When it comes to ye olde eras of the past, it seems like each decade generated at least a handful of ground breaking anime titles many folks now consider as "classics".
1980s we got magnificent shit like the Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Nagareboshi Gin, or the goddamn Akira. In the 90s, we got stuff like NGE, Cowboy Bebop, LAIN, GitS... and to a degree the OG Pokemon runs. 00s was a wild ride with its Big Three, FLCL, TTGL, Code Geass, Haruhi, Bakemonogatari, SZS... etc.
However, I'm having very hard time thinking of a single truly great series from the 2010s, that I could see having a lasting impression in the future. Lots of fine series and some nice films for sure, but anything groundbreaking we could think as a "classic"...? Am I just being nostalgic, or did something happen to the anime industry last decade?
hunter x hunter I'm not a hunterfag its just really good
Jace Ward
Your name
Jaxson Gonzalez
MHA?
Carson Ortiz
You're just blinded by nostalgia. Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass, and the OG pokemons are definitely not groundbreaking.
Jason Butler
>AoT I can definitely recall the S1 making waves, namely its OST. But correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the IP kinda declined in popularity and quality since? I don't quite see anyone even talk about it any more.
>Hunter x Hunter That's technically, if not literally a 1990s product. I myself consider the original 1999 adaptation to be superior to the 2011's remake too, and I just watched both a few short years ago.
I forgot to mention Made in Abyss and One Punch man season 1 and Mob Phycho s1 and s2 but i dont think those fall under the handful of animes that deifne the decasde, though Made in Abyss does and probably OPM s1 but its stained with s2.
Luis Robinson
It's hard to think of newer works as classics. You named all of those titles from the 00s, but did you consider half of them classics at the time? If you metric for a classic is "left a lasting impression" then stuff like SnK, Madoka, MHA, KnY, and Durarara! would count.
Dylan Perry
Yup. Even normies were talking about it in the office.
Grayson Rodriguez
>Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass >not ground breaking On what grounds exactly? The former is literally hailed as one of the finest products of animated media, and the latter was only overshadowed by Death Note back in the days, and still makes waves with its spinoffs and re-telling stories.
>OG Pokemon You forgetting how it got some 100 billion kids to waste their mothers' money on cards and Gameboys?
Popularity does not equate to a groundbreaking story. Otherwise there's plenty of stuff in the 2010's that you could've said are groundbreaking in your list, I imagine you just don't like them.
Nathaniel Rogers
bebop definitely is lol
Ayden Bell
Madoka
John Carter
Madoka
Joshua Brooks
>but isn't the IP kinda declined in popularity and quality since? Popularity fell off hard after the first season of the anime but this doesn't change the fact that that first season was absurdly popular. I struggle to recall the last time an anime breached the normisphere to such a degree. Demon Slayer did the same thing last year.
Julian Taylor
My Hero Academia...you poor soul
Xavier Carter
>did you consider half of them classics at the time? That is a good question. Which ever might be the case, I do have vivid recollections of thinking to myself "Holy shit, this is some amazing stuff I'm witnessing!" when watching most of them. Not to say I would not have greatly enjoyed the 10's shows when they aired, but I do not see Trigger's offerings of the decade to quite compare to their prior products. Pic quite related, and it wouldn't even been my first pick if my folder search wouldn't had brought it up. I also keep forgetting that Rozen Maiden got a sequel / spinoff in 2013, and I don't think I need to explain the insane Desu-spam of the early years.
Agretsuko Polar Bear Cafe Non Non Byori Ping Pong Space Brothers Yuru Camp Pop Team Epic Tanaka-Kun Log Horizon A Place Further Than the Universe Magical Girl Ops Asuka Iron Blooded Orphens Gundam Build Fighters Level E Steins Gate Killing Bites Chihaya Furu March Comes in Like a Lion Sweetness and Lightning Poko's Udon World My Roomate is a Cat Dragon Maid
Its been pretty good desu
Parker Flores
And Sword Art Online basically invented an entire genre what's your fucking point
Justin Rivera
yes which makes it groundbreaking
Dylan Garcia
I remember absolutely nothing that Cowboy Bebop did that was unique or innovative. I'll be glad to be proven wrong, I just don't remember it doing anything "groundbreaking".
Jayden Carter
You're using vague terminology like "groundbreaking" and "making waves". What do either of those mean? What ground did Code Geass break? Yes, it was high quality and popular, that doesn't make something groundbreaking. Stuff like Ping Pong The Animation or Fire Punch are much more groundbreaking than something like Code Geass, in terms of artistic and narrative value respectively.
Josiah Ortiz
Definitely Steins;Gates.
Robert Gonzalez
Squealer did nothing wrong.
Brody Butler
>muh classics Fuck off reddit
Ethan Bennett
Isekai's have been around long before SAO. Unless "stuck in a video game" is the genre you're talking about.
SAO inspired such a massive flood of imitators that not calling it groundbreaking would be retarded. It was groundbreaking for all the wrong reasons. It shifted the entire paradigm in the wrong direction.
Samuel Green
I disagree with him saying that Geass and Pokemon aren't groundbreaking, but Cowboy Bebop isn't groundbreaking in the slightest. It's good, but it's hardly groundbreaking. It did nothing influential to the industry at large, and it didn't change anything about the way anime is produced, written or animated. It's only iconic in America and to a lesser extent other English speaking countries for being a whole generation of English peoples' first exposure to maturer TV anime, which is something Japan and a lot o European countries have already been exposed to since the late 70s.
Noah Fisher
he killed an innocent lesbian
Robert Moore
And yet there will probably be next to nobody with over a 3 digit IQ calling SAO a classic in the next few decades.
Luis Edwards
Madoka
Robert Howard
He helped her learn to love the cock by breeding her with the loser kid first.
Aaron Nguyen
He failed, got tortured like a bitch and died.
Bentley Hernandez
I mean you could say the same about haruhi a decade ago
Landon Perez
You're going to call me a fag for this but Kill la Kill fits on basically every level, regardless of whether or not you think it's good
Nathaniel Myers
Haruhi and Bakemonogatari honestly fit more with the 2010s- Kyoto Animations and the Monogatari series are way more significant and prolific in the 2010s, because both came out in 2009.
Nicholas Flores
Not his fault the kantus cunts programmed themselves to die whenever they kill one of their own. He was the most human character in the series.
Aaron Clark
>You forgetting how it got some 100 billion kids to waste their mothers' money on cards and Gameboys? just because prime nintendo was excellent at marketing doesn't mean it was "groundbreaking." the pokemon anime is honestly the worst long-running anime series ever made.
Sebastian Morales
99 looks better in that scene 100%, 2011 just adapted more, which counts as a separate entity and not just a remake
>You're using vague terminology like "groundbreaking" and "making waves". I didn't know that you could consider such words as "vague". In other words, we are talking about major publications that not only are still recalled fondly to this day, but may have also inspired others to kick-start an all new phenomenon even. Titles that practically "define the era", bit like the Simpsons, Tamagotchis and techno music color the shared general idea of the 1990s.
I'm not cutting out some potential cult-hits though.
Elijah Young
>"stuck in a video game" Video game isekai's been around since at least 1990.
Madoka is the only one that pops to my mind but I'm not even sure when that came out anymore. It looks like the time of LN adaptations has come.
Joshua Evans
"stuck in videogame" would also encompass .hack// stuff too.
Cameron Cooper
>the pokemon anime is honestly the worst long-running anime series ever made. Far from it, and again, the focus was on the first season or two, when things kinda had a focus.
>I didn't know that you could consider such words as "vague". They're vague because the way that you're using them, if you are the OP, makes no sense. You keep switching from them meaning innovative to simply popularity or whatever. You need to explain yourself before making stupid arguments.
you must also enjoy watching paint dry, because pokemon is the anime equivalent of that.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Mob Psycho
>OG Pokemon runs >Am I just being nostalgic
Yes. Pokemon anime was always shit
Jeremiah Peterson
>Definitely Steins;Gates. Oh god... this is exactly the issue I got with 2010s. I fucking ADORED the S;G, but guess did it even pop into my mind before you said it?
>Far from it, I have a very hard time of thinking of anything with more than 26 episodes that's worse than pokemon honestly. And there's a lot of stuff I hate.
Liam King
>FLCL This series has been always shit. LOLSORANDUMXDXd made anime
Noah Bell
Samurai Flamenco Osomatsu-san
I'm betting there are a lot of "have to be Japanese" classics I don't know but future generations of gaijin might.
Isaiah White
>some people are so stupid that FLCL is 2DEEP4them It's a pleb filter for sure.
Ryder Long
The idea itself has been a thing since the 1930s... don't ask i can't remember the book.
Brandon Reyes
I have a hard time believing there's anything that did it earlier than Tron.
Ryder Ward
based actual retard poster
Charles Price
That question will change depending on whether you're talking about the domestic Japanese audience or international audiences. This decade was huge for the rise of legal streaming services, with a whole generation of newfags legally watching anime. That happens like, in that 2010-2013 range, so all the "normie anime" from that time period are also going to count. That means Attack on Titan.
"Influential" is a term that's meaningless here though, because the new decade's barely started. K-On and Haruhi are easy to track in influence bc we've had a decade of Kyoto dominance and moeshit to point to for proof, but shit that came out between 2015-2019 it's going to be hard to distinguish.
Gonna note though that "quality" doesn't actually matter here. As long as you're doing something that isn't super popular, and get more popular doing it than everyone else, you've made a showstopper. Yas Forums will never understand this because they care more about treating anime like teenage girls treat fashion but thats what you're gonna get
Anthony Stewart
Non-Japanese "stuck in another world" stories aren't isekai.
Lincoln Rogers
>You keep switching from them meaning innovative to simply popularity or whatever. I'm still slightly puzzled what's so difficult to understand in all this. There is always some era-defining products, big and small, that end up gaining the title of a "classic", and become part of said generation's identity.
Evan Phillips
>did something happen to the anime industry last decade? Well, the Tohoku Earthquake was basically Japan's 9/11. Well... their most recent one anyway.
Carter Howard
2000's were godlike. Any list is incomplete without azumanga, lucky star, and gits:sac. Depending on where you start the 2010s you have dokes, nichijou, and nichibros.
Joseph Evans
Madoka Heartcatch Unicorn AoT
Ethan Bennett
>Samurai Flamenco Second half of this shit was trash. Like they changed writers or some shit. Out of the fucking nowhere it went from nerd guy who wanted to fight crime becoming an internet sensation to just regular crappy sentai fighting the monster of the week.
Ian Gonzalez
Since "isekai" just means "another world," fuck you, John Carter is isekai since 1912.
If that's all you need for something to be groundbreaking, why do you have any difficulty thinking of anything for the 2010's? Just say SAO, MHA, and Demon Slayer and call it a day.
You are a very stupid human who watches shows solely for plot.
Samuel Anderson
If that's what you think then you clearly haven't matured enough to see the themes it's whacking you in the face with. It's like complaining that there's no forest, there's just a bunch of trees.
