What Makes Lycoris Recoil So Popular
According to a weekly poll by AnimeCorner, Lycoris Recoil is one of the most, if not the most, popular anime for Summer 2022. When this article is written, we are in the 8th week of Summer, and Lycoris Recoil has claimed the top spot for 6 out of those 8 week. For the two weeks when Lycoris Recoil failed to be the first, it barely fell to the third position.
One thing worth noting, however, is the fact that Lycoris Recoil is a brand-new series from A-1 Pictures. It’s not a sequel like the new season of Overlord, nor is it a new anime adaptation from a popular manga like Call of the Night. This means Lycoris Recoil doesn’t have a pre-existing audience that can’t wait to see the new anime, and yet they somehow manage to hit a homerun with it. So let’s explore some of the reasons that might explain Lycoris Recoil's massive popularity.
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One of the themes inLycoris Recoil that is responsible for some part of the popularity that it has received is the good old “Cute girls with Guns.” This is one of the most popular themes in anime and almost every anime that uses this theme ended up becoming popular.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica did it and achieved massive success.Sword Art Onlinedid an arc of it and it was so successful they ended up creating a whole spin-off based on it called Gun Gale Online. Even when they pair cute girls and tanks like Girls Und Panzer, it still ended up as a massive success.
There’s something about the contrast between cute anime girls and firearms that is so thrilling and interesting to see. When we see the cute girls that usually handle magic and healing in Isekai anime now shooting semi-automatic pistols with a silencer on to kill some bad guys in Lycoris
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