>>281156607
Wanted to expand a bit on the dying fanservice: for me, as a teenager, anime was not a part of everyone's life - it was a thing for people who felt different (losers, loners, autistic people, homosexuals, etc.) that circulated within a subculture. There was often a weird combination of cuteness and edginess, extreme violence for shock value and extreme infatile tenderness. I think it was because the people in the industry and the people consuming anime were mostly isolated people who struggled to grow up. Anime was giving us a platform to process feelings of being inadequate and lonely, and often also ways to talk/think about sexuality that we didn't have before (access to internet and pornography was more limited than today - no smartphones). It also made a lot of damage, I think, at least to me, in cultivating increasingly weirded out ideas of sexuality, factually making it even harder to socialize and meet girls. But it was kind of a safe place to escape to. Somehow it was also liberating to see shows for teens were sex was part of the picture, although in a deformed way - if you lived in the province, no adult wanted to talk about this stuff. Seeing horny male leads in anime made you feel like you were allowed to have certain desires (though, again: more often deformed, parodied, perverted, than healthy).
Nowadays anime is no subculture anymore, and it's not being sold to lonely weird people anymore, which means the contents are changing. I'm super happy that we're getting stuff like Chainsaw Man and JJK well animated, but I'm also a bit sad that we don't get hand-drawn mechas anymore, and that slightly fetishistic slice of life shows with cute girls don't really go viral in the community anymore. One Piece is finally almost watchable, and there's a lot of competent animators, but we also lost a bit of diversity I feel.
Anyway, I still love the media and will keep watching.