But SAO is getting a season 2! It'll be interesting to see what kind of legs it ends up having, but yeah, I agree it's probably more of a "one hit wonder" rather than a long-lasting classic, certainly.
HxH is weird for my example, as I'm talking more about new shows made by newer talent, that weren't popular in our previous awesome show Eras. Those people with the lessons from new and old works do a much better job at producing shows that have that crossover appeal and quality.
The more I see of OP, the more I actually dislike it's moment to moment story telling, but enjoy it's overall scope. I really think the show shines best in games and merchandising due to this, because the focused, cleaned up stuff does so much more right for me.
Well what I was saying in regards to something like SAO is that it'll remain popular so long as they keep milking that cow, though eventually it'll dry up since that's what happened to Twilight. After they put it down though, no one is really going to be looking at it anymore. I seriously doubt it'll wind up on many people's recommendation lists. It's just going to be a flash in the pan.
As far as OP goes, that's fair enough. Though to be fair, the only real way to experience OP is through the manga. The chapters move pretty quickly and are packed full of stuff. As good as the anime can be, it doesn't really do the story a whole lot of justice. Bass and pretty much everyone who reads it can back me up on this.
I just get the feeling that the youth generally doesn't hold as much contempt for things that many of us just hate. For a variety of factors, such as:
- Young parents that like similar things to their children, thus avoiding the old "2 far-separated generations" trend of old
- A wider range of stories to choose from
- Wider acceptance and access to works of different nations and people
- Crap attention spans, spoilers galore for "free"
- The fact a LOT of this stuff can be viewed for free, without placing money towards it itself.
There's just less reason to be a real demand on works, given such factors.
Haha, I think I myself was harder on BGC 2040 when I bought it on DVD years ago, while watching it just recently on Netflix, I didn't feel nearly as bad about it. Though it still is the lesser work compared to the original!
I still hold that there is a demand for well put together shows and movies. The problem can be two-fold though. First it takes a fair amount of skill to create such a work, not everyone is able to do so. Second the business side always wants a hit and won't always wait for a series to take off, if it doesn't do well early on then it'll probably get cancelled. I think that's part of why we get series the way we do, it's both much easier and much cheaper to make.
There are some fairly new long running series that are very good (Attack on Titan for one, Magi for another), but Toonami isn't always going to pick them up. That's mostly down to the type of block it is and cost though. You can only have so many long running series going at a time before it starts to turn off new viewers. Not that you can't have an extremely well put together short series, of course.
Soul Eater had a miserable falling off comparable to something like Rurouni Kenshin.
What they did to Kenshin makes me sad. They never even animated the best arc in the story.
