| I think online streaming sites are making it more popular then ever now. |
Rero33 said: It's as mainstream as a number of other entertainment hobbies are. So basically yes, but with the caveat that "anime" is actually pretty darned big and has a huge number of niches, not all of which are mainstream.Has anime become mainstream? Rero33 said: If you're talking about anime following popular trends/fads and not being as "unique", then (1) you just haven't seen enough old stuff to notice the trends/fads back then, and (2) it's the domestic market for anime in Japan that has encouraged that inward-turned building on top of its own tropes repeatedly. There's no reason to "cut away" the "tacky content" -- the popularity of the medium, on the international stage, comes from its quirks and its being different from what other mediums have to offer. Instead, if there's anyone to blame for stuff like the isekai fad, then you should be blaming the domestic audience that's shown the inclination to spend money on such products.People used to say how they want anime to be mainstream and earn recognition a few years back, and here we are now. I think anime has in fact become more popular than it ever was, but with popularity comes a certain kind of expectation to which it should withhold. Meaning to cut away most of its tacky content in order to be more pleasant for international companies to sponsor them. Ofc exceptions are everywhere, but it does not seem as experimental and crazy as it once was from the looks of it. Many are playing it safer and following the trends that sell. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Now hopefully it can get rid of the more unsavory aspects of the medium so it can focus on what makes it worthwhile. |
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| Yes and it’s a fact the otakus ruined anime but at the same time are also keeping it alive. |
| It's been mainstream since the late 70s here in Europe. |
| i hope i dont sound like a "pick me" kind of girl but many popular and attractive female creators online -egirls or whatever you wanna call them- are getting more vocal about them being into anime and that influences other people to get into it. nothing wrong with that though. especially with social media, more people are making jokes and talking about anime. tik tok has tons of anime related content creators that have thousands of followers. more people talk it about it now. it's become less of a "weird kid" thing. |
| I wouldn't call it mainstream for now.. Because it's not being streamed at the main audience ("main stream").. Internet audience is more about gaming, it feels.. Or news, or kitties.. But anime is very popular, on the other hand.. And I think that with after a generation or two it'll be more considered as a normal hobby, when people will stop complaining about internet.. When our generations will become old generations, it'll be norm, really.. Old generations are used to other offline hobbies, more dependent on going outside or interacting with people more.. So they're afraid that we're getting bored, what would be with them really, in their time, if they would just stay home.. |
| "Has my dick become mainstream?" NO! How many of these goddamn threads are we gonna have? |
Read Toriko! |
| I am happy with anime being mainstream, when I started watching anime, it was the sort of hobby you would try to keep secret from others, and it would be so rare and cool to meet 'comrade'. Now, even the popular peoples watch and appreciate them, why would I complain? I am glad to see the anime culture gaining the recognition it deserves, it's something that must be sustained globally because for decades the industry barely managed to survive. Are there disadvantages? Sure... anime becoming mainstream ruined the community, at least the online one, I never had much contact with it offline. Back in the days places like those were fun to be part off, welcoming and friendly, now it's much toxicity that for every 2 days I spend here, I need to stay away 5, so I can purify my soul. The product itself didn't suffer that much. I don't care about Funimation and don't watch dubbed anime, so the political agenda that the SWJ neo-Nazi push does not affect me. If the subtitle sucks, I also have no problem to pirate the crap out of it... if Japan is bothered by me not paying for their shit, I invite them to make their own damn platform where they distribute their anime instead of selling the licenses to shitty American companies. Do Japanese play safer for the Western audience? Sorry but I fail to see it. The romance and fan service is still extremely pedophilic, the incest fetishes still go strong and from my point of view anime is still extremely unapologetic about itself. So it's fine. Did nothing change? Of course not, anime changed indeed, but not because it got mainstream in West, is more because it goes trough a less creative generation. At this point when it comes to new Manga and Light Novels, half of everything is Isekai, and the other half is the rest. It got so bad that there are entire magazines that publish mostly isekai. And that obviously changed anime a lot. If 10 years ago there was a lot of diversity in stories, now we are stuck with a very specific dominant genre. Before Isekai we had also gone trough a couple of moe years, so if you started watching anime in mid 2000's, it definitely feels different. If anime changed somehow, they changed almost a decade ago, so it's really to late to think about it. |
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| I don't see anything about that has changed significantly in the last 10 years so idk, just seems like a typical case of making big statements for the sake of it without any real basis for them. So like most AD threads I already disagree with the premise. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Depends what you mean by mainstream while Hollywood is trying we aren't plastered around in Western entertainment. Influence sure is growing slowly but we still are a niche hobby. |
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