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Most Influential Anime of The Decade?
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SAO for sure, but it DEFINITELY does not have anything to do with quality.
Attack on Titan burned REAL bright and then the delay between season 1 and 2 absolutely killed it for the mainstream.\
In the end it's going to be the right move because they'll be able to have the ending cover the manga's upcoming ending without too much of a delay. But I know too many folks that got hooked on S1 then never went back to it for whatever reason
Attack on Titan burned REAL bright and then the delay between season 1 and 2 absolutely killed it for the mainstream.\
In the end it's going to be the right move because they'll be able to have the ending cover the manga's upcoming ending without too much of a delay. But I know too many folks that got hooked on S1 then never went back to it for whatever reason
I'd say Sword Art Online and Love Live are the most influential anime of the decade for sure. SAO is trash tier but the Isekai genre really picked up afterwards. Love Live is so much fun and the idol boom kicked off afterwards even though Idolm@ster was a thing.
Sword Art Online, which prolly explains why I haven't been able to get into much anime the past decade.
Naruto came out in 1997, so it just misses the cutoff
but on that note, Shippuden is definitely the most influential.
It's definitely not at the level of SAO and isekai, but we've definitely gotten a good number of dark edgy magical girl series after Madoka that were clearly inspired by it
While I get when, it doesn't mean it's influence stopped right after it debuted. Had to get some traction and footing under it before it's world domination.
you realize the decade in question is the 2010s, not the 2000s, right lol
If we're going this route than Naruto still loses because One Piece exists and is way more popular in the one place that matters in terms of impacting the industry itself
though even then I'd argue that SAO has had more impact on the anime industry as a whole than any of the big shonen series did
By asking for "most influential" anime of the decade, you're boxing in the conversation a bit and setting up the thread for a lot of weird responses.
It also depends on how you define "influence", because I would suggest that we won't be able to fully evaluate the most influential anime of the past decade for another 5 years or so. "Most influential anime from 00-09" would be much easier to discuss.
Until then, the best answer I can probably give is Attack on Titan given how many series have tried to ape the format and tone.
It also depends on how you define "influence", because I would suggest that we won't be able to fully evaluate the most influential anime of the past decade for another 5 years or so. "Most influential anime from 00-09" would be much easier to discuss.
Until then, the best answer I can probably give is Attack on Titan given how many series have tried to ape the format and tone.
Technically Naruto was in the 90s-2000sMerch = my influence barometer and it's got to be Naruto
I don't seen kids wearing SAO gear
Now the one thing I can definitely give Attack on Titan is it's role in influencing the boom of legal anime streaming.
As much as an impact SAO had on the anime community specifically, AOT was the first series since Naruto to be frank that managed to achieve Non-Anime Fans acknowledgent and it definitely got more and more people subscribing to Crunchyroll and, as a side effect, which in turn pushed a lot of how anime streaming has become today. And then of course you have other series like SAO II, One Punch Man, Erased, MHA, Re:Zero and Yuri on Ice that kept that momentum going.
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Back on topic, but I now say My Hero Academia is the most influential
Such as? The only thing that comes to mind is that Kabaneri anime that ppl call "Attack on Trains" lol
I'm not talking about influence in terms of idol stuff. Love Live's biggest contribution was proving the viability of mobile gaming as a core pillar of large cross-media animation projects and led the way to stuff like Granblue Fantasy, Azur Lane, Kemono Friends (though that one is something of a special case), Magia Record, and of course the Big Kahuna of them all, the omnipresent F/GO.
We all know it's SAO in terms of popularity and setting genre trends, but maybe there are some more interesting answers.
How about A Place Further than the Universe? That show inspired a bunch of people to change their real lives in meaningful ways. I saw a bunch of youtube videos popping up with people deciding to go on vacation, get out of their comfort zones, be spontaneous, and live their lives to the fullest. I would call that influential.
How about A Place Further than the Universe? That show inspired a bunch of people to change their real lives in meaningful ways. I saw a bunch of youtube videos popping up with people deciding to go on vacation, get out of their comfort zones, be spontaneous, and live their lives to the fullest. I would call that influential.
We won't know how influential anime released in the past few years will be yet lol. The only answers that can make sense right now must come from the first few years of the decade which had time to actually influence. So the answer has to be SAO.
Since you didn't specify that the anime had to start in the last decade it's probably Dragon Ball Z or One Piece.
Little off topic here but do you need to see all the other stuff to jump into alicization? I think I just saw the first Sao and I think a bit of the second season and then dropped it.
Any anime with a mysterious wall off society counts as such in my book
The most influential anime of next decade, if there is any justice.
That's being really generous. But even granting that, SAO would still have it beat (obligatory unfortunately).