This artist also did some illustrations for yaoi novels. I just moved and found a box with my old manga collection and found a couple of novles. Yes, I am that old. I was around when anime was super hard to get and we only had shounen-AI. It took sooooo much letters and phone calls, training, and traveling just to get anime's exposure spead. Then the next generation (I know we are mostly still the same) just kept it going. I don't like the cheap quality it's taken (not that all of ours were good either) but I'm glad it didn't die. Now, if most people would stop using anime to learn social interactions then anime fans wouldn't be looked down upon. Even in Japan. Baby steps I guess. We'll get there
This artist also did some illustrations for yaoi novels.
I just moved and found a box with my old manga collection and found a couple of novles. Yes, I am that old. I was around when anime was super hard to get and we only had shounen-AI. It took sooooo much letters and phone calls, training, and traveling just to get anime's exposure spead. Then the next generation (I know we are mostly still the same) just kept it going. I don't like the cheap quality it's taken (not that all of ours were good either) but I'm glad it didn't die.
Now, if most people would stop using anime to learn social interactions then anime fans wouldn't be looked down upon. Even in Japan. Baby steps I guess. We'll get there