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MrTerrorist
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 Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 12:02 am
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Another anime I like when I was younger. Still find the jokes hilarious even if you don't get the reference.
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MiniMarps
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:04 am
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Lucky Star is a blast, particularly if you're an old enough otaku to appreciate the humor. But if I'm recommending a 2007 CGDCT show to an anime fan below the age of 30, I'm not mentioning Lucky Star to them; I'm pointing them in the direction of Hidamari Sketch. In that sense, I think it's fair to say Lucky Star won the battle but lost the war.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:30 pm
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First I ever saw of Lucky Star was an animated forum avatar of Konata poking the screen in the OP, slowed down. Funny that I still remember that, 16 years later.
| kiddtic wrote: | | great article, I do wonder what the modern equivalent of Lucky Star is or is it a bygone era from the monoculture days of anime? |
I dunno that I'd call 2007 an age of "monoculture". Lucky Star aired alongside Darker than Black, Lovely Complex, Moribito, Bokurano, and Dennou Coil; the second half aired alongside Baccano!, School Days, The Familiar of Zero season 2, and Zetsubou-Sensei. That seems like a good amount of variety.
(The AJA's reports list 2007 as the #3 year for total minutes of TV anime produced, after 2006 and 2018. The late-night proportion has increased, and there's more movies, but I find it hard to believe there's that much more variety.)
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yuna49
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:37 am
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| Shay Guy wrote: |
| kiddtic wrote: | | great article, I do wonder what the modern equivalent of Lucky Star is or is it a bygone era from the monoculture days of anime? |
I dunno that I'd call 2007 an age of "monoculture". |
I started watching anime around 2006. 2007 remains the best single year of anime in my experience. The whole period from 2006-2008 incorporated a wide variety of series about a wide variety of topics. The industry was booming, and production committees were willing to experiment with material that wouldn't have seen the light of day a few years earlier.
That all came to an end with the 2008 recession. Production committees pulled back from anything "experimental" and reduced even further their willingness to produce anime-original series. Things are a bit better nowadays, but the desire to produce only sure-things persist. It's one reason why we see so many isekai stories.
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Triltaison
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:18 am
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Count me among the number that never really cared for Lucky Star. I was already a well-established anime fan and was in college when it debuted. I didn't hate it, but it just never clicked with me and I just didn't much care for any of the girls. It was kind of obnoxiously everywhere online though, you're absolutely right about that.
But! I will forgive the show because Lucky Channel is a delight. I ended up keeping up with the show purely for this segment.
I also likely would have never found Anime Tenchou without it.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 3:45 pm
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| yuna49 wrote: | | I started watching anime around 2006. 2007 remains the best single year of anime in my experience. The whole period from 2006-2008 incorporated a wide variety of series about a wide variety of topics. The industry was booming, and production committees were willing to experiment with material that wouldn't have seen the light of day a few years earlier.
That all came to an end with the 2008 recession. Production committees pulled back from anything "experimental" and reduced even further their willingness to produce anime-original series. Things are a bit better nowadays, but the desire to produce only sure-things persist. It's one reason why we see so many isekai stories. |
I got into anime around the same time, and even though we had to rely on fansubs… yeah, it was a hell of a time. And looking back through MAL's charts for TV anime that started in 2007, something like half of them were two consecutive cours or more. That's unheard of nowadays.
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yuna49
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:00 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | | And looking back through MAL's charts for TV anime that started in 2007, something like half of them were two consecutive cours or more. That's unheard of nowadays. |
Another casualty of the 2008 recession. Production committees now take a wait-and-see attitude with anything not a major release. So we get an initial cour, and if it's a hit, it's carried forward.
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