After the turn of the millenium, no one was asking for Anime to get bigger or officials to get involved in exporting it. The fansub/scanlate community had everything under control and Crunchyroll was hated and only used for finding underaged terminally online weebs to groom.
Its growth as a mainstream business is almost perfectly in line with the downfall of the anime community and its influx of politics and tourists.
As much as "keikaku means plan" gets rightfully shit on, things like that were a solid source of passively learning Japanese. You'd never get proficient, but you'd learn a lot of little pieces to turn into context clues and could infer a lot of dialogue just from it.
Those niggas were making us learn and we didn't appreciate them.
Exactly, I didnt gravitate to anime despite it being japanese. I gravitated to it BECAUSE it was japanese as they refused to bend knee to the westerns degenerate standards. They did their own thing were unapologetically based, and I loved them for it. So if they think they can bend the knee and stay awesome, they're in for a shock. They will fail, just like western entertainment failed.
After the turn of the millenium, no one was asking for Anime to get bigger or officials to get involved in exporting it. The fansub/scanlate community had everything under control and Crunchyroll was hated and only used for finding underaged terminally online weebs to groom.
Its growth as a mainstream business is almost perfectly in line with the downfall of the anime community and its influx of politics and tourists.
I miss the days of proper fansubs so much. Mainstream success was a mistake.
As much as "keikaku means plan" gets rightfully shit on, things like that were a solid source of passively learning Japanese. You'd never get proficient, but you'd learn a lot of little pieces to turn into context clues and could infer a lot of dialogue just from it.
Those niggas were making us learn and we didn't appreciate them.
Exactly, I didnt gravitate to anime despite it being japanese. I gravitated to it BECAUSE it was japanese as they refused to bend knee to the westerns degenerate standards. They did their own thing were unapologetically based, and I loved them for it. So if they think they can bend the knee and stay awesome, they're in for a shock. They will fail, just like western entertainment failed.