ColumnAnime
Why Japan and the West Never Agree on Which Anime Is Big
A show that's a full-blown social phenomenon in Japan lands with a shrug in your feed. The thing your corner of fandom won't stop posting about barely registers over here. I read both sides' comment sections every day, and I run into this temperature gap constantly. It gets treated like a verdict on quality. It almost never is. There are structural reasons the two fandoms keep missing each other, and I've watched five of them play out over and over. Receipts included.