This genre didn’t proliferate as a consequence of otaku entering the workforce.
“You don’t want to work and/or impregnate a girl to further the great Yamato race? You’d rather stay in your room and watch anime? Well, look at this! There’s cute anime girls in the workforce now too! ” This genre which I’ve elected to call The Declining Japanese Birthrates Genre is functionally military recruitment propaganda, only instead of advertising positions in the military, it’s advertising positions in society as a whole, from which otaku have become increasingly estranged. They then say, “That could be you too! Sign up now! GoArmy dot com!” The idea is to romanticize and idealize a position which is actually much more grueling and unsexy than you’re made to believe, so that way you voluntarily sign up and only realize the reality of the situation after you’ve committed and can’t so easily back out. They show you strong, capable soldiers engaging in exhilarating heroics, fighting for their country side by side with their trustworthy brothers and sisters in arms. The initial thinking was that anime fans were growing up, graduating from highschool, entering the workforce, and would no longer be able to relate to teenage characters in a highschool setting, so the industry decided to give them similarly aged characters to project themselves onto, but it didn’t take long for everyone to realize this genre was most likely manufactured for a much more underhanded reason. takes place in an office around allegedly adult characters. Seriously, what should this sub-genre even be called? The Declining Japanese Birthrates Genre? Newcomers may not know what I’m talking about, but over the past few years, we’ve been getting a lot of anime like this where, by contrast to the usual highschool romcom, we get a show that has every tangible element of a highschool romcom, that looks and feels exactly like a highschool romcom, and that features a cast of characters whose behavior and emotional maturity is fundamentally indistinguishable from those in highschool romcoms, but which instead Wageslave propaganda or wholesome romcom? You decide! On today’s episode of “Get a Job, You Filthy NEET!”
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