can anyone explain japan's creepy fetish for wierd bullshit? I'm starting to get rather tired of the WOW DID YOU NO GIRLS HAVE BOOBS ACCCCK PANTIES HEE HEE HEE CREEP
hence why i'm watching the driest of tom clancy wank material, Legend of Galactic Heroes
It's also because America only likes the violent or smutty stuff. The top 10 nytimes manga is full of violence and boobs. The top 50 best-selling Japanese mangas are definitely not like that. Sure, there's some crossover with mainstream shonen series that are popular in both America and Japan, but everything else in the top sellers is completely different.
You can spot the difference most weeks. Here are sales charts for the current week:
Japan's top 50 bestselling manga vs
nytimes top 10 bestselling mangaNote, ecchi/harem manga Rosario to Vampire is #3, and Akame Ga Kill is #4 on nytimes, and I've seen weeks where 50% of the nytimes top 10 manga were harems. Yet there are no harem manga series
at all in the
top 50 in Japan. Not even a single harem manga made the top 50 in Japan this week, and only two out of the 50 have appreciable amounts of ecchi (Nanatsu no Taizai and Shougeki no Souma).
Much of the manga that is mainstream in Japan (sports and shoujo romance series), is considered really niche in America, and vice versa. So, you can see that hardly any of the extreme fetish stuff even makes a blip on the sales charts in Japan. That stuff is a tiny market niche over there.