Thus begins a vicious cycle where lack of social interaction leads to shyness, which leads to a further lack of social interaction.
Visual Culture
It’s a balancing act, where some companies are okay with having a smaller audience if it means that audience will be happier with their product, while other companies try to expand their markets.
Visual Culture
In many ways, the subculture is still smarting from the hackjob localizations of the past, which were often poorly translated, poorly dubbed, had content cut for the Western release, or some combination of the three.
Otaku Lifestyle, Weeb-onomics
If you ask certain anime thought leaders throughout the last decade and a half or so, moe has been “killing anime.”
Is moe killing anime? What’s the damage? How do we measure that?
Otaku Lifestyle
Nowadays, getting anime is easier and cheaper than ever.
But things weren’t like that back when I was growing up.
