Honestly in the past decade I noticed that more anime are getting full adaptation (or at least a second season). No idea what happened but I really like how the industry is going. Also many anime gets a canon movie that you ought to watch before jumping to the new season.

Like the last few years, we’ve been getting a lot of new seasons. Any idea what changed? Because I remember around the 2010s or so, many people used to say that anime was just an advertisement for manga, so one season was usually enough to boost manga sales.

Heck, even “disaster” anime like OPM are getting continuations, even though people openly hate them lol. Also, back then anime rarely used movies as direct continuations, but nowadays it’s become normal.

I really like the feeling that I can watch a full adaptation rather than having to jump to the manga. What are your thoughts guys?

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Former-Magician-48092025-12-30 19:47

It's all finances.
Before anime was mainstream only the real cream shounen would make money (the big 3, DB)

However now even medicore anime will get crowds and even bad stuff you can guarantee reviewers podcasts and ppl ironically will watch the product.

The problem a lot of generic rubbish will get green lit, a lot of potentially great anime will get rushed to market

gud_fellow2025-12-30 19:52

>a lot of potentially great anime will get rushed to market

Uhm,..... Opm s3?

Steamedcarpet2025-12-30 20:19

They announced season 3 back in 2022. Feels like less of a rush and more of a we don’t care about the quality at all.

Terrible-Trick-60872025-12-30 20:40

Nah production for it only started within this year, so the production was pretty rushed. In one episode they left some parts of the storyboards in one scene and the drawing was only from a week or two before the episode aired, so they were making it very last minute. There was a animator on twitter who talked about it.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1puk6aw/great\_animator\_evakoi\_when\_asked\_why\_he\_isnt\_on/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OPMFolk/comments/1puk6aw/great_animator_evakoi_when_asked_why_he_isnt_on/)

A lot of anime don't start production as soon as they are announced. I mean that was on the higher ups on JC staff and Bandai but the animators were struggling to get episodes done.

DrMobius02025-12-30 22:34

The greenlight, announcement, and actual production can all happen at different times. Companies can have a schedule accounted for _years_ in advance.

Adrian_Alucard2025-12-30 20:01

>Before anime was mainstream

do you mean in the 50s?

Terrible-Trick-60872025-12-30 20:08

Anime def has gotten way more mainstream since the 2018-2020. You wouldn't see anime like CSM and KNY doing as well as they did.

Adrian_Alucard2025-12-30 20:16

maybe not in the US, In most of Europe anime became mainstrean in the 70s. My parents (born in the lat 60s) grew up watching anime as kids and teenagers in the 70s and 80s (Heidi, 10000 leagues in search of mother, Candy Candy, Mazinger Z, Captain Harlock, etc...)

The biggest market after Japan for manga/anime is France. That's why Leiji Matsumoto worked with Daft Punk, for example, because his anime were aired and incredibly popular during the duo childhood

Terrible-Trick-60872025-12-30 20:20

America is a lot bigger of a market than most of Europe other than France. There's just a way larger consumer base.

Abysswatcherbel2025-12-30 20:22

Anime was nowhere as popular as it is right now, and even if you want to be obtuse about it, there are way more revenue streams for anime to make money nowadays than ever before

From Streaming of anime, their music, mobile games, collab with brands, social media ad revenue and so on

Back in the day we have specific franchises that were able to pull that off, now that went beyond one franchise, it is the whole industry, to the point that even productions that have to nothing to do with Japan, are going to call themselves anime to get a chunk of that market

Terrible-Trick-60872025-12-30 20:24

Unrelated but it's a shame a lot of western projects have to call themselves "anime" for marketing. Especially when Castlevania is animated beautifully, it's probably better looking than most anime.

Adrian_Alucard2025-12-30 20:39

>From Streaming of anime

Anime was more accessible when I was a kind than now. It was just matter of turning the TV on and there were anime in some FREE channel (no cable nor subscriptions needed, just freely accessible channels. I watched Ranma, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hokuto no ken, Kimagure Orange Road, Captain Tsubasa, Evangelion, Maison Ikkoku, and a long etcetera...)

>, their music

You have no idea how big of a deal was this back in the day (they were a very famous group recognized in most Spanish speaking countries):

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqriARD18cw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqriARD18cw)

>call themselves anime to get a chunk of that market

[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/37gCt7OIHoM/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/37gCt7OIHoM/maxresdefault.jpg)

Copying the anthropomorphic style of anime like Sherlock Hound (it was also incredibly popular)

Obviously those are just examples, they there more

DrMobius02025-12-30 22:25

> The problem a lot of generic rubbish will get green lit

I wonder how much of this is just perfectly decent light novels just not getting the care they need to shine and ending up hamstrung by studios suck at adapting them.

"My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's" got a fairly high quality adaptation, and from what I've read of the light novel, it's honestly not that different or appreciably better in my eyes than most of the generic isekai I've seen or read. About the only thing that sets it apart from the chaff is that it isn't so riddled with tropes anyone who isn't a degenerate won't tolerate, and it got a pretty coat of paint.

Honestly, I think A LOT of the problems with light novel adaptations crop up when having to figure out how to not just exposition dump and actually show what's happening in a way that makes sense, because light novels are literally made of exposition much of the time, but time spent just talking at a viewer is scarce in an anime. So what you end up with is poorly explained power systems and motivations, or altogether skipped or rearranged plot points that break the plot's cohesion down the line.

gud_fellow2025-12-30 19:47

Idk, , but I hate those manga advertising anime so much. Take Komi Can't Communicate for e.g. I liked this anime so much, but I'm sure they'll never release season 2.

tiny_nipples2025-12-31 16:49

[They already did](https://myanimelist.net/anime/50631/Komi-san_wa_Comyushou_desu_2nd_Season).

gud_fellow2025-12-31 16:53

I've watched it bruh I'm not that dumb. I meant season 3, I considered Komi Can't Communicate as Two cour because Netflix didn't list it as Season 1 and Season 2.

Significant-Tree47522025-12-30 19:48

Shout out to studios and industries.

digitaltransmutation2025-12-30 19:48

Pre-2020 or so the anime scene was almost completely dictated by the japanese market and a show would be a flop if it didn't sell enough DVDs or Blurays. The project sponsors were often merchandisers and they wanted the show to sell merch.

these days, international streaming is playing a bigger role and the streamers like netflix/crunchy/hulu are paying up front to have shows made because they value adding these to their library and not because they think they will sell merchandise on the back end. and the streamers really like sequels because they have a built-in viewership.

xShockmaster2025-12-30 20:56

His is the correct answer. People will bs and come up with other theories but the answer is streaming

UMP45isnotflat2025-12-30 23:51

Streaming is certainly a part of it, but it does not explain why we get so many sudden late sequels or late adaptions to long finished LNs/mangas. Not to mention the big bucks still get made with merch, gacha and slot machines etc.

xShockmaster2025-12-31 00:44

It kind of does. Different production committees looking at what to make from the perspective of what people would want and what people would stream whereas before they were looking to something new to create merchandise and marketing towards minority BD buyers.

UMP45isnotflat2025-12-31 14:10

This all makes sense except for the part where it takes 8 years for a sequel then

xShockmaster2025-12-31 22:12

It makes perfect sense for sequels all to be coming out now. Series that committees know fans want and have been asking for so they know they’ll get good streaming numbers

UMP45isnotflat2026-01-01 01:00

NGNL 2 when then?

xShockmaster2026-01-01 01:04

Maybe soon. Using one specific example to try and disprove an overall trend is just silly though. I hope you realize that.

UMP45isnotflat2026-01-01 01:52

Im not disproving the trend at all. I just doubt the reasons given here beeing streaming first and formost

xShockmaster2026-01-01 01:54

Ok and you can just sit and say “nuh uh” all you want I guess or what do you believe is the reason?

FetchFrosh2025-12-31 04:41

"Hey international distributors will basically pay for the entirety of production to get the second season of this" will do a lot to move the needle.

UMP45isnotflat2025-12-31 14:03

NGNL2 where then

I dont see why international producers would suddenly decide to bankroll sequels for old shows now

Spiritual_Lie25632025-12-31 07:49

But if international streaming is playing a bigger role, then it does explain it: those same long-finished LNs/mangas are published overseas slower than they were in Japan, so you have three different bites of the apple Japan won't have:

1) *The series was not released overseas yet.* If that's the case, a new anime series will grease the wheels and get some overseas distributor to pick it up to get the fans of the anime.

2) *The series is being released overseas*. If that's the case, the series is far behind the Japanese release date, so this late sequel/late adaptation will coincide with the international fans getting to buy the LN/manga.

3) *The series has completed overseas.* In this case, the streaming services paying know full well what manga/LNs are popular overseas and can say "we know this series is going to be a hit outside of Japan, we'll pay for the series to be made." (This also can be seen in anime quality, as we've been seeing a good rise in shojo anime, since shojo manga are very popular in the West but traditionally rarely got anime adaptations.)

Tseren082025-12-30 19:49

Hollywood is all about reruns, sequals, and remakes now too.

People are milking what proved to work instead of taking big risks.

garfe2025-12-30 21:34

Well this is a bit different as a lot of these are adaptations and I imagine people want them to continue adapting the source. In the past this was not guaranteed and led to a lot of anime just stopping. Alternatively, nobody wants to go back to the days when shows ran endlessly until they couldn't.

ZachKaiser2025-12-30 19:54

Because for years we've had a disproportionate amount of anime adapted from light novels, and they are mostly treated as advertisements to buy the novels and related merch, with no intention of telling the whole story of the series unless it's particularly popular.

dfiekslafjks2025-12-30 19:58

You have any evidence to back up that claim? I can name a hundred series in recent years that were abandoned.

timpkmn892025-12-31 01:45

>I can name a hundred series in recent years that were abandoned.

Great, now compare that to how many series in the 90s/00s got proper adaptations

Terrible-Trick-60872025-12-30 20:07

Before anime was as mainstream as it is, making anime was determined a lot more by blu rays and the japanese market. That's why despite Bleach being such a big franchise it took almost a decade for it to return. the fullbring arc wasn't getting great ratings, the blu rays weren't amazing, and the studio was going to prioritize Naruto more. Now with streaming there are other revues to get income, specifically now these big IPs can still get licensed. Wonder why Boruto is still around? It's not hugely popular in the US and even Japan, but it makes a lot of money from places like China and licensed from mobile games in China.

Anime def is in a lot different of a place than it is before. But that comes with negatives and postives, On the bright side, a lot more out there anime are more likely to get adapted as the landscape has definitely changed. But just like Hollywood, more remakes, spin offs, and unconventional are happening, but I will say it's more earned because a lot of anime took their own creative liberates and just made their own endings back then, but it's showing a pattern. Also they're just pumping out the same isekai advertisements too for one season so people will just buy their light novels.

Though shonen (mainly still shonen jump) is def still on top lol, some things never change. Though it's funny to see some harcore anime old heads still talk about the big three being unmatched when JJK and KNY are a thing.

Dumey2025-12-30 20:09

The answer is that streaming actually provides a source of revenue for the product of anime itself. As you mentioned, before the only way for an anime to make money, was for people to buy merchandise associated with the original material, which was pretty much locked to Japan locally, other than some expensive DVD/Blu-ray releases in the west. Whatever amounts of money the few shows that could air on late night cartoon network were no really representative of the rest of the industry when it came to shows being profitable outside of Japan.

Now with streaming, the shows getting views and being tied back to tour subscription costs and ads and various other metrics mean that a season of anime can make money on its own, without relying on source material or merchandise sales. Before there was no point to adapt past season 1 of an anime, because it was more profitable to get the audience hooked, then have them buy the manga to see how the story concludes. But now, having a big event like the Demon Slayer movies, or the Attak on Titan Final Seasons, those make the studios more than enough money on their own to justify the cost.

xzerozeroninex2025-12-30 20:57

You have to check sales of the source material of the anime that’s getting new seasons.Many of the shows with new seasons has their source material selling double or triple copies which leads to the production committee green lighting new seasons.Like many of the anime from the original 10’s that didn’t get new seasons source material barely made money.

markDonanhattam2025-12-30 22:15

Streaming is a big part, but not the whole of the story. With the dwindling of the DVD/Blu-Ray market, the industry went out to find new ways to monetize their projects. International streaming came at a good time, but the industry also began investing heavily into, collaborations with other brands, events, new kinds of merch, stage plays, and for bigger shows, theatrical releases. Add in social media helping shows stay on peoples' minds for longer and it now makes more sense than ever to keep investing on franchises for longer instead of stringing one-and-dones and cashing in from BDs.

garmonthenightmare2025-12-30 22:33

Streaming era happened and manga is less saught after.

UMP45isnotflat2025-12-30 23:54

Shows like Yona of the Dawn suddenly getting a sequel or even A Wild Last Boss Appeared beeing adapted years after the LN finished is definitely some nice change.

Fingers crossed for NGNL 2

melvinlee882025-12-31 01:30

It's a good time to be fans of Shonen Jump manga I guess

Salty1452025-12-31 06:38

Producers realized that having complete adaptations can be quite beneficial long-term for a franchise and so that the legacy isn't a perpetual stream of "God I wish NGNL would get a S2". You can monetize an anime in more ways than just manga sales, and so the end of a manga doesn't have to mean the end of the anime's run.

I will say though that I'm not as big on the trend of canon movies. I get why they happen, but they largely feel like long TV episodes with similar levels of production and lack the theatrics that make film film. I just have a higher bar for cinematics in a feature film such that something like *Demon Slayer* can go from having an above average production on TV to being an underwhelming experience on the big screen. I will admit though that I am maybe just too idealistic about this kind of thing.

DataUserOne2025-12-31 19:42

Supply and demand is my guess.

Time_Fracture2026-01-02 12:38

I believe there must be a deal between the production committee and the author that if the anime is going to be adapted it has to be a two seasons minimum, no matter how it fares after airing.

That's why shows like Medaka Kuroiwa, TBATE, Sasaki to Pii-chan, Tonbo, Kamierabi, Puniru got their Season 2.