Japanese media is one of the last bastions where western influence doesn't hold much sway and it should stay that way. Look how bad the anime on Netflix are where they tried to market towards the west.
I'm probably not a very good example for learning Japanese since I just kind of picked it up while watching lots of anime and then learned kanji solely through Anki instead of doing exercises and stuff like that.
Uzaki collabed with a blood drive to get otakus to come out to give blood and they were complaining about that and tried to get rid of it. They failed though, cause she got a second run, lol.
Just let California separate. They are the source of many problems.