Honestly, I think one of the things that has helped Japan get in is that you have so many options for what you can get.
If you want something where they are barely wearing anything with tits that have their own gravitational pull? That exist. If you want something more conservative? Also exist. And you have literally everything in between.
On top of things like Anime actually exploring almost every genre style instead of just being exclusively superheroes set in a modern-ish world.
Yeah, I mean just compare manga to comics. With comics you either get rehashed versions of the same superheroes that they've been reusing since the 1940s or some preachy woke slop that nobody in their right mind would ever buy (America Chavez, Ironheart, etc.)
But with manga you've got a something for everyone. Shounen for boys, Shojo for girls. Hell, even if the isekai concept might be a bit overused there's tons of different manga that go completely different routes with it. Overlord, Konosuba and Rezero are all isekai, but they're all wildly different in terms of setting, characters and plot.
Meanwhile comics are still reusing the same plot points since forever ago and almost never change. Wow, Spider man breaks up with his umpteenth girlfriend! Again... Jason Todd gets killed by the Joker! Again... It's all so boring now.
Honestly, I think one of the things that has helped Japan get in is that you have so many options for what you can get.
If you want something where they are barely wearing anything with tits that have their own gravitational pull? That exist. If you want something more conservative? Also exist. And you have literally everything in between.
On top of things like Anime actually exploring almost every genre style instead of just being exclusively superheroes set in a modern-ish world.
Yeah, I mean just compare manga to comics. With comics you either get rehashed versions of the same superheroes that they've been reusing since the 1940s or some preachy woke slop that nobody in their right mind would ever buy (America Chavez, Ironheart, etc.)
But with manga you've got a something for everyone. Shounen for boys, Shojo for girls. Hell, even if the isekai concept might be a bit overused there's tons of different manga that go completely different routes with it. Overlord, Konosuba and Rezero are all isekai, but they're all wildly different in terms of setting, characters and plot.
Meanwhile comics are still reusing the same plot points since forever ago and almost never change. Wow, Spider man breaks up with his umpteenth girlfriend! Again... Jason Todd gets killed by the Joker! Again... It's all so boring now.