| It has upsides and downsides, so I'm fairly neutral on the matter. |
| It's awful. I literally have to wear headphones all the time or leave the room every time my colleagues start talking about anime, which is all the time. "Did you know what happens at the end of Demon Slayer?" No, and I'm perfectly fine with it. Thanks. |
| I don't know, it leads to the uniformization of the culture and its fandom. Of course hegemonic norms are attacking some parts of the fandom wishing to purify it. Albeit all in all time slots are already participating in it as part of domestic production targetting Japanese households as parents would from time to time send letters to channel TVs talking about especially controversial topics I guess, when children watched TV, perhaps on weekend days at children-friendly hours. Not a specialist of anime timeslots and how it relates to the receptions of series as they air though. I'm just gonna say I look at "tourists" with some desdain that might not be warranted and may be a form of gatekeeping, but I do try to be welcoming, but I do prefer to have some sort of selective manner to people in the anime cultural landscape. When considering them as viewers, if they haven't watched series from before the 2000s I reconsider them, even worse none before the 2010s and worse even none from before the 2020s. But that's not to say seniority means you have good criticisms to make, or any critical consciousness whatsoever as those relate more to an abstract process of assimilating the aesthetics proper to the medium. And even the ambiguity of its definition, shaped through those interplays (like 2D-3D, VTubing & MMD being part of the anime culture without necessarily per se be considered anime, TV/ONA/OVA/cinema entries)... |
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| Right. Anime was already mainstream back even in the late 90s and early 2000s when every little brat never shut up about his/her Dragon Ball/Sailor Moon, and every other normie had a Cowboy Bebop VHS collection on the shelf near their house's main door, and everyone who was driving cars never shut the fuck up about Initial-D. …and of course every other dork always "hinted" about their "secret and obscure" hentai collection. |
| 7th-gen console emulator enthusiast |
| There's no inherent bad sides to it, having to be a little annoyed at the newbies is fine and something that isn't gonna ruin my life. Mostly I see it as a positive since more eyes on anime is cool |
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| I guess it depends on the perspective. It is nice that anime is gaining popularity and will thus stay in our lives for the foreseeable future, but then again companies will try to cater more to a wider audience which could dilute story lines and characters. |
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| I guess it depends on the what we're exactly talking about and the thing in question. Cause anything becoming mainstream has it's pros and cons. On one end, anime becoming more mainstream has allowed certain studios/companies to make more money and produce more seasons for certain anime. On another end, it has brought up cultural morality clashing, certain trends in anime being either watered down or blow up more then they already were. It's one of those things. Where viewing it in an entire black and white lens is never a good thing and it's a matter of how far down do you want to take the rabbit hole. |
| "Even if there isn't a God or meaning behind life. That doesn't mean you can't create your own meaning and make the best out of life." |
| It's good. I like it when I can talk about my passions with people. Actively wanting to gatekeep is the same as actively wanting to be an outcast. There's no such thing as a downside to sharing a passion for an artform. Some weebs perceive it as bad only because they have very little else going on. I live a fairly normal life, as a fairly normal person, with fairly normal friends, colleagues and peers. I just happen to REALLY like anime. There's a certain subsection of this fandom that I want nothing to do with that I would have been grouped in with 10 years ago. I like that I can enjoy hundreds of anime without being lumped in with them now. |
| Some of the things I watch will never be mainstream. |
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| When was it ever not mainstream? Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon were everywhere when I was a kid, and that was before Pokemon even became a thing. Many of you people live in a bubble. |
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