Beware the Villager.

Browsers, Battleships, Guns, Sega Consoles.

Rei and Bulbasaur have the same VA too!

What about all the live performances they do? Or is it pretty much only the lucky few who've struck it big that this matters for?

Kana's done so many roles.

There are some others I often find easy to recognise, like Sugita-san (see above list) and Mamoru Miyano (Light, Taichi, Tamaki, Rintaro etc). The latter especially if he's doing his more exaggerated voice. Rie Kugimiya is also usually very easy to recognise.

It's the same for most of the staff on the shows too.

I suppose this is why so many of them also have singing careers.

Only 4? She's slipping.

Although Wikipedia does tell me she was in Space Dandy (bit part?) and Mahouka too.

He's a massive Gundam fan, so I have to wonder if he had input on the name, or they named the character with the intention of hiring him.

I know right! She's probably in more than that this season alone!

Character: Gundam Tanaka Is played by: Tomokazu Sugita But you probably know him as: Gintoki Sakata (Gintama), Joseph Jostar (JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure), Kyon (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), Ragna the Bloodedge (BlazBlue)

Character: Kazuichi Souda Is played by: Yoshimasa Hosoya But you probably know him as: Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan), Dio (Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward)

Yep they are. My fiancee's little cousin has just gotten into it, and he was very happy with his watch and medals.

Someone shop Kitty into IdolM@ster, please?

(I know this is an old post, but info came up in another thread that you might find interesting)

Oh yeah, Sazae-san is still crazy popular. It's one of the most watched TV shows full stop in Japan. It's just something you watch together as a family.

I'll have to send Koda that link, because he was interested in the numbers too. Still want to know what happened in 2000...

I think they survive by massively…

There might not be the widespread notoriety that something like DB achieved worldwide (although I'd say in Japan at least One Piece has surpassed this), but the niche shows are certainly doing much better now. Look at the sales for stuff like Madoka or Monogatari in Japan.

2006 was when the number of titles per year…

Anime shifted to the late night slots at the end of the nineties / beginning of the 2000s. This is when you saw the collapse of the OVA market and the explosion in the numbers of shows per season.

I don't think anyone is going to deny that Evangelion was a turning point for mecha shows.

12 anime for a decade? That doesn't look like too impressive a list to me. They didn't say there was nothing good from that period, they just said that comparatively, things aren't really any different now from what they ever were. There's certainly more of it now.

I can't tell you how happy I am to see someone with this sort of view. Rather than romanticising the old stuff like lots of other fans, you see it as having flaws and gems, just like now.