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>the 4th wall concept seems fresh to them
Except that many mainstream manga has had 4th wall breaks for decades. The idea that meta-fiction was somehow fresh or new in Japan and that caused DDLC to succeed is laughable , you can make the same exact argument for Undertale in the west. DDLC succeeded not because it was meta, but because it was meta done well, just like Undertale, which incidentally was also very big in Japan 2 years before DDLC, so meta being fresh by the time it came out is nonsense.

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