Can SOMEONE please explain why this is happening? Why Japan is so foreign?
Are our economies even aware of each other. Is there NO revenue stream that connects anime-economy to the gaijins?
Because this is absurd. The world is decently connected. We can view products and views on things through youtube, we can see the mass of populations that certain franchises or shows gather, regardless of your country.
OPM is near dragon-ball levels popular. That's a claim only a handful of anime have ammased, and they usually have corporations, history or nostalgia.
OPM amassed such popularity, on its own in 2015. Every youtube vid, 2 mil. OPMs most viewed vid, in the 40 mils.
Only a handful of anime vids EVER have that fame. Haruhi God Knows, Ultra instict theme. And HUGE franchises like AOT, Naruto, MHA.
Very profitable, in east and west, franchises.
And OPM has a second vid at 25 mil. 25 million people have clicked and viewed a damn vid, because Saitama was in it.
OPM. IS. PROFITABLE. IT is just as much in the league, if not more, than a lot of shonen anime, which act as the flagship in every weebshop across all american and european cities.
And JC Staff, saw this. Them niggas KNEW this, and said...nah. Lets DESTROY any possible revenue stream, any modicum of profit that is totally possible out of this very loved and MUCH POTENTIAL franchise, and treat it like it was Food Wars 4.
ARE THEY FUCKIN RETARDED? Every Gen Z kid in school knows Saitama. Theres at least 20% weebs in a class. 20% of all students in the west KNOW saitama.
This HUGE character. His HUGE story. ONE, this rising star writer that is being praised by nihon and gaijin alike, and the continued plot of the long awaited S2, of ONE PUNCH MAN.
Here's your Garou vs Metal Bat.