CATDOLL: Japanese critics: It’s the fault of otakus that artists’ image has deteriorated

Recently, there have been many popular words on the Internet such as cute, quick departure of non-combatants, and high-energy alert. If we trace their origins, I think many of them come from anime works!

However, a Japanese critic recently attributed the use of the word "deterioration" in recent years to describe artists who have changed too much to otaku who like to watch anime and comics, believing that this is disrespectful to artists.

Now on the Japanese Internet, if there is a big gap between an artist's recent photo and her previous image, netizens will label her as "deteriorated". Japanese entertainment critic Mineko Nomachi wrote in a women's magazine: "The use of the word deterioration is seriously hurting the artists' hearts. Deterioration mainly refers to the aging of female artists. Before deterioration was rarely used, everyone used the word 'aging' to describe the aging of artists. Aging does not make artists unhappy. The word deterioration was not originally used to describe a person's appearance, but to refer to the deterioration of the quality and performance of machinery or objects. It was only in recent years that the word deterioration was finally used to describe the appearance of people, mainly because the female characters in animations are evergreen, and male otakus who are used to watching animations cannot accept the changes in the appearance of women in the real world, so they began to use the word deterioration. In addition, in the Internet age, everyone will be attracted by extreme titles or content, and the use of deterioration can also gain network diffusion." So this critic thinks that the word deterioration is the fault of otakus who hurt the artists' hearts?