Death of the Weebs?

I think internationally targeted anime is inevitable in the future. Anime/manga more than ever is mainstream. You have normies encountering this weird otaku shit and not liking it and latching on to the popular shonen of the time instead. I'd love to see how much Devilman Crybaby made, since that was internationally produced/funded and released on Netflix.

I will say I've liked some of the creativity being displayed by newer productions, though. I like how Demon Slayer has an effective arc for most if not all of its characters, for example.

I don't know ho much of the core of anime will change even with these international audiences. Woketards bitched about an MHA character having jugs or something but the Japanese producers are ultimately concerned with the Japanese market, they probably don't see a lot of, if any of the money western consumers throw to their products. Maybe Japanese companies' tunes will change if/when they do make the shift to international marketing, who knows.
 
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that's assuming things won't change in the future or not. I also hear a lot of the birth rate concerns are somewhat overblown to an extent.

I don't think though changing anime to appeal to a western audience will help though, since the whiny SJW side of Twitter is such a small part of the population and most people like anime for how Japanese it is. Making it western would damage it's appeal.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
The thing I've heard is that Japan is actually way over populated and things leveling out is what needed to happen for a while.
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It'd really be better for most aging societies to just accept the natural dip in the population, given that it will balance itself out in the long run as younger generations get more opportunities, but this goes against the Twin Gods of the West called 'Constant GDP Growth' and 'Gibsmedats'. So we're shit out of luck and will be the worse for it in the long run compared to countries like Japan.
 
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Chive Turkey said:
It'd really be better for most aging societies to just accept the natural dip in the population, given that it will balance itself out in the long run as younger generations get more opportunities, but this goes against the Twin Gods of the West called 'Constant GDP Growth' and 'Gibsmedats'. So we're shit out of luck and will be the worse for it in the long run compared to countries like Japan.
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It's one of the great failings of the modern world that it's not more about stability instead of "growth"
 
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InsolentGaylord said:
that's assuming things won't change in the future or not. I also hear a lot of the birth rate concerns are somewhat overblown to an extent.
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Something worth noting is that the decreasing birth rates are more of a general first world problem, not a Japan specific issue. The US and much of Europe for example have declining birth rates as well, not to the same degree as Japan, but it's very much a issue in the west.
 
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It is is not by birth that one becomes a weeb, but rather through toil and sacrifice. To learn japanese, to endure the stigma of your family and the shunning of your peers. To dedicate your life to an existence of celibacy and devotion to your waifu. All may become weebs but few shall ever enter its ranks. But so long as a pirated copy of the Melencholy of Haruhi Suzumiya exists in raw and unredacted form, so shall the spirit of weebdom not fade from this earth.
 
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Day by day I seem to have chosen the wrong user name.

I don't think it'll die out. It's material unique to Japan and has more Japanese themes to it. Like how Hollywood has pedophiles and pedophilic themes- I meant American, SJW, themes. Right now I'd say animation out of Japan is more worthwhile content than anything coming out of California. The fatigue of super heros is real, and stories that involve dark realities (rape, children being murdered, ect.) are pretty much non-existent when it comes to American media. It'll fill a niche, but there will also be stuff for normies to watch. The diversity in animation and stories are also more diverse since it's not all coming out of Disney.
 
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Webby's Boyfriend said:
Post people outside Japan pirate anime.
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no matter how much crunchyroll screeches, they'll always be known as a pirating streaming site. A shitty one at that.

Japan should really just worry about their domestic market, since one otaku spends more on anime than 10-20 weebs in a week. All it will do is thin out the SJWeebs so anime like Tanya the Evil and Goblin slayer will stop being banned at cons.
 
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The weeb industry is inherently a niche market that relies less on mass appeal than most other media (save very few exceptions). Otaku in Japan make up >5% of population, and I bet that's even smaller outside of the country. The strategy is having the community be comprised mostly of superfans who buy lots of shit. If you have that, then you don't need a very large base of casual enthusiasts. Of course, the media that's been put out to pander to these superfans and establish a subculture is part of why there is little mass appeal in it to begin with. To try and change that for outsider audiences is tantamount to suicide for their core audience, not to mention having to compete with foreign entertainment media to secure non-weebs there when they already think foreign weebs alone are not a worthwhile market.

In short, I think a population bust in Japan won't do much to the industry because it makes the bulk of its bank on dedicated paypigs rather than huge swaths of average joes, and there is nothing compelling them to market way outside of their base.
 
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Iriya Asagao said:
I'm Japanese,
I rather we die out than integrate western social ideas that seems to degrade everything it touches.
We hate SJW's
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See, I know you guys are based because there's headlines that come out like "Two Diet Representatives Mock Female Politician for being Childless"
 
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