Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) on Nostr: That’s because of the media landscape. Evangelion hit at just the right time to ...
That’s because of the media landscape. Evangelion hit at just the right time to become a fixture via cartoon network-prompted interest in jap cartoons and home VHS rentals. The rental market automatically sifted out the crap, so only the most professional, serious works ended up in american living rooms.
Now, everyone lives in a 24/7 media hellscape where content consumption occurs without break or pause. Every year a new, cute, but forgettable girl arises only to fall back into the primordial ooze of anime fandom when the next one debuts.
It’s just the way things are, the conflux of elements that we culturally enjoyed won’t return until you winnow out the broadcast channels. We’re all in ourr tiny niches of hyperdefined personalization
Now, everyone lives in a 24/7 media hellscape where content consumption occurs without break or pause. Every year a new, cute, but forgettable girl arises only to fall back into the primordial ooze of anime fandom when the next one debuts.
It’s just the way things are, the conflux of elements that we culturally enjoyed won’t return until you winnow out the broadcast channels. We’re all in ourr tiny niches of hyperdefined personalization
quoting note1r57…jr6tit's been 10 years and i am still trying to find the exceptions in post 2015 anime like naruto , dbz , NGE etc etc used to have , nobody is gonna talk about yor or anya like people still talk about rei asuka or sakura even after 20 years