It's 2025. The decade is already almost halfway through, making it a good point in time to take stock of how the decade is going so far. For anime, the 2020s might be remembered as the era when the medium gained true ubiquity; no longer being a niche source of entertainment for what has long been believed to be the target: overzealous Japanophiles ("weeaboos") and individuals who shriek when light enters their dimly lit bedrooms.