Why wasn't Darker than Black more popular? Barely anyone remembers it these days

Barely anyone remembers it these days.

DtB was incredibly popular back in the day. Most of modern Anon Babble are seasonalshitters who don't remember anything from five years ago, let alone eighteen, which is why nobody talks about it anymore.

It's one of the widespread entry level otakucore anime back in the day. Refusing to watch it and sticking to modern seasonals is a you/(your generation) issue.

People always say this, but the problem was with s1 and its shitty ending. The show was always entirely superficial, the writers never had an idea what was actually supposed to happen in the endgame or what the mysteries of the world were. It was all style no substance. S2 had nothing to go on and should have never existed because it never could have been good because of how s1 was handled.

You could say that they lost it

Why doesn’t a 2007 seasonal anime have /dbs/ tier generals?

Kys retard. It was popular in its day and has 1 million followers on popular sites.

I think DtB is just meant to be like that; tragic/sentimental subplots with abrupt endings. The ending should’ve been more original though, the NGE aping made me roll my eyes

I think it wad because of season 2 being bad. Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger. There are the OVAs between season 1 and 2 but they also ended on a cliffhanger. The end of season 1 teases a continuation. If season 1 had an ending without a teasing for a continuation then maybe more people would have fondly remembered it but there is still season 2 which made many people disinterested in the franchise. It's the same thing with Code Geass. If R2 was really bad then only few people would have remembered R1 fondly. I think that R2 was less good than R1 but it still worked and had a satisfying ending for both seasons.

s2 bad

No it wasn't stop lying

it was complete and utter dogshit. the ova was good though

S2 had less Yin than S1 therefore it's shit.

"less" is understatement

season 2 bad!

I still listen to the DtB2 OST regularly
even practicing some of the pieces on piano

I liked the OVA a lot, just the fact that it takes place in HK takes from a 7/10 to a nice 8.5/10 and then the doujins take it to a 9/10

When I watched the anime I accidentally watched the first two OVA episodes first. I was confused why the anime takes place in Taiwan (I don't remember it being HK, I remember it being Taiwan). I was really wondering who the C2 looking girl was (fake Amber in the OVA) and who the Amber girl was they were talking about. But soon I've found out that I watched the wrong series first.

I do

Literally the only thing that saved Geass from the same treatment as DtB is that R2 had a decent ending. The rest of R2 up until then was trash.
I honestly didn't hate DtB S2 as much as most people, but looking at how hard Geass has been milked since R2, maybe it's a blessing in disguside that S2 turned everyone off from DtB.

Because it's too old. We've had 2-3 waves of newfags since then. Plus, anime viewers tend to be young and don't like watching older shit and/or they don't stick around.

It's why nobody talks about Shana or School Days or any other popular show from the time. Hell, even TTGL and Lelouch's show are barely more popular in the grand scheme of things. They were big for the time but now only old fans who are still around talk about these shows. A teenager who started watching post-covid is not going to ever watch a show that old.

I didn't know teenagers were that against mid 2000s shows. Why?

People still make fun of School Days every so often and shit on Makoto as a protagonist, and Nice Boat references still pop up every so often. It didn't have any staying power beyond that for the same reason why people stopped caring about other shows like Mirai Nikki. It was simply too trashy, it lacked the substance to inspire a longterm fandom. I do wonder if it's more popular in Japan because of the VNs.

I love the franchise to which School Days belongs to existing just for this insane family tree.

I think 00s are in a weird mid spot where they are they are too old for anyone to care but not old enough to become "classics" or for anyone to be nostalgic about it yet.
Also classics are created when the medium is young and is finding it's place, most fans will know all the shows and have a collective understanding of it. Going to the roots is interesting from culture and historical perspective. I think it's very hard for something to create a lasting legacy when the medium is more mature and there's just more stuff. Sort of like when asked for a greatest band of all time people will say Beatles or something, rather than anything even remotely modern because that's something everyone knows, but not (pop)culture is much more fragmented. I don't think it's possible to be Beatles ever again in era of internet when you can listen to some hyper-niche spotify artists with 10monthly listeners.
Also it doesn't even have to be good. Something like SAO will be remembered as archetypal example of isekai and what boosted it to mainstream, why any random show that followed really won't.

it was okay until the ending.

E7 had it way worse than DtB and it's still more remembered.

SAO

actually a product of the early 00s but it only became famous because of the LNs from the late 00s and through them the anime in the 10s.

I havent watch it.
But does S2 really that bad ? Is it similar to Gundam IBO S2 treatment ??

True, SAO is more of an early 10s thing. Nobody cares about the earlier stuff. I was just using it as general example rather than specifically 00s. And the point is that being remembered is about setting a trend, while any random show, even if it was pretty good in it's time probably won't.

Pretty much, the premise and designs were really cool but the anime never felt that cohesive whenever it tried move the overall plot forward rather than keeping it episodic. It just doesn't have enough to sink your teeth into to feel as memorable as other anime from those years once you get past the great character design.
S2 felt almost like a separate anime at times but it just felt like a lot of nonsense concepts thrown at a wall that lacked what made the original appealing.
Also how it would kill characters left and right just felt like wasted potential more than anything. Rip that burger guy from the first episode.
And Mao going from a black cat to a fucking squirrel sucked dick.
Code Geass is remembered because it has many, many infamous moments specially R2. It is a series that will try its hardest to leave an impression on you or shock you even if what just happened has no real weight on the narrative or gets backtracked in a couple of episodes or has the most stupid explanation.