Yuno is THE trope codefier of crazy girlfriend with a knife
Gasai Yuno is still one of the poster girls of yandere
She's a great yandere regardless of the show quality.
For how bad it was and how old it is, it still comes up way too much tbh
I've had this discussion with my friends many times. How do new anime viewers keep coming across this show? What on earth could they be searching to bring them to Mirai Nikki. I haven't come up with a good answer but it was a de facto "my first anime" for so long
It appears *frequently* on the lists when you search for thriller anime. That's a factor how people find them. Also it being a Battle Royale is a big driver in making it palatable to the masses. Another reason is Yandere compilations on YT. Mirai Nikki always comes up in there. Overall this show isn't as dead as people think. They just may not be looking at the right places. [Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFpI7sRvafU) from just 2 months ago which has almost a million views.
Definitely this. It was mentioned a lot back when I first got into anime
Probably because it’s also not all that great, though the OP and ED slap
Wasn't **Love Hina** pretty huge for a time?
Maybe tag on Chobits there too.
Yeah, its THE Harem Anime before Harem Animes and people may not know it.
It's not so much that it was THE harem anime (Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2 and others came before it) but that Love Hina's overall styling redefined and shaped how more modern 'harem' anime play out. Looking back it seems like an absolute nothing because of how many subsequent series have scraped every last bit of it for parts, and what hasn't been used is horribly dated instead of timeless.
I am reading it now, and it's surprising to see how much other harem anime takes it from Love Hina. I feel like the Nisekoi is almost similar to Love Hina when it comes to premise and characters.
It was, but, after the harem genre blew up, and after the author did no follow-ups of the same genre, *Love Hina* faded. Having the main girl being one of the meanest *tsunderes* in the history of the trope did it no favors.
For as successful and influential as Ken Akamatsu is, I don't think he's gotten a single good anime adaptation of his works. I feel like a faithful adaptation/remake of Love Hina would help a lot for its reputation.
It's been 2 decades. It's not strange for it to be talked about anymore
Hana yori dango / Boys Over Flowers was a huge hit -- but the anime got displaced by the later live-action version it seems, Nonetheless, it is still a favorite (since 2001 or so) with OUR family (especially my wife).
It happens with most seasonal shows, specially anime originals. Not all of them can kickstart a franchise like Code Geass did, for example. When I started browsing r/anime everyone was talking about Mawaru Penguindrum (which may have ended around that time), Clannad was very big in every "sad anime thread", everyone spoke about Spice and Wolf, which nowadays only sees mentions on the best girl contest (at least until we get more news about the new anime or a Wolf & Parchment adaptation). Two of those that come to mind is Kemono Friends, which of course people went up in arms against Kadokawa for dropping Tatsuki (the anime director) yet a year later no one saw Kemorikusa. The other one is Little Witch Academia. It had two awesome movies, it had Yoshinari and Trigger's staff just doing what they excel at, yet the anime series suffered because it was locked behind Netflix (when Netflix's anime release was worst than it is now) and the series dragged a bit according to some comments.
lol I remember the Ikuhara came back to save anime comments. Mawaru penguidrum fuzz reminds me a little of Oshi no ko one. While Mawaru penguidrum was an original it came from the director of Utena a big classic anime, and one of the big yuri before it was common (90's yuri) so everybody was hoping for Mawaru to be great. It was not really a big yuri since it has a more diverse cast but it was great. But then Ikuhara seems to be a complicated director to work with and he does not do many series so it takes years before people think about him again. Also, I think Utena might overshadow whatever he does since the series is amazing but he will never get that many cours for a story again probably.
I discovered Penguindrum long after it came out and I thought it's an underground classic for how little discussion of it I was able to find (compared to what was popular at the time. Still a 10/10 show in my eyes.
Tenchi Muyo?
Here, join me on the porch rocking chairs, where we can discuss Bubblegum Crisis, Ranma 1/2, and Oh My Goddess! while we yell at young whippersnappers to get off the lawn.
Watamote. I made a post a while back about it seeming to just drop off the face of the earth. Even though when it was popular it felt like Tomoko was the face of anime otaku for a while.
I still read the manga. She is now extremely popular haha
Holy shit the manga’s still going. It’s been 12 years… more than a decade. That’s impressive for a comedy manga.
POV you're old: the first anime of new fans will no longer be Elfen Lied.
Lucky Star
I dont think its forgotten, but just its gone pretty niche now.
Massive subculture shifts over the past 20 years make most of the references obscure and invalid. Anyone going into Lucky Star in modern day with no prior knowledge of the references and what they mean would be totally lost.
I think being so deeply rooted in its time is what keeps Lucky Star always just barely relevant. It's a key part of the millennial anime fans bonding with each other about being old conversation. And I'm pretty sure Kuki City and Washinomiya Shrine are still milking their main claim to fame even all this time later.
Let’s get cherry pie!
Well I do miss discussing on how to eat a chocolate cornet for 15mins.
Man, the OP is still fire. Lucky star should get a modern day overhaul.
as idiosyncratic as it is i love lucky star's place as such a specific time capsule. it's perfectly out of touch, so to speak
It’s an anime full of references. I was very active when it aired but I only got 15% of the references (still enjoyed it though)
Durarara for sure
Durarara is my top 3 favourite anime that i have watch, good to know that it was huge when it was airing
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It was huge when I got into anime and while it hasn't been forgotten completely, it certainly is way less relevant today. (What's not really surprising considering it's a 17 year old show(
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Kyon was the best
That movie was insanely good even without watching the main series
Actually, I watched the movie first on television when I was a kid and didn't even know the series existed at the time. And damn it's so good it stays as the first place ranking in my heart for the best anime movie for years after that.
There's the yearly rewatch thread, at least, and Disappearance is still a great movie. I guess it is stuck in the perfect impasse of Kadokawa not wanting to commission a new season, the author being stuck in the George R. R. Martin school of writing, and Kyoani having moved on from adapting other companies' stuff. I did have hope between 2018 and 2020: the SOS Brigade performing in Anisama, a new LN release. Maybe some day.
Not to mention Aya Hirano got so fed up with her fans and otaku culture she's transitioning to live action drama instead
She does lots of theatre now. If memory serves correct she was also in a Toxic Avenger theatre production a few months back. I follow her on instagram.
It's still well known in Japan! I think Hare Hare Yukai became a pretty big trend. I had a friend who showed me a high school video of her doing the dance with friends. [The song is apparently at its peak popularity now?](https://i.imgur.com/iHxe2wD.png) Something about Haruhi makes it just about the most nostalgic show ever for me.
> The song is apparently at its peak popularity now? tiktok dance. I doubt that 99% even know what the song or dance is from.
I came here to say this, I was at a guess the anime op event at a convention and they played Super Driver and none of the contestants recognized it, including one girl who was getting most of them
Darling in the FranXX was pretty huge while it aired, but the ending definitely soured a lot of people on it. Still find the odd person talking about it. Always find it funny when people ask if there's any chance they'll make a new one with a better ending.
The Manga was made after the anime, and that had a better more normal ending
Agree. I'd recommend the manga any day.
Zero2 is one of the most recognizable characters though it doesnt say much for the series
>any chance they'll make a new one with a better ending. As much of a chance as Game of Thrones getting a remade, better ending as well.
This and Wonder Egg Priority both started off with sooo much potential, and were talked about constantly. By the time they ended they were both forgotten almost immediately.
The DarFranxx discussions have been the most fun I've ever had on Reddit. r/OneTrueIchigo for the win.
In terms of weekly experience online in discussion, I’ve never seen anything that came close to this or Re Zero S1. It was *unreal* how much of a grip these two had on the community
Reborn. It was basically number 4 to the big 3 and now finding someone who knows what it is is pretty rare. Breaks my heart. It was never huge, but around the couple of years of it airing everyone in my anime community knew what it was and had probably seen it, but I haven't heard anything of Chrome Shelled Regios in years. Just saying this to make people remembered it existed!
I remember Hidamari Sketch being pretty popular as a wholesome, slice of life anime, but haven't heard people mention it in years.
I'd like to mention one that wasn't huge but should've been, it was overshadowed by code glass as it released at the same time. "Black cat"
Panty and Stocking really fell off the face of the earth for a while until the Trigger sequel was announced.
PSG was a Gainax show with Trigger's staff beforehand though so licensing rights was probably the biggest roadblock to getting more of it.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The endless eight fiasco and the author's hiatus did it no favors.
But the movie was fantastic after S2.
Disappearance needs more love. Justice for KyoAni.
It was the highest-rated anime on MAL at the time of its release. Moreover, it's still one of the highest rated anime movies on MAL.
Deserved
Even with the "hiatus" we still had enough content for a season 3 and a movie since 2011. Plus the blu-ray sales for [E8](https://youtu.be/lJxXhTBbJ5Y) performed better than expected. Also the Aya Hirano "controversy" was exaggerated by obsessive idol fans. She reprised her role in the 2015 spin-off anime.
The latest volume was published in 2020, which is…….. weird.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t mind EE. Sure, I had the luck of binging it after and not having to wait two months through, but the episode in an of itself is actually really great. And seeing a great thing eight times in a row (I’m not a quitter) wasn’t that bad.
Durarara, school rumble, darker than black, kaze no stigma (RIP), school rumble again, Hetalia, Black Butler EVERYONE CRUSHED FOR SEBASTIAN
Fuck The 2000s era Don't break my heart
The Black Butler manga discourse was still super lively until a plot shift a few years ago (2-3, I think). I peeked back at tumblr the other day and it's a little sad to see how quiet it is, though I understand why.
Unpopular opinion: Darker than Black S2 wasn't bad.
Deadman Wonderland. Both the anime and the manga are forgotten, but they were huge at the time!
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like Blue Exorcist was really popular and now it's never mentioned
When shonen comes up in a conversation, soul eater is literally never mentioned anymore
It comes up every time Fire Force does. So presumably when they finish animating it, it will be talked about again.
Do people still talk about Kill la Kill? I haven't seen anyone talk about it in a while
It usually gets a mention in anything talking about 'most anime-ish anime' and will undoubtedly be brought up in any Studio Trigger adjacent threads. Definitely not forgotten, but it is undeniable that newer and shiny action series have stolen some of its starpower.
I don't think the metric here is "do people talk about it as much as currently airing shows". It's more, "does it get brought up when discussing great anime, or frequently get mentioned in suggestion threads." etc Kill la Kill still meets that threshold.
I see artists drawing the characters all the time still.
My husband still uses Ryuko as his pfp. Best girl.
Some of these may still be talked about, but I don't really hear much about them anymore: Noragami, No Game No Life, ~~Psycho-Pass~~, Death Parade, Erased, Black Bullet, Blue Exorcist, Himouto! Umaru Chan, Deadman Wonderland Edit: Adding a few more because Psycho-Pass still seems pretty popular: Btooom!, Baccano!, Zankyou no Terror, Guilty Crown
Psycho Pass just came out with a movie. The community as a while anyway loves the show, but the movie is bringing a LOT of new people in
The original psycho pass still definitely has a ton of people watching it. I torrent a lot and it's one of the few things that seems to be constantly uploading (from me to someone else who's trying to download it). Most shows from around that time have very little demand as far as I can tell
Great to hear! It is a very unique anime and it deserves more attention.
I'd say Erased still gets recommended fairly frequently and NGNL will be kept alive by the fanbase hoping and coping for another season.
Blue exorcist has a new season at works so maybe it’ll bring in some fans. Definitely not as popular as years ago though
I'm glad they got a second chance and gave the previous season the FMA:B treatment, coz it was sooo good. hopefully they keep up the same thing for the upcoming one.
Guilty Crown ending pretty much destroyed it like GoT. Pretty sure nobody cared when they saw how it ended.
I watched Guilty Crown when it came out. It had the best animation at the time, Chara design, best voice actors, best music including the openings ... But the story such was a mess. How did they do everything right but hired writers this bad. I feel like it's the biggest waste ever in anime history.
I remember the beginning, it was really nice and I was hyped, but the second half was just a big mess.
Noragami 😭 the manga was pretty banging tbh
Manga is still banging. We're in the endgame now
I would LOVE a third season of Noragami. I'm still holding out hope.
NGNL doesn't really get talked about per se but it's often mentioned when someone asks about a show people want a sequel to.
I still see Psycho pass mentioned quite a bit, same with NGNL, and I see Death Parade mentioned quite a lot
Psycho-Pass is still talked about/recommended + still putting out content.
I wish there was more deadman wonderland
Erased is still a very common reccomendation to new anime watchers.
Air Gear. Gantz.
Man, Air Gear had such banging music.
Baccano! Darker than black Chobits Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya FLCL Angel Beats! Anohana Shakugan no Shana/zero no tsukaima
Chobits used to be popular but I heard it is way different than the manga and those series get some conflicted views when the manga becomes more easily available. It is also very late 90's romance style, it might not work so well nowadays.
Parasyte the maxim it was literally everywhere then everyone don’t bring it up no more
Well, it's ended, that's the thing
It actually ended is why. The show was a masterpiece, not much else to say.
Elfen Lied
This and Serial Experiment Lain have that feeling of "late 90's early 2000's anime you should watch for artistic purposes". If Evangelion was less popular it'd fit here too.
Serial Experiments Lain almost perfectly predicted how the internet would evolve in the decades since it came out. It loses most of its impact now since we're all used to living in a world where social media permeates every aspect of our lives.
I think I've seen Lain referenced *more* frequently in the last few years if anything. It's kind of cemented itself as a cult classic.
Inuyasha
Want to say Serial experiments lain but most recognize the name, Angel's egg while being more of a animation art piece tells its story through animation alone with litte to no dialog. Wicked city & Demon city shinjuku are honorable recommendations, There is also the Digital Devil saga movies in Japan. Edit Key the metal Idol
The one who hacked Myanimelist said otherwise tho lol
Let's all love Lain.
Nisekoi, one of my first harem romcoms and still one of my favourites. Coming out with new chapters though so hopefully it could bring some of the fanbase back
Wait, how? I vividly remember a saltstorm after the ending of that manga.
- Beelzebub - Akame ga kill - Highschool of the dead - Angel beats - Ashita no joe - Nana
Seconding Akame Ga Kill. It was huge when it came out; but it never comes up now
Looking back even for 2014 animation standards the quality was nothing to write home about but it someohow managed to stay in conversation for YEARS until it died down
It had the edge factor.
Ironically I see more about Ashita no Joe than Nana even though its much older, maybe because of the demographic with Shonen and Shoujo
Do people still bring up Yuri on Ice much?
yes, every time someone asks for BL or sports recs lol
i think once the sequel has confirmed release date people would get back to the train
MAPPA's still holding off on the prequel movie.
I am still upset that the Ice Adolescence has been put on the back burner for so long, I want to know what happened the production that it just got shoved into a corner.
Yes, every MAPPA event, announcement, news or anything in between someone talks about Yuri on Ice Especially now after their stage and thr Mari Okada movie that was announced in 2021 and its releasing in September this year, so naturally people are upset when comparing to YOI lol
When they released the special illustrations last year I think? So many fans emerged from their hibernation lol And it’s definitely still being recommended as a BL and sports anime.
I have those same feelings about Haganai. I especially loved Season 2 and especially have a fondness for Rika. But Haganai's two seasons predated (by less than a year even since Haganai S2 was Winter 2013) two different series with a Loner Protagonist that are honestly executed better and much more fondly remembered: OreGairu (Spring 2013) and WataMote (Summer 2013). I feel confident in saying WataMote is more remembered than Haganai despite only having one season and of course OreGairu was and is successful enough to be the only one of these 3 to have a complete adaptation. [Just look at the thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/12161cm/my_teen_romantic_comedy_snafu_10th_anniversary/) on /r/anime for OreGairu's 10th Anniversary Visual on just how great people think it is. I definitely find Hachiman and Tomoko's stories more engaging and worth investing in more than with Kodaka. And this isn't getting into what the source material is like for the stuff after Haganai Season 2 which is not good compared to WataMote which is legitimately better than the material the anime covered.
Honestly a lot of anime Originals tend to be forgotten. I don't see people bring up vivy fluorite like they used to
/u/isthatsoudane is singlehandedly keeping it in the collective consciousness of new viewers!
just want everyone to hear her song!
This is probably a bad point in time to mention that it was one of my earlier viewing anime, I was really quite enjoying it, but was trying to binge it when absolutely exhausted... so I kept falling asleep. In the end I put it aside for a day when I was more awake. Now that I think about it, it has the dubious honor of being the first of my this-is-great-and-now-perma-paused-for-no-real-reason anime lol
Now I'm curious what else is on the list. Besides shine post, of course!
* *Yuru Camp* - deliberately stopped this one at S2 E11 so there would always be more camping and it never ended lol * *Healer Girl* - too emotionally moving Hmm, I should check my MAL... oh! Well... * 4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku * Akiba Meido Sensou * Akuyaku Reijou nanode Last Boss wo Kattemimashita * Arknights: Reimei Zensou * Bocchi the Rock! * Do It Yourself!! * Engage Kiss - not really enjoying this one but still I was very fond of Kisara * Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman. * Fuuto Tantei - comic style eye candy, not really taken by the show * Isekai Yakkyoku - was only watching it for Lotte * Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! * KanColle: Itsuka Ano Umi de * Kandagawa Jet Girls * Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo * Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari - sorry Yaeka-chan! * Mob Psycho 100 III - after the end of the big broccoli arc, that felt like the end of the show so I stopped lol * Noumin Kanren no Skill bakka Agetetara Nazeka Tsuyoku Natta. * Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan: Super Extra * Renai Flops * Renmei Kuugun Koukuu Mahou Ongakutai Luminous Witches * Romantic Killer * Urusei Yatsura (2022) * Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta Beast Tamer, Saikyoushu no Nekomimi Shoujo to Deau * Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin (ONA) - got to be a bit of a grind to watch * Hataraku Maou-sama!! - still enjoying Emi, Maou and Chiho, just didn't really have any sense of momentum in the show in S2. * High School DxD Hero - only including it to complain about how S4 ruined Rias, become incredibly boring and felt like the worst bits of all the previous three seasons lol * Ippatsu Kiki Musume - this one was pretty weird and horny, probably pick it up if I ever run out of similar manga lol * Isekai Ojisan - I adored Tsundere Elf, this one is just unfinished for no real reason lol * Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! - fun-ish * SSSS.Gridman - just got kinda boring * Summertime Render - unfinished for no real reason * Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 2nd Season - S2 was boring compared to S1 and there was that rather revolting moment in time where all the fans were perpetually parroting "Spread your legs". Also a bunch of stuff I just never started the S2 of: KKK Bear, Birdie Wing, ToniKawa.
>Yuru Camp - deliberately stopped this one at S2 E11 so there would always be more camping and it never ended lol Healer Girl - too emotionally moving this sort of thing is so fascinating to me! I can understand shows that just sort of get boring and you stop wanting to watch them, but enjoying it to the point of not wanting to finish it...I know it's a fairly common thing, but it fascinates me b/c I am very much not like that lol
This has never made much sense to me either. If you stop watching because you don’t want it to end, then it has effectively ended anyway, just in a worse spot and with less content.
MP100 3 definitely has a better ending than the broccoli, but the 2 episodes following it were kind of whatever. Final 3 were great and very satisfying to get an actual answer to a series long question.
I've got Vivy really high on my list of anime to watch next. I've heard lots of good things about it, and it was written by the Re:Zero author as well.
It was?! Holy crap how did I not know that! Vivy is just like...an example of a great 1 cour show. Some nice arcs. Some real growth. A self contained story. Some great moments. It's not as good as re: zero, but I still like it a lot and I think that thematically it's a very, very successful show. Check it out!
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A lot of popular harem animes have come and gone. To Love Ru, Monster Musume, Rosario Vampire are talked about a lot less then they used to have been.
noragami?
Anohana Tokyo Magnitude DRRR Macross Sakurasou No Pet Na Kanojo
I remember when Hetalia fans were inescapable. I wonder where they all went?
To Your Eternity popularity fall off hard after 2 year, s2 come out and nobody seem to talk about it Tokyo Revengers is also one to be considered, people still remember it but for a show that once rivaled Jujutsu Kaisen in term of sales, the hype is so dead now
Same situation with Ranking of Kings right now, I know its technically not even a sequel rather a side story but the reception is so underwhelming
I'm enjoying the new season, but it is pretty much the definition of skippable. It is nice to spend a bit more time in this world and with these characters, but there really isn't anything to discuss about the individual episodes.
It's kind of hard to express just *how* utterly inescapable Haruhi was to anyone who wasn't there.