In honor of the 4th and inspired about that thread about shows popular everywhere but America, let's talk about shows that were popular in America and nowhere else on Earth. We also discuss why they got popular in America, and why they weren't popular anywhere else.
ITT: shows that were only popular in the United States and nowhere else
The entire bakugan franchise, for one. Japan even outsourced the later seasons to a different country because they couldn't be arsed about it
>mecha
>batman head lookin ass
>only wypipo like it
Nah.
Voltron thread
Voltron was popular in places other than America.
Now that you mention it, the OP pic looks less like an anime and more like a Western cartoon.
That's why I refuse to watch it. From the minimal dialogue I've seen, it's formulaically cartoonish.
Currently watching this. Was expecting a boring kiddie cartoon, but instead it's really good.
>US
>white people
Wew
Why wasn't The Big O popular anywhere else?
You will never be Japanese.
Trigun
That Baccano!!!! thing, surprisingly the US love things when they happen in the US
Does Carole and Tuesday count?
It's standard faire for anime in the 90s outside maybe the design. Giant robot fights in a dark city where memories and what it means to be human are called into play.
I don't know how it went down, but I feel like a higher up in Cartoon Network at the time really liked it and thus they started co-producing it. So basically kind of a fluke that saved it from being completely forgotten.
I assume it did pretty well, since CN funded the second season and had planned to fund a third one, until that shithead Tim Heidecker threw a shitfit and got it canned.
Wait, Tim Heidecker seriously got it canned? Got a source on this? That's hilarious if it's true.
Was it popular in Canada?
Outlaw Star bombed hard in Japan.
Oh so instead of season 3 of Big O we got Tim & Eric retard time #356? That's unfortunately not surprising.
But I like Dr Steve
Kinnikuman Nisei AKA Ultimate Muscle
Really?
Kinnikuman (the original franchise) was quite popular in Japan back in the day
yes, but Nisei from what I remember needed 4Kids money to make the last season
Is it me or are most of the original Toonami lineup (apart from Cowboy Bebop) "popular in America but not in Japan" shows
more white than you muhammed
I think Hetalia is possibly an example of this.
It is virtually unknown in Japan.
Hetalia was quite popular in Japan especially among fujos
Proof?
can netflix funding this for another season?
I don't think so, since it had a shitty timeslot on YTV.