>>719681756
Ken Akamatsu and Yamada Taro in Japan are pretty active over there defending the expression of anime and manga. But the difference is that anime and manga and games are among Japan's primary cultural exports, so they have a vested interest in defending them. Over here, it's treated as a weird foreign media encroaching on the territory of Hollywood and capeshit comics, which is at least partly why we have so few people defending them.

>>715912130
I'm not kidding when I say Compile Heart are one of my favorite developers. Their entire shameless moe otaku aesthetic combined with plenty of ecchi fanservice and lovable characters (and I do mean lovable), all in a neat JRPG (my favorite genre) format is simply irresistible to me. But after 2020, their output dived off a cliff, and I hate how soulless and sanitized their modern offerings have become. I know the reason, but that doesn't make it any more disappointing. And considering the situation, there doesn't seem to be much hope of them course correcting. I'll probably get the next Neptunia mainline when it releases, but that may be the last thing I get from them.

Blanc is my wife and I love her more than anything in the whole world. She's from Hyperdimension Neptunia.