{"id":101947,"date":"2025-02-21T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/the-increasing-popularity-of-music-in-anime\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:27:39","slug":"the-increasing-popularity-of-music-in-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=101947","title":{"rendered":"The Increasing Popularity of Music in Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\n“Hi! My name is Jessica,
\nbut I go by \u3058\u3047\u3059
\n<\/span><\/span>on here, which means Jess! This is my first time
\nposting on Shooting Star Dreamer, so I thought I should give a bit of
\nan introduction. I’ve loved anime since I was small, my first anime
\nbeing Samurai Pizza Cats when
\nI was only two years old. Currently I enjoy Japanese media of many
\nsorts, including anime, manga, video games, light novels, and more! I
\nhope you’ll enjoy my first post!”<\/i><\/div>\n

\nMusic has been an
\nexisting topic in anime for decades, as can be seen in titles such as
\nMacross <\/i>(1982), Full Moon wo Sagashite<\/i> (2002), and Beck<\/i> (2004). Back
\nin the early 2000’s, there were only handfuls of music-based anime
\navailable, so fans of that genre didn’t have much room to be picky.
\nIn the 1980’s and 1990’s, there were even less. As time passed, the
\nlater 2000’s brought us anime such as Nodame Cantabile<\/i>, K-On<\/i>!,
\nDetroit Metal City<\/i>, and in the early 2010’s we got a bunch more
\nmusic-related anime.\n<\/p>\n

\nNow, in the year 2017,
\neight music-based anime TV series have begun airing already, five
\nhave been announced to air sometime during 2017, and thirteen have
\nbeen announced with no release date yet. That’s a total of twenty-six
\nmusic-based anime, potentially airing in 2017 alone. So what’s
\ncausing this huge jump in music anime?<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"AKB48<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The popular idol group AKB48 which contributes to the rise of music-based anime.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/div>\n

\n
\nFirst off, we have to
\nrealize that anime and Japanese animation studios are growing in
\nnumber every year. The first reason why there’s so much more music
\nanime, is because anime itself exists in larger numbers. According to
\nAnime-Planet’s
\ndatabase<\/a>, the Summer 2004 anime season only had seventeen
\ndifferent series released on air. The Fall
\n2016 anime season<\/a> had a total of 84 anime TV series on air.
\nBecause of the huge increase in numbers of TV anime in general, it
\nmakes sense that there should be more music anime, right?<\/div>\n

\nThat is correct to a
\ncertain degree. However, there still seems to be a trend of
\nmusic-based anime coming out at this time in comparison to other
\n\u201cniche\u201d genres. By \u201cniche\u201d, I’m referring to more specific
\ncategories of anime, such as \u201clost in a strange world\u201d or
\n\u201cvampire\u201d instead of more common genres such as \u201caction\u201d or
\n\u201chorror\u201d.<\/p>\n

\nIn Japan, pop idols are
\nvery successful right now; especially AKB48 which is situated in
\nAkihabara. Akiba for short, it’s somewhat of a hub for otaku of all
\nvarieties, and so there has come to be an entire culture surrounding
\nwhat’s known as \u201cidol otaku\u201d. In addition to AKB48’s success in
\nAkiba, screens across the district and other anime-heavy locations in
\nJapan have been playing many Love Live videos. Love Live is currently
\nvery popular among Japanese otaku.<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Classicaloid<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The music-based anime Classicaloid, which doesn’t focus on pop music.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

\nWhile I do think that
\nJapanese idol groups such as AKB48 and popular anime about idols such
\nas Love Live have contributed to the increased number of music anime,
\nI know many of you are shaking your heads right now, thinking, \u201cNot
\nall music anime is about pop!\u201d That’s true, recent anime such as
\nSound! Euphonium<\/i> and Classicaloid<\/i> are not about pop. However, if you
\nlook at the different titles of recent music-based anime, you’ll
\nnotice that almost all of them are indeed about pop.<\/p>\n

\nIt makes sense; after
\nall, you have to start somewhere while learning music, and often
\npianists will start with learning classical music. That, and if you
\nlook at the variety of anime we have coming out each season, you can
\nsee that creators are going for more and more niche subjects. The
\nupcoming Welcome to the Ballroom anime is about ballroom dancing, for
\nan example. It makes sense that the music genre would want to spread
\nout to different types of music as well.<\/p>\n

\nOverall, I feel that the
\nincreasing popularity of Japanese pop idols is responsible for our
\ngrowing collection of music anime, but the anime industry itself is
\nalso to thank for that, having progressed so much, growing each
\nseason, and increasing its own variety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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