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While people in general seem to be spending less, the spending power of otaku in Japan does not seem to decrease. Otaku are willing to line up for 13 hours in the freezing cold so that they can spend all their moolah on doujinshi at the Comiket.
Otaku are willing to spend 200,000 yen for a Dollfie Daughter.
Its this spending power that pours a ton of moolah back into the economy - thus the phrase that you see on the screen here - "Otaku will save the world." ^^;