/jp/ - Otaku Culture

The descent into obscurity will be slow and gradual, probably too slow and gradual to notice. It's a part of internet and convention subcultures for a good part of their respective histories, and is unlikely to fade with much notice.
While the music and the doujin works may more quickly cease to be made, what's already out will last a while. Just look at Bad Apple, more than 10 years old and still quite widely known.


>>19807457
Not really.
Here's a 122 page Master's thesis on Japanese perceptions on Kantai Collection.

From the summaries (page 105 specifically)
>Hypothesis 2 stated that as a work not aimed at a specific ideological nichie, Kantai Collection would not take a definite ideological stance regarding historical issues. This was deemed true in section 4.4 : through the split nature of its discourses, Kantai Collection carefully avoids taking a definite ideological stance regarding history. This unwillingness is correlated with the split nature of national memory, though causation cannot be shown.
>Hypothesis 3 stated that similar to the previous, the audience would also not take such stances. This was considered in section 5.2.5 , and deemed proven in a qualified sense. In a strict interpretation, no explicit commentary on the representation of war and history in the original works was observed, and therefore the hypothesis was falsified. But in a wider sense, several works contained implied criticism of themes such as militaristic states, while expressing sympathy for the victims of warfare.

https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/229753/Vuorikoski_Valtteri_Pro gradu_2017.pdf

Also, you should get yourself checked if you think that cute girls doing mostly cute things with a bit of naval battle ice-skating sprinkled in between is comparable to the activities of a literal 50,000T steel and concrete vessel manned by strictly trained guys who pass their time lifting at the gym.