I recently found out that The Angry Video Game Nerd is surprisingly popular in Japan. His reviews get subbed, are thrown on NicoNico, and he’s earned somewhat of a cult following over there from it. There’s a Pixiv tag for fan-art and everything.
It’s just like Gamecenter CX over here. I love it.
I guess Japan is interested in watching an angry American swear and yell at bad video games, and we’re interested in watching a calm middle aged Japanese guy who is horrible at video games play really difficult ones for hours and hours on end because he’s forced to. I guess?
