Oh man. This would be really interesting with a much longer video that actually examines eyecatches over the decades. You could identify patterns, trends in what studios thought were good and pick out interesting things I doubt anyone has really examined from an anime-history point of view.
You could then spin it out into a series because you can do the same thing for lots of different parts of anime other than eyecatches. Even for specific trope-scenes too. How many different ways has x joke or common scene been done in anime and how has it evolved over the years? That kind of thing.
Yeah it felt that way to begin with. Feels like it should be and I'm surprised none of the common youtubers that make that kind of content have picked up on the idea.
Perhaps it's a topic that just requires too much effort and there's easier fruit to pick. It's pretty in depth stuff closer to what the Videogame Historian does with their work. I just checked too and that content is roughly 1-2 months between videos. Now, I doubt it would be quite that bad for that kind of content in this vein but I can see why they choose to churn stuff out that they can do in a week or so, especially with the way the majority of the audience is.
