We need more Normie Accessible Anime on the Mainstream Streaming Sites

It bugs me that there isn't exactly a great correlation between which Anime I think are the best entry level Anime for people new to Anime and which Anime are on the major not primarily Anime focused Streaming Sites.

This is partly brought on by how there's about to be less Anime on these sites in general.

It was just announced that a bunch of those are leaving Hulu at the end of August.

One of those is Steins;Gate. Now I have described Steins;Gate as the most Normie friendly SciADV show so it being the only one of them on Hulu does make some sense.  But Robotics;Notes is a very close second, and to the right people it's probably the one they'd like most.  For one example I like to describe it as the most Spielbergian Anime.

Of shows on the list of ones about to leave, Rosario + Vampire is the one I definitely raise an eyebrow at for having put on a Mainstream site to begin with.  Even I struggle to get into that show though I do like some of what it does.

Fortunately Spy x Family isn't leaving, that's a show I'd recommend to any Normie who likes Mr & Mrs Smith.

But Hulu's catalog of Anime does include some random Isekai and Harem shows and not always what I consider the best of them.

School Rumble is a show I'm very fond of but is kind of right on the line of how Normie friendly it might be, perhaps it's pretty okay since the earliest episodes are lighter on the Otaku stuff.  Not only is it leaving Hulu but it's not on any other Stremaing site.

Going back to my old thesis about Levels of Normie accessibility, I'd prioritize getting both the A and B level shows on these sites if I had any influence on the decision making.  C level ones could be good to throw in. But I wouldn't remove anything already on there, last thing we need now is any show's accessibility decreasing.  But as far as getting more shows on any Streaming Sites I'd save the E and D level shows for CR, HIDIVE and RetroCrush.

But maybe I personally am overthinking this stuff too much.  Maybe a show stuffed to the brim with Fanservice and Otaku Culture meta in-jokes could still win a complete Newbie over simply by being good.  I have after all argued against the idea that Continuity Lock Out really matters.

The thing is a lot of people think Anime is only made up of 2 or 3 kinds of shows and 2 kinds of movies, show tie ins and Ghibli, and that OVAs are just for Edgelord violence porn and Hentai.  I want more of the shows that will subvert those assumptions to be easier to find.

Durarara is a great B Level show so I'm glad it's on Hulu.  But I want shows like Noir and Witch Hunter Robin on there too.

Update: Somehow when I first wrote this I missed that Railgun is also among those leaving Hulu at the end of August, yet Index will still be there (only season 1 though).  But that's the opposite of how it should be, as I've explained on this blog before Railgun is far more normie friendly show of that franchise.

November Update: Code Geass and a bunch more are gone from Hulu too now.