Most anime that go over 26 episodes aren’t worth watching anyways. There are a very few exceptions of course but most anime in general is trash just like most American animation. Though anime certainly has gotten worse in just a few short years as compared to where it was.
I'd say it's the opposite. Most anime that get 2+ seasons have to have some sort of appeal, even if they aren't very good. There is so much shitty seasonal shovelware anime that gets a dozen episodes that exist solely to be consoomed by weebs who watch ten episodes of anime a day and then afterwards get forgotten forever.
If you think current anime in aggregate is worse then 2000s anime you're blinded by nostalgia. As bad as isakai spam can be, it's nowhere near as constraining as when every anime was trying to be DBZ or the second half of NGE.
Or you just have bad opinions.
I found Soul Eater pretty boring, but a lot of people love it.
FLCL really and truly shouldn't be someone's first foray into anime unless they're already animation fans. It's a strange, strange show that perfectly encapsulates what even is anime, but it has a lot of animation quirks that fans of the medium will appreciate the first time around. It's definitely a quintessential show for anime fans, yes, but make it like someone's 50th or 100th overall anime.
Pokémon’s like a good starter anime for 12 year olds, and I don’t even mean that as an insult. I think it’s in that category of shows where you kinda had to grow up with it to fully appreciate.
Eh, Ghibli is so mainstream that I feel like it doesn't count, though most are movies worth watching. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are good choices for a child, but I feel that they're way too long for an adult to get into if they're curious about anime.
Mainly because those are good safe choices for when a child's first getting into anime. But Digimon is definitely a good recommendation regardless, as it's rather mature for a children's series.
No adult is gonna watch Digimon.
Honestly, I'd be fine if it kept that preconception. Popular things get heavily chained down.
2010s is when geek culture became "cool", and that's also coincidentally when anime got more mainstream in America when Toonami was revived and brought Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online to the public conscious. It's a monkey's paw scenario because it's great to bring in new anime fans however possible, but that meant bringing in the crazies who don't want people to have fun and want everything to be sterilized to their liking (which is never enough). Because capeshit also got hugely popular thanks to the MCU, when One Punch Man and My Hero Academia came out here, they became stupidly popular to the point you couldn't even be remotely critical about them, even though these are also the same people who were screeching about the female characters being sexualized.
It’s absolutely mainstream now, no debate about it. At the very least it’s no longer seen as a “nerd” hobby.
It's definitely much more popular now than it has ever been before and there's now a whole new generation of anime fan who has watched/grew up with an entire different set of shows.
I find it baffling that most of the people who I talk to who have recently got into anime in the last five years have not seen Fullmetal Alchemist, everyone who started watching anime from before 5 years ago had at least watched Brotherhood all the way through. I also keep getting called an old man for recommending Azumanga Daioh and GTO and it hurts. I feel like it is still important to at least make an effort of watching some of the old classics instead of whatever isekai shit is airing this season, but maybe I'm just bitter.
I watched the movie back in 2000 when I was a kid, and I still remember when American critics panned the movie for being too childish. Yet, no adults back then had no issue with it when bringing their kids to see.
I think it depends on what kind of Studio Ghibli movie. You can say Spirited Away or My Neighbor Totoro is mainstream, but you don’t see them saying the same thing regarding a Kiki’s Delivery Service or a Porco Rosso.
The movie got panned for a reason, I'm not going to deny it despite that movie being one of my biggest guilty pleasures. The TV show only was ripped apart by kids on the playground saying it was a Pokémon ripoff, it was otherwise liked by everyone who saw it all the way through and its sequel. Tamers was where it lost people.
Disagree. Hunter x Hunter should be watched for the Yorknew City and Chimera Ant arcs alone. Those two arcs might be two of the best arcs I have ever read/seen.