Have you ever encountered a show that was able to successfully sell you an entire genre, trend or even anime as a media in general?
| Have any anime (including individual seasons or franchises as a whole) managed to significantly or even single-handedly sell you any genres, character archetypes, trends, or even anime as a medium in general? Or, conversely, effectively to kill any of this for you? For example, Zero no Tsukaima almost single-handedly sold isekai for me, although at the time neither I nor many people even suspected such a phenomenon. The original LN was far from the first isekai, but since its adaptation came out much earlier, many things seemed much fresher and more significant at the time. To such an extent that at that time isekai was not even perceived as the absolute escapist fantasy that it is now, and one of the main intrigues was the protagonist’s attempts to finally return home from the “trap of another world.” |
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| Love Live!, K-On!, and Yuru Yuri were one of my first idol/music/sol/yuri/CGDCT anime. I fell in love with those type of shows after I watched them. Same thing goes to Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (mahou shoujo), Digimon (adventure/fantasy) and Natsume Yuujinchou (yokai themed anime). I'm not sure about ecchi. Maybe it was Strike Witches or Queen's Blade. |
SerafosJan 5, 12:03 PM
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| Midori no Hibi let me know that, in spite of me having a strong distaste for ecchi, I can still find such anime enjoyable for other reasons if I just give them a chance. |
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Have you ever encountered a show that was able to successfully sell you an entire genre, trend or even anime as a media in general? Literally me with Mushoku Tensie... First anime (if I don't count random episodes I watched arbitrarily way way back & Pokemon) and literally showed how great Isekai can be and why it is the best genre... And trend wise to.. if I consider my favourites |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/51678/Oniichan_wa_Oshimai sold me magical sex shift. https://myanimelist.net/anime/54722/Mahou_Shoujo_ni_Akogarete sold me yuri. https://myanimelist.net/anime/54714/The_100_Girlfriends sold me true harem. https://myanimelist.net/anime/50392/Mato_Seihei_no_Slave sold me femdom. https://myanimelist.net/anime/32949/Kuzu_no_Honkai sold me love polygon. https://myanimelist.net/anime/25345/Rance_01 sold me comedy hentai. https://myanimelist.net/anime/40750/Redo_of_Healer sold me erotica. |
ZarutakuJan 5, 12:00 PM
DesuMaiden said: Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist. |
| I avoided mecha like a plague until I watched Code Geass. Not that I seek the genre afterwards, but being mecha doesn't turn me away anymore. |
| Attack on Titan sold me on anime as a medium. |
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| Hellsing sold me on anime as a medium. I'd say SHAFT gave me the push that I needed to get into romance. I wouldn't say anything has been able to kill a genre or sub-genre for me,but I do avoid anything made by Bones like the plague |
| Can I Still Go To Heaven If I Kill Myself? |
| KareKano - romantic comedy Azumanga Daioh - iyashikei |
Reply to logopolis
KareKano - romantic comedy
Azumanga Daioh - iyashikei
Azumanga Daioh - iyashikei
| @logopolis Is this really a comedy? I've heard that the story or just the anime is significantly dark and that's supposedly why Gainax was in charge of the adaptation or something. |
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| Azumanga Daioh- Slice of Life Slayers- Fantasy Adventure Noir- Girls with Guns Genre Voltes V- Mecha Bubblegum Crisis- Cyberpunk UFO Baby- Romance Boogiepop Phantom- Psychology |
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Reply to RobertBobert
@logopolis Is this really a comedy? I've heard that the story or just the anime is significantly dark and that's supposedly why Gainax was in charge of the adaptation or something.
| @RobertBobert Well, it does certainly have dark elements. But it also has stuff like a character emitting a city-destroying explosion due to being mistaken for a middle-school first year, so there really are no grounds to omit the description 'comedy'. |
| Strike Witches is what got me into ecchi. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| Ashita no Joe and Hokuto no Ken were what aroused my interest in the medium in the first place, along with some other titles that I used to rent in the heyday of Blockbuster and of those other hole-in-the-wall video rental stores of the 90s. As for selling me on genres, I was never inaccessible to any aspect of the medium and have always been open to trying new things. I used the same ruleset I had for literary interests for all other media: if I'm not entirely satisfied after an hour or two of time, then I'm not going to continue on with whatever it is I'm watching or reading. |
| Any genre I like in anime I already liked in other media. For anime as a whole, FMA 03 fully opened that gate for me. There are anime from genre I'd normally skip that I liked, but they didn't get me started on those genres in their entirety. Sports anime for example. I usually only go for the ones about weird or completely fictional sports and avoid anything with more regular sports. |
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@RobertBobert Well, it does certainly have dark elements. But it also has stuff like a character emitting a city-destroying explosion due to being mistaken for a middle-school first year, so there really are no grounds to omit the description 'comedy'.
| @logopolis As a metaphorical parody, of course? |
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Reply to Shirayukin
I avoided mecha like a plague until I watched Code Geass. Not that I seek the genre afterwards, but being mecha doesn't turn me away anymore.
| @Shirayukin I avoided mecha too till I saw Code Geass! Like... for me they just looked so damn unrealistic and impractical and I couldn't get over it... After watching Code Geass I finally saw the appeal because fights between mechs - while being totally unrealistic - allow for much more interesting fight scenes. And somehow I always thought that mecha was all about the machines and fights - turns out more often than not it is just an accompanying theme. |
| Attack on Titan - Dark Fantasy Rascal does not dream of Bunny girl senpai - Romance Re:Zero - Psychological Death Note - Suspense Oshi No Ko - Showbiz To Love Ru - Ecchi |
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@Shirayukin
I avoided mecha too till I saw Code Geass!
Like... for me they just looked so damn unrealistic and impractical and I couldn't get over it...
After watching Code Geass I finally saw the appeal because fights between mechs - while being totally unrealistic - allow for much more interesting fight scenes.
And somehow I always thought that mecha was all about the machines and fights - turns out more often than not it is just an accompanying theme.
I avoided mecha too till I saw Code Geass!
Like... for me they just looked so damn unrealistic and impractical and I couldn't get over it...
After watching Code Geass I finally saw the appeal because fights between mechs - while being totally unrealistic - allow for much more interesting fight scenes.
And somehow I always thought that mecha was all about the machines and fights - turns out more often than not it is just an accompanying theme.
| @Krautschi same thought on that 2nd point - I also thought it was mostly mecha fights, but in most cases the story focuses on the characters or the world and it gets pretty deep too. |
| Madoka Magica sold me on the 'CGDCT' as well as 'Cute and Dark as Hell' as well as 'unconventional animation' as well as 'Magical Girls.' Lots of eggs in one basket. |
| "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." - Winnie the Pooh “No one knows what the future holds. That’s why its potential is infinite.” -Okabe Rintarou “You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” -Albert Camus “The purpose of a story is that it's a story. It can be more, but it can never be less.” -Jade Ring “Sometimes I want to go back in time at certain points of my life, not to change anything, just to feel the experience once more.” -I Don't Know "When we reduce people to one or a few characteristics, they hear all the time, we remove their humanity." -CinemaWins “As kids, we love the heroes. As adults, we understand the villains'' -Abhysheq "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end" -John Lennon “If you know exactly where you're headed, it’s no fun at all” -Soma Yukihira |
| inukai-san made me get into hot girl x pet genre |
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