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Originally Posted by Eternal September
The point is, that while we like to imagine the ideal of "mainstream anime" as the perfect opposite of "otaku anime" as we know it, (not teenager characters but adults, not sexualized but classy, not "cartoonish" but realistic), the average Japanese person's tastes might be surprisingly similar to otaku tastes as far as we are concerned.
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They are not. Just look at Japanese box office sales, how many otaku titles do you see? Foreign titles are pretty popular, especially the occasional high-budget blockbusters. Then there are popular manga adaptations and kids anime movies. There's a reason why otaku anime are stuck in late-night TV slots, and there's a reason why there aren't that many anime movies with huge promotion campaigns in Japan.