Noticed a pattern at my local anime club meetup after 8 months

I go to this small anime club at the library in Arlington every other Saturday. For the first 6 months, everyone just watched the latest seasonal shows. But around month 7, I noticed people started rewatching old series from the 90s. Now at the last two meetups, 4 out of 5 people were talking about Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion instead of anything new. It feels like everyone is burned out on the same isekai and shonen formulas that flooded streaming. Has anyone else seen their group shift back to older shows lately?

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jake_torres6827d ago

lol the 90s revival is real. I swear every club I hear about is going through the same existential crisis where they realize they've watched the same isekai protag get hit by a truck for the fifth season in a row and just snap. Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion are basically the comfort food of anime at this point, everyone pretends they're being deep but really they just want to hear "Tank!" play and forget about the 47th generic harem show of the season. Your group is just going through the natural burnout phase where you realize the industry has been recycling the same tropes since 2010 lmao.

webb.ben27d ago

Man, you guys are skipping over the real reason. It's not burnout from new shows, it's that streaming services are quietly rotating out old classics and people are making sure they still exist. Crunchyroll lost a bunch of 90s titles last year, and Funimation is gone now. Your group is panic-watching stuff before it disappears into licensing hell. Nobody wants to be the guy who let Evangelion sit unwatched for another year only to find out it's on some obscure platform nobody pays for.