There is actually a disturbing amount of people who only care about what underage boobs they can see in a new anime or game series (Trying looking up Valkyrie Drive, though you might need to kill yourself afterwards); These people are the ones killing the industry.
I doubt they are seriously hurting the industry... They are the ones who are funding those TERRIBLE "almost porno" animes that go directly to DVD I've heard so much about. The ones that even anime sites generally do not have.
I'm speaking in terms of a long term, wide spread effect.
The legitimacy of Japanese media in North America at this time is pretty fucking poor, due to how a large amount of people consider stuff like Hyperdimension Neptunia, Disgaea, Senran Kagura, and Highschool of the Dead to be representative of everything as a whole.
I may like the gameplay of Disgaea, but I would seriously appreciate it if they laid off the creepy character designs that make you feel (or me at least) uncomfortable just for playing it.
You should never have to feel embarrassed or refrain from showing other people the stuff you like just because you might be branded a pedophile if you did so.
If all you do is pander to otaku, then all you will get is otaku; And that means that people in the West will stop buying your products, and you will slander your name in terms of future projects as well.
The Japanese anime and video game industries wouldn't be in as bad shape as they are if they had more credibility in any country other than their own, and I would hazard that a significant amount of that damage is due to how they depict characters.
I might be wrong on all these counts, but it's how it seems to me.
The finale to Aldnoah... was so stupid. As is befitting and expected.
I'm glad I jumped off that boat back when it was listing to starboard and before it capsized completely.