Has 2016 been the worst year for anime yet?

Has 2016 been the worst year for anime yet?

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Past three years were much worse.

2016 was a good year, you fucking retard, stop trying to fit in

Not for anime but it has been for me

Meh for anime, okay for me personally (compared to suicidal depression 2015), but really fucking horrible for music. Bowie, Prince, Cohen...

same

haven't even watched anything since OPM. it all seems so dull wtf...
>no yahari 3
>no opm2
>no log horizon 3
>initial d movies aren't getting eurobeat remixes

I can't remember thinking a year was good since 2011.

There hasn't been a single 10/10 anime this year. Arguably not even a 9/10.

Last year had Death Parade, Shirobako, Shigatsu, Yahari S2, Hibike, OPM, plus a bunch of fun titles

Hardly.

Everyone says every year that >current year has been the worst year.
So no.
Shut up.
If you're not enjoying shit stop watching or try diversify your tastes a little

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I love you guys

I guess it's true that anime is for kids

Half of those are 2014 shows.

If we remove sequels (that are technically not 2016 shows), it was a pretty bad year.

Flip Flappers saved 2016.

So which are the top ten titles for 2016?

same

>The first 7 Episodes of Flip Flappers showed promise of saving anime.

ftfy

I came here to post this

flip floppers killed anime

Nah.

No. We have Keit-Ai.

why am i so shit, i ruined my whole life

You say that every year

Well all you faggots kept gushing over Ping Pong and now we have Ping Pong but with cute girls so it's actually better.

Here's the official list from MAL:

9.12 Haikyuu 3
8.73 Natsume's Book of Friends 5
8.70 Yuri on Ice
8.68 Assassination Classroom 2
8.65 Erased
8.63 Re:Zero
8.59 Rakugo
8.58 Jojo: Diamond is Unbreakable
8.55 Mob Psycho 100
8.49 Food Wars 2

>8.65 Erased

>literally all fujoshit
The anime industry really is changing

2016 had some great anime like Mob Psycho and Keijo but also had some shitty ones like ReZero and Mayoiga. Overall, it was a good year.

>Mob Psycho 100
>fujoshit

You are wrong

2015 was garbage.

2016 had like 20 shows I enjoyed, so yeah good year

It was a good year for chill anime.

>The flying witch
>Tanaka kun

>chill
You mean boring trash.

At least you don't call it 'comfy' like one of those retards.

>I enjoyed
then it's your taste what's garbage

Why is Assassination Classroom so highly rated? I've never heard anything about it

Nah. Slow-pace, low-drama can be very relaxing and pleasant to watch.

>Re:Zero
>Yuri on Ice
>Flip Flappers
>Mob Psycho 100

Yeah, it was a shitty year. Thank jeebus for good anime like Hibike and New Game.

2015 was worse.

The fujo bubble will burst just as the cgdct bubble burst years ago

>cgdct bubble burst years ago
That one didn't burst it just fused with the whole industry.

It has a big fujoshi following.

So did Osomatsu-san but that show wasn't Fujo at all.

That doesn't mean it's fujoshit.

We had:
Keijo
Flying Witch
Rakugo
Saiki
Thunderbolt Fantasy
Sakamoto
Overall I don't think this year was bad but then again we had shit that was bad like Macross Delta, Schwarzesmarken, and Gundam IBO.

Not even close, 2017 looks so much fucking better though.

Fujo's will try and make any show gay user with the delusions they have.

I think the point is that fujoshis are gaining more ground in the overall fanbase.

My year has been great. Finally turned my shit around.

I like this style of anime.

interesting how you forgot to include kimi no na wa,which is just as overrated as all of these.

>the cgdct bubble burst years ago
livechart.me/spring-2016/tv
No.

I only included TV series. Cinéma is a different artform

Hibike made me stop watching anime

Dubs of truth

>Your Name
>A Silent Voice

It's just all dictacted purely by corporate edict on what the production committees want to advertise. It used to be that creators decided they needed funding and then THEY sought out investors to form a production committee and then made some advertising concessions to them in exchange for funding so that they could roll their show. Now the production committees decide from the get go that they want to advertise one of their properties, contact popular creators and available animation studios to design an anime based around it and front them popular staffers and voice actors that they own the rights to or are favorites and then a 12 episode timeslot is rented to air it all in resulting in a mediocre transparently a commercial mess of a show typically.

Production committee entities like Aniplex, Media Factory, Lantis, Dentsu and the like half of which are actually just music companies that are subsidiaries of conglomerates like Sony, Kadokawa Shoten and Bandai's refusal to just do it right anymore and not control every aspect of every anime they come out with top to bottom purely and transparently to serve their own ends has really become hard not to notice and has crippled the ability of anime to just be good old fashion well run shows anymore.

Also the fanbase, absolutely horrible little shits who just want to bait and fight each other and talk shit all day on forums instead of having actual taste and appreciating what little shit they still do get that isn't commercially pandering schlock.

Anyway the reason you see so much fujoshi stuff is that the bigshot production committees of the industry have openly admitted that they are going after them hard as the emerging coveted big spender demographic in 2017 so I fully expect the industry to have alienated half the male fanbase and most of the current western fanbase by the time that year is out with it continuing to operate on a short term milk the literal high rollers demographic scheme.

Why?

>notmypresident

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there hasn't been a 9 or a 10 in like fifteen years

>2015 was worse

nice blo-
oh wait, this is actually an informative post if true. Do you have any evidence for
> the bigshot production committees of the industry have openly admitted that they are going after them hard
?

Luluco

Basically that's the core principle on which the late night anime industry revolves around but more specifically designing waifus to try to bilk desperate sad sack otaku in Japan with gambling addiction out of stupid amounts of money. This is practically the entire principle behind why things like light novel and idol anime dominate virtually every season. Now there's a counterculture targeting the fujos that is rapidly taking over and looking to form the core culture or rather core revenue structure of the industry in 2017.

Basically I figure the industry looks totally okay with alienating the actual majority of it's core viewership at the moment to go after a niche albeit high spending multiple buying demographic in the short term. Holy fuck does the current industry LOVE that multiple buyer type fan living in some forgotten corner of their parents house in Japan that proudly boasts about buying 50 copies of the same CD or BD on twitter looking for an event or voting ticket for a franchise that by it's very nature and premise alienates the majority of it's potential viewing audience.

Basically your average anime producer is like this asshole from Sailor Moon, looking not to harvest the revenue from gaining a significant worldwide number of fans, but harvesting the entire life savings of one particular kind of ultra obsessive fan willing to part with it if they can just give them the right feeling and waifu/husbando action. The fact that this business model clearly works and is arguably way easier from a production cost standpoint at least in the current short term all but dooms anime for the broader spectrum of viewers for the rest of the decade really. The only thing I'm not sure of is how they continue to spin and sell this hard culture and gender shift to the greater public as acceptable with their shills at ANN, Crunchy, MAL, Yaraon etc. because it strikes me that even the most ignorant dumbass hype kid fan is going to notice in 2017.

Mayoiga was AOTY

I really enjoyed this season in particular, it's been a long time since I was watching so many shows. Maybe I just have shit taste.

Both seasons of Non Non Biyori were objectively 10s.

>maybe

I'm sorry

you serious?

This.

Yeah you have to go back to a blog article on a Japanese site from earlier this year about a week before Anime Japan 2016 where they did an interview with this Aniplex affiliated executive trying to claim that times were tough for the BD market and while all doors seemed closed as to it continuing to act as a major source of revenue for the industry they had plans to step it up along with various business partners with the anime targeting increasingly high spending female viewers by 2017 and that to look for upcoming announcements at the event to reflect this. A few weeks later they announced they were handling one of the adaptations for Touken Ranbu and found time to participate in funding several male idol shows, a flat out BL movie and several other projects clearly targeted at female viewers. Also now there's a diving anime clearly targeted at fujoshi they're rolling for noitaminA among other things when historically Aniplex didn't give a fuck about the whole sports genre thing. It's not even just them though, Toho, Avex Pictures and the like also clearly seem interested in targeting the fujoshi demographic with their upcoming projects. Even Toei who historically rolls shonen and shoujo shows seems poised to jump on the bandwagon next Spring too with one of their projects I forgot the name of.

Really I'm not another one of those assholes looking to start a gender war but it strikes me the anime industry loves to take an exclusive rather than inclusive approach whenever it looks like there's fast money to be made and I'm just not seeing the kind of bridge between male and female fans that stuff like Haikyuu offers. It just looks like a bunch of stuff that if it really starts to form the bulk of seasonal output like it looks like it will start to in 2017 is literally going to alienate the shit out of overseas non-female fans right at a time when Western entities like Funimation, Amazon, CN and even elements of Hollywood are getting involved.

>Yuri on Ice 8.70
>Erased 8.65

> the anime industry loves to take an exclusive rather than inclusive approach whenever it looks like there's fast money to be made

that's not at all exclusive to the anime industry, it's just general modern, public company corporate mentality. They always think about short term, as everything is about the shareholder investment and stock prices going up

>2017 is literally going to alienate the shit out of overseas non-female fans right at a time when Western entities like Funimation, Amazon, CN and even elements of Hollywood are getting involved.

I'm not so sure. Shit like Re:Zero and OPM seem to be keeping the western audience interested. I think they just don't care so much about the old anime otaku core so much, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But yeah, I can see them regreting shitting on their core audience on the long term and start pandering to them again in the future

>clearly didn't watch it
In addition, Non Non Biyori Repeat episode 4 is the greatest anime episode of all time, transcending its genre by illustrating the beauty of life's simultaneous transience and permanence with a masterfully directed juxtaposition of life and death.

of course I watched it, I just didn't think it was any good. Episode 4 had some nice ideas but really, that's extremely hyperbolic

>Still watching anime from [current year]
>Not watching only the good shit from the past 60 years
You have no one to blame but yourself.

>Abort flip flappers
>abort keijo
>abort fags on ice

Give me shield hero anime or based Goblin Slayer, then you can talk about saving anime.

>couldn't save his sister from becoming a Goblin's cumbucket
>thinks he can save anime

You are clearly lying and you clearly didn't watch it. What part of "objectively" didn't you understand?

>shitters still upset about election

get over it libfags, you lost. B^)

>continuously redeems himself by slaughtering hordes of goblins
>thinks he can't save anime

same

As a deepfag and visualsfag I don't give a rats ass about the prevailing winds of fujo or otaku pandering, I just wish we'd get at least one or two anime trying to pander to us every season or so, as it is we are lucky to get one of either case a year.

You're right I'm just shitposting

No. You just stopped liking anime.

2016 was objectively better than 2015. I almost quit watching anime all together.

No. 2016 anime was bad.

this opinion means you should stop watching anime, like seriously you are delusional

2014 was the worst year of the last few years in anime. Only Shirobako was good.

number scores are retarded anyways, but I prefer to not throw around the high ones like they're nothing

What percentage of anime do you think should be in the top 90% of all anime?

Is this a trick question

What are you going on about user

>Thinking 10/10, peak of form anime, and 9/10 just short of perfection anime come around every year
Don't be a retard faggot-kun.

Where do I subscribe?

Yes, hell even if you wanted to make 9/10 on a normal distrubtion centered at 5 rather than top 90% the standard deviation required for not one anime to be in there for 15 years would make basicaly everything a 4.5-5.5. Not using the top parts of the scale is just as retarded as noty rating anything below a 7 unless it's utter shit or something.

>Using a flat percentage
>Not using an approximate normal distribution where .5 is the average

pretty sure 2015 was absolute shit.

But I have to pretend that I'm being objective when I rank anime so that when I show it to all of my friends that I'll never have they'll respect me.