My Life In Fandom: A Good Week For Japanese Entertainment

It's Friday. Some feelgood news going into the weekend.

You can thank Corona-chan's world tour and a panicky Hollywood for this.

Theaters in Japan are not shutdown. That means theaters make money in Japan. This is not rocket science. You would not see this if Hollywood had ignored the WuFlu and kept up normal operations this year, and yes I do mean strongarming theaters into remaining open as normal. The men in control there banked on the fake pandemic being fully enforced worldwide, meaning that they would survive while all but a handful of competitors would collapse- and they would have the means to converge the competitors after the fact.

This is among many miscalculations to come out of the Globohomo establishment this year, in addition to their bald-faced lying.

The result is that a competitor to the narrative hegemony of Globohomo got strengthened this year, and their ability to converge it diminished so branches are going full into Plan B: Containment. (e.g. Australia's recent move to bad certain things from Japan). Which plays into the next item.

HololiveEN had a second breakthrough. Mori Calliope not only hit 500K subs, she hit #1 on iTunes.

Thank you for 500k subscribers.

Thank you for #1 on the iTunes charts worldwide ranking.

We shall announce the top 2 remix winners.

Otsukari, for the hard week.

Let the "chilling" commence.

You find her celebration stream here.

For now this is still mostly under Globohomo's radar, believe it or not. Once the scout cohort in Fake Geek Media finally catches up, that's when the real freakout begins and you can expect American, Canadian, and British media to follow Australia's lead. You'll know when the pozzed localizers start going hard to either establish competitors (VTubers by Funimation, anyone?) or to shut them out by one scam (intentionally bad adaptations, for example) or another.

Let me state this plainly for those coming in late: The Globohomo media establishment sees Japan's pop culture as an existential threat.

Why?

Because Japan's media culture doesn't hate its audience. Therefore they serve that audience the entertainment that said audience wants. They don't use it to propagandize, which is what Globohomo does.

And yes, the rest of the non-Globohomo world has noticed.

Hollyood and its counterparts in other media so rarely entertain anymore that it's no surprise to find audiences fleeing to older material or foreign material, such as anime and manga. This week it's Japanese media that's getting media reporting attention. Don't be surprised to see Indian, Korean, Chinese, or Russian entertainment break through if this keeps up- along with increasing containment efforts when convergence fails.

And that, friends, is indeed good news. Happy Friday.