>>40216687>>40216699And how this applies to JJBA - prior to the 2012 anime, JJBA was hard for western audiences both to find and get into. There were a handful of games, only one arc of the manga officially localized, and about a third of the series only had bootleg translations.
After the 2012 anime started and before the third arc, Stardust Crusaders, the fanbase grew but wasn't too bad - we got better fan translations of the arcs that were bootlegged, more active discussions, and things seemed nice. But after Stardust Crusaders got anime adapted, and especially after the following arc, Diamond is
Not Crash Unbreakable, the secondaries outweighed the primaries significantly. Between new secondaries and secondaries driving primaries out, the balance has continued to shift that way.
