The rhetoric about a generation of shut-ins is about as accurate as that about a generation of stagnation:https://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Kohei-Takashima/In-defense-of-Japan-s-misunderstood-young-generation …
hardcore fans are a tiny share of the nerd culture base--it succeeds because there are lots of levels of participation
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I don't doubt that this is a fringe, but it is a large fringe. A lot of the problems in the West are large/outsized fringes. Antifa,LGBT,etc
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Otaku culture is definitely geared towards hardcore rather than mass market,just look at pricing schemes,too expensive for general audiences
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Compare that to anime box sets in Japan,it's not comparable.Products are sold at lower prices for the western market yet still are expensive
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