thats rather a unique way to put it. panda senpai where do you find anime/ weeb culture to be a few years from now
Man, I have no idea. There are so many factors playing in that are going to have to find resolution - payment by publishers and production companies to mangaka, authors, animators, and other creative types; continually increasing levels of piracy; Japanese pushback against international consumption/influences on manga and anime; the rise of the Korean and Chinese entries into the field, and ongoing adoption of some parts of the style by Western artists; 'trends' that seem to dominate the output for periods of time (EVERYTHING IS AN ISEKAI); new types of 'works' including V-Tubers and streamers....
Personally, I suspect we're due for another partial collapse of the market in the West, similar to what happened starting in 2006 or so with the collapse of ADV and some of the manga publishers - the market had gotten saturated with second-rate works that thinned out the money too much, and with an economic downturn, that money suddenly dried up. That will likely have some effect on the domestic Japanese market as well, indirectly, but what that looks like is hard to say. I'd like to say it leads to fewer works of better quality being published/produced, but I've been around the circle a time or two now and know better than to think that the appetite for garbage tier output will ever be sated....
