What could be the next big Mainstream anime hit?

*raises hand* I can attest to that as I'm a fan of both VK and Twilight But yeah, if the manga sales are anything to go by, the anime has the potential to do quite well once it comes stateside.

And I'll jump on the Soul Eater bandwagon as that definitely has all the fixin's that could make it a success if played right.
 
I agree that Pretty Cure can be the next big one. If it gets on American television, it can be a Naruto type show but for younger kiRAB instead.
 
I agree with this, Since most of CN's shows in the past year have come from Canada, If Pretty Cure Does Well there Hopefully CN will Air it Here in the U.S.

Plus sadly its more Likely Then Soul Eater or Sgt. Frog. Although I would love to see both on TV.
 
I think maybe... Just maybe the Saint Seiya franchise could be revived in the U.S via the newest OVAs (the "Saint Seiya: Lost Canvas" OVAs) if they get here with no censorship and all that they could do well enough for people to care about the older series ("Saint Seiya" Animation from 1986 IIRC, the one shown in CN like 4 years ago) and then Hades Saga...
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SGT Frog, Monster, and Michiko to Hatchin are the only anime I can think of that have a chance at being truly mainstream that haven't already been attempted.

All of them would need more than just streaming and DVD, of course, and Adult Swim is no longer an option for success, otherwise Death Note would have been a mainstream hit. SGT Frog could do well on Nick, though I could see it being an Aqua Teen-style cult hit if SciFi got the rights and aired it nightly, perhaps outside of the "anime block". Monster would do well on TNT or any of the major networks, really; maybe not great in the longrun, but it'd get a big audience by anime standarRAB and attract new fans. Michiko is the most reminiscent of older Adult Swim hits, but since AS is past anime, maybe Spike could work with it?

The best possible scenario for all of them might be the new big anime block Samuel L. Jackson says he's trying to put together.
 
Wow, samuel L. Jackson could be exactly what the anime world neeRAB, a popular figure.

I really hope he does go ahead and makes a new anime block on tv, and something that everyone can watch, not a block like funimations channel.
 
That's just it, though. In the wake of the Pokemon/Dragon Ball Z/Yu-Gi-Oh! explosions, many of the networks began importing every fairly good to mediocre to just plain bad anime series to the U.S. hoping to repeat the powerful success of those shows, and the majority of them got burned. So these days most networks aren't willing to take a chance on anime anymore.



Avatar's not an anime, so no, it doesn't count. And it wasn't nearly as huge as say, Pokemon or Dragon Ball.

Nope. Whatever becomes the next big thing has got to be a completely new idea, not a rehash of a previous one. DBZ's peak period has come and gone. Lightning seldom strikes twice with the same product.
 
I don't think there will be one. The foreign, exotic quality was a big part of why anime and manga had their US boom about a decade ago but I think now they've become common place and more people are used to them, even if they see various series by shady means. Pokemon's success opened the floodgates and for a few years tons of stuff was coming out, including all the crappy pick ups that have partly led to the current slump. Whilst some shows might do well, I think we will never see a massive hit again or at least not in our lifetime.
 
Bakugan's success is greatly exaggerated.

But anyway, we don't know what the next big anime hit will be because it doesn't exist yet. When it comes, we'll know it.
 
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