My smallish suburb video store had Ninja Scroll, that one must have put up good numbers as a rental.
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Polygon: Anime is HUGE & Here's Data on Who's Consuming It
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High school starting in '05 was peak Naruto headband era. I got to see it all.
Gen Z don't know how good they have it. Can still picture musty animax's with overpriced VHS tapes
Hopefully this means we can finally get a good fucking Gundam live action from a streaming service (poke poke Netflix)
in middle school i had a japanese dragon ball manga when i was like 13 or so and someone called me "gay" for reading comics.
two or three years later, toonami happened and that same guy asked me if i had DBZ fansubs I'd give to him.
Also worth noting those numbers are people who report as watching it weekly, so people who binge a show once or twice a month wouldn't be counted there even if they watch a lot of anime
I blame millennials for raising weebs (I am a millennial and plan to raise a weeb).
I hope so. The director attached has high reverence for the source material a la Matt Owens. Now, will he handle it as well as Matt Owens did One Piece? Idk, but maybe?
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Yeah, that was always my experience. I still feel uncomfortable sometimes due to the intense amount of bullying I received. I'm really happy that youth can enjoy it though. There's also some great new anime to watch and I suspect there always will be.
Gen X Gen X! Represent!
Been a fan since G-Force/Gatchaman and Robotech/Macross. Too bad it's only %12.
Been a fan since G-Force/Gatchaman and Robotech/Macross. Too bad it's only %12.
Extra Data on Anime Viewership on Netflix
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The Most Popular Anime Series According to Netflix's Data Drop
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I guess everyone's experiences are different but youre not that much older than me. When I was in school everyone loved Dragon Ball, Gundam Wing and Naruto. Yugioh as well.
Anime wasnt underground at all, in the sense that no one batted an eyelid at certain anime. Maybe if you talked about an obscure anime that no one watched, sure. But its like that with anything.
The 3% Boomers are way more impressive than the 12% Gen X. Anime is solidly within the Gen X generation but they largely shunned it.
Oh man Suncoast. I recently found my old member card from there.
I still have a few of the series I got from there, though many have had Blu-ray releases that were also way cheaper.
Its pretty surreal and amazing, yeah. Back in high school, I only knew two people willing to cosplay Bleach for Halloween and now I see people rocking Akatsuki jackets and little kids dressing up as Kimestu no Yaiba characters like its nothing.
My late father actually loved anime as a kid and used to share a lot of his old shows with me and my brothers when we were kids. We used to watch DVDs and VHS tapes of Gigantor, Astro Boy and Tobor the 8th Man with him.
I'm a late millennial. Started watching anime with Dragon Ball Z when it aired on YTV in Canada. Once they got Inuyasha it was over for me.
Around 2011-2012 is when I kinda fell off and gaming became more of a priority for me. I've been trying to make an effort to get back into it, mostly by reading manga, but I also have a huge backlog of shows I want to watch. It's great to see how accessible anime and manga is now.
Around 2011-2012 is when I kinda fell off and gaming became more of a priority for me. I've been trying to make an effort to get back into it, mostly by reading manga, but I also have a huge backlog of shows I want to watch. It's great to see how accessible anime and manga is now.
I miss Suncoast. My mom bought me a Macross Plus DVD because I rented Robotech: Battlecry from Blockbuster and wanted to watch the show "for real."
I thought it would be just robots fighting. It was like the fifth DVD in the collection and opened with a beach episode. She promptly returned it to the store.
Any other rickety millenials remember the magazines you would get for purchasing anime tapes by mail?
The ones with the "adult" section that would be sealed with tape so that parents could remove it before handing the zine over to the kids?
Good times.
The ones with the "adult" section that would be sealed with tape so that parents could remove it before handing the zine over to the kids?
Good times.
Give up Birdie there won't be a new Tenchi Muyo unless it is isekai
Surprised crunchyroll isn't higher because it seems to me anyway their catalogue is much bigger than the rest.
I wish i was born a bit later honestly, i'm from 88, and while we had a ton of anime on TV in europe when i was a kid, when i reached teenager years, people stopped watching those, same for playing videogames aside stuff like FIFA and GTA... It was super rare for me to meet someone who shared my interests...
Now every teens and young adults are into it, i'm sure i would had a much easier time making friends at school instead of being alone most of the time if were born later...
Even now when it's more normalised even for millenials, it's still rare for me to meet these people
I'm often the oldest in the small discord communities i'm in, it's usual people in their 20s, averaging 25...
Now every teens and young adults are into it, i'm sure i would had a much easier time making friends at school instead of being alone most of the time if were born later...
Even now when it's more normalised even for millenials, it's still rare for me to meet these people
I'm often the oldest in the small discord communities i'm in, it's usual people in their 20s, averaging 25...
Brief period of time when I was an impressionable 5th grader and watched that show on Toonami, I was the type to talk about nerdy shit to people and it weirded everyone out.
I had no friends due to anime.
This surprises me. Not so much Netflix on top, but Crunchyroll not right behind it especially pushing same-day simulcasts.
65% find anime more emotionally compelling than other media is crazy to me. I don't see that at all. I don't think I've even teared up watching an anime before.
I think its the opposite. CR is only Anime. The rest host the full variety of the shows.
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It's kind of worth noting that among Gen Z it's second behind netflix, and all the ones above it are massive streaming platforms that people are likely to have already been on for reasons beyond anime
The day they make a new Tenchi is the day we get a new Slayers (that isn't meh).
I just teared up reading One Piece 1104. This arc animated will kill me