>>130003Edomae Elf was fun and I want a second season so badly.
>>130046The true decline of these kinds of shows stems from the studios attempting to go for mass appeal now. Which includes pandering to both the non-Otaku in-country and the west. The allure of money from new segments of the market has caused a lot of studios to focus on no longer pandering to otaku. It doesn't matter how much the otaku complain they can never outspend the hordes of more casual fans who don't care about obscure references or moe for the sake of moe. Never forget there was a time when people declared moe-shit the death of anime in the early-late 2000s. So it isn't surprising to see that style start to fall out of favor. Never mind the fact that we have all this pandering and censorship these days in an attempt to either prevent or cause a social media shitstorm as a way to do promotion.
In other words; You aren't the target market anymore. Even with remakes we usually see them taking an old popular show and toning down a lot of what made it good in an attempt to sanitize it for the new type of audience.
Studios don't want to churn out a steady supply of shows for otaku who will spend a slim-decent profit in return. They want to churn out as much as possible in the hopes that one show will obtain the popularity of something like Madoka. Where they can ride the profits for many years and slowly produce content that has mass appeal in many different regions. Why make $1,000 at home off something when you can make $1,000,000 aboard? Who cares what the local otaku think when they'll never be able to spend that type of money even on something they love?
This isn't unique to Japan or anime either. Mediums go through cycles like this. They will keep pushing out low budget stuff until the market refuses to watch it anymore. These come-lately fans will move on to the next fad. Then after a few years of nothing being produced someone will take a chance again. They'll make something for otaku. The otaku will like it and spend a lot of money on it. Then the process will repeat. We'll get a bunch of good content for about a decade or so until the usual parties see the money being made and attempt to cash-in on the fad again. Then we're back to what we have now: A bunch of low budget quickly produced censored garbage that's forgotten as quickly as it airs.
Not to say that everything is bad. There has been some good stuff being produced lately and there is always something interesting out there. But most of it simply never get promotion or becomes well known while the creator is active. Usually such things fly under the radar and then become "hidden gems" some point later. Which is how we end up with all these horrible re-makes.
Lucky Star is more a product of the time it was produced in than an amazing show. It's remembered fondly because it came out right as a lot of the western audience was discovering more obscure anime for the first time in their lives. True western otaku had been at it for 10-20 years by that point and there had been 4kidz-tier adaptations for awhile. But something like Lucky Star hadn't been seen by most of the western audience until around 2008. Which also happens to be around the same time people claim online discourse started to nosedive (they aren't wrong).
My greater point is it was a special time and place where the old and new could co-exist without the screaming and yelling we see today. If Lucky Star came out this season I'm sure most of the online talk about it would revolve around accusing anyone that likes it of being like Konata's Dad. Instead of it being a funny joke it would be taken very seriously by the usual echo chambers. Who would probably do whatever they could to cancel it. It's doubtful it would get a good translation as well. The references would have been replaced with western ones or more likely it would have been memesubbed on purpose. People praise the AFK translation these days but a lot of people back when it was airing hated it for not being literal enough. Times change.
The main reason it wouldn't be made today is the fact that it's very hard to find funding for such a project or get it pushed through the committees. The main issue with modern anime isn't the fanbases or the art work. It's the fact that the creators have almost no say in their own creation. The current industry needs to bottom out and die before the creators will get more power and the ability to seek out funding from outside sources like crowd funding. We also need a way for them to actually showcase their work that doesn't rely on the stupid censorship polices being enforced by every modern streaming and broadcast service.
I ranted about this before (maybe on here) but animation goes through "ages". We're in a bit of a dead age at the moment. Both in the west and in the east. People will lose interest in the lower effort stuff at some point and stop watching. Then after a few years or nothing coming out some creators will start producing stuff that'll lead to another "Golden age" again. In America we got a "silver age" around the late 80s-early 2000s after decades of garbage. There were some decent shows produced in the "dead age". But the vast majority were not. But starting around the late 80s/90s we saw a huge uptick in quality, story telling and content in American animation. Same thing happens with anime.