Remember when Anime was niche? And the most famous seasonal was haruhi? I miss those days

I don't miss those days because the most Aryan anime didn't exist until a few years later.

>>281184392 (OP)
grow up, grandpa. it was 20 years ago holy shit.

>The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) valued the domestic anime market in Japan at ¥2.4 trillion ($24 billion), including ¥2 trillion from licensed products, in 2005. JETRO reported sales of overseas anime exports in 2004 to be ¥2 trillion ($18 billion). JETRO valued the anime market in the United States at ¥520 billion ($5.2 billion), including $500 million in home video sales and over $4 billion from licensed products, in 2005. JETRO projected in 2005 that the worldwide anime market, including sales of licensed products, would grow to ¥10 trillion ($100 billion).

>>281184392 (OP)
This was never the case except in the minds of popularthingbad autists

old good new bad

>>281184392 (OP)
>Remember when Anime was niche?
so, never?

>>281184428
fuck off newfaggot

I don’t care how good haruhi is I’m not watching the same episode 8 times in a row

>>281187755
you can just skip most of them

>>281184392 (OP)
Fact: OP wasn't alive when people were saying Haruhi was making anime mainstream.

>>281184392 (OP)
College Haruhi when?