How come anime of today don't have massive series pushing

I don't know how it was in the 80s, but today you see anime seasons where there's 50-70 concurrently airing shows, nobody wants to keep a show going for 10 years.
They want to pump and dump, and make most of their money from merch and BD sales.

1. There are still long running series. All of them are shonen shit or are for literal children though.
2. It is unnecessary. Most anime is expendable and forgettable, but at the same time explores identical/similar themes.
3. Another reason could be the expansion of TV channels and media

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>>160382866
>new ova for UY.

>>160382866
but there are

Most anime adaptations also start when it will obviously reach the original work within 1 or 2 cours. They then have to make an anime original ending or break it off and wait to make another season, or not.

It really depends on the studio handling whatever adaptation they snagged the rights too. A lot of studios like making seasonal 12 episode adaptations of current manga in order to snag a quick buck and capitalize without having to worry about something unavoidable happening to the manga which forces them to make filler episodes until the issue is caught up with.

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How come UYfags are such dumbass idiots making retarded threads constantly?

>>160384029
Fuck off Tenchi Muyo lite.

>>160382866
It's cheaper to make a 12 episode anime and sell merch based on it. And if it flops they don't run the risk of losing too much money.

>>160384095
Yeah but shows like Urusei and Dragon Ball and Lupin are still making money to this day and age.

Because that's seriously expensive and taxing. It only works when it's the type of show that pushes a ton of merchandise and BD sales mean fuck-all, so basically stuff for preschoolers or WSJ.

We barely get 50 episode shows these days.

>>160384116

They were established when households probably only had like 5 channels to choose from.

Shit like One Piece can go on forever because it's in a good timeslot and makes ad revenue; seasonal late-night anime PAY for their timeslots and hope to recoup the costs in BD and merchandise sales.

>>160384146
But in the 60's to late 90s, anime used to be cel drawn and hand drawn, wouldn't that mean it's more expensive then?

>>160382866
They figured out commissioning a little bit at a time and then making sequels if it does well is better for their wallets.