| Idk if someone has made this thread before but I just had a thought. It’s pretty obvious by now that anime is getting really popular, especially because demon slayer had broken box office records and stuff. How popular do you see anime getting in the next 10 years or so, will it get normalized like regular tv shows and movies? |
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| Has anime not become mainstream yet? The popularity in the west is insane, compared to when I watched it 15 years ago. While the most popular is battle shounen, the popularity of anime has made other genres and demographics more available to talk about too. I'd even argue that there are anime as popular as the likes of SpongeBob and (a little under) Mickey Mouse in the US. Hell, I'll even argue that anime is becoming more popular than western cartoons in the US. Of course, you cannot expect all anime to be popular and in the mainstream, the same way you can't expect every cartoon to. |
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| Idk more and more people are watching anime so I suppose it will get completely normalized |
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| In my country everyone knows what anime is and most of them have already watched at least one series. I consider this is a peak popularity. |
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| Anime is already super mainstream in the US. Manga could still get more popular though. |
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| So mainstream that the popular example for a time loop will shift from groundhog day to re zero. |
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| It's popular enough that it's become a social faux pas to show disinterest. |
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| It will probably just get more mainstream than it already is. |
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| definitively getting there. However, i think that if they keep producing shows like kanojo mo kanojo, it's gonna be |
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| its getting there once the boomers are gone then new generation will take over that includes anime |
| its getting popular day by day so i think it'll get pretty mainstream at some point |
| I just want anime to be popular enough to self sustain the industry, but don't want it to be so popular it becomes mainstream... btw 2m people watching the premier of Revengers episode 13 here in my country and another 3m followed within a day ... so too late I guess |
| Hopefully more. The community is growing so naturally I see the overall popularity growing too |
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| i don't really think if it's going to be normalized like regular tv shows and movies, atleast in my country |
| It depends on which country you are referring too. anime became somewhat mainstream in america in like 2000's thanks to toonami and adult swim. Cowboy bebop, dbz, inyuyasha, rurouni kenshin. so my personal answer is 20 years ago. |
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| Anime got a sudden boom of popularity thanks to the Pandemic even if it sucks and looking at how Netflix is also producing its own anime. Anime has become more mainstream than ever before and it will gradually get more and more popular. I wish it just get popular enough so that I can experience the Anime Movies in my country. |
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deg said: its getting there once the boomers are gone then new generation will take over that includes anime Hey Now! Some of us "boomers" watch anime too. Back to the topic.. I think anime will increase in popularity and become more than just on the fringes of mainstream. Do I want to it to become "full mainstream"? No. I fear that if it became that popular/mainstream, we would lose the essence of what makes anime so good due to too much Western influence. If it gets too big & popular here, the (U.S.) Government will want in on the action too, and like everything else the Government dips it's greedy paws into, it'll be ruined. |
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| anime is pretty mainstream... and it's going to be more mainstream in the next 10+ years. |
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RoninHimura said: It depends on which country you are referring too. anime became somewhat mainstream in america in like 2000's thanks to toonami and adult swim. Cowboy bebop, dbz, inyuyasha, rurouni kenshin. so my personal answer is 20 years ago. I completely forgot to mention pokemon and yugioh which I was trading cards of like 18 years ago(at school and at a local store) in a small rural town in america of 2000 people. So I'm pretty sure it's been popular for a long time. |
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| Anime has been mainstream for quite a while where I live, thought it could be more mainstream. |
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| Hopefully not much more than it already is |
| You can argue it's already pretty mainstream |
| I truly think that anime has already become mainstream here in the US. I remember back in high school, only 3 people watched it. Now everyone has seen My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer, and has a crush on Levi. |
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| Anime is already mainstream here in Italy... There are also a lot of people who talks about anime on tik tok ahah |
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| Many of my friends stopped to watch anime, then who knows. |
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