[Umihito]

Thank you for this thread, I've noticed this for wayyyyy too long now.

What makes me most confused, like you said, is why do only the Japanophiles get as... obsessed as they do?
Places like France get far far far more tourists than Japan, yet there is no 'OMG Bonjour!!! Croissant!!' people on the net. Neither are there people who want to just magically move there. Same with basically every country EXCEPT Japan. It' the only country that I personally have seen that has an obsessed fanbase.

My guess is that it's because Japan's pop culture is quite.... young person aimed. So the naive youth probably target all of their childish ways at Japan. Seems quite hard for them to grow out of too as I've seen plenty of later teens (like 17 and 18) that still seem to be asking these questions.

The big thing that no one seems to want to commit to is the language. Most I've seen say that they 'will learn the language if need be, I promise!' which is just stupid as they're acting like it's an overnight issue.