"}Highly recommended article on a niche corner of the Japanese gaming industry, anime fandom, and Japan\u2019s regulatory environment for media - how to make a buck monetizing a 16 bit nipple, what\u2019s not to love?
Always underappreciated is, before the Internet\u2019s ubiquity, how much media was essentially psuedo-porn; effort or price-gated opportunities for erotic pinups or dialogue. And its not like that has gone away, but it had to radically shift its approach - seeing a bra just ain\u2019t worth the Mahjong bracket anymore. Yet waifu-gatcha games (substituting in erotic *ownership* to replace the lowered value of erotic *access*)\u00a0\n\nand countless other media properties are direct descendants of this market demand, and I think anyone on the internet would tell you betting money on the horniness of consumers going *down* anytime soon is a bad bet.