| I’ve noticed that a lot of anime were once a upon a time they were popular but now they have fallen under the radar. Do you have any in mind? For me, it's Shakugan no Shana and Nurarihyon no Mago. It’s strange how anime that were big in the late 2000s to early 2010s have been almost forgotten. How about you? |
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| InuYasha came to my mind first. I don't hear people talking about that show too much anymore. Also, Aldnoah.Zero. |
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| Any popular seasonal anime one season later. Serafos said: InuYasha came to my mind first. I force my friends into conversations about it. |
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| Tokyo revengers, I don’t see anyone talking about it anymore. |
| When I got into anime a few years back, I remember stuff like Haganai, D-Frag, Witchcraft Works and Mayo Chiki being recommended to me very often as the 'goats' of comedy, but nowadays a lot of people have never even heard about these series. |
| First two that came to mind are The Vision of Escaflowne and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Until like the early 2000s you'd almost always see Escaflowne mentioned with Neon Genesis Evangelion as one of the biggest anime. Basically Evangelion was the big sci-fi and Escaflowne was the big fantasy, not to mention it's one of the predecessors of iseki. But then Escaflowne just stopped being talked about and I didn't really get it. It was a quality show, had some influence, good production, a bit ahead of it's time. Escaflowne just being like a footnote now when it'd be Mt. Rushmore material for many many fans in the late 90s is weird to me. I guess since it was just the show and movie people eventually moved on. I feel like most anime fans know Haruhi Suzumiya. It was basically the biggest thing for 1-2 years and nothing came close. It felt like the original FullMetal Alchemist dominated the anime community until Haruhi came out and then you didn't really get that same feeling until maybe Attack on Titan. It was that big and like Escaflowne, it's just not really talked about. This one could be easier to explain. It might of just been a perfect storm, being the peak example when the moe fad was exploding, a "meme-able intro" back in 2006 and the novelty of the release grabbing people and these things can certainly fade. Plus Endless 8 kinda tarnished it, but my god for anyone else who was an anime fan in the mid 2000s remembers how omnipresent it was. A few others I'll throw out quickly, Ah! My Goddess (could Belldandy be credited as being one of the first wifus?, but it was probably just more her appeal and not the show), Love Hina (this along with Tenchi Muyou are more or less the godfathers of harem with Love Hina being the more typical, grounded one, though I don't think anyone would say it was amazing), Fushigi Yuugi (again just a show that was pretty beloved and popular and now just history) |
| "Once Popular Now Forgotten: Anime That Faded Away" Dororo (2019) comes to mind. |
| I would say High School Of The Dead. I remember how edgy & over-the-top ecchi it was; it caught many people's attention who were craving zombie themes at the time. The biggest factor why its popularity faded away was because of the passing of its creator, Daisuke Sato, though the source was put on hiatus status before his passing due to his heart condition and because of a massive earthquake that struck Japan during that period. So I guess people just lost interest in discussing the matter anymore a while ago, hence why it just faded away. |
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| Seven Deadly Sins used to be one of the more popular battle shounens back in the day. After Deen took over, the quality dropped so hard that it fell off the mainstream. Hating on School Days used to be very popular like a decade ago, but not many people even remember that gem of an anime today. |
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| I'll back up a lot of the choices that @vault-dweller mentioned in their post since it relates to the era when I followed anime closely, too. From the late 90's to early 00's, I'll also put forward that Martian Successor Nadesico, Chobits and Wolf's Rain were all anime series that everyone was talking about at the time but are hardly mentioned today. |
| Hellsing Ultimate maybe? I wasn't there at the time, but It's been ages since I heard someone mention it [and pretty sure it was popular] |
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| I wasn't here when it aired, so I cannot understand how Noragami is in the top 100 most popular on MAL (27th right now, but I remember it was 14th a few years ago). |
| Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica I remember this anime get hype 2011 bc twisted story with innocent looking character design and most weebs born today are know nothing about this anime. |
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| Everything with GUNDAM in its name. But also.... 1992, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon 1993, Slam Dunk 1994, DNA2: Dokoka de Nakushita Aitsu no Aitsu 1995, Shin Seiki Evangelion 1996, Dragon Ball GT 1997, Kenpuu Denki Berserk 1998, Cowboy Bebop 1999, Great Teacher Onizuka 2000, Love Hina 2001, Hellsing 2002, Full Metal Panic! 2003, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 2004, Gantz 2005, Shakugan no Shana 2006, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu 2007, Naruto Shippuuden 2008, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 2009, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 2010, Angel Beats! 2011, Steins;Gate 2012, Sword Art Online 2013, Shingeki no Kyojin 2014, No Game No Life 2015, One Punch Man |
| I think a good example would be Saint Seiya. It's not an anime that's talked about much in spite of it being popular at one point and being regarded as one of the foundations of battle shounen anime. There has been a Netflix remake and a live-action adaptation. But I haven't seen them make waves in the community for anyone to care about mentioning them. |
| "Mai-HiME" franchise use to be extremely popular in the mid 2000s. Particularly because a bunch of videos games were created for this franchise around the same time when the 1st actual portable PlayStation came out. While the video games were really extremely mediocre in my opinion, they acted more as a wedge it seemed to get fans to go out and watch this original Anime besides any of the manga adaptation created during the same time period as the Anime. Oddly enough it's one of the few Original story franchises that managed to garnish enough popularity to even have kind of a sequel, I guess... where an alternative version of the series was created later with "Mai-Otome". The ironic thing about this Anime franchise is that the actual fanservice it offered attributed to most of the actual Anime fandom and success of "Mai-HiME", where "Mai-Otome" was almost purposely created it seemed to have a lack of it. Which is why the alternative story wasn't as popular in my opinion. Where such an original project was a precursor lesson for Sunrise when they went about later on creating such an Original Anime such as "Cross Ange", purposely creating an unapologetic shameless piece of fiction flooded with nudity (even if it's not strictly graphic in nature) and so many fanservice tropes from perverted humor to sexual exploitation scenes and abuse. Where it's a bit mind boggling "Cross Ange" has never been slapped with an Ecchi tag on MAL. lol "Mai-HiME" franchise is literally not talked about and seemed to be completely forgotten about for something that use to be what seemed to be extremely popular and huge back in the 2000s. While I don't specifically remember if "Blue Seed" was extremely popular in the 90s, during my time in college "Blue Seed" seemed to be talked about a lot by a bunch of otakus in my dorm. Where back then, I didn't really have much interest in the franchise at the time. Mainly because the kids in my dorm who were really into this Anime basically spoiled the entire franchise for me to even care about wanting to watch it back then at all. Where at most, I only experienced watching a few episodes of the Anime in the 90s in the dorm common room. It wasn't until literally over two decades later I got my hands on the entire series remastered on Blu-ray and actually sat down to finish the series and I actually thought it was pretty good for something I practically brushed off back in college. |
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| This phenomenon practically occurs every season. It's weird to think that Mai Hime was ranked above stuff like Berserk and Serial Experiments Lain in popularity at one point. |
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Nobody is talking about the classics like Seikon no Qwaser, HoTD, DxD, Kiss x Sis, Manyuu Hikenchou, Dance in the Vampire Bund, The World God only Knows, Kodomo no Jikan etc.
zezw said: Nobody is talking about the classics like Seikon no Qwaser, HoTD, DxD, Kiss x Sis, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Kodomo no Jikan etc. They might not be technically be talked about but they certainly are not all forgotten about. Some of those franchises you have listed actually do still get named dropped from time to time even as recent as yesterday on this very forum. lol |
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@ColourWheel yeah, on specialized anime websites but the average normie ain't had ever heard of any of these, understandable as they were not even born while those were trending.
zezw said: @ColourWheel yeah, on specialized anime websites but the average normie ain't had ever heard of any of these, understandable as they were not even born while those were trending. That really doesn't make much sense. How does someone forget about something if they never even heard of it before? That's like saying some Zoomer has forgotten about the 50s and 60s TV shows "Leave it to Beaver" and "Mister Ed". lol |
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Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
I remember this anime get hype 2011 bc twisted story with innocent looking character design and most weebs born today are know nothing about this anime.
I remember this anime get hype 2011 bc twisted story with innocent looking character design and most weebs born today are know nothing about this anime.
| @Halqifibrax Madoka still gets talked about a lot. The only edgy magical girl series it inspired that gets comparable attention is Yuki Yuna is a Hero. Maybe Wonder Egg Priority as a "what not to do" cautionary tale. |
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I think there's a couple of different kinds of situations for this? There's like era defining shows that are wild commercial successes, say, Evangelion, Haruhi, K-ON!, or perennial shows that are always there, Gundam, the big 3... then there are much shorter lived blow ups... like say One Punch Man, Overlord or Shield Hero?
Overlord shows the dropping off effect as the members watching list wanes:
S1: 1,676,743
S2: 1,079,683
S3: 961,876
S4: 584,403
Granted those are still massive numbers, but interest is undeniably dropping off... I've never wanted to be in a conversation about Overlord so I don't know if people don't talk about it... I assume they don't as much anymore lol
For me a show that dropped off the radar was Magi... I'm still here, waiting for another sequel -_-
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People are still fighting about School Days in a thread from last week right here XD
Overlord shows the dropping off effect as the members watching list wanes:
S1: 1,676,743
S2: 1,079,683
S3: 961,876
S4: 584,403
Granted those are still massive numbers, but interest is undeniably dropping off... I've never wanted to be in a conversation about Overlord so I don't know if people don't talk about it... I assume they don't as much anymore lol
For me a show that dropped off the radar was Magi... I'm still here, waiting for another sequel -_-
@Piromysl
People are still fighting about School Days in a thread from last week right here XD
rbp_pbr2 said: For me a show that dropped off the radar was Magi... I'm still here, waiting for another sequel -_- Wow I gave up on that a few years ago. Are you talking about Kingdom of Magic? It ended on a cliffhanger I thought, and there was clearly more to the story... but someone somewhere told me the manga ended, and there will probably be no more as it's been a decade now. I was not interested in the Sinbad spinoff |
| I hardly see anybody mention NGNL, Future Diary, Death Parade nowadays even though it's still in top 50 of most popular anime on this site. |
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| Well another popular for a while but not anymore is Eureka seven and Star Driver |
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| I used to think anime that aired on Toonami & Adult Swim back in the 2000s would be cult classics on MAL. Paranoia Agent, G Gundam, Gundam Wing, Medabots, Scryed, Wolf's Rain. I've never seen anyone talk about these titles here. |
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| The Ryou's Work is Never Done and Eromanga Sensei had lots of memes but kind of went away Bakugan was one of cartoon network's last attempts at anime on their network and to be their new Pokemon and Yugioh, it was popular but didn't have the staying power |
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| Another I think about it is Full Metal Panic and School Rumble another were famous in my time. |
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| I genuinely haven't heard anyone mention Outlaw Star in YEARS when it was apparently pretty popular when it was brought over to the West. It was at one point the 21st best selling anime on physical media in the US and had really good TV ratings when it aired on Toonami. A lot of the other shows that aired on Toonami still get talked about to this day in some form or had some project that brought them into relevance again in the past few years such as Yu Yu Hakusho having the Netflix series, the Gundam franchise is still relevant even if Wing specifically isn't the hot new thing anymore, Rurouni Kenshin just had a remake, the Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon franchises are still creating new content on a regular basis, InuYasha recently got a sequel, and Fullmetal Aclhemist had a short lived mobile game. Where am I getting at with this? Outlaw Star hasn't done anything to stay relevant in the larger anime culture and hasnt done anything to attract new audiences, and the old audience hasn't really talked about it that much. Its pretty much faded from relevancy altogether despite it being seen as one of the classic Toonami shows. It was one of the shows that was chosen to feature in the 2012 April Fools prank that ended up leading to the block coming back, but the last time anything happened with the series was the Blu Ray release 8 years ago and hasn't even been on Toonami since 2018. |
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I used to think anime that aired on Toonami & Adult Swim back in the 2000s would be cult classics on MAL. Paranoia Agent, G Gundam, Gundam Wing, Medabots, Scryed, Wolf's Rain. I've never seen anyone talk about these titles here.
| @Zekkenshin For Medabots specifically, there were so many shows riding the Pokémon popularity wave back then that they tend to get overshadowed. One could say that Medabots had its farcical nature to distinguish it from the crowd, but then you remember Pokémon is also a comedy. |
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Hellsing Ultimate maybe? I wasn't there at the time, but It's been ages since I heard someone mention it [and pretty sure it was popular]
| @Szczelajo Hellsing Ultimate was very popular and got a mountain of hype. It's still quite watchable today. |
| World Trigger is a work that I can remember on this topic. Not only the anime, but also the manga has been forgotten. Mainly because of the horrible current arc that has been going on for a long time, the work has lost a good part of its fans. |
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I genuinely haven't heard anyone mention Outlaw Star in YEARS when it was apparently pretty popular when it was brought over to the West. It was at one point the 21st best selling anime on physical media in the US and had really good TV ratings when it aired on Toonami. A lot of the other shows that aired on Toonami still get talked about to this day in some form or had some project that brought them into relevance again in the past few years such as Yu Yu Hakusho having the Netflix series, the Gundam franchise is still relevant even if Wing specifically isn't the hot new thing anymore, Rurouni Kenshin just had a remake, the Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon franchises are still creating new content on a regular basis, InuYasha recently got a sequel, and Fullmetal Aclhemist had a short lived mobile game. Where am I getting at with this? Outlaw Star hasn't done anything to stay relevant in the larger anime culture and hasnt done anything to attract new audiences, and the old audience hasn't really talked about it that much. Its pretty much faded from relevancy altogether despite it being seen as one of the classic Toonami shows. It was one of the shows that was chosen to feature in the 2012 April Fools prank that ended up leading to the block coming back, but the last time anything happened with the series was the Blu Ray release 8 years ago and hasn't even been on Toonami since 2018.
| @LSSJ_Gaming One of my great treasures is my Outlaw Star box set. I've rewatched it maybe a dozen times now. It's been a few years, so may be time to pop it in once again. |
| When was the last time you heard anyone mention Bubblegum Crisis?? That one had masses of cultists back in the day. And it's only a very rare occasion I hear some crusty old weeb mention GitS anymore. |
ColourWheel said: That really doesn't make much sense. How does someone forget about something if they never even heard of it before? That's like saying some Zoomer has forgotten about the 50s and 60s TV shows "Leave it to Beaver" and "Mister Ed". lol It depends which perspective you are referring to. If you're referring to the individual perspective of those Gen Z people as individuals then yes, indeed, it literally wouldn't make any sense to say they "forgot" something which they never learned of the existence of in the first place. But if you're talking collectively about popular culture and the collective public consciousness, then it makes sense to say that they are forgotten shows to the culture as a whole. At least in the present moment. kizumi91 said: I hardly see anybody mention NGNL, Future Diary, Death Parade nowadays even though it's still in top 50 of most popular anime on this site. Fans of Death Parade should count themselves lucky that they received what was probably its spiritual successor and the closest show to it within the past 10 years released just this season. |
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