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In the last few years before Covid-19, anime was not so well known by most people living in the west of the world, it was very casual that animations directed by Japanese companies arrived, but when Covid-19 arrived it was a different story, the world saw a new glow. But the strangest thing about this topic is that when anime became popular, the anime industries were having trouble keeping up with hiring due to the impact of Covid-19, because the Japanese government demanded that if you had this disease, you could not leave your house. Voice actors and animators were affected by this by not being able to work because they had the disease, some were even hospitalized for this reason. The Japanese government made sure that another wave of disease would not come for the population. To begin to expand, some companies made the terrible decision to temporarily cancel their shows. There were big names like Sword Art Online, Food Wars! The Fifth Plate, Pokémon, Digimon Adventure and One Piece to give you an idea how serious the situation was that even One Piece, created by the master Eiichiro Oda, was canceled for the first time in its history since it began to be processed for more than 20 years, they had closed their doors due to this situation. Covid-19 was a hard and challenging time to live through, but they opened doors to the anime industry.
How Covid-19 opened the doors to anime
Just because the content we received from anime before Covid-19 was limited, that does not take away the fact that anime was super famous before that. Covid-19 was just a tremendous help that affected people of all ages. Being in a house stuck and only having one thing in common with everyone, Wi-Fi and a digital world in front of your eyes there is nothing else that was Covid-19 but although for some it sounds boring this helped anime people let’s say having nothing to do they only had a few options and that was to watch things on the internet thanks to that people started watching anime imagine seeing things that you only imagine being animated but at the same time with a deep story in the background that makes it not only touch the hearts of the audience but also helps you get to know the character more. Anime increased in popularity by more than 50% even though the Japanese were going through a crisis. 2019-2020 was a demonstration of how high and prestigious anime is and how much it can earn was not only an increase in people but also in money, it was the year that anime raised the most money. We are not only talking about millions we are already going for billions! Collecting almost $30 billion. Touching the sky of its success and showing how many people consumed anime in the era of Covid-19.
The impact that anime left on people after Covid-19
Although Covid-19 is over and we are in 2024, the anime industry is still in its golden age, releasing work after work demonstrating why they are the best animations in the world, although we are no longer behind a laptop or a television like Covid-19 to continue watching anime every moment, the impact that anime left on Covid-19 is still being seen now, creating small communities and families that enjoy something in common: Anime.
