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Why is Japanese (language) popular than Mandarin for weebs? (Besides Anime)
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It's pretty much entirely because anime (and adjacent content). You can't exclude that and expect a coherent answer.
People learn languages when they have a cultural reason to do so -- such as engaging with media in that language or wanting to interact with people who speak it (for business/relationships/diplomacy/whatever).
Hollywood movies and rock-and-roll were big drivers that pushed people to learn English last century. Programming and the internet probably pushed a bunch of people to learn it in the last ~20 years. K-Pop and K-Drama have been drivers for learning Korean recently. German was one of the major languages (along with French) for math and science before WWI -- but was overtaken by English after that. You get the picture, I hope.
If the US continues on its current path, maybe in a few decades all the new research papers coming out will be in Chinese instead and everyone will learn Mandarin to discuss new tech. 🤷️
The thing with English is it's now the international language, it's pretty much every country's chosen second language. While Mandarin is still only in one country.