At this point, Musk is just rejecting every known economic reality and substituting it with his own interests, of which anime culture is just one of many.
No joke, even Senior Editor at Bloomberg Japan Gearoid Reidy is citing Musk’s tweet as the reasoning behind Bandai Namco’s stock rise today on the Japanese stock market.
While lower than Bandai Namco’s peak in early December 2020 at just over 9,600 yen per share, this amount is still higher than Bandai Namco has ever seen in the history of the company since Bandai and Namco merged in 2005.