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Nanonymous No.7764 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>7796 >>7834
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>Japan is a secret club
No it isn't. 126 million people live there, it's the second most populous developed country after Germany and before USA. >All Japanese people are efficient and skilled
Plenty of hikikomoris and NEETs live there, but they won't tell you this. >Japanese people are happy with their lives
Suicide rate is very high. Number of lonely people is high. Life there is stressful and fast, even for Westerners. Lots of people are depressed. >Why so many anime, manga, video games, visual novels, porn is produced there?
Big population + money = big market. Germany is considered a big market yet Japan has about 40 million people, so make your assumptions. >Japan makes so good stuff!
West, Korea and others also do - the only difference is that they don't produce autistic cartoons. >I want to be Japanese!
You don't.

Nanonymous No.7765 [D]

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Nanonymous No.7796 [D][U][F] >>7798 >>7832 >>7835
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>>7764
>Why so many anime, manga, video games, visual novels, porn is produced there?
An entire industry was created to furnish socially acceptable Escapism to the people. That is the real reason. It's almost a trope that one better make memories in high school because your life ends once you join the workforce. This is still mostly true today.
>Japan makes so good stuff!
This is changing fast, as the same market forces that gutted western manufacturing come to roost in Japan, too. Anime is as much outsourced to Worst Korea as it is to China, nowadays. Optical and electronic manufacturing is typically outsourced to China, although the highest grade products are still made domestically. But like other first world countries, Japanese manufacturing has been moribund for years. It's only still slightly better than other countries because it is inbuilt into the cultures of countries like China, Russia, Worst Korea, and to a lesser extent the USA to not give a fuck about what is produced or who buys it: the only goal is to make it cheap enough to sell in quantity.
>I want to be Japanese!
Japan has many wonderful things going for it, and has an unquestionably unique aesthetic and ambience. It does not change the fact that for typical Japanese, it's a very hard place to get by. But not many countries are "fun" in this way; some are just worse than others.

Nanonymous No.7798 [D]

>>7796
Fantastic answer, the one I was looking for.

Nanonymous No.7832 [D][U][F]
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>>7796
>An entire industry was created to furnish socially acceptable Escapism to the people

A lot of the industry is also created by the people who seek to escape from society. Ignoring the studio produced anime there are most likely 10's of thousands amateur mangakas.

Nanonymous No.7834 [D]

>>7764

>Japan is a secret club
No it isn't. 126 million people live there, it's the second most populous developed country after Germany and before USA.

>All Japanese people are efficient and skilled
Plenty of hikikomoris and NEETs live there, but they won't tell you this.

>Japanese people are happy with their lives
Suicide rate is very high. Number of lonely people is high. Life there is stressful and fast, even for Westerners. Lots of people are depressed.

>Why so many anime, manga, video games, visual novels, porn is produced there?
Big population + money = big market. Germany is considered a big market yet Japan has about 40 million people, so make your assumptions.

>Japan makes so good stuff!
West, Korea and others also do - the only difference is that they don't produce autistic cartoons.

>I want to be Japanese!
You don't.

Nanonymous No.7835 [D]

>>7796

You must be a Japanese!

Nanonymous No.7841 [D]

lol op mad didnt get in to the secret japanese club