it's all about the money. they want to go as extreme as possible to make sure the shitty people who are the only ones blowing millions of yen a year on figures buy from isekai harem shit #5 and not isekai harem shit #7.

the thing to feel hope about here is this is inherently unsustainable. there are only so many whales, and with more and more anime competing it's gotta crash at some point, especially with there being a hard ceiling for that sort of show that there isn't for anything with a hope of more mainstream success. chainsaw man may or may not take off in the west in a completely mainstream way, but it's actually possible for it to have a movie that makes 50 billion yen and have millions in worldwide merch in a way that fucking redo of healer will never be able to do.

basically my hope is that in a decade we'll be beyond this because it won't be profitable enough. this isn't to say anything like "it's ok to make borderline cp or rape apologia if it's purely mercenary" just my analysis as a weeb with too much time on her hands

also i typed all this on my phone twice because hexbear ate the first go