How old are you watching this?

Anime is increasingly targeting people who have already graduated from school.

Japan's birth rate keeps falling, schools are closing, and the school age audience is getting smaller every year.

I would not be surprised if, after 2028, we might see more seinen and fewer school-related anime.

@MoyaTheGreat I don't think its true. First, seinen doesn't have a specific setting, Kaguya-sama is seinen yet its still a romcom school-related and many shounen doesn't have a school-setting. Second, the school setting is very popular among adult viewers especially for the nostalgic factor. It's always going to sell. The age audience is not really a definitive factor. Third, seinen is not even massively popular among the adult audience, also series with a mosly adult cast like Kaijuu 8-gou are still shounen so it isn't true seinen is getting more popular. Seinen is always going to be less popular than a shounen for obvious reasons. Kaguya-sama is a rare case of a seinen being popular since people watch it for the comedy, romance and even the school setting, not for the seinen aspect. This also applies to other seinen with a school-setting.

You're confusing demographics with the setting and the age audience. Even in the extremely unlikely event seinen is more produced, the audience is not going to like seeing Anime with adults doing boring things. And if they do interesting things, be prepared to read comments saying that they "don't act like an adult" or "don't look like an adult". This is one of the most constant criticisms for Kanojo, Okarishimasu and Kaijuu 8-gou. I even checked the seinen list and several Anime don't have an adult cast/full adult cast, they are school-related or even comedy, at least 3 even don't have adults in the main cast despite being seinen: Medalist, Ao Ashi, Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo, Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!?, Shiunji-ke no Kodomotachi, Tongari Boushi no Atelier, Snowball Earth, [Oshi no Ko], Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka, Wandance, Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru.

School-related Anime is not even that disliked as other genres so I don't see how they are going to be less produced if school is always going to sell especially since its a familiar setting for everyone.

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari, for example, is a very rare Anime where all characters, both main and side, are adults and its seinen at the same time which it hasn't happened since (from my memory and excluding non-romance seinen like My Home Hero) Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (not even a seinen). Even so, most people like Wotakou due to the romance, comedy and otaku culture and not due to the "age" of the cast. The most ironic part the most popular series with an adult cast nowdays is Kanojo, Okarishimasu, a shounen.

29 (less than 3 months to 30)
I can relate with him (except for tbe smoking part) but somehow this anime is not as fun as i thought it would be sadly.

49 and I win the old prize. Don't smoke. This is the best anime of this season by far

38. I like the show, but I still see it as a grim form of escapism for aging salarymen who will never again experience romance, such as myself.

I actually hit 30 back in November.

As others mentioned, I never touched cigarettes or anything like it before either. I came for the cute romance with an adult cast, and I actually picked up the manga for a while. I only stopped because the reading service I was using to keep up felt like too much trouble. Pretty sure I was led to it from a Gigguk video. He also spotlighted Frieren before it got an anime, so his track record (as far as I've seen it) is pretty solid.


I'm pretty sure you know this thread feels more about curiosity about a show's active demographics, since you offered a tool for it... that was just a weird initial assertion to make about OP's intentions, imo

28, but I don't smoke. Still like this series.