>>3349954It was a most simple and innocent time when just a cool character design could attract so much attention. Also for some reason she was related to drugs and that helped too, same happened to Yakui.
Today would be more difficult I guess, barely no one knows Karahara Shima and she was posted often just some time ago.
I don't know about Japan, Yoshida On must be known at some degree since he works in videogames and there's still some new fanart from time to time.
