[ SECRET POST #5659 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5659 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I would believe there was a time when both Ranma and Daria were bigger than HP, because they hit their prime right about when the first HP book came out, so they would have been huge (for the time) when HP was just starting to grow. Ranma was definitely the most popular anime among non-casuals when I was in high school, Inuyasha was only just starting. (Dragonball and Sailor Moon were bigger generally but not among people who ID'd as otaku.)

It's really hard to provide evidence for that though because the big archives in those fandoms completely disappeared long ago (since back then we didn't have all the fannish infrastructure-building that was... led by a lot of those hp4gu people, long before AO3...)

[(Anonymous)]

Totally random but, where I live Fushigi Yuugi was the big one among "otaku" .

[(Anonymous)]

da who has been in internet fandom since the 90s and yeah, Fushigi Yuugi, Gundam Wing, and Ronin Warriors were huge on the internet back in the day, along with Sailor Moon.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT was thinking of Gundam Wing too.

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Don't forget Inuyasha!

I wonder what it says that I've been rewatching Wing recently, did a Sailor Moon rewatch a few years ago, and plan on binging Inuyasha soon because of the new show? Aside from 'massive nostalgia kick' anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Fushigi Yuugi was a bit later than Ranma, at least in my region - didn't get an official English release until 1999, which was past peak for Ranma. I was neck-deep in webcomics fandom instead by thst point and mostly missed it. (Gundam Wing was earlier, it was old and uncool by the time I discovered Ranma.)

[(Anonymous)]

It might just be where you live, but it’s odd to me that Gundam Wing, which came out in 1995, was old and uncool by the time you got into the much more in style Rannma. Which started in 1987, and went on to the early 90s, with the anime starting in 1989 and doing the same in the 90s. It’s not just odd because of the release dates, which can definitely be explained by what gets brought over and when. It’s really only odd because things that look older and have more degradation than modern film and animation don’t usually catch on much when they’re brought over somewhere as they would if they were brought there sooner. That’s been the experience with my anime fandoms at least, although my experiences observing that reaction aren’t universal, and I should have realized that. I wish my anime fandoms could have been more accepting of older anime, I’m still mad City Hunter didn’t get popular when it was finally localized here in the early 2000s!

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, that is weird! I am almost certainly getting Gundam Wing confused with the older Mobile Suit Gundam shows, and possibly the old uncoolness of those carried over to the new show with the people I was getting my anime through - I was never really into the mecha stuff generally.

(None of us were really very online at that point, we were passing around VHS tapes hand-to-hand and through cons, some of them fansubbed or bootlegged or not translated at all.)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay, that is definitely understandable!

[(Anonymous)]

(Secret OP who also happens to be the author of some of the replies above) Makes sense. I was into Sailor Moon and not into mecha myself but pretty sure that the "crazy yaoi & bishounen loving crowd" (that's what I thought of 'em, how fast the night changes, etc) was into Gundam Wing. And Fushigi Yuugi felt like "Sailor Moon for older preteens" to me at least. And Ranma felt like something that had always existed. Like Video Girl Ai.

But I do think that popular anime fandoms would differ a lot based on where you lived or, in other words, what would air in your local TV. I wonder about English-speaking fandom. Of course, yeah, Sailor Moon and DBZ were huge everywhere but I don't think it's accurate to say that "self-ID otaku people" weren't into them. I think they were, just like "everyone" would be into the Big Three years later (this I remember clearly).

But I don't think anime ever had the same kind of reach as Harry Potter or even LotR (unless we're talking Pokemon which is something else but Pokemon *fandom* has always been that weird furry beast).