How much important anime is left?:

Many great anime franchises are getting new content, but few of them are receiving meaningful new content.  There's a big difference.

Fairy Tail, One Piece, Pretty Cure, Bleach, Bakemonogatari, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Love Live, Danmachi, Spy x Family, Hero Academy, BanG Dream, Honzuki, Ken Tensei, Oshi no Ko, Card Captor Sakura, The Eminence in Shadow, Prince of Tennis, 100 Kanojo and Kimi ni Todoke are receiving meaningful new content.  That's only 19 series.

The remainder tends to be short oav's, spinoffs, remakes, vaporware or filler.  Dragon Ball Daima has nothing to do with the Super storyline, it seems to be completely pointless.  Youjo Senki S2 has been announced for like a decade without any set release date.  Edens Zero hinted strongly there would be a season 3 but there's no official announcement yet.  Idolm@ster is using lame cg series to promote lame unpopular idols nowhere near as good as the original cast.  And Fate/Kaleid Liner can't release their new movie because the original author refuses to draw up the ending which the movie could then adapt.

Without core content, serious new content, anime isn't an exciting hobby.  It can putter along with 20 new releases a year, most of them being 1 hour oav's, but at that point it's no different from the western tv release schedule with say, Shogun and House of the Dragon coming out in a year.

And this is the best case scenario.  In a couple years Kimetsu no Yaiba, One Piece, Hero Academy and Bleach will reach their natural conclusions.  Then what?  Does anyone seriously believe new good series can fill in the voids of legends like these?

For whatever reason there's been no adaption of SAO's Unital Ring arc.  No Uma Musume S4 announcement.  No Summer Pockets adaption.  Meaningful new content is getting rarer and rarer.  We're exactly halfway through 2024 now and it's released content from 10 great anime so far.  So reasonably speaking we can expect only 20 releases this year.  The last time there were so few releases in a year was 2006.  And in 2006 those releases were of masterpieces like Code Geass, Higurashi, Kanon, Haruhi Suzumiya, Utawarerumono, etc.  It's not even comparable.

Maybe things will pick up in the summer and fall and it will all work out, but like I said at most this will only work for a couple more years, because Bleach, One Piece, Kimetsu no Yaiba and Hero Academy are almost over.

The future is an unoccupied frontier.  The future, not space, is the final frontier.  It can sustain trillions of additional people and they need to have the tools to be happy too.  If you don't make plans for the future it's like an idiot family not storing up food for the winter, or a deserter in a war leaving the rest of the army out to hang.  What is our plan for the future?  Who will live in it and what will they have to work with?  I've suggested 100 new great anime franchises that could be adapted that currently aren't being, that would fortify the future indefinitely.  But the feckless Japanese aren't listening to me.  They're letting the whole hobby go to rot.

The sun will keep shining down on Earth for another billion years, providing life-sustaining energy to the animals and crops, which can then feed enormous numbers of people, every year, like a citizen's dividend.  We can't eat it all in advance because the sun lets off energy steadily, not all at once.  We have to enjoy the future in the future.  There needs to be people taking advantage of the future's resources for all of those billion years, for the same reason that we can't allow entire continents like Australia and North America to go untapped and uninhabited, so it was necessary to sail the seas in 1500 and colonize them.  The opportunity cost of letting resources go unconsumed is astronomical.  Practically incalculable.  We need to be thinking about the long-term welfare of mankind and ensuring the trillions that live and die after us have a high standard of living, hopefully much higher than the 8 billion humans who live today, but at least as high.  Part of that is entertainment doing its job and releasing a steady stream of new products that can keep us occupied, not remakes, filler or 1 hour oav's.  Part of that is preserving the environment.  Part of that is making sure no regressive ideology conquers the world and undoes the progress we've already made.  Part of that is eugenics, straight out making sure people in the future are smarter, healthier, more athletic and beautiful than people are today.  Part of that is actually having children so humanity exists in the future.  Part of that is not pointlessly ending the world in a nuclear war over petty border conflicts.  But most of all we just need to actually think about the future, to start calculating on the basis that it exists, as a real place in time-space, no different from the far off country of Australia.

When we learned Australia was empty we sailed over and turned it into a veritable paradise.  But when we learned Earth will be around for the next billion years we did fuck-all to colonize the future.  It makes no sense.  Why is Australia better than 2030?  The sun shines on both alike.