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10 of the 158 new things this season on MyAnimeList are classified with a theme of Isekai. Last season, 12 out of 225. Fall 2022 had 7 out of 230. The season pr

by quink 3y ago

10 of the 158 new things this season on MyAnimeList are classified with a theme of Isekai. Last season, 12 out of 225. Fall 2022 had 7 out of 230. The season prior to that, 9 out of 252. That's quite a few things, but not an overwhelming wave. The main change in anime is that there's more out there than there has ever been before. Yes, there's some things that are quite popular, like Attack on Titan, but they are just a drop in the ocean now. Even the "chart-topper" Chainsaw Man just disappeared. Not because it was bad but because there's so other anime... like Bocchi The Rock. The same season Bocchi The Rock premiered, and it was an anime that made introverts feel represented like nothing before it. How Bocchi The Rock is supposed to be the portent of an apocalypse flummoxes me. "It’s also a lot bleaker than it was in Matsumoto’s heyday." is also something that can't be corroborated. Ashita no Joe predates it and it got dark and was the first really big serious anime. Gundam would follow it soon afterwards and that starts out with galactic war. Ideon anyone?

jabroni_salad 3y ago
Well I wanted to dispute your Bocchi comments but it turns out Watamote came out ten years ago.... plenty of time for newer anime enjoyers to have never heard of it. Watamote hit me a lot harder than Bocchi did, but I guess it had the advantage of getting me in a more vulnerable time of my life.
0xcde4c3db 3y ago
> "It’s also a lot bleaker than it was in Matsumoto’s heyday." is also something that can't be corroborated. Ashita no Joe predates it and it got dark and was the first really big serious anime. Gundam would follow it soon afterwards and that starts out with galactic war. Ideon anyone? Also, it's probably been about 20 years since I've watched it, so maybe my memory is failing me here, but isn't Matsumoto's own Galaxy Express 999 pretty bleak? The article mentions it a few times, but pretty much only in aesthetic terms. I seem to remember it being a barely-subtext running theme that traveling to a different place won't let you escape societal corruption, it will just change the particular flavor of it that you encounter.

by quink 3y ago

jabroni_salad 3y ago

Well I wanted to dispute your Bocchi comments but it turns out Watamote came out ten years ago.... plenty of time for newer anime enjoyers to have never heard of it. Watamote hit me a lot harder than Bocchi did, but I guess it had the advantage of getting me in a more vulnerable time of my life.

0xcde4c3db 3y ago

> "It’s also a lot bleaker than it was in Matsumoto’s heyday." is also something that can't be corroborated. Ashita no Joe predates it and it got dark and was the first really big serious anime. Gundam would follow it soon afterwards and that starts out with galactic war. Ideon anyone? Also, it's probably been about 20 years since I've watched it, so maybe my memory is failing me here, but isn't Matsumoto's own Galaxy Express 999 pretty bleak? The article mentions it a few times, but pretty much only in aesthetic terms. I seem to remember it being a barely-subtext running theme that traveling to a different place won't let you escape societal corruption, it will just change the particular flavor of it that you encounter.