Quote Originally Posted by neflight86 View Post
I just noticed that the top 12 series (by audience vote on MAL) for spring were all sequels. I made a discussion thread a few years back, but I'm still not over just how many anime are getting continuations nowadays when there was a time no so long ago that it was pretty much one and done.
That's because most anime used to just be elaborate ads for manga.

But now that anime is so successful in NA, studios are adopting the methods of NA studios. i.e. "people want more of the shit they already like".