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Unlike anime, live-action Japanese entertainment has struggled to travel. Why?

On a Sunday afternoon in Shibuya, thousands of fans file into a windowless basement venue. They are not here for a rock concert. They are here for a handshake event . Jav Suzuka Ishikawa

The Japanese idol industry, pioneered by the behemoth (for male idols) and AKB48 (for female idols), has perfected a product more addictive than music: parasocial relationships . These performers are not sold on vocal prowess but on "growth," "accessibility," and "purity." " and "purity."