So in another topic someone said im a newfag to anime, because i talk about the most mainstream anime Frieren a lot and listed off the most mainstream anime as something right wing normies would like, and then said that to know who are the more experianced anime fans you need to ask them what the mid anime are that nobody else really knows about and he listed of Buso Renkin.
Little did he know ,i've read the Buso Renkin manga decades ago.
So how many people here are "elite otakus" that have seen the anime, watched the manga or even heard of Buso Renkin since apparently its now a metric for "elite otaku" status?.
if anyone wants to question my otaku credentials more, I'd also like to list off another obscure manga called "Hoshin Engi" that i read which that most people probably haven't heard of. Hoshin Engi is pretty popular in Japan but not well known in the West,
I've been watching/reading anime and manga since 20 years ago, im not a newfag to it
If I had my old harddrive from my weeb days still I'd be able to pull up nonsense like Hanaukyo Maid Tai or Nagasarete Airantou (which the manga is still fucking going somehow) that I'd almost certainly not watch these days.
Which aren't some hella obscure "elite otaku cred" shows, but literally the only reason any of us watched them was because we just typed something like "anime" in the search bar and it came up back in the day.
And yeah, I miss having multiple options available for some series. But the industry is producing like triple or more the amount of works these days, with a massive number still not even getting touched (shoutout to JUM for trying to pull from those lost series even if they mostly suck), so its certainly not worth having a double up when you could be having multiple series instead.
Sure the industry is producing a ton more shows now, but is it producing proportionally more good shows or is it just an ever expanding mass of rubbish to fill the gaps between those handful of good shows that come out each year?
Proportionally, I think the amount of good has increased simply because its no longer filtered by "will a Japanese industry employee approve you to be published" and sheer number means you will have more chances for sparks of greatness to appear.
And regardless on if its all good or not, its still more to fill whatever particular desire you want from your reading. I enjoy romcom SoL shit, which is being pumped out like crazy now (and isn't a Love Hina harem clone like everything in the 2000s) and my pickings are able to be so specific I feel some are made just for me.
If you are only interested in shounen action shows, on the other hand, I think you will find the proportion of good stuff has dropped considerably and you are just watching trash waiting for the rare good find. Especially if you don't like isekai, then god help you go rewatch all of One Piece for the 7th time because I am sorry for you.
This sounds like my experience. Luckily I enjoy a good chunk of the isekai trash that is getting pumped out and sometimes I even get little gems to tide me over like Grimgar.