This winter has 40 shows as opposed to 43 in Winter 2019, but after the steady 25-30% drop in year-over-year production we’ve been seeing, that’s a much smaller decline.
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Less sequels aligning with more uncertainty certainly makes sense, but even the new series this season seem to collectively defy confident prediction more than in most seasons.Īs to the question of volume, for one season at least the steady decline in the number of series produced for TV seems to have slowed a bit. But there are no (well- maybe one) real elites at the top, and the bulk of this post is comprised of shows I would consider boom or bust. I was actually surprised I ended up previewing as many series as I did for this season, given how poor I expected this season to be based on series announcements. Reflexively we might say that the paucity of sequels is a good thing, but when one looks at the percentage of good shows that have been sequels in recent years, it gives you pause.Īnother thing that stands out to me is the uncertainty factor. It makes sense that sequels have proliferated in recent years – production committees have increasingly disdained risk in favor of the safe and familiar, and nothing fits that bill better than a sequel. In the first place, there are relatively few sequels by recent standards. But there are a couple of aspects to the schedule that strike me as unusual. Superficially it’s very generic – overloaded as it is with LN adaptations (isekai especially), idol series and cute girl navel-gazing (the holy trinity of bad anime in the 2010s). Winter 2020 strikes me as an oddball of a season in some respects. New year, new decade – but this schedule is looking very familiar.
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