Frank Kogan

Well, in Japan anime opening and closing themes are just TV show opening and closing themes, meaning they're often enough known Jpop/Jrock acts and reasonable chart hits. And in the West, what has gradually happened is that the "instrumental electronica" side of video game music has become quite respectable, attracting both big-name soundtracking talent and informing the mainstream... of electronica/dance. So insofar as it's ghetto-ized, it's a genre ghetto. Of course Jpop too is a genre ghetto in Western media. Any of this stuff could well break out and start getting written about by critics quite a lot, the way Kpop has. So far, I would say it hasn't really. "More and more" and "as time goes on" implies a manifest-destiny sense of historical progression I'd hesitate to attach to these things.

I notice very much that we're not writing about this stuff, by the way. I could if I wanted to. My assumption is that no one else is interested, not that it's not interesting to me.