>>3566318Only recently and it is to reform it to their interests just like what happened to Star Wars. Before 2010, I bet nobody admitted they liked Star Wars.
> in the fucking 60s.Try 00's.
>whereas the consumerist otaku youth of Japan are still at odds with the fundamentally conservative Japanese society. Sounds like someone that has never been to Japan. Sure Japan in general just like rest of the world look down on otaku, but they have places just for otaku to go and big manga industry compared to that, West doesn't have such luxuries.