Do you want the anime industry to die?.

The anime industry is a scam. Then again, everything under capitalism is a scam, so what difference does one extra scam make?? Nothing in reality.

Um, that's what revenue from the entire rest of the world is for?

Oh, right. Just as anime's always been corporate and intended to make money, there's always been Western influence, long before the current group of distributors. For instance, I just watched the 2nd Gall Force OVA from 1987, and it's essentially Star Wars. Much of the fantasy anime genre has roots in Tolkien / Dungeons & Dragons. The Magical Girl genre was inspired by Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. 70s and 80s anime were awash in Western literature adaptations. A lot of cyberpunk goes back to Blade Runner and similar sci-fi literature. Like pantyshots in ecchi anime? Thank the "pan-pan girls" who popularized Western underwear in their efforts to appeal to US military personnel after the war. Osamu Tezuka drew inspiration from Disney, Betty Boop, and Western cartoons/comics, and the list goes on.

Maybe the self-designated MAL Anti-Tourist Patrol should turn their gatekeeping efforts on the "I only like anime as long as it caters to my culture-war grievances" crowd. But that might mean looking in a mirror.

I would disagree. There no evidence that there has been any sort of harm to Anime due to outside influences. It's just some Westerners are extremely picky about stuff showing up in Anime that is inherently something that can be linked as some western influence in origin and simply like to paint it as some sort of problem when it ends up being stuff they simply don't like. It's just as bad as Westerners bitching and whining about about seeing a brief panty shot of a character in some seasonal series.

Likely the sole reason why Ecchi is extremely rare these days is because a vast majority of Western consumers simply stopped buying Anime on Official physical copies. Where historically for such a niche genre when it comes to this industry, Official physical releases have played an extremely important revenue stream for Ecchi titles, specifically when it come to uncensored releases. Where after the mid 2010s, streaming basically became the norm for consuming Anime in the west and wide spread internet piracy in my opinion has effectively almost killed off all niche genres that use to be on the rise before streaming. So the amount of Ecchi Anime that has been getting released these days has practically been scaled back to when it was still a very obscure genre in this medium. Now a majority of Ecchi Anime that is still being produced is mainly produced to target Japan's own domestic consumers. Also a majority modern Ecchi Anime that does get produced and available in the West seems just exponentially trashier garbage and seen as just completely disposable junk food entertainment compared to the Ecchi titles that use to get released between the late 90s to early 2010s. Where even myself as someone who still collects Anime on Official Physical copies has extremely low interest in even purchasing almost any modern Ecchi Anime that gets released these days in the West each year. Where back in the 2000s and early 2010s almost every other 3 to 4 Anime titles I would buy on some sort of Official Physical copy seemed like it use to be some Ecchi title.

The last Ecchi title that I think I bought on Blu-ray was "Strike Witches: Road to Berlin" in early 2022 and it initially aired in 2020. Since then there hasn't been any Ecchi Anime I have been remotely interested in buying that has gotten released on physical copies in the West with the exception of "Mushoku Tensei", which I don't even view as an Ecchi franchise.

@ColourWheel A majority of anime physical purchases, especially ecchi, have always been in Japan. Westerners hate ecchi anime. There was a resurgence from 2023-2024 in ecchi anime, and I think lots of this had to do with Onimai's popularity in Winter 2023. Onimai was despised in the West, but gained legendary popularity in Japan, and even got the extremely rare honor of receiving reruns on Japanese TV.

@DesuMaiden How exactly is anime a scam ?

Zzzzzzzzzz... Take a chill pill already.

Zzzzzzzzzz... Take a chill pill already.

Zzzzzzzzzz... Take a chill pill already.

@Serafos I imagine you like this after seeing the sixth reply from DesuMaiden on any given thread.

This is a unique trait common among many Americans. I've found many of them seem to feel an ownership of things that rightfully do not belong to any one person or belong to another country altogether.

The wanton destruction of things they see going astray from the path they envisioned instead of accepting they aren't the MC and how society, especially one on the other side of the globe, doesn't always align with their vision of reality.

Yes, donghua will take over. Ne Zha 3 will make over a trillion dollars. Li Haoling will be considered the next Miyazaki. I welcome our new Chinese overlords.