

But perhaps this is the right time for it to make a resurgence in the public consciousness, as this very appeal has recently gotten in the forefront of what's dominating the conversation in the community.Īs of late, there's been a growing trend in adapting older anime/manga titles or adhering to the aesthetic qualities of them to either retrofit it to a newer audience or to service the older fans of the medium.

An appeal, that, at the time, wasn't something the anime market was yearning for. A huge contributing factor as to why this might have happened, outside of the popularity of the previously mentioned works, could be the appeal that 009-1 was going for. the general public's eye has only gotten more commonplace.Ġ09-1 is yet another statistic of this occurrence, being passed up for the far more popular Death Note, Code Geass, Welcome to the NHK, Higurashi, Black Lagoon, Gintama, Ouran High School Host Club and much more that aired that same year. And with the number of title releases increasing drastically in the 2010s, the chances of those stragglers falling out of The kind of titles that would only be talked about after they develop a devoted cult following or are merely picked up by happenstance by viewers browsing the catalogs of yesteryear. This constant barrage of entries often means that many shows will inevitably fall into the cracks of obscurity, regardless of what it may have to offer.

With so many anime titles being released year after year, it's hard to keep track of them all, let alone watch a handful before another batch is delivered.
