Dear lord, you guys don’t understand the concept of “epoch-making”? Influential? For something …

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Comment on Top 25 Epoch-Making Anime by Anonymous:

Dear lord, you guys don’t understand the concept of “epoch-making”? Influential?

For something to be influential, the work must affect OTHERS works. Is like saying how a movie or a manga with revolutionary ideas created a bunch of similar or inspired works.

Like Pokemon. After Pokemon, a wave of “kids with their *monster/robots/csrds/thigs* became famous. The concept of a powerfull pet might have appeared before, but the way Pokemon presented it became worldwide famous, and changed the industry forever.

Madoka can’t be influential because it is so new that *nothing* was inspired by it.

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• Top 25 Epoch-Making Anime:
  

  What? No “Yu-Gi-Oh!”? Invalid list is invalid.

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  The key word is “influential,” people. It doesn’t matter what subverts what if nobody cares. Friggin’ Dokuro-chan and Dai Mahou Touge subvert magical girls, and that’s not an automatic ticket to anything. And I say that as a Tutu fan, though my penis draws the line at Utena (it can also do sketches). Now, we haven’t seen entire strings of Madoka imitators yet besides Symphogear. But it has become a top seller in Japan, anime or otherwise. That’s why it already counts as a landmark.

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  It’s a good top but where are Saint Seiya and Death note?

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  Azumanga Daioh IS epoch making because it ushered in the epoch of The Slice of Life Moeblob Anime. Is than not an epoch? Was it not created by Azumanga? Maybe time will reveal that Lucky Star would be more influential (although I’d argue that LS’s “influence” is entirely superficial ie;character art, catchy themesongs & million-dollar merchandising campaign) but it’s clear that Lucky Star & K-on entered an epoch that had already existed for a few years thanks to Azumanga Daioh. Kyo-Ani …

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  Actually, Digimon appeared first than Pokemon. Nintendo copied the concept of the Tamagotchi, which were premordial digimon.

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