> early 2000s: Harem rom-coms. Beta MC in an all-girls school/dorm/hotel/etc
> early 2010s: Magical battle school shonen. Generic MC in a japanese harry potter with swords world. Has to partner with tsundere girl, is friends with a kuudere loli, oppai blonde council president
> late 2010s: Isekai. Hit by a truck, summoned to fight a demon lord. MC gets every skill ever, gets an animal ear girl slave. Mangaka blows his load in 10 chapters and the series gets cancelled after 1 volume.
What will be the next plague that ruins anime? Is it already starting to infect LNs and manga?
Isekai anime only started recently. There are at least 5 more years of that to look forward to
Hudson Powell
I've watched 8 of those. >color wars I miss those threads.
Nicholas Perez
>Isekai anime only started recently The isekai trend in anime blew up four or five years ago now, user. I wouldn't be surprised if the next thing started supplanting it within a year or two.
Carter Gonzalez
It was more like a trickle, with the cracks starting to show. Last year the dam pretty much burst. They're greenlighting every mediocre LN or manga. The god damn vending machine or hotspring isekai is gonna be announced eventually at this rate.
super mech goes to real mech to Battle Shounen mahou Shoujo goes from regular mahou shoujo to Toku mahou shoujo to ecchi mahou shoujo to psychological mahou shoujo isekai is a branch of harems which went from regular harem to battle harems to isekai so naturally the next step is another variant of harem yuri harem?
Cooper Baker
>Last year the dam pretty much burst. I think last fall alone had, what, 8 isekai shows?
Cooper Smith
The next trend is gonna be death games. Like those shitty Saw movies, Danganronpa, or battle royale. There are already light novels and manga starting to show up, and they're all terrible. They don't even bother changing the tiny evil mascot (like jigsaw or monokuma), or the lazy archetypes like the gyaru/delinquent that always dies first. Remember that harems, battle school shounen and isekai all got popular because they're easy to write. The lower the bar, the bigger chance for a trend.
Anthony Torres
For isekai the currently rising trend is Otome isekai, then we'll get mob isekai, then reverse isekai, then yuri isekai.
Connor Adams
I still laugh at this image and how much bigger Rias is then all the other girls.
Adam Moore
The next trend is gacha games. All the recent porn I see is just gacha stuff like Azur Lane. Anime is a dying medium now, since its kind of difficult to self-insert
Justin Wright
Don't forget edgy revenge isekai, slow life "9th son of a noble" isekai, and "reborn as an animal" isekai. It's like a virus that's mutating into different strains.
Christian Baker
Hataraku Maou-sama, Outbreak Company, NGNL and a couple of other early popular isekai came out in 2013-2014. We've been doing this for a while, it's just Narou-core stuff got incredibly derivative.
Probably this, honestly. This and dad anime.
Benjamin Ross
furshit steel yourselves. japanese shit taste only gets shittier.
Matthew Ortiz
There's also child-raising isekai, where the generic wage-slave MC gets reincarnated into a medieval world and forced to take care of twin blonde children. There are already 2 series like this, probably more I haven't read yet.
Not sure what genre of isekai it is, but there's one about a hikikomori who gets summoned with his house -- who becomes a girl and a house at the same time. He then fucks his house, who gives birth to new floors in that house? It's definitely getting adapted someday.
Sebastian Wright
Probably more Bakarina clones.
Thomas Adams
I don't get it. All these trends make no sense. They're exactly the fucking same. It's just a slight variation of the harem genre. I don't find any of this distinguishable.
I mean going by this pattern, the next popular genre will obviously involve harems with hot females. Since that's been the consistent feature.
Nolan Lewis
Tell me about toku mahou shoujo
Christian Smith
Sailor Moon introduced Henshin tropes to the genre and lot of the mahou shoujo that took from it ran with them. Earlier ones were more SoL affairs with the MC just getting magic and doing what the fuck she wanted with them, but ones with outright mahou shoujo teams with special abilities to fight dark forces there were definitely quite a few of those after SM.
Camden Nelson
>I don't find any of this distinguishable. You might have some kind of mental disorder if you can't distinguish between Love Hina / Ai Kora / Umi no Misaki and IS / Rakudai / Absolute Duo despite both having harems.
James Martinez
Isekai is fleshing out villainess otomes right now. Once that runs its course, I think it'll settle down into Saihate no Paladin or Bard Loen type series' where the MC isn't so OP but still has an adventure.
Oh ok, I thought it was more like they had disguises and stuff.
Nathaniel Walker
Isekai is the dead-end of anime. There won't be a new genre, just slightly different variations on isekai.
Lincoln Martinez
>There won't be a new genre, just slightly different variations on isekai. Isekai within Isekai
Dominic Jenkins
It took 40 years for mech to finally die so who knows
Michael Butler
The shit tier novels Hathaway's Flash is being adapted as a three part movie series. You'd have to burn down Sunrise to kill mecha anime at this point.
The new gundam is basically VRMMO except it turns out notBamco repurposed an alternate dimension to have their mecha VR world in since their VR world had some problems in the previous series.
David Smith
You mean like Gargantia?
Anthony Diaz
>knights & magic >war on geminar To name a couple.
Austin Johnson
I've seen a few death game manga cropping up here and there, but they seem to be aimed more at the edgelord crowd than the wish-fulfillment crowd. I feel like the genre itself is a bit too chuuni to ever catch on with a majority of otaku. And, if they're to be the true successors to isekai, then throwing harems in would probably kill any chance of anyone ever reading them. But hey, who knows? Reality's given us bigger letdowns before.
Isaac Baker
Mecha died in anime but holy fuck. The toy models remain a huge thing
