Japan is not an anime paradise.

kind of true but it depends on what the most weebs think of paradise. For example I'd America is a fast food "paradise", but you can't be too literal and think everyone is eating french fries and burgers for every meal every day more like how much easier and sometimes cheaper it is to find so many different options. 10 different ways to have a heart attack is still 10 different ways too many...

Back in the day before everything was available online there was quite a difficult process to buy any sort of anime merchandise. Even these days shipping and taxes make it prohibitive to import original stuff.

In that sense living in Japan or just going regularly does provide an unique opportunity to buy this shit. That to me is what I always assumed to be a reasonable interpretation of "anime paradise".

The problem is some of these delusional weebs just never actualy see a picture of real Japan or Japanese people so they think you can find Akihabara anywhere else in Japan instead of one very specific location. If you are so delusional to think Akihabara represents an entire country then you deserve to be dunked on.

When it comes to Japan's attitude towards otaku I think it is important to not swing to far the other way. Western weebs don't understand the broader definition of otaku in Japan so they think you can be open about or expect the same standards we have in the west, but at the same time I shouldn't take Japan's neoliberal hellhole of a country take on people's tastes for entertainment and passion/hobbies(the actualy definition of otaku is just a dedicated hobbyist) when everyone can't even have a family or fuck each other because everyone is working 16h a day...