wider audience: us ‘regulars’ plus all those who never read comics before, who now find pleasure in Japanese comics, especially as manga are more ‘socially approved’ than U.S. American comics; they are also particularly more woman-centric, adding yet another [over-lapping] demographic.
Interesting. Good to know I’m not ‘alone’. WaitingMan speaks accurately for me, other than my state, Massachusetts—“I’ve been smoking weed for more than a half-century (now legtal in my state of [New Jersey]). Never missed an election. Never voted Republican in my life. Certainly not going to start now. BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!”
Me! Me! I wanna join, too! I— I shoot— yeah! I shoot Republican congressreps! Yeah! Oh, wait, ‘too far? too much?’ Well gee, then, maybe I don’t. Wouldn’t want to get in trouble, no.
and not to forget the years-long build up on TV for anime…