by In 2025, the TV anime Assassination Classroom, based on the original work by Yusei Matsui, will celebrate its 10th anniversary and begin re-broadcasting. It seems like a long time, but it’s short.
The anime industry has grown significantly over the past decade and has undergone many changes. Looking back at the anime scene 10 years ago, we can see the seeds of what continues today.
“Osomatsu-san” is a huge hit, and the perfection of “Yupho” is a hot topic. Every year, many TV anime are broadcast, and 2015 was no exception, with many works being supplied. If you think of the work that stole the most attention that year, “Osomatsu-san” would be the first to come to mind.
The series, which was the first new TV anime in 27 years to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Fujio Akatsuka’s birth, depicted the lazy daily lives of the sextuplets who became adults and were unemployed, with dark and cynical humor, and became a hit that could be called a social phenomenon. Despite the constant dirty jokes, it gained many female fans, which became a hot topic, and many related goods and tie-up products were released. This year, reboot projects of old famous works such as “Osomatsu-san” stood out.
This was also the year that “Lupin the Third” was revived as a TV series for the first time in 30 years (excluding spin-off works), and “Dragon Ball Super” was also developed as a TV series for the first time in 18 years. In the 2020s, remake anime projects have become more prominent, but a similar trend can already be seen 10 years ago in reviving classic series.
The success of these works will also have influenced the industry’s planning decisions. In addition to classic reboots, there were also many popular new anime. This year, “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon (hereinafter “DanMachi”)” and “Sound! Works that would become long-running series, such as “Sound! Euphonium” and “Overlord” began broadcasting.
“Sound! Euphonium attempted to depict the highly challenging task of describing a large number of people playing musical instruments, and the drama woven from the dense human relationships also garnered significant acclaim. “DanMachi” became a series that continues to this day as a successful media mix centered on anime, and “Overlord” similarly gained long-term popularity and became known as a representative of works that involve reincarnation in another world.
Another major topic of the year was that director Rie Matsumoto, who left Toei Animation and became a freelancer, once again demonstrated her talent with “Blood Blockade Battlefront.” Another major topic of the year was “School-Live!”, an anime adaptation of a manga serialized in “Manga Time Kirara Forward” (Houbunsha), which is remembered by many anime fans as a work that breathed fresh air into slice-of-life anime with its shocking development in the first episode.
The TV anime Assassination Classroom, based on Yusei Matsui’s original work, has celebrated its 10th anniversary and begun re-broadcasting. It seems like a long time, but it’s short.
The anime industry has also grown significantly over the past 10 years, and many changes have occurred. Looking back at the anime scene 10 years ago, we can see the seeds of what continues today.
Works that have since become long-running series, such as “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” (hereinafter referred to as “DanMachi”), “Sound! Euphonium”, and “Overlord,” have begun broadcasting. “Sound! Euphonium” takes on the complicated depiction of many musical instruments, and the drama woven from the dense human relationships has also become a big hit.
“DanMachi” has become a successful media mix centered on anime and a series that continues to this day, and “Overlord” has also gained long-term popularity and become known as a representative of otherworld reincarnation works. Another big topic of the year was that director Matsumoto Rie, who left Toei Animation to become a freelancer, once again demonstrated her talent with “Blood Blockade Battlefront.”
In addition, “School-Live!”, an anime adaptation of a manga serialized in “Manga Time Kirara Forward” (Houbunsha), is remembered by many anime fans as a work that breathed fresh air into slice-of-life anime with its shocking development in the first episode.
