Are there many Japanese children addicted to manga and anime?

According to my teacher Dr. Nissim Otmazgin (Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia: Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin: 9780824836948: Amazon.com: Books) 1 out of 3 books in Japan are mangas. It might not be what you think necessarily. read more

Lots of Japanese children watch anime, but very few go on to become the kind of hardcore otaku that appear as stereotypes in some of those said anime. So to answer the question, there aren't a lot of Japanese children that are addicted to manga and/or anime. read more

You are wasting or let's say spending a lot of your time on Anime and Manga, because there is nothing else to do, and hence constantly watching the anime (which is in your view, addiction). read more

Yes, you can become addicted to anime just as you can become addicted to gambling, sex, love, online gaming, texting, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and anything else that fills an emotional need. Anime can become a coping technique, a way to escape, which is fine until it becomes destructive. read more