I mean to be fair, this doesn't mean THAT much. As technologically advanced as Japan is, they're like, decades behind everyone else when it comes to things like reading formats. Paper print still VASTLY outnumbers E-reader websites. So it's not like they'll be able to leverage this to make manga and anime woke, since even though it's big, it's a big fish in a small pond compared to the overall anime/manga/light novel market.
I mean to be fair, this doesn't mean THAT much. As technologically advanced as Japan is, they're like, decades behind everyone else when it comes to things like reading formats. Paper print still VASTLY outnumbers E-reader websites. So it's not like they'll be able to leverage this to make manga and anime woke, since even though it's big, it's a big fish in a small pond compared to the overall anime/manga/light novel market.
Also let's not forget Japanese corpos are taking notice of DEI's negative influence over consumer sales...
Recently Square Enix investors from Japan are criticizing the company's recent involvement with the embodiment of DEI itself: Sweet Baby Inc.