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Answerman - Where Have All The Space Operas Gone?

Just think, in 10 years, we'll be able to do this again, but with "Where have all the isekai gone?"

Isn't genre a reflection of what younger generation is in to? We i think will stay some space opera genre related shows, but it will be for older generation. There not many younger ones into it who can make money to fund these shows.

I don't really know what space operas are but if they are like Aldnoah.Zero and ēlDLIVE then they can stay in the 80's.

The last one I can think of is Cowboy Bebop, and that was 20 years ago (though I suppose Code Geass might qualify).
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...Which also gives you some idea of how off-compass the New Trilogy is heading.

Then, it looked like there was all that could be done with the genre in the 00's, and then Deadwood and 3:10 to Yuma came along.

But with any kind of story, give it time, and someone will eventually try it again. It's not always successful (2012 ended Hollywood disaster movies until Geostorm,

To the gen1ers it's been off compass since the prequels which was why TFA had so many homages to the original trilogy (which people roundly criticized) basically anyone tackling Star Wars in any media is destined to get backlash for something the works do that people felt was handled better in the original trilogies.....even things that weren't.

BadNewsBlues wrote:

To the gen1ers it's been off compass since the prequels which was why TFA had so many homages to the original trilogy (which people roundly criticized) basically anyone tackling Star Wars in any media is destined to get backlash for something the works do that people felt was handled better in the original trilogies.....even things that weren't.

I wouldn't call myself a genwunner, more of a anti-Disneyer. I thought the prequels were fine, just nowhere near as good, and dabbled in the EU extensively. It is funny seeing people suddenly turn around and say the prequels weren't that bad now after the sequels came out and they don't like them.

Maybe some genres should stay in the past if the alternative is JJ Abrams reboots.

There are some I like that fall under that banner, but I always thought of them as something else; Bebop Si-Fi Noir, Outlaw Star Space Western,

[...] I always liked to use Outlaw Star as a more upbeat "chaser" to combat the damaging effects of recommending Cowboy Bebop to newbies--Same action, less noir. [...]

Wasn't the reason for the explosion of space operas, that you could cut production cost that way? Backgrounds in space are cheap to make. Space ships are pretty easy to draw compared to other vehicles. Light beams make sense in space, light beams are easy to draw. The interiors of space ships all look kind of the same, there's not much variation with color, everything is kind of sterile. And so on and so forth.

Yamato 2199, quite possibly the greatest anime space opera of all time (and one of the best reboots ever, of the quintessential original anime space opera no less) has been newly streaming on Crunchyroll but you'd almost never know it here on ANN (other than the occasional minor news posting) thanks to it dropping between seasons and getting zero coverage in the stream reviews here. And its sequel 2202 is currently going through its theatrical rounds in Japan as we speak.

Meanwhile, Macross Delta (and previously Frontier) fail to get much notice either due to the licensing issue. Probably will hold true for the next Macross coming up as well.