Shenmue was so ahead of its time, we still haven't caught up.

Shenmue 3 pleeease!

People! Buy Virtua Fighter! Then we can give Yu Suzuki money to continue Shenmue in one form or another.

A lot of people are fascinated by Japanese things in general, it's a preference. And perhaps ignorance--it's harder to tell if a voice actor is bad if you don't understand what they're saying.