Post series that were once very popular, but now nobody

>>145647616
But I keep rereading it once a year

That's like almost every ended series.

People will care when the new manga starts this fall.

>>145647616
Every weekly UQ Holder thread was a Negima thread, and will be again when it comes back from hiatus as a Negima flashback arc in another month.

>>145647616
Chachamaru >= Setsuna >= Kaede > Eva > the other irrelevants

>>145647616
Is the school festival arc of Negima a really slow point of the manga or does it stay like this for the rest of the run, I liked the Kyoto arc but its gotten a little slow for me

>>145647616
Too many to list. Most series don't have much lasting appeal.

>>145647616
Thank fuck. Is Hayate over yet?

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>>145650740
>People will care when the new manga starts this fall.
I'm not falling for that again

>>145647616
Ayaka is my waifu

>>145652437
i blame this shit for giving me false hope as a child

shouldve stayed away

>>145652736
Narue no sekai is fucking buried treasure

Gurren Lagann was widely regarded by old /a/ as being better than Evangelion until the faggy GAR meme wore off and everyone recognized that it was a derivative manchild series.

Madoka was hailed as a new classic on par with Evangelion. Five years later, and the franchise is dead in the water. No one but a handful of autists discusses it anymore, and it's well on its way to becoming consigned to the dustbin of history, as it should be.

No one cares about Haruhi anymore. Part of it is because the author himself dropped it, but part of it is also that everyone realized that it wasn't all that special once other LNs started to get adapted. It will, at most, be just a footnote in the history of anime.

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the new series being a dud probably didn't help

>>145653387
I think what you're saying is every anime is destined to be forgotten except Eva

>>145653387
>>145653575
Makes me sad.

>>145653387
Madoka is still discussed here.

>>145651132
>hiatus
how long is it on hiatus?

>>145653989
Who's that guy

>>145647616
Every seasonal anime ever

>>145647616
Of course nobody cares anymore it ended.

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>>145652933
GA is still loved and discussed which is not bad for a series that ended before 4chan began.
>>145652524
Was Manabi Straight even that popular?

In other news, Maria Sama was big once.

>>145654155
>Was Manabi Straight even that popular?
It wasn't

;_;

>>145652762
Is it that good?

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>>145654033
>Implying every seasonal anime is popular.
>>145654076
probably has more to do with the way it ended.

Another subcategory is "popular as a manga/game until the anime came out"

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I wonder if people know that Broccoli made anime/manga besides card games that usually don't last

>>145654155

>GA is still loved and discussed which is not bad for a series that ended before 4chan began.

I'm pretty sure that X (or whatever the one Chitose appeared) aired after 4chan became a thing

>>145654181
Nah. It's just a little above average at best.

>>145654181
For a nostalgia series, it was pretty good.

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>>145647616

Asuna still best twintails, but both she and all of Negima has entirely too little fanart (even when it wasn't a 'completed' series)

DRRR
Baccano
yen press didn't help

Didn't it end a while ago.

Plus UQ holder is a sequel, and they're even doing a flashback arc right now.

>>145647616
chode gayass

>>145652933
I will be watching this anime forever. Never played the games though

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>>145652933
Recent threads have disappointed me with how many lewdfags are around now.

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>>145652473
I love the game that this led to. Don't know a single thing about the series though.

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>>145647616
>really liked the love hina manga
>start negima
>wow this is awesome
>volume after volume of complete shounen nonsense, 50 characters, goes nowhere
>no end in sight

nah.

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>>145654273
>tfw medaka is really smokin but her show seems like hot garbage

Plus it solidified the fall of Gainax so I can't help but salt.

>>145657350
It finished a few years ago.

Never read it, but the pseudo-sequel is fine enough

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>>145652707
>>145652437
lies and slander.

>>145657381
Negima?! or however it was spelt?
Did it cut out the action and keep just the slice of life?

>>145657419
No, I mean UQ Holder.

MC is his grandson and Evangeline is still a main character.

>>145654155
The lack of love for MariMite in the current era absolutely kills me.
Fuck, man.

>>145657447
wow ken's art style has turned into completely uninspired shounen rubbish. Looks so flat.

love hina was never amazing art wise but at least it was distinctive

>>145657378
The final episode is worth the trouble.
Original material with the best character by a long shot.

>>145657617
you'd be surprised how many normies/casuals still love this show.

It's not up there with death note/ attack on titan but it's definitely the rung below

>>145657419
>Did it cut out the action and keep just the slice of life?
hahahahahahahahahahahah
don't read uq holder.

>>145657617
>>145657636
My pseudo-normie friend hadn't seen it before and another of my normie friends watched it a few months ago.

They both thought it was really stupid but iirc they liked it.

>>145657500
Honestly the only reason I read it was for the friend who could turn into a girl if he wanted touta's dick enough.

Sadly it was a cop out because of course it was, but it's not bad enough for me to start reading it.

>>145657636
>>145657663
Really? I figured the normalfags would have forgotten it by now and the only only anons who talk about it here are the ones who really like Yuno like me.

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>>145657663
Generally they like it because it conforms to what normies think anime is. Cute/crazy colourful haired high school girls, action, edge, 'deep' concepts. I don't like it but I get why it has staying power.

It's the role that used to be filled by HOTD

>>145647616
It would be way easier to do the opposite

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>>145657617
Tons of people still like it for some reason.

>>145647616
>>145652342
>>145652437
>>145652569
>>145652707

Special place in my heart from when I was a weeb for these

>>145657862
Last time I checked the ln was untranslated and there's like 6 separate mangas just like re zero.

>>145647616
I loved the shit out of Negima during the Mahora Festival/Mundus Magicus arcs, but the ending soured me on it so badly I'd rather not think about it nowadays. UQ Holder being even worse than that is the final nail in the coffin.

I do still occasionally reread Love Hina though.

>>145657947
I was with you until that last sentence.
I'm curious: why?

>>145653387

$50 this person obsessively posts in Asukafag vs. Reifag posts

>>145653387
I wish Overlord would die already.

SAO

>>145658130
There was a huge gap between the anime ending and volume 10 coming out, were people still talking about it?

>>145653895
I thought it was on hiatus until November when the anime starts.

>>145658203
Yea, so that's why I was wondering hwy they said they wished it would die.

>>145658045
Still one of the best harem mangas to date, and it handled the relationship well without making it terribly obvious and forced like most fake harems.

>>145658045
The last sentence being about UQ Holder or Love Hina?

If UQ Holder: I hate how the plot keeps shifting focus at complete random and dropping concepts before doing anything satisfying with them, as if Akamatsu himself had ADHD. Same thing that ended up happening with Negima in late Mundus Magicus when he kept introducing stuff he evidently had no intention of explaining (such as the Gravekeeper, Shiori's pactio card, the events in Instanbul etc).

If Love Hina: nostalgia and because reading further haremshit throughout the years made me sadly realize all of them are shitty Love Hina clones anyway, so I'd rather just reread one I enjoyed. Nisekoi being such cancer turned me off the genre entirely.

>>145653387
>it will be just a footnote in anime history

I take it you don't know how haruhi changed otaku culture then? It defined half a decade as the property people wanted to emulate.

Especially in the real of figures and merch. If haruhi is a footnote then which series will be truly remembered then?

>>145647616
Except this is wrong.

Fun thing is, Negima is still more loved years after it ended than UQ Holder was at its prime.

>>145658276
Really? I thought it was obvious that Ken had a plan for these things and just never got around to them before becoming tired of drawing Negi as an intelligent shounen action hero and wanted to go write your standard idiot boy MC.

>>145653387
bit fedoracore for me
>manchild series
but i fear you're semi-right on Gurren Lagann

It's mostly kept alive by the western anime fandom. In Japan it's pretty untalked about, there's still out there but it isn't exactly the era-defining experience it was for many western fans.

>>145658294
Nobody gives a fuck. Otakus have moved on from Haruhi. They're now obsessing on isekai shit.

>>145654517
why does she look like that character from HDN?

>>145658276
What's wrong with Nisekoi? Sorry, I don't follow popular anime these days.

>>145658388
oh okay so you're not actually talking about how it will be perceived historically then. You just mean it's not popular now.

Just because something isn't hotshit right now doesn't mean it's irrelevent or had no impact on the industry. No one's hyping up the latest haruhi volume but it's impact is there whether you like it or not.

I don't see many astroboy or Ramna 1/2 threads on /a/ either.

>>145658488
That's why it's now history.

>>145658536
Indeed, and yet you said
>It will, at most, be just a footnote in the history of anime.

You can't talk about 2000s anime without talking about haruhi. So as much as it's history it's a fuck of a lot more than a footnote.

>>145658451
It's shameless, generic cash grab that plays all the clichés?

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>>145652437
>worst girl won the Keitarobowl

Naru a shit, A SHIT.

>>145658622
even after all these years motoko fans still wont give up

>>145658673
On my waifu? Hell no.

Granted, I'll keep her for myself.

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>>145658673
>implying I give a shit about swordcunt

I will have you know that I am a Mutsumi man, sir!

>>145658415
Every otaku from the previous generation knows Dejiko.
She's iconic.

It makes sense that her design influenced those who have gone on to create content of their own.

>>145658388
>isekai
Literally who.

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One of the interesting things about otaku in Japan is they're a lot less beholden to the past than western fans.

In the west there's certain older anime which constantly dominate the conversation, Bebop, Eva, Steins;Gate, Haruhi, K-On, Gurren Lagann, shows you 'have' to watch if you're an anime fan.

You get a smattering of current season shows like OPM and Re:Zero, but attention always goes back to the older shows.

But if you go to Akihabara you'll find almost nothing of those older series. Japan is obsessed with what's hot and what's new. I guess because they're closer to the source material but there's a real divide there.

I guess it'd be like going to London and expecting people to still be obsessed with mid-2000s Indie. Otaku move on fast.

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>>145658789
'normal person who doesn't care that much about anime but will occasionally watch some of the most hyped/popular shows' then

that less upsetting pupper?

>>145658595
I didn't say that though.

>>145658612
Since when /a/ cares about muh cliches?

>>145658903
his autism demands that you use the term 'normalfag'.

>>145657663
>They both thought it was really stupid but iirc they liked it.

I feel like this pretty much sums up everyone who enjoyed it myself included

>>145658742
My nigga.

>>145657705
Yuno has a lot of insufferable teenage fangirls, apparently. Not really surprising when you think about it.

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Desu.

>>145658856
>But if you go to Akihabara you'll find almost nothing of those older series.
Only if you're not looking.
Of course all the surface-level stuff is going to be what's hot and selling right now, but it's not like people have forgotten the old gems.
I go to Akiba to reminisce with veterans all the time.

>>145658742
>>145659048
wow unexpectedly good taste

still have an occasional cheeky fap to her desu lads

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Posting best girl from Negima and UQ Holder (':

>>145659075
There's some in the second hand shops but there aren't shelves crammed with merch of any of those shows. Otherwise it's just drabs here and there.

If there's a specific place I'm missing let me know.

>>145659067
>has a lot of insufferable teenage fangirls
That actually is surprising to me. Why? I thought she would be more popular with guys.

>>145647616
why is the main character in this series from Wales

>>145659114
girls like cool and crazy girls who are a bit out there even if they're still sexy

if you don't watch much anime yuno is a really unique character.

>>145647809
It's still the best high school romcom around. People just don't want to remember the ending

>>145652382
This was never popular.

>>145659138
Now the only question is, does anybody in the world like the shitty, crybaby MC Yuki?

>>145658088
it's still the best harem anime for my money

>>145659080
For me it's a combination of the hairstyle, big eyebrows and perpetually-dazed state of mind.

>>145659179
He is cute and so he has a /cm/ fanbase. His kneesocks are pretty adorable and being so pathetic gives him a niche

Not many people like him for what he does in the show though since he is pretty annoying.

>>145659142
hahahah it was shit, suck a dick

>>145659116
Because Western magic with an aristocratic bent.
Educated antiquity is most easily associated with what was once the Kingdom of England.

>>145659205
yeah she's bimbo without being galko style

>>145659226
>spoiler
That was some pretty specific details anon. How do you know this?

>>145659256
educated isn't a word I'd use to describe Welsh people...

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>>145659275
because i'm one of them

>>145659103
Kill yourself.

>>145654273
medaka is so perfect in every department that i can't get to like her, well at least she has not so perfect sister

>>145658130
He's already dead

>>145658182
Near constant threads until volume 10 came out and was translated. Died off after that but it'll kick back up again in a few months

>>145659226
Blasphemy. No one really likes Yukki. It's an objective fact.

>>145659566
If anyone does, they have some of the worst taste in the world.

>>145658088
Still one of my favorite harems.
Ice girl best girl.

>>145659327
FUCK OFF

>>145660107
"Nana Mizuki - Discotheque" will be relevant forever.

>>145653387
>be just a footnote in the history of anime.
Anything is a footnote in the history of anime if there's no current content up. Even Eva.

>>145660443
Do you understand how footnotes work?
Or... history?

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>DATABASE
>marmalade

he went to jail so it's dead in the water now

>>145660503
>...
lebbit should fuck off

>>145660443
i don't think you now what that word means.

>>145660403
Which is more iconic, Discotheque or StudyxStudy as far as harem show songs go?

>>145660584
I don't know if I'd call either one iconic, really, but I've definitely seen Discotheque tossed around fondly over the years while I can't say the same for StudyxStudy.
Nana-sama's got the gift.

>>145660637
I guess you're right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5iuiA8Uqw0

>>145660691
I'm not particularly trying to disrespect Mayuyu or anything, but fuck me, that's always a painful video to watch in every single respect.
Whoever thought that was a good idea should be spoken to harshly.

>>145660782
>>145660691
>>145660637
>>145660584
>>145660403
Speaking of music from that show, you guys remember the one that Mizore sung in the episode with the moms?
Loved that one.

>>145660513
he what?

>>145660513
Why did he go to jail? Too much DnD?

>>145652524
>>145654155
It became popular for the "Manabi line" in sales thread shitposting.

>>145661016
Tax evasion.

>>145661107
are you fucking kidding me?

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considering that it was probably one of the most popular series on /a/ overall, people really forgot about Kami sama.

>>145661246
I think folks are just torn up about the ending.
It was soft and sweet instead of big and bombastic, which is what basically everybody had been anticipating for ages.

>>145661016
Hes not in jail.

>>145659241
die in a fire, faggot

>>145661324
They all wanted a REVEAL

What we got was a reveal

I have no issue with it

I'm a chihirofag and for once my pick was vindicated

The author knew how it really was, I appreciate authors who know how to pick em

>>145661246
It has an amazing opening

>>145661246
Still love it.
>tfw only, like, 50 doujins

>>145658771
the HDN character was Broccoli, who is literally just a renamed Puchiko

>>145662871
Oh, huh. My HDN knowledge is limited, so that's not who I was thinking of.
I guess I should probably check it out if they have a Broccoli character, that's pretty hardcore.

>>145647809
Eh, I still see people post about it a lot for a show of its age. I rewatch it from time to time, it and Kimi ni Todoke are definitely my two favourite high school romcoms.

>>145653387
>No one cares about Haruhi anymore.
I-I care

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I don't think it was very popular on /a/, but I know it was huge fangirl bait while it was running.

>>145647616
Literally the only scene I've seen of this is the air breast expansion scene. I will never look any deeper into it.

>>145663481
It has one of the best battles in shonen history. *

*only in the manga

>>145661246
it's a harem anime, they're forgotten fast because so many of them each year

>>145658388
>isekai
Do you mean iyashikei?

>>145659114
A lot of teenage weeb girls fancy themselves as yanderes. They're actually quite frightening people.

>>145659142
>People just don't want to remember the ending
This

>>145663505
It has Luffy vs Lucci?
[Spoiler]Sorry Anon but as much as I like magic nuke spam, I can't help but adore bare knuckle endurance fights more

>>145654066
I still patiently wait for new chapters every once in a while. Its close to ending.

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Inuyasha

Even the once crazy fangirls are long gone by now.

>>145663768
What DO teenage fangirls like these days, actually? I'm so out of the loop. I feel like sparkly Tumblr aesthetics have probably led them choose fluffy shoujo stuff over the edgy shit they used to love.

>>145660107
>Ice girl best girl.
I have a friend that got her tattooed on his sides somewhere. Colored and everything

>>145663805
Haikyuu

>>145663763
Damn, I should catch up.
Where's it heading?

>>145663805
what are the pop animes
SnK is a big one

>>145663833
Absolutely autistic.

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>>145661246
I still comeback and watch a couple of episodes every once in a while

I'm surprised no one has posted pic related yet

>>145663915
Uh, where were you last?
Jun and Nagi have realized their feelings for each other. They defeated the Ozuma guy. Nagi has some sort of existential crisis. Zangi leaves

>>145663972
He even posted pics on facbook

>>145661246
wow this

i watched 2 seasons of this and totally forgot about it.

Elsie was cute tho

>>145659105
>>145659075
>>145658856
Isn't Nakano Broadway pretty much oldfag's shopping area? Or not just not as new and changing as Akiba.

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when they weep

>>145664088
You're not wrong. It's dominated much more by 2nd hand Mandarake shops which have items going way back decades old. It's less so 2000s as much as its lie 60s/70s/80s stuff. Still in terms of finding older shows it'd probably a better bet than Akiba.

>>145664008
How the hell is that relationship going to work?
Is she just going to stick around forever in her corporeal form?

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Didn't the K-on manga even get cancelled because no one ever cared about it despite the anime being popular?

>>145664028
Have you read the manga? Has a few extra girls.
I haven't forgotten yet.

>>145664228
this is some of the biggest bullshit ever posted on /a/ lol

the manga was incredibly popular but it was a 4koma and had a limited run time. It made nearly $192 million as a franchise.
Blu rays sold 1.1 million
Manga 2.5 million
source:http://www.narinari.com/Nd/20111116670.html

>>145664171
I think they're getting to that. It seems to be the current conflict for now. That and Nagi seems to be making impurities involuntarily somehow I forget why and how, I haven't read that shit in almost a year.

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Most shows based on KEY's Visual Novels.

>Clannad
>Kanon
>Air

Popular once, irrelevant a few years later.

>>145664372
Who's ass is that?

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>>145664403
It's Dad ass

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>>145664435

>>145664435
Pretty sure that's Akio off in the distance with those kids, man.

>>145664008
Toradora is a pretty well remembered show for a romantic comedy

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>that arc where literally every single boy in the grade all come together to try and break into the girls bath
I really miss this show man.

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I come from the distant year of 2018.

>>145664626
But anon, Re:Zero gets a second season in winter of 2017.

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Economics: The Anime S3 never

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Dead show

>>145664906
It's coming back literally next season.

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>>145647616

I lost interest years ago, because I didn't like Magia Erebea, but I recently picked the manga back up and it's really not that bad compared to most of what we get now. It's just a shame it will never get the anime it deserves.

>>145653387
Madoka is better than eva you mecha manchild

>>145665075
Remember when Asuna died for no reason and everyone went fucking insane with melodramatic grief but then the magic tree inexplicably brought her back to life?
Good times.

>>145659142

Pretty much this. I had fond memories of the series. I don't what to remember the fucking Pie

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>>145665287

I dropped it before that happened, but now I'm giving it another shot. Being an Asunafag is suffering.

>>145665563
Oh, I meant the show.
Maybe you haven't seen the last couple episodes of the first adaptation?
It's ridiculous.

>>145665641

I think I've only seen a couple episodes of it a long time ago.

>>145665822
Ah. Very lucky.

>>145647809
Hell no. I still consider it one of the best romcom series ever to come out of Japan.

It's only the ending that no one wants to accept, and for good reasons.

Still, I actually can't believe it got cancelled that's why it was rushed as fuck.

Anyone remember why it happened?

>>145652524
Who was here when /a/ flipped the fuck out because the preview showed the world getting nuked?

>>145658981
That's just what you said though. He even quoted your reply. The fuck.

>>145653387
TTGL was more of an apology for Eva

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Still wish for a S2

>>145666399
I think the author just got fed up with it. That's what people were speculating back then.

>>145664906
>season 3 next season

>>145654066
This was mostly big due to controversy.

>>145654273
>>145657378
Ajimu and Kumagawa is still being constantly posted though

series was only good for its side characters and Zenkichi

>>145657350
>>145657381
I never even finished it

I lost track due to the Magic Namek arc and when they said that the arc after would be a disappointing ending I dropped it

>>145663768
series kinda gotten vindicated

it was Naruto before Naruto where /a/ in the past was concerned

>>145664228
I thought it was cancelled by the autist otakus didn't like the idea of the girls in college.

Or it just got boring in the college years, whatever.

>>145667091
Why are depictions of college life so rare in Japanese media compared to in the West, anyway? Is it no fun there or something?

>>145658053
new movie soon friendo

Where the fuck is shaman king?

>>145667184
Because High School is the time when you have hopes and dreams, and you can do stuff without that much hindrance.

College is the time when you know you fucked up or are going through shit because of reality.

There's a reason why there's a phrase called "orange days" when you remember your youth in Japan.

>>145667184
It's more like they don't do much compared to the west. There, once you get into a good university you're pretty much guaranteed to graduate so people just mess around

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>>145647616
Used to be everywhere here, now not so much

>>145667184
A lot of more grounded stuff is set in college.
That sort of thing doesn't sell nearly as well as tripe pumped full of ideals and shiny youthful ideas though.

>>145667409
>There, once you get into a good university you're pretty much guaranteed to graduate so people just mess around
So wouldn't that make a great Slice of Life?

>>145668045
This, what the hell?
I've always been under the impression that japanese university/college system is really loose save for specific and specialized areas such as medicine.
You get in, do a bare minimum of courses on your major subject and become a corporate drone with a job that has absolutely nothing to do with your field of study.

>>145660513

S2 was shit anyways so who cares

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>>145647616

>>145668313
>Ended just as was painfully obvious from the very first chapter.
Will be yet another "inconsequential shonen harem number whateverthefuck" in under a year.

>>145667405

ahhh, so that's why orange is called orange.

>>145657947
>I loved the shit out of Negima, but the ending soured me on it so badly I'd rather not think about it nowadays.
I feel you. The abrupt ending was a real gut punch, and I pushed it out of my mind for quite a while. I recently started re-reading it for the first time since then, and it's fun rediscovering the characters and moments I loved.

>>145668567
Precisely.

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>>145665641
>Maybe you haven't seen the last couple episodes of the first adaptation?
Except for the opening theme, Xebec really didn't put a lot of effort into it. But then again, SHAFT made Negima a lot more bizarre than it should've been

>>145661246
This.

I guess this is what Nisekoi will be before too long.

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>>145668670
>We didn't get a Zazie arc

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>>145666670
KKN, Ben-To, Baka Test are cult classics. They weren't hugely popular to begin with, but their dedicated fanbases still carry the torch.

>>145658742
mutsumi best girl forever

>>145652707
It came at the exactly right time.
People who like SoL should be grateful for it.

>>145647616
Oh gee, I remember a thread about forgotten shows from last year or so, someone mentioned a show form the early 90s with over 200 episodes, a bunch of movies and I think a mango.I don't remember the name, it was some pervy comedy I think.
That such a huge show can vanish so utterly.
>pervy comedy
Similarly Ranma is more or less a show people remember or have heard from, but is pretty much completely ignored these days.
Inuyasha, too, there were so many fans back then.

>>145657490
Most fans were /u/'s precursors.
For them there are better things these days.
Like things were the girls are actually gay.

>>145671910
fuck you ruggarell

>>145671910
>he hasn't heard

>>145672011
Ranma is hailed as a classic and even recently completed it's blu-ray release in the States, with the movies and OVAs to follow soon.

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I had to take my sister to a con the other month, and I was fucking shocked how much Soul Eater stuff I saw. I hadn't thought about the series in years and years, but I guess the casuals western fanbase is still into it?

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>>145657248
It was so massive back then, one could hardly believe it would vanish within a few short years pretty much completely form our radar.
Only part of it was people enjoying the moronic plot turns, there were so many legit fans.
Also, Oh My Goddess, no one cares about it anymore.

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Posting best girl once again.

4eva my waifu > . <

>>145657658
Was it ever much popular?

>>145672186
Soul Eater ended only 3 years ago. It's not that old, considering.
It was popular, licensed widely and some countries might still be publishing the last tanks.

>>145672186
Yeah, casual confags will always be a few years behind, even up to a decade depending on the country. I'm from Ireland and your average anime con attendee here will not have watched anything after 2007 or 8. Except the Tumblrinas who won't have watched anything before Free! came out.

>>145652437
What a shitty series, jesus. All that forced drama till the end and the "comedy".

>>145658856
So you're saying we're the superior fans, because we stay with the stuff we like longer?

>>145672063
But /u/ loves DRAMA and yuritease and ignores actual canon lesbianism.

>>145671826
Lucky Star brought about the end of the Golden Age of /a/ and ushered in the era of militant imagedump spamming.

>>145672323
>> . <
you almost had it. but good taste though

>>145664008
Nice try

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>>145672346
Very memetastic on early /a/
>Chii turns on, Chii turns off
>Warning: Do not fist android girls.

>>145664452
how did this end again?

>>145672246
Fuck this shit. I stopped caring once MC still trusted those bitches after they cucked him for so long

>>145663768
Was Inuyasyha a fan girl thing?
Holy crap, I'm a 24 yo straight male.
Must've had a shitty father figure or something.

>>145659142
This is so true that it hurts, I can't believe there are so lilttle hs romcom around given how much japs love them

>>145672839
It was still an action shonen. It did gather a whole lot of female attention however.
I suppose Takahashi just figured how to cross gender preferences. Give violence and action but also romance, but not overly sappy and throw in comedy so it won't go too serious.
I know plenty of girls liked Ranma too but Inuyasha provided a plot to which get hooked on.

>>145673235
Tons of action shonens attract fangirls. The most rabid Bleach, Naruto and One Piece fans I've encountered have all been female. The only big shonen I know with a significant majority of male fans is Fairy Tail, for whatever reason.

>>145657419
>Did it cut out the action
Nope.

>>145673382
True enough.
I've never read Fairy Tail but I've gathered that it has significantly more skin than your usual stuff. Might be it.
Also having been to some cons and shit female anime and manga fans do seem to be more fervent about everything. Men's behaviour seems mostly to be way more subdued.
The whole "fangirl" thing is quite interesting, it isn't restricted to just anime.

>>145672839
>>145673235
>MC is ordinary schoolgirl until one day...
>Obtains powerful, mystical husbando who despite his status must still must work to please HER.
It's a winning formula, the equivalent of the wish-fulfillment harem.

>>145663768
They grew up.

>>145665641

I just figured they had to make up an ending when they found out they weren't getting another season.

>see something I've seen
>feel bad
>see something I haven't seen
>feel worse

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>>145664729
>tfw still waiting for S3

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Claymore.

>>145672131
Really?
I've never seen anyone talk about it for an eternity.
Well, ok then, I take that back.
Inuyasha still stands. And the other thing, about huge shows being forgotten completely.

>>145672489
>Lucky Star
That might have happened anyway.
You know, new generation of people who discover anime, with different mindsets, and LS was just the great thing then.

>>145672489
The same as /a/ I guess:
>/u/ being one person
Also, teasing is generally loathed amongst the yuri-crowd when the girls end up being confirmed canon-straight, which I can completely understand.
And that's pretty much the case with MariMite.
Back then it was big in the yuri crowd because there were few alternatives and barely anyone knew wehre everything was headed, or read author interviews or the novels.

>>145672449
Cute fish waifu.

>>145672011
I hope someone remembers soon.

>>145674586
How did the mango end anyway?
I forgot about it about the time they discovered the truth about the island.

>>145675260
Remembers what?

>>145674420
For me it's the other way.
No one can follow everything, so at best I feel somewhat bad for missing out fun.
But the nostalgia?
Damn, it feels bad when there's something I really liked, but no one remembers, or you realize that it was never popular.

>>145673905
>>145672839 here,
Never looked at it that way.
Maybe time to rewatch it with this newfound insight.

>>145661173
Nope actually hes on house arrest.

>>145675260
I thought the joke was that it's Ranma.
If not that, it sounds like Tenchi Muyo.

>>145653574
this, the first serie was so promising ...

>>145675859
There was no joke, and it was certainly not Tenchi Muyo.
I read about it on Wikipedia back then, because I wanted to know what the anon was talking about, but I forgot the title, and no one remembers it anyway.
It's just an example for what I meant.
Or maybe everything in the early 90s had over a hundred episodes and movies, no idea.

>>145674511
like everyone

>>145661246
It had one of the shittiest ends.

Akira pactio yet?

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>>145664129
>posting worst girl.
what's wrong with you /a/non
also the series has a daily thread on/jp/ you're on the wrong board if you want to discuss it

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I know that the series only went down hill, but it was fun for what it was

>>145661173
no, he really did do the tax evasion shit, simply because he doesn't know how to properly pay his taxes based on his income (royalties?)

I suppose he had so high an income at one point that he was dumbfounded how much of it will end up as tax

>>145680197
>you see, lolicon is a 'disease'

>>145672097
I haven't heard that name in so long, I can't even remember anything about that faggot or why I hated him

>>145653845
Have you been to the threads?
Yeah it's not. That's not "discussion".
Just because you see a Madoka thread doesn't mean there's discussion.
It's just cancerous yurishitters circlejerking when they should be on /u/, being paranoid over their shitposter boogeymen not posting "approved fanart".

>>145665081
Kill yourself.

>>145654066
I loved it back in the day. I think it's a lot better than similar series like Toradora. The opening and ending themes were great. Never cared about the autistic "controversy."

>>145681301
Faggot who for some reason insisted on constantly posting things related to his MAL account

>>145654796
I will always remember Sensei for tearing my heart and spitting on it.

>>145657378
The Medaka Box anime was a great adaptation. The issue was that it adapted the worst part of the source material and ended just where things were about to get interesting.

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>>145657658
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>>145653442
I omega care about it

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Amongst all the garbage we have today, there wasn't anything as good as the garbage from the previous decade

>>145652437

This was the first manga series I ever read and I'm a little pissed that I ever liked it.

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It's depressing how I've forgotten about half of these shows in 10 years time

>>145683830
Don't worry.
It also means shows like GuP and Re:Zero will be forgotten in the same manner

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Alri lads

>>145664372
>Still haven't gone through the VN

They actually kiss during this scene? Anime dropped the ball then I see

>>145657940

I would say it's still pretty popular, one of the go-to "I'm an emotionally-stunted high schooler and cry watching cartoons" dramas.

>>145685135
>>145657940
I wonder if this would have actually been decent if it wasn't so rushed and given the 24 or so episodes it was supposed to have.

>>145684354
I miss it. If the no fun lolis never ruined it, it could have went on for longer.

Zero no Tsukaima, for me at least.

>>145685339
Isn't there supposed to be a movie? But I agree, what they did to the series was absolutely criminal.

>>145685519
I don't know about a movie, but apparently there is going to be another season.
http://myanimelist.net/anime/33308/Tantei_Opera_Milky_Holmes_2016

>>145685609
>Feathers in the back of the promo pic
So close yet so far

>>145660272

It's one of my favorite shows, but it was never popular anon.

>>145653575
>I think what you're saying is every anime is destined to be forgotten except Eva.

Code Geass too. Still there are those who think Lelouch is really dead.

Card Captor Sakura.

Ore no Imouto.

Those are the animes that still gets topics on /a/, despite having ended already.

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>i-i guess were forgotten to, what do you think tenchi?
>y-yeah, nobody cares anymore

isekai and gxp still best harems with best harem end.

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>>145685965
shit i loved it so much, have a folder with like 1k+ pics with everything tenchi related. good times

paradise wars when? ova 4 comming, that we know of.

>>145664613
Good times

>>145682221
I wish this had more doujins

>>145652707
Literally the Family Guy of anime, except it had the good sense to end after one season. Lots of its references aged like milk.

Its not forgetten though, there's still Lucky Star threads but they're all derailed into Lonely Kagami and Spookasa dumps

>>145685935
>Those are the animes that still gets topics on /a/, despite having ended already.
It might just be the same people who keep bringing them up .
I started a few CCS threads a few years ago, but they hardly got any replies.