The Japanese entertainment industry thrives on a beautiful contradiction. It is at once hyper-capitalist (selling billions of CDs with handshake tickets) and hyper-ascetic (finding beauty in the silence between two sword strikes). It produces the most futuristic visuals (Ghost in the Shell) using the most antiquated business models (fax machines for manga submissions).
Westerners often reduce Japanese entertainment to "anime and Nintendo." That’s like saying Italian culture is just pizza and the Colosseum. The reality is a multi-trillion-yen architecture built on four distinct, interlocking pillars. ap066 amateur jav censored work