>>77546790no one cares about Franxx anymore anon and even that show wasn't like mainstream popular, it was just THE most popular seasonal anime of its time
the threshold shows that made anime become more and more mainstream were Naruto, Attack on Titan, MHA and then Demon Slayer
it's always mass appeal shonenshit that breaks into mainstream levels, anything that even remotely has ecchi or otaku elements never does no matter how popular it is within the anime community itself e.g. Steins;Gate, Monogatari, Franxx, Fate, Made In Abyss etc.
normalfags will always be filtered by the same weird shit they always have been and only the most 'not like anime' anime e.g. AoT or anime that waters its anime-like elements down to such a level e.g. JJK can ever get real mass appeal to normalfags
mistaking something for being popular in the anime community as being popular in a general/mainstream sense is something anime fans keep doing for some reason
