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Anime has spent the last decade surging into the mainstream and winning over fans in the West. However, recent shifts in viewer habits suggest the medium is now entering a more stagnant phase.<\/p>\n

According to a detailed analysis shared by X (formerly Twitter<\/a>) user hikkie_consider, there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of international fans following new seasonal anime releases in 2025. The user, who tracked user engagement on major databases like MyAnimeList (Mal) and IMDb<\/a>, also suggested that the “time lag” in consumption that once separated Japan from the rest of the world has largely vanished.<\/p>\n

With numerous major titles now receiving near-simultaneous global distribution on platforms like Crunchyroll<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anime has spent the last decade surging into the mainstream and winning over fans in the West. However, recent shifts in viewer habits suggest the medium is now entering a more stagnant phase. According to a detailed analysis shared by X (formerly Twitter) user hikkie_consider, there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Japans-Anime-Bubble-Has-Finally-Burst-for-International-Fans.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250179,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250177\/revisions\/2250179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}