does Japan usually like japanese-inspired cartoons like this made in the west?
Does Japan usually like japanese-inspired cartoons like this made in the west?
Lincoln Phillips
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Logan Flores
no, although in this specific case its more because their thin skinned about the Fire Nation being a clear allegory to Imperial Japan and they basically still refuse to accept that their nation did anything at all wrong ever even during WW2
Liam Russell
No
The only cartoons that are popular in Japan are the ones that look cute but are crude with lots of violence like South Park and Happy Tree Friends
And also Disney movies
Owen Rodriguez
Honestly surprised that Totally Spies never caught on youtu.be
Brandon Ramirez
Disney movies aren't violent. Unless you mean deaths of villains... (Like Gaston's death)
But you're right, just search on internet for some anime fanart of Eric Cartman (from South Park) or Flippy (from Happy Tree Friends) and you will find lots of them.
Parker Sanders
What does Japan think about Teen Titans and Ben 10?
Wyatt Barnes
Wasn't this more Chinese inspired?
Caleb Moore
It's not a question of liking, but whether they get seen at all. Generally speaking cartoons of any sort don't get much exposure in Japan unless it's on Disney or CN's own pay channels (or recently, Netflix). Japanese stations do business differently. They don't buy anime programs. The programs buy time from the stations.
Avatar for example was not broadcast in Japan during its original run, because Nickelodeon had shut down their operations in Japan.
Jeremiah Garcia
not sure but I know China was ecstatic about Kung Fu Panda do to it's impressive representation of Asian culture I don't see why Japan wouldn't be the same
Kayden Cooper
I mean probably. Didnt Rwby get into Cross Tag Battle cause the creator really liked it?
Samuel Moore
China is so self obsessed that if an independent film crew made a China centered movie on a budget of $10 the PRC would hail it as the greatest film in modern history
Colton Campbell
the Earth Kingdom is China, the Fire Nation is Japan, the air nomads are Tibet, also I guess the Water Tribe are kinda Inuit but they are the most fantastic and unrealistic civilization to start with so they parallel less well with their real world counterpart
Angel Lopez
How are they the most unrealistic?
Luis Ross
Generally no.
Not hate, just not interested at all. ATLAB only got 1 season dubbed and aired in japan.
Think off all the mediocre pseudo-western fantasies that come out of Japan.
Jason Phillips
Simpsons is pretty big in Japan. They like Lisa for being boring, overly formal, and studious.
Joshua Edwards
I mean I assume you don't want a rant about the nature of civilization, and how people feed themselves, so I won't go too far into it, but there is a reason real Inuit aren't technically a civilization and they tend to not have villages at all but live as nomads
Even water magic doesn't explain how they feed themselves, or why a culture that should be mostly about nomadic hunting on the ice or the seas built a giant urban ice fortress
Elijah Collins
crazy
Ryder Roberts
so self-inserts
Blake Murphy
It’s not that Kung Fu Panda was particularly good but that PRC has been ATROCIOUS at movies in general, especially movies about Chinese culture
They were embarrassed that a bunch of gwailo nailed taoism in a short & sweet nutshell.
ATLAB wasn’t very relevant to Japanese culture besides being a themepark version of Asia. That aside, Japan produces mountains of cultural product each year.
Levi Allen
Did the Americans care about Beck? No. And the Japanese won't care about ATLA either.
Chase Morgan
>China or Japan
I'm sure that it looks like Chinese-themed Japanese anime inspired
Ian Mitchell
Duh? You’d be amused if you knew how many boring western side characters are actually popular in Japan.
On the flipside there’s many loud and bold characters in anime who have much more fans in the West which the Japanese find somewhat confusing.
Noah Nguyen
>can litterally manipulate water and ice
>doesn't use these powers to gather unlimited fish
>doesn't build massive ice fortress city
Andrew Morris
Don’t they also like King of the Hill for some reason?
Elijah Ramirez
Yeah you're right. I didn't consider it to that degree.
Aaron Brown
Yeah its like the Axumanga Daioh of America; a comedic slice of life seeped in a foreign culture thats inherently more fascinating to people outside of it
Asher Kelly
Pretty much. The appeal lies in watching culturally recognizable archetypes experience life within a foreign context.
Kevin Wood
>unlimited fish
yeah I'm gonna stop you right there
Caleb Powell
>Fire Nation being a clear allegory to Imperial Japan
Really? I saw pretty striking parallels to America in the Fire nation, especially this part
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He may as well be talking about Iraq/Afghanistan here
Jonathan Butler
I mean this is really just talking about Imperialism in general, it can apply to a ton of shit historically
its not like America invented invading places and saying that we were the good guys for doing it
Ethan Gonzalez
>its not like America invented invading places and saying that we were the good guys for doing it
No, but the the parallel I see is the tech advancement they have over everyone else, they are in fact the most advanced society of the 4 nations, capable of waging mechanized warfare
Evan Russell
The original TMNT cartoon was a smash hit in Japan, spawing tons of Japan-only spinoffs. It helped that it was broadcast on some of the most popular TV stations and in high viewership time slots.
Avatar is liked by the people who managed to see it, which aren't a lot because of highly limited distribution and dub issues.
In other words, whether they like it or not depends a lot on how easily accessible it is.
Brayden Bailey
>The original TMNT cartoon was a smash hit in Japan
I can confirm this
Brayden Richardson
which is what Imperial Japan was at the turn of the century because they adopted western technology and their neighbors hadn't, but again this basically goes for all imperialism
In fact I struggle to think of any instance of imperialism where the colonizer didn't have a technological advantage
Juan Thompson
TMNT was popular in Japan because the dub as amazing, shinobi, and the presentation of the turtles sentai style
Nolan Stewart
>In fact I struggle to think of any instance of imperialism where the colonizer didn't have a technological advantage
Ottoman Empire take over of Persia and Byzantine. You're just historically illiterate.
Matthew Rodriguez
They liked Castlevania
Jace Martinez
The Turks were technologically superior to both (cannons and guns) although closer in equality to Persia