/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20477704
>casual and overly fishing for attention
You aren't wrong, like>>20475936 said, genuine cosplay scenes are still exist and alive, just that commercialized sexy cosplayers/attention whores/hot girls profiting off their good looks are relatively recent phenomenon and they're fuckhuge now so you just gotta filter them out yourself

>I wish 80s-90s were more well documented, I would've loved to learn more about their mindset compared to today
Genshiken First Generation Manga (9 volumes with Saki, Madarame, and Sasahara on the spotlights, not the second season/Nidaime ones) captures those stuff (community, relationships, mindsets, certain stereotypes of people you will always find in the community, etc) very well and it's great in A LOT of aspects even if the theme is changed from "90s otaku hobbies" to another hobby. It resonates with a lot of people (especially older 20s and up audiences) because the character interactions and dynamics portray realistic and fun (albeit probably a little bit too idealistic) college life, and it shows how fun and worth good community and good relationships are. Honestly even without the otaku hobbies theme, anyone who've ever been involved in any hobby-based communities with actually good communities will probably understand the appeal of Genshiken. At the very least older audiences surely understand that a cute girl with strong personalities like Saki are fucking great lol, not even in the same class as shallow girls/waifubait/thots you will find both in 3D or 2D