What is so great about specifically living in Japan anyway? Its not going to fundamentally change who you are and rapture you away from all your life’s problems. It could actually add even more to them where you didn’t have any before because of the language and cultural barriers.
The other kiwis covered the immigration issues very well.
I sort of covered this earlier:
Sometimes, the most intense and idiosyncratic conditions breed the most beautiful and graceful of things. Sometimes, though. The point being with the whole 2000s anime boom across the globe, this gave Venus and so many others outside of Japan imaginative respite in the face of life. You're not wrong with the whole mental health thing though. For a nation of people whose religious followings includes harmony with the world, finding inner peace, and spiritual growth as much as physical, Japan's quite a land of the definitive clash, but they've mastered that for years. Instead of aggressive military oligarchy and enforced castes, it's now extreme capitalistic work culture and material centered gains. Of course, plenty slip through the cracks. Here's hoping Venus finds that spiritual composure, because Japan didn't adopt the idea of the material world being a fleeting and sorrowful place with a trip to hell when you die for no reason way back when.
Still, I'd hate to see what would happen if Venus came out to the States. Shit would probably be worse, admittedly. At least she gets the dream of becoming the ideal real life anime doll out in Anime Land that many others would kill for.
For a more direct response, the anime boom of the 2000s and late 1990s was a kind of respite towards the political and cultural climate in the west. It's like the 80s teen dream of living in France or Italy, or even going out to New York City and Los Angeles to make it big. Rather than acting, modeling, or music, in this case, this was all about "nerd power"- smarts, ingenuity, and creativity. This was also helped by the turn of the millennium, where there was an anticipation that advancement and innovation by tech and knowledge was the forefront of future, and this was represented by anime, manga, and video games, and since the 80s, Japan. Where else but the mecca of where it all started? Then there's the cultural angle that Japan is a land of serenity, harmony, and spiritual integrity, in comparison to the rest of the world engaging in warfare, crime, excessive materialism, etc. and how that coexisted with a societal foundation of self development and improvement to not create a shithole everyone hates living in.
You're not wrong though. Japan wasn't the wonderland many got the impression of even back then; everything was still reeling from the Lost Decade, and you sure as shit wouldn't be able to get an apprenticeship, let alone get hired, if you were an expat, into the creative entertainment field in Japan, if you were a foreigner at that, unless you were that good and had some good connections. Anime and shit was also put on a pedestal and made a lot more mystified than it was when it made the mainstream States side, and even to this day, a lot of people miss the more important things that can be learned from the kind of effort and integrity anime as a style showcases than just the fact that "anime comes from Japan".
It's extremely ironic that Venus is able to live out the dream, again, that so many others around the world wish they could have done, even if it is now just a nightmare of her own making, and absolutely none of the things a lot of anime/j-music/gothic lolita/j-pop culture fans thought of back in the day.
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I was catching up on Venus's lolcow.farm thread and didn't saw this posted in this thread, but Venus is now catholic and says she will dress more modest but still do onlyfans.
Since I read most of her thread at once I find surprising how much she hops through phases. Almost looks like a manic or BPD thing:
>Cute gaijin lolita housewive (when she married the beta cuck)
>Ecchi lesbian yuri "experimenting" phase (when she started to have lots of female friends)
>Mentally unraveling phase (when she broke up with the cuck and started the drunk livestreams, this is when she started suicide baiting in her SM)
>Business oriented girlboss (when she "dated" that one sugar daddy that was a party planner and supossedly was going to open a "marketing business")
>The mess that was her Vtuber phase (with sugar daddy #2)
>The menhera/ jiraikei (basically means BPD aesthetic) phase (when she befriended that Yuuka girl who is a japanese munchie constantly in and out of the psychward)
> The whore saga (with "Manager(pimp)-san") where she larped as "sexually repressed hentai obsessed virgin girl finally liberating herself"
>The goth satanic witch saga (didn't this last like five days??)
>Now the modest Catholic Church girl doing OF only as an aesthetic/creative outlet
Is she into a Catholic man or something? She normally changes phases according to whoever is around her, like the lesbian saga starting when she had a female friend squad and becoming menhera when she got close to Yuuka. Same with accommodating men like being a cutesy housewife to the cuck and the Vtuber/failed marketing scheme for the other sugar daddies.
That is not a twist I saw coming with all her phases considered.
Religion can bring a feeling of being clean if someone feels morally dirty, lot of born again ex strippers and porn stars out there but they’re ex.
Not sure how feeling holy and pure is going to do with her chosen work. A clash of some kind has to happen internally for her eventually, hopefully religion wins.
Nothing against wholesome practicing Christians and Catholics here, but from my angle due to her living in Japan and knowing the cultural climate out there, I have a bad feeling she is going to have an emotional breakdown and that no amount of Hail Marys are going to help her then. Again, maybe it's just me, but while Mahayana Buddhism is the mainstay root creed of Buddhism in Japan, there's also tenets of wisdom borrowed from Theravada that tell that "ritual purity and purification is not the same as actual practiced moral/ethical purity and purification", and in Zen, there's a koan that goes about how a temple that bound up a cat to stop its meowing from annoying their meditation sessions had that behavior grow into a ritual which then spawned some odd essays and dissertations that lauded that act of cat wrangling as commendable religious action into the future.
Of course, even Jesus hung out with the beggars and harlots to know their side of society, and even in Medival Europe, the act of engaging in moderate sin to avoid pent up temptation by the Devil was practiced, but that's not the point. Even in Japan, strippers and prostitutes are honest about what the hell they do to themselves for a living, faith regardless. This speaks more about Venus's state of mind than anything, really, and I'd have to say it's a method of denial than actual spirituality.
