ITT: anime that have lost nearly all their fans
Remember when this garbage was popular?
ITT: anime that have lost nearly all their fans
Jose Martin
David Thompson
Define "lost". As in, nobody likes it anymore, or nobody talks about it anymore? It's easy to mistake the latter for the former.
David Allen
Vampires were huge in the 00s for the Twilight fever. See Rosario to Vampire for the other side of the spectrum
John Ward
But doesn't Vampire Knight predate Twilight? I mean, the 00's did have a Vampire fever, but I wouldn't attribute it to Twilight, it just prolonged it into the early aughts.
Elijah Allen
It dropped off in both scores and popularity
Benjamin Cox
Not gonna lie, but the two scenes where Kaname asks Zero to bite his neck looks pretty gay and BL-ish that I almost thought that it's going to become a Shoujo version of Seraph of the End.
Carson Gray
The Vampire Knight manga and Twilight were both published in 2005 and both the anime and the movie were released in 2008. They ran parallelly
Owen Price
Oh. What a coincidence. It's funny how they're opposed in fan reception to "author's chosen love interest". In VK, pretty much the majority agrees Zero should have won, in lieu of Hino's pet Kaname, whereas in Twilight, Edward is almost universally preferred over Jacob, outside of a very vocal minority (that got all but culled by the last movie).
Ryder Cooper
Vampires have always been a big thing, there was Buffy and Blade in the 90s, The Lost Boys and Near Dark in the 80s etc.
Anthony Foster
Don't forget Interview with the Vampire, the major cultural revival of vampires pretty much started there.
Luke Richardson
It's okay their daughters are fucking each other.
Evan Kelly
had potential but end fucking sucks
also good dropped characters
Jace Turner
Really? Because shoujo is very adamant in teaching girls that lesbianism is a phase
Austin Torres
Well Kaname's daughter groomed Zero's daughter and they're half sisters.
Ryder Wood
With Shoujo it's more like:
>Girls shouldn't do any funny stuff with each other, okay? wink-wink ;)
Nathan Diaz
Member when chigote was in mario maker? Is this good enough or do you want me to post chaika? Remember when she was in the front page?
Jose Green
Zoomers won't remember how huge Chobits was in the 00s. It was everywhere and it was popular with both males and females. And then it just vanished
Luis Sanders
See, this is a perfect example of what I mean here Chobits is still well-loved by everybody that remembers it, it's just not being actively discussed anymore. Heck, my little brother who's barely into anime still hums the OP by heart because we used to watch it together.
Chase Martinez
Ah My Goddess could be a better example, considering only it's remembered for the infamous castration twist and before that it was painfully obvious Fujishima got tired of the manga a long time ago
Juan Barnes
The manga is definitely a better example, since it soured over a decent chunk of the fandom. Animeonlies still love it though.
Brody Williams
ITT: people have a hard time trying to understand how trends works
Wyatt Ross
Just my two cents but I think waifu fodder age worse than fangirl stuff because waifufags get a constant influx of new waifus every season and with some exceptions, Japanese studios prefer to greenlight multiple female-aimed shows seasons than male-aimed because female otakus tend to be very loyal to their husbandos. See Kira Yamato stuck on the Newtype poll for years and Kirito being a constant present on the Animedia poll
Nolan Ross
>castration twist
As someone who's never read/watched this, was the twist something like the main girl was a boy all along?
Camden Morris
Yeah absolutely, it's true. Star Trek got, and stays, big due to a female audience always shipping the Captain and their respective first officer. Female readers/watchers get attached to their husbandos more than males do to their waifus. Maybe it's because there's less media specifically catering to women, maybe it's a socio-cultural, maybe both, maybe something entirely different, idk. Not specifically due to husbandos, but this also shows itself in why I'd say Shoujo and Josei titles tend to have more long-term fanbase-retention powers than Shonen/Seinen on avera;ge.