Why did it become irrelevant so quickly?

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Because her fans gave up on reading or simply read more YA books

Yeah, it's almost as bad as anime

He's moved on

"I've done it with a girl. Intercourse wise"

"[Taking off his glasses and speaking to Maggie] Oh, God, I've still got these on. I - I don't need these. They're just for the character. Even if I did need glasses in real life, you know, I - I never read."

Why does it have to be relevant? What do you even mean by that? I'm pretty sure children are still reading it if that's what you mean.

Anime is fine. For whatever reason YA literature is filled with women and men who can't write a single good book. I've tried several YA books over the years and never found anything worthwhile. I've read decent comics made by women but they were japs. I guess it's because of different culture or something. In the West people just don't work hard any more

It could have been a shared experience that people would look back to and remember fondly twenty or thirty years later, but JK. Rowling decided that she wasn't quite rich enough, so she's now milking the series for all the money it's worth.

Harry Potter will instead become a cash cow franchise that expires gracelessly as each installment sells less and less and makes everyone more sick of it.

It could have offered more original ideas to live by than the well-trodden paths "friendship is magic", and "don't make fun of muggle-borns because it's racist", and "girls can be smart, too". Rowling built a fascinating world with much less fascinating characters who had even fewer fascinating ideas of their own.

it's not irrelevant though. new readers pick up the books all the time. the studio tour is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the uk.

there just isn't the hype or anticipation about new books any more

It was relevant for like 18 straight years and they still making books, plays, movies and all sorts of shit based on it. Its still number one on the Tumblr meme list (insert something about George and Fred not being able to 69 anymore here), still fairly relevant in Reddit circles, Veeky Forums fuck about it.

Its bascially the quintessential young adult series. Think of all the extra shit they put out to SQUEEZE Twilight dry, think about how little of a fuck people give about Hunger Games now that the movies are over, think about how little fanfare there is for City of Gays and Degenerate or whatever they are called. Harry Potter lasted an eternity in young adult lit years.

99% of anime is garbage, and it just keeps piling up year after year.

Granted I suppose thats not saying much when fuck loads of series are made all the time. And there's still more to gain from slogging through it than YA

>tried to watch Knigths of Sidonia
>Was told that its a hard sci-fi take on the mecha genre

Ok i'm in

>main character is a nerd that just happens to be the bestest pilot ever
>trains in a simulation chamber under the futuristic city
>is not aware of aliens even though he fights them in the simulation

Excuse me, what?

>they catch him stealing food
>instead of killing him make him an ace pilot
>meets an androgynous humanoid that picks a gender based on what partner it chooses
>looks like a trap
>mfw

Have you literally only ever read YA?

I love anime. My dad used to buy me old Ghost in The Shell and Inu Yasha DVD's when he was away on business trips.

So much of the industry is autism. Miura was right. No one watching it has any idea about human behaviour, and no one making it has much of a clue either. It's disgusting that animators, artists who should understand and love the vitality present in the movements of life, would be total NEET shut-ins whose interest in the human form ends at loli schoolgirls. The fact that the industry is moving more and more to moe-shit and CGI shonen is even more saddening. I can name maybe 20 genuinely worthwhile anime series and movies. Nothing has ever really matched my first watch through of Evangelion.

>99% of anime is garbage, and it just keeps piling up year after year.
Same applies to hollywood. anime panders to otaku so obviously the average series will be shit. The only great anime ever made was basically made by Ghibli and a few others. Most of them movies unless you want to watch a slide show. >>tried to watch Knigths of Sidonia
>>Was told that its a hard sci-fi take on the mecha genre
Ouch. If anyone ever tells you an anime series is good\great, they're probably full of shit. You have to remember that the average fan of anime is just watching cartoons that is only watched by otaku\children in Japan. In Japan people do read manga but anime is for hardcore nerds that buy bluray\merch for ridiculous prices. Thus the only people that recommend "great anime" to others are just losers. I've seen all the lists they make and it's filled with stupid anime that nobody should ever bother with, let alone recommend to others.>So much of the industry is autism. Miura was right.
His name is Miyazaki.
>The fact that the industry is moving more and more to moe-shit and CGI shonen is even more saddening.
Because only otaku watch anime in Japan.
>No one watching it has any idea about human behaviour, and no one making it has much of a clue either. It's disgusting that animators, artists who should understand and love the vitality present in the movements of lif
Yeah but it is understandable. Animators get paid shit so the only people that are interested in becoming animators in the first place are nerds or people that just love animation.

I'm recalling a certain photograph of Miura literally writing in a newspaper or leaflet that "99% of animators today have autism". Miyazaki did say the same thing. I loved Mononoke and Nausicaa actually.

Harry Potter is still a thing in Latin American countries.

This, and it will die eventually because the movies will become old with time. Unlike the Lord of the Rings, no one will pick these up.

i disagree. The new hogsmeade in universal hollywood has bumped it back up to popularity, as well as jk rowlings fantastic beasts and where to find them. I think its as relevant as ever.

i also disagree with this, there is a whole world to learn about and explore and characters with such rich development that new things can always be explored. JK Rowling is still releasing new content about it all of the time on pottermore. It is one of the most vast fiction universes and there is so much about it, the fact that you are unaware or oblivious to this is baffling.

Hollywood finished adapting them.

It's a shame that also applies to Miura as well. Berserk was excellent up till the end of the conviction arc, where he introduced Shierke to fulfill his own moeshit fantasies and Isidro to introduce "comic relief" that nobody was asking for. And just like that it went from a campy, edgy, super grimdark journey of vengeance to Guts and his rag-tag group of shonen faggots escorting a literal retard to fairy land.

Two words: shitty prose.

Why do you think it is that Japanese can produce well written and strong female characters despite it being a predominantly male society while westerners, especially Americans can't so much as write one decent or well rounded female character with feminism apparently being so huge?

Because it was never great.