What's the current state of otaku culture in Japan? Healthy?

>>15592860
Otaku culture died with the VCRs.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e2f05c55f52a4e1782e457f699a76ef0/farewell-vcrs-japanese-maker-shelve-once-hit-product

RIP /jp/

>>15592894
Is there still somewhere to at least reasonably get new vcrs so vhs content is not lost? Think of all the content still floating around out there on vhs.

>>15592860
Socially slightly less stigmatized than before, but otaku are still pariahs.

>>15592969
How'd they manage to get less stigmatized? Just the really old generation who wouldn't tolerate it at all dying off?

>>15592990
No, it's just that after the otaku boom of the 2000s some interests have become more commonly accepted like anime or manga. Games or rather mobile games are commonplace now as well.

Showing too much interest in these things still makes you a weirdo though.

>>15593003
>tfw mobile game otaku somehow exist

I guess these are whales

Light novels made otaku culture more normie friendly

>>15593014
Essentially.

Spending a ton of money on some shitty im@s game on Mobage:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17440197

>>15592927
There's loads of converters out there and it says right there in the article they the same company will continue to make those converting machines. It's not like all the current VCRs in the world are going to spontaneously explode next month, anyway.

>>15593014
Please do not abuse greentext while on /jp/.

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They probably stick to actual otaku culture instead of 50 generals of stupid shit every day.

>>15593027
I-I kinda liked that game.

>>15593056
What is "actual otaku culture"? Are not many of the things posted here fitting that description?

>>15593167
Yeah probably.

>>15593167
Arbitrary categories someone sets up once their original hobbies are injected with normalfags so they can one-up them to essentially be better than them anyway.

>>15593177
Even if normalfags infest say video games and even anime, there are always niches they will never touch with a ten foot pole, like character drama anime like Nodame Cantabile or obscure and extremely unforgiving strategy RPGs like Natural Doctrine.

>>15593276
Idk man, normies go to pretty great lengths to be ironic and "unique". I think it's only a matter of time.