>>38134214Frankly a reliable indicator of fan outrage boils down to how much it is in the man's interest to keep things in a strictly professional capacity.
Someone who is married would not want to be caught cheating, especially in Japan.
Someone like Mafia Kajita, who works with scores of women, would find his professional career greatly hampered if he was shown to be using his work to pursue them.
This happens to bring to mind an amusing case study, for people who like to compare vtubers to anime characters and say no one begrudges actors for dating in their personal lives - the case of Sakurai Takahiro (seiyuu for Getou, Griffith. FGO Merlin, etc).
Note this is a 48 year old man, not some spring flower - and he only just revealed two months ago that not only had he been hiding a marriage from the public for twenty years, he was having an affair for ten years, with neither partner aware of the other.
Think about the staggering extent of what that implies. That level of dedication to the ruse as a veteran male seiyuu, and the kind of work culture that allows for it, indicates there is zero debate in the industry. "Hmm, will personal relationships affect my career?" is not a question that needs to be asked. Everyone there knows the answer.
