Why are the Anime Community being Sensitive about anime became a Mainstream.

[PhaseJump]

Getting checked for prostate and breast cancer is just good advice in general, regardless of how old you are.

It's a joke. To be able to see or complain about anime becoming mainstream, you would need to be middle aged or old in the first place.

 

[Mirai1412]

You all said anime already mainstream since 30 - 40 years ago but the kind of mainstream anime comnunity complaints about is the surge of new of new fans because of COVID, these new fans seems having culture shock of long estabalished anime/otaku cultures

 

[qw90700]

You all said anime already mainstream since 30 - 40 years ago but the kind of mainstream anime comnunity complaints about is the surge of new of new fans because of COVID, these new fans seems having culture shock of long estabalished anime/otaku cultures

True. Thanks to COVID some people learned animes exist, some learned video game consoles exist and they even bought Switch 1 and some studied world map just to distract themselves and learned Principality of Andorra exists!!!! lolol

 

[PhaseJump]

You all said anime already mainstream since 30 - 40 years ago but the kind of mainstream anime comnunity complaints about is the surge of new of new fans because of COVID, these new fans seems having culture shock of long estabalished anime/otaku cultures

Anime fans are just seeing big money, no talent Hollywood & Netflix adjacent producers/writers/vultures circling the corpse of remakes or comic book media adaptations, and now looking for other things to adapt and butcher. Superhero and comic trash is dying out, anime and video game adaptations are getting funded, and people who go looking for more end up discovering the old stuff.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

On the other hand trying to appeal to the majority will always end up having a bland product that pleases nobody.

I doubt that Satoshi Kon or even Yoshiaki Kawajiri's animation could've appealed to most people around. Some are niche for a reason. Even the Baoh OVA was quite violent for its time (while the manga was even more).

Mainstream would mean Nekketsu Shonens, Slice of Life RomCom and other "safe" genres with barely any violence nor suggestive stuff (or only mildly).

Late 70's to early 90's anime outside of major successes like Dragon Ball Z are still niche compared to the more mainstream stuff from later.