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>>9440968
Very true, "Otome Culture" was a pretty big thing back in the day and there are quite a lot of magazines delicated to Otome but the term simply died out.

> Although there isn’t enough time for us to examine the contents of these magazines specifically, Masuko Honda, the so-called expert on “otome theory” says that, “otome culture” deals with, first of all, “the color, the smell, and sound”. In other words, girls were moved by the colors, smells, and sounds described in the novels they read. Additionally, visual images, like “bows and ruffles”, were symbols of “otome culture”, and modern girls seem to prefer things that are frilly like bows and ruffles.

From https://tokyogirlsupdate.com/tag/kawaii-2-0 , they had a shitton of articles about how "girl's culture" (otome) helped kawaii culture become a thing. Pic related was where the term Otome Kei did origin from.