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Your average Japanese person doesn't watch all that much anime, assuming they even watch anime at all. Of the subset which does, even fewer feel the need to buy DVDs/Blu-Rays. You buy those only if you really, really like a show and want to be able to rewatch it whenever. Fewer still pay attention to the visual novel scene. Those shows keep getting made because they keep turning just enough of a profit from people who are into that stuff to justify making more, because - surprise, surprise - it turns out the kind of person who would be into that stuff would be really into that stuff and willing to pay through the nose for it. That demographic in no way maps to a substantive portion of Japan's population any more than, say, furries do in the United States. Please refrain from making blanket statements and assumptions in the future. Thanks!
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I never said you (using the royal you here) couldn't complain about its inclusion or fetishization, both of which are pretty tasteless, just that there tends to be a line that gets crossed when discussing anime where anything deemed bad or weird or regressive or whatever is somehow an indictment of the Japanese people as a whole - usually by people who don't actually understand how things operate over there. That's without getting into the minefield of values dissonance between cultures and what is or isn't deemed acceptable and why. You can criticize and complain, but don't make it a "Japanese" thing.
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