Why is anime popular in the west now

GIRUGAMESH

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Jewllywood is the worst altervative

It is?

Social media and gateway anime.

Because internet culture went mainstream over the last 10 years.

We all are to blame for that.

Because muh 90's nostalgia was the gateway drug

Geek is chic, user. Nerdy hobbies are all becoming mainstream: video games are already the biggest form of entertainment in history, tabletop gaming is on a massive rise, and anime is gaining a lot of traction too beyond just shonen on adult swim.

I have a need to constantly different than the rest so I stopped watching netflix tier series and went to watch anime

I have a fujo coworkers with yaoi badges on her backpack and an annoyingtouchy-feely 'free hugs'-type personality. My boss (old friend) told her about my powerlevel before I got to introduce myself to her, so I've been avoiding any personal conversation with her. So far it's going well.

Just found out she's been reading 18+ BL manga at work. My disgust is immeasurable.

only escapism left that hasn´t been completely taken over by sjws and feminists
if you want to feel depressed just check out what sjws have done with comics and are currently doing to video games

This. Anime still panders to a wide variety of people with reasonably "normal" preferences. It gives you a simulated version of what you want, instead of browbeating you into wanting what they believe you should want.

>Le boomer pretending to not know how anime has exploded in popularity in the past 10 years
Lol?

>only escapism left that hasn´t been completely taken over by sjws and feminists

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Ease of access for normalfags and western media near universally shitting the bed

convention attendance doesn't equal anime popularity, a great chunk of people there watch anime only to have another reason to socialize with people without any larger interest in the medium

>going to conventions
imagine the smell
>going outside at all when not necessary

I don't get this sentiment, like half of the anime has traps and minorities raise up shit.

Yes, but they aren't constantly revising costumes to be less sexy or replacing the original protagonists with rubber-stamp "black scientist girl" like with comics.

Aren't traps transphobic?

90% of people do 90% of what they do just to be acknowledged by others. Anime became 'cool and edgy' to watch, so people watch it to be seen as cool and edgy.

Money

Yeah but the traps and minorities are fuckable. You get Astolfo and delicious brown girls instead of balding "women" and actual collect-welfare-cheque-before-shooting-up-a-gas-station minorities.

>Yes, but they aren't constantly revising costumes to be less sexy or replacing the original protagonists with rubber-stamp "black scientist girl"
> traps and minorities are fuckable.

I see, so this is the power of the Yea Forums the far right wing website.

Ironic weebs, crunchishit, twitch, youtube.. fuck those shitheads

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in america is now more popular anime than comic?

normalfags

For a long time I couldn’t stand anime, and I still find most of it melodramatic and boring, but I’ve been forced to turn to it because I’ve run out of classic film and tv to watch and I’d rather escape into jap cartoons than what (((they))) are pumping out these days.

there are no "political correctness" shits

Are you serious?

printed comic books have been dead in the water for like 10 years. Yea Forums was one of the first to fall to the SJW hordes because they were too nice and welcoming, and it ended up with their hobby ruined.
capeshit movies are stupidly popular, though, are the thing that have been keeping Marvel and DC afloat

Basically this. Anime is the last un-pozzed medium on this planet, of course they want to infiltrate it.

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>printed comic books have been dead in the water for like 10 years
As I recall, they've been inflating their numbers by shipping unordered copies to retailers free of charge, and counting those shipments as "sales".

fuck the fujo out of her and lose your virginity. I realize she's probably a hambeast and that's all the more reason you fucking her would be etnertaining

No, she's the worst kind of fujo: fujo thot. She has a beta following on social media, and possibly gets dicked on the regular by Chads during the weekends, all while looking like shit at work.

Her only redeeming trait is that she actually does a good job and pulls her weight.

No fucking way

Not even good BL: mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-100225651

Yes, I'm shitposting at work right now.

Either as jokes or fully rounded characters, both of which are entertaining and nothing like the token gay/black guy.

JoJo

Anime were popular in europe and south america for decades, america isn't the only country that represent the "west"

Ive liked anime for years but recently I realized Western film and TV isn't worth watching, if I ever want to watch a western film I'd prefer to just rewatch one of my favorites

Netflix. What happened to Otakon?

I'm okay with this if that means the normies will accept me and I'm going to get a gf.

>100k+ attendance
thats pretty massive. I can't imagine the lines or how crowded the convention center is. I went to Otakon in 08' and I thought that was the biggest anime convention being east coast and all but damn

>europe and south america
do they watch anime too

Scandi here. Literally had Love Hina in my public school library 14 years ago when I was 12, along with DBZ. Old dusty librarian probably thought it was for girls.

And thus, a fetish was born.

AoT started this shit. Every normie noe has AoT, JoJo posters in their room. Also One Punch Man

first of:
>implying good BL (Yuri doesn't count) exist
>my sides

Second:
>Sociable second-year Yu Yang meets untalkative first-year Li Huan on his first day at the university
>Expressionless and reserved, Yu Yang finds it difficult to understand and connect with Huan
>As fate would have it, the two keep meeting and allowing their negative first impressions to fade

how are there 98 chapters of this shit?

No idea, but this girl has at least read up to chapter 81.

I don't think you can really call it popular. It's still a very niche hobby. It's not even that big in Japan anyway.

unironically because of the meme culture

iirc, they're doing cons at las vegas, and that's just a dumb idea

check /cgl/'s archive for info, there's some fun stuff to read
warosu.org/cgl/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=otakon

>I've been going to Otakon since 2005. I still remember the last Yea Forums panel with moot and snacks in attendance. The line for the panel took up most of the top floor, and was comprised of probably at least 500 retarded wailing banshees regurgitating their favorite memes as loudly as possible. There were staffers using megaphones to direct the line and they occasionally used a button on the megaphone to make a long beeping sound. Everyone in the unruly crowd started mimicking the sound, hundreds of people beeping back each time. "fuck yeah, Seaking!" was the flavor of the month meme then, and it could be heard echoing throughout the entire convention center that night.

>The panel itself wasn't memorable...[cut some text due to character limit] After the panel concluded the energy was still high and the convention center was shutting down for the night. so moot, snacks, and probably 100-200 others (myself included) congregated outside on the sidewalk by the main registration doors and had some impromptu after party. I distinctly remember that at one point, a staffer in a full fursuit came out of the main doors, and they were immediately mobbed by some retards screaming "kill it with fire" who thought it would be lulzworthy. I didn't see it, but apparently someone then kicked the furry in the jewels. The energy almost immediately died down as most sensible people realized that others were starting to go too far... And everyone started to disperse. Police started to show up at some point too. I don't know for sure but I'm about 90% certain that incident was why Yea Forums panels were banned from otakon afterwards.

I have no problem with people's sexual preferences but surely you don't have to resort to gooktoon garbage for your fix.

I'm glad you understand the disgust I feel.

>the meme culture
this

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Japan Expo, the french con, got 250k attendance last year

ORAORAORAORAORA XDDD

god I hate normies..

>It's not even that big in Japan anyway.

> but apparently someone then kicked the furry in the jewels.
lol

>like half of the anime has traps and minorities raise up shit.
Yet does anything happen?

i dont wanna talk about it

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I blame toonami and 4kids

>went to akiba
>spent half an hour browsing the electronics stalls
>left due to cringe from all sides

It was very uncomfortable.

Farm country Japan is 10/10 comfy though, would work on farms again

Normalfags idiot

what kind of cringe? Aside from foreigners I mean

They are legit characters and not token diversity picks.

Did you go to Nakano Broadway?

they were doing the hotel a service, furfags earned their repulsive reputation from how nasty they turn in large-scale gatherings, we're talking publicly marking the facilities with their piss and shit during their cons. (well, the ones that weren't organized by scam artists who stole the money and disappeared like a yiff in the wind.)

furries have always been fucking disgusting, now they come here and act confused when people shit on them

>frenchies are weebs now
what happened

>maid cafes The girls are uncanny as FUCK
>otaku errwhere
>H billboards errwhere
>everything is commercialized
And yes, the fucking kusogaijin didn't help.

Nah, mainly stayed in my capsule watching anime during the day and went drinking in Shibuya during the night. Tokyo is severely unfun in comparison to the 'smaller' cities and the countryside.

I miss getting drunk with countryside yakuza during a small-town festival.

>now

>now

>now

what is Daft Punk

You went solo?

7 months, yeah. Hitchhiked from Fukuoka to west Miyazaki, then north until I hit Tokyo. Worked on farms, hostels, and ryokans along the way.

france has always been second behind japan in manga/anime enthusiasm

>now

frenchies hate anything unfrench

Frenchies just hate Anglo shit

Frenchies are the biggest weebs in the west dude, here it's almost mainstream. I read somewhere we are the 2nd buyers of manga worldwide only after Japan. I bet we much represent a good chunk of Yea Forums as well

t. Frenchman

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even by boomers standard, 1988 is hardly "now"

the funniest part is that AX has more fat and smelly people than Comiket and Comiket's numbers are 2 times bigger than AX

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Japan vs USA

western media is even staler then anime.

literally just watch 1 video about the current comic book industry, ITS SICKENING. truly you have no idea how bad it is now.

The French has been obsessing over Japanese art for the past 100+ years.

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not that fag but can you show me one?

>2012
SAO
>2013
SnK
>2014
Jojo SDC
>2016
BNHA
We've been on an upward curve of normalfag anime for almost the entire decade