If a massive hit like evangelion is your benchmark, then everything will fail in comparison. Gainix had many good productions even after NGE, but if management sucks, then success will not help. And they haven't released anything new for nearly a decade now.
> I don't know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like Sousou no Frieren, Oshi no Ko, and Konosuba Season 3 in the last year or so.
Anime is dying, permanently, since decades. It's a very unhealthy exploitive industry, similar to the infamous Hollywood-accounting. And I guess with AI this will only become worse. But most productions are not anime-originals anyway, they usually originate from books or manga, and the creative animation work is rather small and generic at the end.
Evangelion is almost 30 years old. The fact that they can't name a newer hit anime for them is the problem. I don't know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like Sousou no Frieren, Oshi no Ko, and Konosuba Season 3 in the last year or so.
At most only because there's so much more out there.
The general consensus is that Oshi no Ko is as good as any classic (and is by the same author as the already classic Kaguya-sama) and that only aired one episode a week ago so far. A new season of Demon Slayer started ten days ago and that's the manga with the most per-volume sales ever, surpassing even Dragon Ball. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm talking about things that happened within the past two weeks alone.
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If a massive hit like evangelion is your benchmark, then everything will fail in comparison. Gainix had many good productions even after NGE, but if management sucks, then success will not help. And they haven't released anything new for nearly a decade now.
> I don't know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like Sousou no Frieren, Oshi no Ko, and Konosuba Season 3 in the last year or so.
Anime is dying, permanently, since decades. It's a very unhealthy exploitive industry, similar to the infamous Hollywood-accounting. And I guess with AI this will only become worse. But most productions are not anime-originals anyway, they usually originate from books or manga, and the creative animation work is rather small and generic at the end.
Evangelion is almost 30 years old. The fact that they can't name a newer hit anime for them is the problem. I don't know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like Sousou no Frieren, Oshi no Ko, and Konosuba Season 3 in the last year or so.
> not so many modern anime classics.
At most only because there's so much more out there.
The general consensus is that Oshi no Ko is as good as any classic (and is by the same author as the already classic Kaguya-sama) and that only aired one episode a week ago so far. A new season of Demon Slayer started ten days ago and that's the manga with the most per-volume sales ever, surpassing even Dragon Ball. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm talking about things that happened within the past two weeks alone.