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Gemnist
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In my opinion, the more variation to anime there is per season, and the more those series get streamed/licensed/dubbed, the better for the anime market as a whole. Can't wait to see what new threads will come as the industry continues to expand.
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indifference84
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This article is pretty on point... I'd share that!
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Cetais
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I hope anime themed around homosexuality gets more popular this year and the next. I'm really thirsty for more.
#Otouto no otto for anime Nostalgia-based is easily the worse trend, especially when they consider fans expectations. It's so easy to f*ck up with them, since it's usually franchises that amassed a lot of fans ever since, and all of them got their own idea about how something happened/ will happen and all. I would have put Danganronpa 3 (Mirai-hen) as a mystery, and it's easily the only thing I have really high expectations for. (Along Zetsubou-hen and... Psy Kusuo Sainan) |
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CheezcakeMe
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I think nostalgia based shows work best when they're stories that didn't get the best treatment the first time around. Ushio and Tora, for example, never got an anime back in the day (just some ovas) so there's nothing to compare it to or overshadow it, and the show came out great. There's also some older manga I would like to see re-animated because their anime didn't do the manga justice or ended prematurely. I'd love to see a Please Save My Earth anime that went beyond the ovas for example, or a re-done Chrono Crusade anime that didn't just go completely off the rails halfway in. Stuff like Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon though, I agree with you. They already have great anime that modern animators couldn't possibly improve upon. But them reboots make money, money money! |
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Animegomaniac
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A lot f these I can see the appeal of- or at least not fill me with despair upon learning something like Magic Knight Rayearth is getting remade as a whole male singing group who gets transported into Cooking Mama where they have food battles while solving Scooby doo mysteries- 6 out of 7. That was easy.
I have issues with the seventh one however. Magic schools, that's a Light Novel thing that really needs to go away now. Boring male protagonist, swords, harems and I've just described over ten shows from the past two years. I really liked Chivalry of a Failed Knight but that was the exception. Oh, and I really blame Infinite Stratos for this which takes all of this and does nothing with it except sell a lot of BDs and books by rule of doing it first. The benchmark for quality in this- genre, really?- checklist is set so low by this series that anything is up. "The two characters acknowledge each other as romantic interests?" That's not a reaction to Chilvary, that Infinite blowback in action. |
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CrowLia
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I'm happy to see our true queen Kiyoko topped the poll last week. This list was really interesting. For the poll I voted Like on Nostalgia, Fujoshi sports and male idols. BTW I wouldn't call Starmyu a failure, it actually averaged around 6K and has a lot of merchandise.
Voted Ambivalent on Food and Mistery because both are genres that I could like in principle (and I'm looking forward to the Udon show), but so far none of the series with that topic have been to my liking. The Mistery shows in particular have been terrible the whole year around, with only ERASED being ok -with a brilliant first half- only to miss the mark in the last third I voted dislike for trapped in game and magic high school, and I wouldn't classify HeroAca as a standard Magic High School show because those have a very specific set of tropes that they follow by the book. Rakudai Kishi, Infinite Stratos, The Irregular at MHS, this season's Hundred and a buttload of other such forgettable shows follow a very specific formula that I don't think matches HeroAca |
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xyz
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Sports theme seem to be hit or miss. I only enjoyed Free and am feeling hopeful about Cheer Boys. More titles targeting female audience would be good. Food theme titles I'm most interested in but they leave a lot to be desired so far. However, summer title Amaama sounds really food so I'm hyped for that. Fantasy (Zero) and Mystery (Erased) titles are fairly decent and I enjoyed both genres.
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manapear
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The only contention I would make with this, is in regards to idol part and the crossover appeal. It is intentional in effect in some places and not others. I don't think IM@S started off trying to have crossover appeal; it happened and then they played into it. I do think Love Live! does, but in varying values.
With the childrens' shows, I don't think this is the intention at all though. PriPara and Aikatsu! clearly were trying to appeal to little girls first and I think picked up some crossover appeal for older women, but again, in varying amounts. The creators of Aikatsu! have acknowledged that adult women are their biggest audience (behind or before little girls, I don't remember), but that happened. I think the adult/teen idol shows have gotten smart and are trying to have crossover appeal, but not the childrens shows except King of Prism. I do appreciate that the male idols have been getting popular, but they aren't *really* that recent, outside of anime. Uta*Pri and some similar VNs have been around for a while, and in response to the lack of idol stuff aimed at female audiences. That they're finally being seen as the bank they are and studios are trying harder is nice though. |
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CrownKlown
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The school/fantasy works I think will stick around and are not just trends. The main reason for that is that harem is and will probably always be a popular genre, and when it hits all the right notes it can be very successful in terms of sales and popularity.
The reason school/fantasy worlds will stick around is because they are simply really conducive for harems and their goals. You basically get the setting of a harem really easily with no contrivances with the school setting. You have your male MC, and then its a school so you are naturally to have many potential female characters. You don't have to come up with convoluted ways to introduce new female characters since they can be easily introduced as other students. And the fantasy works because more works are shifiting away from open/one girl endings to actual harem/marry them all endings. And what better place to set it then in a fantasy world where you don't have to worry about "rules" like polygamy. |
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MarshalBanana
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I'm pretty sure Hunter X Hunter started the trend off.
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SilverTalon01
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You can't really blame IS for it. LN School Battle series were a thing before IS started, and certainly well before IS got an anime and really took off. The IS novels weren't that big at all before the anime hit in 2011 either and a good number of them predate that point. |
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MarshalBanana
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Hameyadea
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I feel that the High School Magical Battle show is the odd one of the seven trends, since it is less a "2016 thing", and more "the current fad at this phase of anime." Usually come with a big side-dish of harem antics, and spongier-than-a-caterpillar lead male.
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masajus
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I think that Shokugeki no soma switched Food trend in the higher gear.
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry in my opinion stands on top of all resent MHS amime's, and need second season ASAP |
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Gemnist
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If they do more LGBT anime, I would want it to actually show the bleak reality of being one, not just excessive girl-pleasing love with no conflict whatsoever. I hope that such anime will help increase gay rights in the country. |
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