but honestly I want the Power Rangers movie to be a huge success and start a Toku boom in the west
thing is, that sort of thing has no chance of pulling away the type of people i want to stay into anime, but it has a good chance of pulling the people i want to go out of anime
essentially the toku fandom can be a dumping ground for cancerous and completely lacking in self-awareness anti-weebs if all goes perfectly well, although that’s unlikely to be the case admittedly
and if that gets squared away then everything else i want to happen is more or less given a small window of opportunity to fall in line
stagnating or even decreasing growth, lack of dubbing and official releases bringing back the return of dedicated fansubbing communities, the like
although sadly that’s really unlikely, the era of streaming services, broadened appeal and more avenues for the west to contribute to the anime industry is upon us, and my ambition is to essentially set us back about a decade or a decade and a half maybe, except with the modern anime demographic in place of the one from 10 - 15 years ago, basically purge and then go back to the roots in a nutshell
but that would require the death of netflix picking up anime and the death crunchyroll/daisuke, the like, and if that all stopped being a thing then goodie goodie, but things couldn’t truly take off so long as they’re around, and it doesn’t seem like they’re dying anytime soon, sadly, and likely wouldn’t be too hurt by a toku boom given that CR at least already has that sort of thing afaik
but yeah
woo woo go power rangers movie