>>282947034 (OP)
Autistic Rambling Below:
On one hand, we have the benefit and hindsight since these anime are over two decades old and have aged pretty well. We cherrypick the best of the era and subsequently forget the absolute garbage unless the garbage was memorable. I’m certain kids in a few years will be circlejerking the 2010s for having the best media akin to how people in the 2010s circlejerked the 90s. Pointing at Interstellar, RDR2, and Attack on Titan as proof in the same way people pointed to Pulp Fiction, Ocarina of Time, and Evangelion as proof that the 90s were the superior decade.
On the other hand, I think this was essentially the perfect era of anime being niche enough where there was still creative freedom but had enough money where they could actually produce something cool. I don’t think there will be another End of Evangelion. I doubt corporates would take a risk in basically letting some suicidal guy with the tism have total control over an expensive project. Anime is also very decentralized now. When the community was smaller, everyone watched the same things. It would be common for weebs to watch the Lucky Star, Gurren Lagann, Cowboy Bebop, and pretty much all the classics. I think the last time weebs watched almost all the same shit was the early 2010s with Madoka, Attack on Titan, and Kill La Kill basically being talked non-stop. It’s harder for cult classics like Lain or Perfect Blue to emerge because corporates hate taking risks and just wanna milk whatever makes money right now. Maybe if the industry were to take a hit, we might see some folks get experimental akin to how the end of the musical/western era of hollywood in the 60s lead to the resurgence of sci-fi and mob films in the 70s.
Randok note but I haven’t had an amazing shounen in a while. Maybe I’m just getting too old and/or nostalgic but I haven’t seen anything as intriguing as HxH or FMA in years. CSM is great but it’s been struggling after part 1
