So, what comes next?

Genderbent SoL isekai

Hopefull harem will make a resurgence, my backlog is running low.

I'm getting pretty sick of all these gay as shit yuri shows, how can I self insert if there is nobody that can get anybody pregnant to insert as?

>>149975382
Mahou Shoujo is just a shadow of its former glory, it'S far from strong.

>>149975382
>What will be the next hotness?
Fujobait

>>149975382
>What will be the next hotness?
Second seasons for all my favorite shows of course.

>>149976099
Harem needs to ditch the battle fantasy thing and focus itself about guy living with a bunch of hot girls.

Also, keep the main cast at 5 and focus on them instead of continuing adding female characters and not develope any of them

>>149977416
The normal high-school setting is pretty overdone as well though

>>149975382
Every hit is build up by its predecessors, so the next big thing will be something elaborate in its execution, yet simple by design, just as the current issekai is. So if we throw out the overused stuff like SoL, Mahou Shoujo, uninspired /m/ shows, battle-harems and such, we get a selection of trending things.

1. Mahou Shoujo in fantasy Australia/future/past/warp

2. If by another year or two people will be still happy with isekai, i am sure we will see the resurface of "classic" adventure shows, that rely on a much smaller cast and interesting environments then, say, battle harem or any of long-running series will be comfortable with.

3. Return of the Retro (it will come eventually) probably from /m/ fags - maybe 1-2 really good shows that will sprout a ton of copycats.

4. I hope we will see a return of cyberpunk-esk titles that instead of exploring wide and complex societal problems of the near the future (like the old shows did in great detail in an episodic manner), will touch upon a more personal, more in-depth relations with such systems (take Black Mirror/Even though it will be shit its still worth mentioning SAO: Ordinal Scale for example)

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>>149975382
WWIII

>>149975382
The revival of mecha.

>>149975382
18th and 19th century anime set in the new world so like The Revenant, but with anime girls.

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>>149975382
High fantasy without litrpg but not too high.
Something like Dungeon Meshi.

>>149975382
Still waiting on the Christmas Cake fad.

>>149975382
Mecha will have a resurgence

>>149976686
This, it's already going strong too.

Mobile game adaptations.

>>149979957
There aren't that many successful Mobage

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>>149979957
>Tower Defence litrpg SOL

>>149975382
>Isekai started to fade
>source your ass

This is just the beginning of isekai, expect 20 more isekai by 2020.

>>149980041
Kingdom Rush maybe?
It would look good as anime adaptation, slightly less so as manga and probably shit as LN.
You can follow the story of characters assigned to "defend the line" against constant enemy waves.

>>149977416
>>149977445
Come up with an original harem series idea, I challenge you.

>>149978817
God I fucking hope not, they ran out of original ideas in the 60's.

Last thing we need is another wave of Getter Robo/Mazinger clones.

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gay

>>149980759
A harem series that sets in historic medieval time.
There, I have done it.

>>149981145
>historic medieval time
You think that wasn't done already?

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>>149980046
>>Tower Defence litrpg SOL

>>149980759
A harem in space with every girl being a different race, picked up by going planet to planet and looking at weird cultures and going on adventures.

A harem set in the nearish future during the rise of experimental artificial body parts, main character is a mechanic for that shit and that puts him in a position to have relationships with multiple girls that all have some sort of artificial body part(s) with at least one full artificial body girl.

A harem where the main character owns and manages a circus and recruits all of the girls due to their weird skills or body features. Freakshow stuff plus normal people that have extreme personalities, ie sadistic knife thrower or dominating animal tamer.

I figure the main appeal of a harem is that there are multiple different girls to choose from so you should have a lot of weird different choices.

Also, almost anything where the main character is female and so is the harem.

>>149981529
I've seen porn comic about that already.
More than one actually.

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/a/ doesn't want to admit it but the future is more and more fujoshit and less pandering to male otaku. Don't worry there will always be plenty of both but the balance is shifting.

(pic related)

>>149981589
fujoshit has some cute boypussy too, so everyone in /a/ will slowly begin to think "that's almost a girl so it's ok" and enter the slippery slope path into the world of gay.

>>149980851
But getter robo was great

>>149977416
Harem has been driven into the ground by LKN publishers trying to use it as an easy shortcut into consistent sales.

The formula got stale because the idea was that each arc would be an introduction to a character, introducing, confronting and solving a major issue related to that character, and then moving on to the next one. When all the characters were introduced and "fixed" they would phase out that cast and begin introducing a new set of girls. It's a perpetual cycle of introductions, of "part 1"s.

And the whole point of the structure is that the author doesn't require any actual writing ability. They don't have to be able to craft interesting dialogue exchanges between characters or come up with original ways for those characters to encounter one another and interact. Hell, they don't even have to be funny. They can follow a character archetype template virtually word-of-word and sell a million copies.

The harem genre has basically been pared down to this bland, and creatively barren formula and it's been so rigidly regurgitated that the whole thing is basically stuck. If you tried to be different, you'd just be failing to meet the expectations of harem readers, and alienating all of the people so tired of generic harems they won't even give your non-generic harem a shot.

This is the point where the genre needs something innovative that subverts the existing structure while still being good enough to function as a standalone. But, if a writer has the talent to pull off something like that, why would they be writing harems in the first place?

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>>149981803

You already see that with the rampant Boku No Pico jokes. Most people really are just joking when they say it's their favorite anime.

Some people just play along with the jokes because they don't want to admit how much it turned them on.

>>149980759
A harem doesn't need to be original it just need good girls and a passable main character.

>>149979957
>>149980041
Granblue soon, doesn't look good in previews tho

>>149982002
I disagree it hasn't been driven into the ground, it ascended to become something else, a basic component of anime. Now there is less harem shows but there are harems in more shows, regardless of the genre (mecha, comedy, fantasy, drama) the main character is provided with a decent amount of cute girls.

>>149980759
A harem comedy set in an office.

The gender ration is roughly 50/50, but the MC, a new hire, finds himself almost immediately at the center of female attention. The other guys in the office neglect to tell him that they've all been in that situation before, and that the women all have too much baggage/are too crazy to go anywhere near. It's like a hazing to let the new guy figure it out for himself. The girls aren't like edgy yandere brain problems kind of crazy, but they each have their own huge hangups and very good reasons for still being single despite their ages.

Basically, an office comedy where the MC is constantly harassed, bullied and strung along by bitchy older women. Rather than "fixing" them, MC slowly learns to get along with them despite their problems. Each girl gets her own arc where they go through some kind of change or character development, but instead of being instrumental to it, MC is more or less an observer and at best simply offers support as they strive to improve their own lives. The final arc is the romantic resolution where MC's boss wins the MC bowl, and then fires him so that they can get married without creating a conflict of interest in the office.

S2 features MC as a stay-at-home husband in a neighbourhood full of desperate and pent-up housewives who relentlessly tempt him to adultery while his wife is off working.

>>149975382
Turning military vehicles into cute girls.

>>149980759
Male superhero enters a superhero team, all the members are girls. Of course the supervillains are females too.

If you don't like cape stuff, then make it a Sentai team.

>>149980759
A lesbian at the center of a harem of "straight" girls. Ostensibly, they're just a group of friends, but the protagonist is determined to get into each of their pants in turn, and the girls are so pure/repressed that they're not even sure where the line between friends and "OH GOD GRAB THE NAILCLIPPERS WE DOIN THIS" is, as the main character's advances slowly awakens them to their inner gay.

For added twist/humour, the protagonist is a promiscuous adult lesbian (or male) that's been magically returned to high-school age (and become a girl), and is leveraging an entire lifetime of seduction experience to corrupt the youth.

The next fad will be monster girls. It is just starting.

>>149981589
Don't forget yurisht.

>>149982618
All female friendship bullshit casts have to stop, even if one of them is lesbian. This is the problem with anime today, too much girls. Yeah, I said that, TOO MUCH GIRLS, it doesn't leave room for proper character interactions or development. This is also true for harems, not only the main cast, the teacher is a female too, the mad scientist is a female, even the nightmarish multidimensional being happens to be a lolita.

This has to STOP writters should start to worry about puting actual characters into the shows instead of just puting girls.

>>149980759
The MC is actually gay

>>149982763
Well the only reason people watch harems is for the girls

>>149982763
The problem isn't the character's gender, it's the fact that the characters themselves have no personality, identity or interests beyond MC's dick (or lack thereof). That isn't a problem with concept, but with execution. A character who has no identity of their own and is defined solely by their relationship with and responses to another character is just a fundamentally bad character. Harems are inundated with these characters just by virtue of mostly being poorly written drivel penned by trash authors, but it's not a defining problem with the genre itself or with female-centric casts. Just write better females.

Isn't
>mahou shoujo strong right now
just because of anniversary stuff? I thought it was a way to celebrate subgenre.

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i hope we can go back to the good stuff, if you know what i mean

>>149982844
Yeah it gets annoying when the entirety of the character revolves around the MC's dick, it looks like the girl has no self-respect

>>149982824
I like harems, but I don't think every fucking character has to be a girl, that is at the very least, interested in the main characters.

For an harem to work you don't need that all the relatively relevant character that the MC meets to be a cute female.

>>149982905
What anniversary are you thinking of?

>>149982994
Well that's what harems are about, you could look for actual romances

>>149982994
Do you really want to see more of those poor bastards who are friends with the male harem lead and are doomed to die as hug-less virgins since the mc draws all the girls to himself?

>>149982997
Didn't first MS anime air in '66?
50 years of MS anime, essentialy.

>>149983126
>50 years
I feel old now

>>149983125
Kyou no Kerberos is a harem show where the MC gets at two male friends helping him out. At least one of those dudes has his own girl that likes him and will stay forever with him.

It could work.

>>149983249
But then there is a girl not interested in the MC, and some otaku just won't accept that.

>>149983125
What I don't want is a legion of irrelevant female girls taking screentime from the main female cast.

>>149980124
That's not a lot more than one per season.

>>149982002
hello have you heard of this thing called bakemonogatari i hear it has a few fans

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>>149984699
>few fans

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>>149980759
MC is a prince in a Arabic-styled country, and has to win the hearts of several Tribal Chiefs daughters to keep his home from getting fucked over by the next door Tribe that antagonizes his.

You can include fantasy if you want. Checkmate Faggot

>>149982763
>This is the problem with anime today, too much girls

I guarantee you will regret these words in a year when the supermajority of anime will be boybands, cute boys doing cute things and gay sports shows.

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>>149984931
>harem anime set in actual harem

>>149984991
>actual harem
That doesn't sound like an actual harem at all

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>>149984943
>Haremshit with constant influx of new shit-tier waifu girls
>Fujoshit full of gaybands doing faggy things
Jee if only something in the middle existed.

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>>149984931
And half the harem will be delicious brown girls.

>>149985054
I know right? It's almost like the problem isn't too many girls, the problem is too many shitty anime.

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>>149985063
>delicious brown girls.
*Repulsive third-rate shitskins.
Here anon, I fixed that for you!

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>>149984931
Harem that is about an authentic harem

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>>149985063
>That 1 foreign European girl who was married to the MC so her father has access to the trade routes.
Glorious.

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>>149985194
This had enough girls and enough boys.
None of the characters felt forced and the comedy felt great.
It even had a bit of a romance going on underneath it.

>>149977416
>Harem needs to ditch the battle fantasy thing and focus itself about guy living with a bunch of hot girls.
If you aren't tired of those as well then you're a newfag.

>>149984931
Pretty sure there's already a shoujo manga with that basic setting.

>>149982763
> This is the problem with anime today, too much girls. Yeah, I said that, TOO MUCH GIRLS, it doesn't leave room for proper character interactions or development.
What sort of fucking diagnosis is this? Do you think girls can't have character interactions or development with each other?

>>149985703
No, because they are too bussy making them look cute

>>149985703
>>149986462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSvc2quTh4

>>149980759
It seems you got wrecked >>149984931

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>>149988082
Was it really never used before though?