what do you think about anime going mainstream /a/?

Garbage.

It's no more mainstream than it was 15 years ago.

>Anime
>Mainstream

Just because online echo chambers have become more populated these days doesn't mean anime is going mainstream.

Pleb shows will be just that. Pleb shows.

>>150904317
>>150904294
no i am talking about it going mainstream in the future

What >>150904317 and >>150904294 wrote.

Late-night otaku shows that we all watch thanks to simulcast streaming services will remain late-night otaku shows that we happen to pirate and complain about.

Isn't anime already mainstream?

If it can save the industry from lack of money, it may be a necessary evil.
But it also means that it will get more attention in the west, which could poison it and ruin it.

The 90s already happened, and they're over.

It's still a niche subculture but I don't think it'll ever become mainstream or fall to the normalfags like things such as video games or American comics have despite how much anime and manga are lumped into the faux nerd trend, the type who are into that will only watch shows that are popular because of the shitty memes produced from it and won't care about delving into the rest of the medium at all.

>>150904222
I think "Mama-san" needs to stop calling herself that. It's embarrassing when we do it, I don't need my mother being a weaboo cause she doesn't know how to fit in.

>>150904294
It's less mainstream than 15 years ago. There was a short time when it trended in the late 90s/early 2000s.

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What is it, three times now that anime has supposedly "gone mainstream"
in the US?

For that matter, the second anime TV series ever was made largely to the specifications of NBC, that's pretty fucking mainstream.

Normie anime like AoT and OPM were mainstream here for a bit, but the actual good ones don't get any attention.