Remember when Anime was niche? And the most famous seasonal was haruhi? I miss those days
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 6:43:23 AM
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I don't miss those days because the most Aryan anime didn't exist until a few years later.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 6:43:26 AM
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>>281185268
>>281184392 (OP)
grow up, grandpa. it was 20 years ago holy shit.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 6:49:16 AM
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>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).
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 6:51:36 AM
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>>281184392 (OP)
This was never the case except in the minds of popularthingbad autists
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:42:28 AM
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>>281187786
I don’t care how good haruhi is I’m not watching the same episode 8 times in a row
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:45:01 AM
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>>281187755
you can just skip most of them
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 11:49:34 AM
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>>281184392 (OP)
Fact: OP wasn't alive when people were saying Haruhi was making anime mainstream.
