Do you remember an anime being really big in it's time but now is hardly known?

Energetic-Nova said:


Ga Rei Zero? or Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. Cause that second one is still being heavily talked about on my facebook. (who are always behind on anime).

Lalakoboldslayer said:


I mean Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu.

I remember when this anime was still airing, everyone and their mother were watching it. Some friends of mine who were playing a MMORPG with me, by that time, stopped playing when the time the episode got released subbed. After watching it, they come back to play. that's some obsession.

But now, I don't see people talking especifically about it anymore. Just random posts in random topics.

isekai said:


you must be a filipino, only us in the philippines cares about voltes v and daimos lol

EDIT:

well ye according to your profile you are a filipino too

WizMacer said:

I TRULY intended to only Filipinos who can relate to my post.lol

Pantha said:
An accepted criterion of an anime’s quality is its ability to stand the test of time. There were a lot of mediocre and bad anime that were mysteriously popular 15 years ago (i.e., Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Love Hina, Saikano, and Chrono Crusade) that are thankfully not talked about today. However, there are some genuinely great shows that have been forgotten, as well.

1. Full Moon wo Sagashite & Princess Tutu: Back in the day (around 2003-2004) these two shows were considered the best in the magical girl genre. Full Moon especially was extremely popular in the fansub community and was once a top ten show on certain anime sites. Although Princess Tutu will still get name-dropped in any meaningful conversation about the best magical girl shows (and that is saying something since Madoka exists), Full Moon will not. It’s in the least popular subgenre of magical girl and it had a discontinued DVD release. It’s length (it’s over fifty episodes) is just the final nail in the coffin for its lack of popularity today.

2. Kodomo no Omocha: This show is a former top favorite of mine and it’s another formerly hugely popular show in the fansub community with a discontinued DVD release. However, I would argue that it probably doesn’t age well. It's a shoujo and the brand of comedy is on the quirkier side and the characters are perhaps a few years too young at the start of the anime. The show is over 100 episodes and suffers from being an adaptation of an incomplete manga. Funnily enough, though, the manga ended about half a year after the anime did so most of the manga was adapted. You just have to wade through a lot of fillers to get to canon material.

3. Fushigi Yuugi: A former staple of the shoujo/bishounen genre. It simply doesn’t age well and everything it does has been done better since. Why watch this when you can watch Yona of the Dawn instead?

4. Inuyasha. When anime fans talk about the so-called Big Three they mean Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach. Well, when Inuyasha was at its peak, Bleach wasn’t even broadcast yet and so, as far as I’m concerned, the Big Three was once Naruto, One Piece, and Inuyasha. At the time, Inuyasha was the only one of the three that aired on television. It also had a huge female fan-base and easily recognizable merchandise being sold in stores. Long-running shounen shows simply do not age well (Yu Yu Hakusho, anyone?) because of their length and genre saturation. EDIT: As a weird coincidence, the poster above me mentioned Inuyasha as well. I agree with him or her.

5. Crest of the Stars trilogy. This trilogy is still one of my favorite shows and it was never popular in the same way the shows I mentioned were, but it was always mentioned in a conversation about great space operas. It’s a late 90s show that actually had a DVD release. It’s not that long. It’s no longer readily available (Bandai went under), but it’s not like the anime industry is pumping out hundreds of space operas each season. I’ll chalk this one up to a genre and age thing. It’s “old” and space operas can be boring as hell. I always recommend this show to those that like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or enjoy the relationship dynamic in Spice and Wolf.

If you think about it, it’s actually pretty amazing that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is as popular as it is because it sure as hell has everything going against it. It’s 110 episodes. It’s an 80s show. It’s never been released in North America. But as long as I been on this site it’s been the top OVA (outbesting even the original Rurouni Kenshin OVAs) and a top overall anime.

nearbaskara said:
Marchen Awakens Romance.

not an anime tho, a manga to be precise.

nearbaskara said:
Marchen Awakens Romance.

not an anime tho, a manga to be precise.

Comic_Sans said:
I remember the days when Clannad was still considered THE shit.

Now it's just kind of shit (though I don't really dislike it either)

GlennMagusHarvey said:
Even Haruhi has become little more than a footnote these days. It's sort of disappointing given how life-changing people said it was when it was big.

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei is another one, just not as wildly prominent in its day.

Monad said:


I am not sad for Haruhi, Shakuna no Shana etc. they weren't really that great anime and what make them popular was the moe craze that happened between the more limited at the time anime audiences.

Lucky star also seem to be mostly forgotten despite being everywhere for some years.

Energetic-Nova said:
Feel free not to read anything I have written and just talk about your own personal experiences with things that you felt were huge but somehow faded to the point of obscurity but maybe even talk about things that used to be obscure such as Natsume and how you found them much later when everyone else did.


I mean, I know a lot as someone who has been a fan for her entire life pretty much. But it has occurred to me that when I talk to the yaoi fanbase, a lot of them no longer have seen Gravitation even though it wast a staple when I was first getting into yaoi and so much so that anime fans outside of the yaoi fanbase had watched it, much like Yuri on Ice, only I would say, it felt even bigger at the time. Selling the soundtracks in stores seeing the manga in normal store shelves, a lot of the time them being constantly sold out of it. People actually knowing what it is based on a pin of the bunny plush. And people quoting lines to you within two seconds of meeting... And the squeeing. Lots of squeeing. Which I don't even hear in person with the Yuri on Ice fanbase which is so much more chill IRL than we Gravitation fans were.

And I think of anime like Maria Holic as wel. Which used to be just the anime everyone watched that year along with Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, K-On, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. And Season 2 of Haruhi which somehow still gets more watch than the things I actually remember being truly beloved that year. Like Pandora Hearts. I remember my friends finding Gintama through their love of Zetsubou Sensei too... And Natsume which still remains popular was something else we found about that time. We were shocked something so good would already have two seasons and none of us knew about it.

And honestly, I would never have thought of Hetalia as being less popular but... yeah there are pretty much only a couple of cosplayers for it the last two years... and usually specifically ones the Visiting VAs were apart of.

But I think with early 00's anime, those can be even more forgotten... like Dokuro-Chan was just really popular during the Mid 00's when everyone was into Elfin Lied and Death Note as the big new things... Dokuro Chan, FLCL, and Excel Saga were pretty much required viewing or you might be lost in our references to them.

It just feels weird to me that I was the apart of teen fanbase that brought forth the popularity of Death Note which is still #1 in popularity. But though Death Note was really huge.... I always felt like other anime were strangely more watched at the time. But when I thought of things which would always be popular... I guess I just never imagined a day when I would make a reference to Kame hame haaaaa- and have any anime fan not understand.... but it totally has and more than 10 times. Either missing DBZ, Sailor Moon, or Naruto references.... It is the weirdest thing.

Hrybami said:


I'm pretty sure this can be considered an anime https://myanimelist.net/anime/738/

Based said:
In the year 3005, most of the anime we watched now would be hardly known.

nearbaskara said:
Marchen Awakens Romance.

not an anime tho, a manga to be precise.

SigmaticDoc said:


There is an anime adaptation though.
102 episodes

The anime also used to be huge, at least in my memories.
It was big enough to have an RPG game adaptation on the GBA.