The anime is Genshiken (2004), I picked it up on a whim. It’s alright so far. Very “by weebs, for weebs”. The manga is from 2002.
The 80s and 90s being a pass of the baton from veterans of the early days to more modern staff, which already grew up with anime, and the success of Evangelion and merchandising had some awful long-term consequences even if it was probably unavoidable under capitalism.
I was reading Ah My Goddess yesterday and there’s an early chapter ripping on weebs which you couldn’t make today because said weebs would get mad getting clowned on.
Otaku
Gamers
“Women exist solely to please men”
If you wanted to do that today you would have to make it an isekai where the weeb gets superpowers but completely fails to self actualize because they still have the unaddressed toxic personality traits that they had in their past life so they end up as a superhuman adventurer who lives in a basement and goons all day instead of leveling up and exploring dungeons.