Thread 280326988

>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-anime-slate-2025-1236307714/
>According to Netflix, more than 50 percent of its members — amounting to over 150 million households, or an estimated 300 million viewers

How do we protect our soul culture from normies?

>>280326988 (OP)
Less than 1% of the global audience actually pays for anime

>>280326988 (OP)
>how does the 5 percent of the fanbase protect against the 95 percent of the fanbase
anon you are asking this question probably your entire life after it was already too late.

>>280326988 (OP)
Loli and cunny is good normie repellent
BR imoutos even

>>280327092
>we want our demographics as brown and primitive as possible

>*watches demon slayer once*
omg im such a weeb LOL
I LOVE japanimation

>>280326988 (OP)
I would like to see a by country statistics

>>280326988 (OP)
Didn't ask
Don't care

>>280327226
I wanna see stats for shows too

>>280326988 (OP)
More normalfags watching anime is a good thing because previously the only paying customers were redditors while you fucks refuse to make your voice count.
If it's a choice between normalfag influence and reddit infulence it's a pretty easy choice

>normies
You're one of them fagggot OP

>>280326988 (OP)
ok cool now GIVE US BASTARD!! S3 ALREADY FUUUUUCK

>>280327068
Yet it is those paying customers that influence the industry.

>>280327335
>If it's a choice between normalfag influence and reddit infulence it's a pretty easy choice
Those two groups are one in the same.

>>280326988 (OP)
Anime is not your own Club
Why do you give a fuck what people watch?
Just watch what you like, and stop seeking validation from "elitists" loosers over internet
"Normies" actually pay for anime, so studios can make more of them.
Also since Anime is mainstream now, you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons" anymore. Be happy

>>280327420
the majority of the series /a/ watches still characterize them as fucking weirdos who watch pedo cartoons, however

>>280327420
>you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons" anymore
Who decided I wanted that to stop?

>>280327420
>you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons" anymore
no I still am

>>280327406
>one in the same
do mutts really

>>280326988 (OP)
maybe now i can finally get a cute weeb gf...

Gookfags and Chinkfags are probably trembling and seething now despite the news isn't even positive

>>280326988 (OP)
Whatever it takes to not give Crunchyroll my money

>>280326988 (OP)
>How do we protect our soul culture from normies?
you don't, you bury it. Anime has been shit for 15-20 years

>>280326988 (OP)
>our
you're not one of us you poser

FUCK NORMIES

>>280327073
Tpbp
/thread

>>280326988 (OP)
Its too late OP

Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate
At Anime Expo in Los Angeles over the weekend, Netflix revealed that its anime viewership has tripled over the past five years

woah..

>>280327646
>kpop K drama, k movies still more popular
>chink gacha still dominating
If anything the japs should keep their animu and mangoes

>>280326988 (OP)
>The streamer also revealed that anime content was viewed over 1 billion times globally in 2024, and that 80 to 90 percent of users opt to watch anime dubbed. To capitalize on the demand, Netflix has begun offering anime titles with dubbed audio and descriptions in up to 33 languages.

Ewww

>>280326988 (OP)
99% of these people don't watch anything that's not on Netflix
They just don't matter

>>280327420
>you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons"
Wrong only those mainstream anime are acceptable. They will still think you're a pervert for watching CGDCT.

My first instant if was to call this headline a lie, but it could be true after thinking about it. The fact is modern visual entertainment is AWFUL. American media, which used to rule the world, is now full of ugliness and boring shit no one cares about. No one else has filled the gap. So, newer generations may rely on anime as an alternative for something watchable.

>>280328427
Annual revenue of the dragon ball franchise alone are equal to the music revenue of the entire Kpop.

>>280328516
Their music and live-action have no way to generate interest without anime. The gacha have been slaughtered too. They should keep dominating in animu and mangoes anyway.

>>280328447
Is it true that Crunchyroll and Netflix have separate dubbing for the same show?

>>280327420
Normalfags only watch battle shounen and shit like Dungeon Meshi

>>280326988 (OP)
>normies
You are part of them, you normalfag.

>>280326988 (OP)
>150 million households, or an estimated 300 million viewers
Yes, yes, anime watchers surely wouldn't live alone...

>>280326988 (OP)
>anime was our secret hobby just few years ago
what happened

>>280328663
Amiga Video Toaster, granpa.

>>280328562
You are missing the point. Kpop's popularity is very much online and you rarely see those fans in real life. And most Korean entertainment contents(Kdrama,Kpop,Webtoon etc) is already in steady decline after peaking a few years ago. This is something that is frequently discussed in Korean news outlets. Anime and Manga are still growth industries at this point, and many global companies are eager to invest.

>>280328663
By a few years ago you must mean fifteen years ago

>>280328705
You're missing the point to bring up gooks. Even without them, Jmusic and live-action still can't be popular without anime.

>>280326988 (OP)
>>280328447
250 million people watching dubs. Imagine that for a second. That's more than the entire population of Japan.

>>280328791
That's been the case since the 80's, possibly before that.

>>280328447
So that's why those burger dub VAs get so cocky.

>>280328754
You said Korean content is more popular than Japanese content and I refuted that.
According to Korean media, Sony and Nintendo alone generate more revenue than the entire entertainment industry including tourism in South Korea. They are not even rivals.

>>280328817
Their music and live-action totally are.

>>280328689
>>280328752
>According to Netflix, more than 50 percent of its members — amounting to over 150 million households, or an estimated 300 million viewers — now watch anime. The company says anime viewership on the platform has tripled over the past five years, with 2024 marking a record-breaking year: 33 anime titles appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10 (Non-English) rankings, more than double the number in 2021.

>>280327175
so true. they need to level up and watch 1,000 sitcoms

>>280328830
Okay? It's still been massively full of normalfags for more than a decade. This just means more of them are paying for it. If you think it only recently became mainstream you are either deluded or underage.

>>280328663
This >>280328502

>>280328502
>ugliness
yikes, go back election tourist

>>280328987
Are you still deluding yourself into thinking that you got into anime before it was popular?

>>280329028
Well now it's even more popular.

>>280328502
will trump ban anime and kpoop to make american entertainment great again

>>280329007
Are you still enjoying Hollywood slop over anime?

>>280329007
Nobody likes you ugly mutts, you amerimutt. Only reason mutt movies ruled the entertainment industry was because it was filled with beautiful people imported from across the world.

>>280327115
All of them are proper aryan genre.

>>280329123
>american films
>filled with beautiful people imported from across the world
anon i...

>>280327335
No, it isn't.
Normies are not human. They have no souls. They are NPCs programmed by the propaganda and the endless slop they're brainwashed with.
Normies couldn't even tolerate Zaako so the creator caved and did a Neru remake. They actually shit their pants over this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9qkKo5TuM

Stop acting like they're not retarded robots.
Normies absolutely are a plague.

>>280329284
I don't get what the outrage about that video was, even after reading comments. Only thing I can get is normgroids se the term hentai and thought it was porn?

At least they are one of the few people who take the making gay show seriously

The main thing we'll see is more shoueneshit anime for the western market.

>>280327420
>Also since Anime is mainstream now, you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons" anymore. Be happy
Picrel is what's happening.

>>280329492
Shounenshit has been a constant since the 70s so nothing changes

>>280326988 (OP)
>How do we protect
Why does /a/ keep making these stupid threads? You're 30 years too late for this. Dubbed Digimon/Pokemon/Dragon Ball/Sailor Moon/Card Captor etc etc already introduced anime to a wider international audience.

The only thing these streaming platforms did was made it more accessible than ever.

>>280327092
Blue Archive is a thing so didn't work.

More gentrification incoming.

>>280329598
See >>280329572

You'd have to build a time machine to keep it low profile.

Kill *merican

>>280327420
>you are not a "fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons" anymore
W-what..? NO! I DON'T WANT THAT!!!
But at least it was good while it lasted.. r-right anons?

>>280327710
And yet you're still here 15-20 years later despite your (false) claims. Absolute loser.
Anime has been pretty good all over the years, that's why it's being consumed more and more.

>>280326988 (OP)
>How do we protect our soul culture from normies
Anon, you're the one that needs to be gatekept. I don't care about normalfaggots watching Netflix anime. No matter what they do, you're a 100x bigger threat to well-to-do anime discussion.

>>280326988 (OP)
okay maybe anime will be mainstream soon but it's okay we still have manga that will be safe forever because americans don't read

>>280329685
>onimai
Industry people are listening more and more to the people that want to jail you for drawings. You may not care about what twitter zoomers say but people in the industry do care about wide reach and foreign trends. Like we have animators who talk about how reducing fanservice is good because of that study that said zoomers hate sex scenes in movies.

>>280329804
and why would they jail people for rainbow rights exactly?

>and that 80 to 90 percent of users opt to watch anime dubbed.
Concerning.

>>280329825
Texas will jail you for being a lolicon freak.

>>280326988 (OP)
Anime went mainstream almost a decade ago retard, it has been over since then

>>280329397
Some even claimed that the fish were sexual somehow. The whole situation was actually that retarded.

>>280326988 (OP)
>normies
Fucking normalfaggot, get out of here

>>280330043
>Some even claimed that the fish were sexual somehow
>claimed

>>280328427
I'm not talking about what is more popular. I'm talking about how Gookfags and Chinkfags occasionally seethe at the mention of Nipshit gaining popularity in this board

>>280328663
>Sailor Moon, Digimon, Pokemon and CCS airing in the early 90s
>Toonami introducing the masses to DBZ and Tenchi
>SciFi airing Eva, Nadesico, and any number of 80s cyberpunk OVAs
>Anime movies airing on mainstream British TV, BBC even commissioning a dub of the first two episodes of Lum

Unless you were an OG VHS fansubber from nearly 50 years back now, you can consider yourself a newfag.

>>280328562
>Their music and live-action have no way to generate interest without anime
Drive My Car and Godzilla happened

>>280326988 (OP)
Pack it up boys, the Jews no longer fear the samurai

>>280326988 (OP)
I just hate how this will now influence what gets adapted or not based on its popularity in the west

>>280326988 (OP)
When you consider Pokemon and Dragon Ball are also anime, you'll understand that gatekeeping is useless because anime was mainstream since before you were even alive.

>>280327420
I'm happy that paying viewers are watching more anime since it means better projects will be funded. We're already back to multiple studios being able to put out consistently good adaptations in Science Saru, Cloverworks, Cygames, and KyoAni just to name a few. There could be a potential future problem where anime execs actively cater more towards the global market but that'll be more the choice of works to adapt more than anything (what will get the views of a wider international audience vs. suit the nip public taste?). No we just need manga publishers to catch up.

>>280328427
>kpop K drama, k movies still more popular
>chink gacha still dominating
If Gookshills and Chinkshills really believe this, they wouldn't be obnoxious enough to screech about how popular their modern slop are whenever there is a mere mention of Japshit becoming popular, right?

>>280328663
Western entertainment is unwatchable

>>280329028
I got into genres of anime that are still not popular.

>>280330182
>I'm talking about how Gookfags and Chinkfags occasionally seethe at the mention of Nipshit gaining popularity in this board
I've never seen that seething. The only people seething are jap purists whenever someone mentions Blue Archive.

>>280329646
No, other entertainment media have been declining more than anime

>>280326988 (OP)
Pretty hilarious to use a bisque doll image as the OP since they buffed marin's butt in the newest season to cater to amerimutts, since i remember really well how the 1st season thread was full of americans complaining how she "had no ass"

Can't wait for tits to get phased out in favor of asses like in western media
Anime is finished

>>280328663
Western media became so garbage to the point even normalfags started watching those weird chinese cartoons they made fun of because it wasn't as bad as the western counterpart

>>280330457
This is a huge factor.
Also this is why gatekeeping is important.
Nobody is saying people can't enjoy thing, but my god just shut the fuck up and get off your high horse if you don't ACTUALLY like the thing. Stop trying to get it changed. Imagine being a media refugee and wanting anime to do all the shit that made you stop watching the shit you just got bored of.
Some people really want anime that has the brown ratio of a NYC subway. These are not anime fans. These retards just like cartoons that happen to be anime, and have no cartoons to watch that aren't anime. It's not the same.

>>280329646
I have an unhealthy addiction to this board and seasonal anime discussion even if I don't enjoy it.
Every time I manage to force myself to pick up an anime from the 00s from my backlog, I'm blown away by how soulful it is compared to modern slop. I wish I could watch more of them, but it's hard to find the time between all the scrolling and shitposting that I've fooled myself into thinking I want to do.

I just want to say that everyone in this thread who was bullied for liking anime back in high school fully 100% deserved it, and Im glad you won't have a place to run from normies anymore

>>280330499
She was perfect in S1. She was AOTY.

>>280330521
Every Western show that comes out has rave critic reviews but terrible user reviews.

>>280330624
>RAVING SHILLs, you mean. Not critics.
Movie critics don't actually do their job. They say what they're paid to.

>>280330561
I already switched to visual novels retard, that shit filter 99% zoomers and normalfags(including you buddy) since they dont have the capacity nor the levity to read for more than 10min without wanting to bring out their phone and read social media, which also explains why they are """dying""" since it filters the normalfag out

>>280328482
Eh. Netflix has effectively replaced conventional cable in a lot of places
>>280328502
Yeah I figure the decline of good western shows has some effect

You retards have been asking how to gatekeep for literally decades now and it clearly hasn't worked. You're gonna have to deal with the oncoming wave.

>>280330297
I don't know about Chinks and Chinese fanbase but Gookfags are unironically even worse than weebs when it comes to worshipping their favourite Asian country. They unironically want to see a total domination by Korea and them suprassing the Evil Japs in every aspects because they see that Nips are creatively declining, which is true but the problem is, everything is declining in quality nowadays including Korean products. That is why you almost always see a Gook shilling thread appearing out of nowhere whenever some Japshit achieving success like Drive My Car, Godzilla Minus One, AoB live action or even something that isn't even Japshit like Shogun (granted that the actors are winning Emmy and Golden Globe which kinda ruins their retarded "nips cannot act" narrative). It's them trying to maintaining the narrative of "We're currently have more popular and better products than those faggot Nips" even though they are just like current day nips, soaring popularity but with declining quality (Almost all of current East Asian products are like this since most westernshit are straight up dumpster fire nowadays)
>B-but it's annoying and Obnoxious
Can you convince Hiroshimoot or whoever the fuck in charge of this site to rangeban Korea? even rangebanning Korea wouldn't solve the problem since Korean fanbase are "YWNBAJ" tier of diehards

>>280330455
>Shitting on a shit product means that some purist is seething at something not coming from a certain country
Reminder that people here shit on Japshit all the time.Gachatrash being shat on is normal

>>280326988 (OP)
>How do we protect our soul culture from normies?
Make western media not all fucking garbage for starters. Unfortunately that’s not happening. That’s genuinely the number one reason anime has blown up in the US.

>>280328502
>>280330329
>>280330521
>>280330673
https://youtu.be/IrCrMgVo0V8?si=9daLY4KvgmVHoeKv

>>280330838
i understand why america is dying
but what happened to european countries
they are free from all the shit america went thorough

>>280330946
That's where you're wrong bucko. Europe is nothing more than an extended colony of America. Their entertainment industry have been hollowed out even more thoroughly. Only maybe frogs and germs have an entertainment industry that's remotely marketable.

>>280330946
>>280331002
I'm saying this because the only other non angloid products I've heard from Europe is either some French anime wannabe like Totally Spies or some German movie that I heard won some film festival(which itself doesn't have mass appeal).
And no, I'm not amerimutt if that's your cope.

>>280330946
Most of the people have their investments in US company stocks, exclusively watch US shows and movies, buy US SW and HW.
Outside of a few projects like Irish Cartoon Saloon productions or French Arcane, we're just a farm for American corporates. There's just no money to shoot decent local cinema (short of genius ideas that can be done very cheaply) or animation (everything of worth has to get 50% of its funding covered by EU grants).
Anything big (GTA, Minecraft, ARM, Spotify,...) just gets bought by the US and decomposed in the belly of US corporates and their directives.

>>280326988 (OP)
Anon cares so much about being a special snowflake, he wants to be different from the "normies", yet he's obsessed with popularity ranking and his favorite series selling more copies and get more views than other people's series, wishing that more people share his taste.

>>280330776
I honestly would welcome Gookfags and Chinkfags with open arms if they just come here to weep at the state of current day global media since i like a bunch of their series from the pre-2010 era. Sadly it will never happen since they seem to be more interested in shoving their modern garbages on people's throat

>>280330661
You'll just get inundated with secondaries

>>280330838
Is funny how the only western media i found myself watching are youtube shorts about old shows like friends or house md on youtube and sometimes on tv, because those were great and most likely the last time i actually enjoyed western entertainment

>how
>after a decade of anime on shitflix
youre late and youre lost nigga - anime is normalfag tier

>>280327420
>fucking weirdo that watches pedo cartoons
that says more about you

>>280329853
animated cp addicts should be

>>280327092
/thread

>>280331250
They dont, they get automatically filtered because of the nature of the medium requiring you to not suffer from ADHD
Retards talking about reading 2 or 3 VNs and about how they changed their lives and whatever are tertiaries because they literally drop the medium altogether after that, so the filter is working

We are getting fucked by another different thing which is the medium becoming less successful because of the zoomer/gen alpha era and massive censorship because japanese studios looking for more money in america and china

>>280326988 (OP)
Too late. A hobby is only good when it's niche.

>>280327092
>Loli and cunny
don't exist anymore
the ones that do get censored and sanitized to death.
even the blatant hentai anime like Makina-san last season censored the hell out of the loli. giving all the fanservice scenes to the busty bimbos.

>>280327420
Normalfags aren't paying for anything other than a subscription to Netflix, the majority of which goes into the pockets of Netflix with a tiny amount going towards licensing fees for anime. If you really want to "pay for anime" you buy merch, something normalfags don't do for anime. Their opinion matters about as much as mine does and I've never paid to watch anime in my entire life.

Kinnikubros...

>>280326988 (OP)
With shotas.

>>280330849
Yep

>>280326988 (OP)
Why do you think the industry should listen to pirates like you? You guys make fun of redditors or the chinks but at least they pay for their anime.

>>280331897
Mere excuses, popular anime were broadcast on TV without any issue back in the days

>>280331620
This. Netflix doesn't do shit for the industry.

I find this thread funny when you guys also meassure success with popularity. You can't be popular and niche at the same time, but so be the hipster circle of life where you then complain they don't do things like X anymore.

>>280326988 (OP)
Get into mecha anime. It practically gatekeeps itself.

>>280326988 (OP)
ANIME DIED IN 2009
HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO BEAT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH THIS??

Anime is a lost cause, always was, it's the entry level medium by excellence.
Anyone whose opinion is worth anything has moved to source material primarily, manga, WNs, VNs are the way. If you got stuck in your Anime phase then it doesn't matter if you watched 1000 anime or just marathoned kimetsu and started calling yourself an anime fan, you're still a secondary no different from the normie horde.

>>280332196
>Muh Tokyo Law Killed Animuh
Oreimo is peak, mongrel

>>280326988 (OP)
Advocate for socioeconomic change.

>>280332211
Excellent post. VN's especially gatekeep themselves. I think the jig was up back when Crunchyroll turned legit. Which was about the early to mid 2010's. I distinctly remember the shift after 2015.

>>280326988 (OP)
that may be true on a global scale, but in my europoor country anime culture is still viewed with disdain and frowned upon
besides those statistics are likely talking about the more normie mainstream shounens, the majority of romcom, slice of life or isekai anime and the like are still very niche

>>280327092
>BR imoutos even
Hell, you don't have to go that far: many will complain if a girl is a character's cousin. Even within a niche medium like visual novels, you'll have globaltards bitching about heroines like this.

>>280333542
>globaltards
Mainly americans once again
The rest of the (first) world are quite neutral about cousins (it is mostly legal after all)
Here in pasta land we even have a saying that celebrates cousin fucking
Similar issue is le underage hysteria

>>280327175
I'm convinved that is like 90% behind the spike in popularity. That shounenshit brought in so much normies it's unbelievable. Curse ufotable for animating it

>>280333323
this
i'm from france so called the weebest country in europe and anime is still niche here

Onions

>>280327092
But Japan wants normie money. They know pedophiles are mostly unemployable NEETs with no money to spend on merch.

>>280333323
>romcom, slice of life or isekai anime
all on netflix btw

>>280328502
It probably still is a lie. Remember, this is anime-as-a-category as decided by Netflix. There are shows that we KNOW are not anime that are classified as such on Netflix, and that surely counts towards this headline's metric.
If you watched a single episode of Castlevania or Arcane, thats going to count you as an 'anime watcher' even if neither of those shows is from Japan.