>>96250822
>So the beginning of the end? Only 90s anime is good anime. Once the 2000s hit it was all over. Anime today is peak normie slop.
A lot of that is damage from the anime bubble of the early 2000s. Back in the day, Pioneer (later Geneon), Bandai, and ADV (a predecessor of Sentai) had the market practically to themselves. They were run by people who were both fans, and who knew the American market, so there was a lot of cherry picking of the best titles and the genres weren't as locked in. The big conglomerates bought in, overpaid for the rights to even mediocre stuff, and got burned . . .and people are still hesitant to take risks to this day.

Those were heady days, though. AnimeonDVD.com was still THE go-to site, and Shawne Kleckner (owner of Right Stuf) would peruse their forum threads and offer spot deals to people in PMs . . .

Oh well. Every era has its cool stories