What do you consider some of the most influential anime of all time? Ones that significantly altered genres or the whole medium. Shows that were made at least before 2010, where they have had time to affect the industry. Also, no evangelion please, that one has already been debated to death.
Obviously, my first pick is Sailor Moon. Shaping magical girl shows for years to come and becoming many peoples first gateway anime, even mens.
What was that one romcom where a guy was on an island with a yellow shirt girl as the main romance. I forgot the name. There was the shrine maiden, the tanned monkey girl, and the bland milf. If only I could remember the damn name, I feel like that one really popularized slice of life.
Alexander White
Dragon Ball
Ayden Anderson
Mazinger Z.
Asher Allen
My second pick is Ace wo Nerae, a big step for sports anime that had an outsized influence into other genres. The coach character and main protagonist would be essentially copied into Gunbuster, the predecessor of Evangelion and the first anime to have extremely detailed breast physics.
Adding to this, it's kind of just the barrage of manga and anime Go put out in the early 70s. Shaping both industries beyond Tezuka.
Landon Turner
why?
I don't remember either, but that chick was ground zero for the ahoge
Dylan Baker
Lupin III for giving birth to “adult” anime and manga
Matthew Evans
Tetsujin 28 Cyborg 009 Tetsuwan Atom Ashita no Joe Mobile Suit Gundam Mazinger Z Dragon Ball Maison Ikkoku 8-Man Gatchaman Doraemon Hokuto no Ken Mahoutsukai Sally Mach GoGoGo Kyojin no Hoshi GeGeGe no Kitaro Himitsu no Akkochan Attack No. 1 Lupin III Umi no Triton Space Battleship Yamato Candy Candy Cutie Honey Akira Urusei Yatsura
Jacob Collins
>why? Are you fucking retarded, OP? You list Ace wo Nerae (lol) and then you actually question why someone would list Mazinger Z? The anime that single handedly jumpstarted the piloted robot craze which completely dominated the 70s, 80s and 90s?
>GeGeGe no Kitaro >Lupin III >Cutie Honey Those three are also a huge part of the reason why 2018 was the best year in anime in a long time. All three franchises got great new adaptations. I guess it definitely was a year for "classicfags". And those three are definitely among the things I like most in your list!
If I had to name the one thing that stands out as the "worst" ... >Attack No. 1 Never really got the charm of that one. It looked bad even back in 1970 and was rather bland, from what I remember (from when it aired in the 90, of course. Hadn't been born yet in the 70s). I won't deny it was influential though.
Everything changed after Macross. Television production actually got a budget behind it.
Dylan Morales
haruhi suzumiya. The only people who hate this show/ think it wasn't influential are either newfags, normalfags, or people being contrarian in a pathetic attempt to look "unique"
It really wasn't influential though. Love it or hate it, but don't please don't pretend that it was relevant for the industry or the artform of anime as a whole.
Cameron Lewis
Haruhi is a fad anime. It had no impact. Don't even try this shit with me, I've been watching anime since 1994.
Eli King
can you name one thing that changed after its passing?
you too
Blake Rivera
I still love it but it is basically ground zero for the direction light novels and conversely light novel adaptations took in it's wake