>>15411946>How could they NOT be involved in something illegal to even stay afloat?When attendance went really down the shitter during the 00's, the surviving promotions pretty much ended up marketing themselves to a certain brand of fan: Middle-aged, lonely dudes with disposable income. The kind of people who'll drop 100 bucks on front row seats for a tour show with nothing cards and are willing to pay atleast 20 bucks for an autographed polaroid of their favorite joshi after the show. Basically, a crowd of 500 of those guys will make you more money than 1,000 normies, who paid normal ticket prices. The problem, of course, is that by marketing mainly to these guys, joshi has, over the past 2 decades, maneuvered itself into a creepy idol otaku hole, that it's hard to get out of.
