Anime: How You Know A Fad Is Finished.

[Charles]

Anime is over. It's done. It's dead. Dead as a doornail. Over and done with. At an end. Gone. It's pushing up daisies. Terminated. Concluded. At an end. It is no more. The wheels have fallen off.

And how can you tell when a fad like Anime is over? Here's how. When people old enough to be your grandparents start posting blog entries about how cool they were to be doing cosplay in 1983.



...more pioneering losers here...

And more links here at the always entertaining MeFi.

[plaid_knight]

I'm not sure we can say it's a fad as such. It's just another form of filmed entertainment. More conventions are going on than ever before. Thanks to bittorrent and wikipedia, it's easy to find more of whatever you happen to be interested in. You can get cosplay without ever having to sew if you order a costume off the net. It's not like the 90's when this stuff was underground.

[Takechanpoo]

Anime is over. It's done. It's dead. Dead as a doornail. Over and done with. At an end. Gone. It's pushing up daisies. Terminated. Concluded. At an end. It is no more. The wheels have fallen off.

And how can you tell when a fad like Anime is over? Here's how. When people old enough to be your grandparents start posting blog entries about how cool they were to be doing cosplay in 1983.



...more pioneering losers here...


And more links here at the always entertaining MeFi.

Cognate aversion.
You seem to misunderstand J-literliture is more noble than Otaku culture.
It is nothing but intellectual negligence or irresponsibility as an intellectual of J-culture to neglect contemporary Anime and Manga culture.
Probably you always have been halfway in everything you did like that since your childhood.

[Charles]

I will reserve comment (and snark) while I await the moderator who is about to stomp all over your post (note point #9).

[American Oyaji]

I will reserve comment (and snark) while I await the moderator who is about to stomp all over your post (note point #9).

I don't think so. It was a valid point. Not advocacy nor euphemism, just a valid point on the state of things.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Anime is over. It's done. It's dead. Dead as a doornail. Over and done with. At an end. Gone. It's pushing up daisies. Terminated. Concluded. At an end. It is no more. The wheels have fallen off.

he recycles the same opening sentence that he uses in his other 'how do you know when ... is over' posts.

[plaid_knight]

When it's been going on for thousands of years, etc. etc.

[ghostunit]

I think anime started dying when it started pandering to the upcoming brat generation with so many "collect the trinkets" anime, school-gang anime, etc.

[Iraira]

When it's been going on for thousands of years, etc. etc.

I guess sexual reproduction is over, too, now that a second shark has "parthenogenesized".
Time to go castrate myself again. The first time, it grew back twice as viscous as before.

[wuchan]

I went to that big park in Tokorozawa with all the airplanes last weekend with my family. There had to be well over 1,000 cosplay types there. They were just hanging around in groups and taking pictures of each other. Maybe there wan an event but no one seemed to be in a rush to go anywhere, they all were totally content with just chatting and looking stupid.

[Behan]

Is this about anime being dead, or anime cosplay being dead?

Anime will not die out for a long time since so many children here have been brought up on it.

[prolly]

so longevity in an activity signals the end of such activity? wow, i guess christmas is "over" since my great-grandparents did that, too.

what could have simply been a simple, face-value, "hey check out these early 80s cosplayers," was marred by charles' adding a sardonic and judgemental tone. it reminds me of those free local entertainment papers from the midwest that substitute any event coverage with irony and snark to mask the fact there's actually nothing going on of interest.

[Takechanpoo]

[dimwit]

Whenever anyone writes an article talking about postmodernism I have to mentally prepare myself for the loud humming of bullshit. One of my favorite random paper generators is this one:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

and I find it really difficult to determine whether Tak's buddies paper or any of the papers written here are more readable.

Back to the original question. Anime died the second the Prime Minister confessed to being a fan of it. It can now be consigned to the dusty $1.99 bins in the hardware store where they sell Roger Whitaker LPs.

[Mulboyne]

Back to the original question. Anime died the second the Prime Minister confessed to being a fan of it.

The Asahi dated the peak to 2006 in this recent article (Japanese)

[hitokiri5331]

Well anime might be dead or dying because a lot of the anime produced today are just animated versions of manga series.