>>3370
>I think the problem to point 1 is that the anime public focuses on one season or year and move on all the time, forgetting what happened the previous year.
Though I don't keep closest track of them, I can understand those for feel degradation compared to older days when it comes to things being over marketed and formulas being repeated over and over, but again, I haven't watched much anime from this era at all.

>especially when it was so explosive and was seen as seasonal trend that no one knew that it would last for so long.
There was even some who questioned it surviving in 2012 and 2013 was.. Molestia, Twilicorn, CaDs, 1 nearly disastrous convention You get the picture.

>>3372
>what you have linked s what historians should have been studying for this entire decade and not what mass media communicate. That increase of fanatism is what the public can extract out of them and why they are united more than ever in using its religion for everything.
There is a sad lack of knowledge on that region in general, and amongst the elite in th west, a short term view of only what has happened in the popular consciousness over what led us here and the fact that some of this has much deeper roots than even the European messing around in the region. so much to go over, the fact that the western powers (even Israel) often viewed Islamic fundamentalism as preferable to left wing forces, and in some cases activity promoted it as a counter. Then there is disputes that have much deeper roots than understood by our leaders (well, most of them), and the fact what factions do exist often are just melted together on to this vague catch all "guy with a bomb" when some are a lot more subtle than that and some hate each other more than even the west Maybe I'll even go down the rabbit hole if ya want sometime, though now I'm still on a mostly political break right now.

>To a lesser extent, I think Shantae benefited out of those people who considered her as an attractive character and get enough popularity to make a bit of noise with her recent games and keep a niche public over the years.
Exactly, I honestly wonder if you had swapped out Shantae with a male character it might have not had the cult following it did. Agree with ya on fragrance ads.