In the latest episode of 16-bit Sensation, an anime where a girl gets sent to the past and creates her own version of the ideal visual novel during the golden age of retro PC visual novels, she wakes up to find that the game she made accidentally sold so well it changed the entire timeline.
Wiping out everything she loved about Akihabara, like moe culture (which is now found in Ikebukuro and Shibuya), thanks to her visual novel becoming a hit in America, the US is now the main exporter of moe (now called ‘cuu,’ short for ‘cuuuuuuute’), and Western-inspired bishoujo girls are now the mainstream form of art seen in magazines.
Even companies like Aquaplus are shown to have moved their HQ overseas, all except for AliceSoft. Akihabara is shown off getting reconstructed into a high-class neighborhood, now at the forefront of technology like self-driving taxis, an evolution from its ‘electric street’ days.
This even extends to terminology like ‘world lines,’ a term made popular by games like YU-NO and Steins;Gate, both of which don’t exist in the new timeline. Realizing this, the plucky heroine decides to return to the past to create her own ideal timeline, where both the game can succeed while saving Akihabara moe culture.
Western-inspired parodies of Fate/Grand Order and Uma Musume appear:
Omake:
As an aside the Western version of moe being women building muscle mass is hilarious.
That’s a fun premise. We see a lot of anime versions of western IPs because they have gone to s♥♥t, so it’s interesting to see the reverse (even if it’s technically done in an anime). I wish the West still made quality animations like Batman TAS, X-Men and Samurai Jack. These days they just make cringe subversive garbage trying to groom kids.
Yeah, imagine if capeshit (finally) goes broke in the west, and the only surviving version is the Japanese reimaginings like that new harley quinn one.
I’d rather Japan give us their own takes on the genre like One-Punch Man and Marvel and DC die and be replaced by people who actually care about good storytelling. These adaptations are usually pretty bland and boring. Plus the conception of a hero as it’s in Western culture is quite different than what we see in the majority of manga.
Truly a nightmare vision of the future.
We see how horrible these end up even, without the westernized drawings
mmh very nice parody japan, now tell me something.
why the f♥♥k do you let these dirty commiefornians literally be killing the bishoujo?
why do you let netflix stick their fist in your ass?
i dont forget the anti bishoujo scares you guys are doing now and how you are killing it by those blackrock points.
The rewards for tolerance…