/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20547408
This is a very stereotyping but good answer from Kaguya thread about reading lol. In short, usually any media/hobby who need active thinking or active participations are more often than not great at repelling bad crowds, much more if the media isn't seen as something "cool"

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>>20547461
SEA is big into animu and manga, probably because we're used to being dirt poor (even now we're still relatively poor compared to other countries, just that things slowly begin to change) and animu/manga isn't as expensive as western cartoon both for media companies and its consumers at the time so that's probably why the amount of animu manga is much bigger than western cartoons here. Bigger genre choices and better art quality (in average) for manga/animu helps too. Also, like the waitress in Akihabara Geeks said, in my opinion japanese media is one of the early modern (1900s and up) visual media to exploit human relationships and audiences-role-playing-as-the-story's-character A LOT compared to other media

Why did people into Suikoden/Final Fantasy/Ragnarok/Chrono Trigger/other JRPGs games etc at the time? Why did people into anime/manga and why (for example) GTO is the self insert manga for 90s generation? I can only speak for the early 20s up to late 30s generation but it's one or a combination of
>it looks good/cute/lewd
>you can role play as the characters both in action and its human relationships (not many will admit this one though)
>the narrative/story is great
>the theme and genre choices are fucking big so there's something for everyone