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
Josiah Sanders
Josiah Ramirez
The entire bakugan franchise, for one. Japan even outsourced the later seasons to a different country because they couldn't be arsed about it
Luis Collins
>mecha
>batman head lookin ass
>only wypipo like it
Nah.
Kevin Sullivan
Voltron thread
Connor Smith
Voltron was popular in places other than America.
Brandon Flores
Now that you mention it, the OP pic looks less like an anime and more like a Western cartoon.
Ayden Cox
That's why I refuse to watch it. From the minimal dialogue I've seen, it's formulaically cartoonish.
Andrew Martin
Currently watching this. Was expecting a boring kiddie cartoon, but instead it's really good.
Aaron Gutierrez
>US
>white people
Wew
Dylan Howard
Why wasn't The Big O popular anywhere else?
Angel Torres
You will never be Japanese.
Brody Kelly
Trigun
Andrew Thomas
That Baccano!!!! thing, surprisingly the US love things when they happen in the US
Mason Fisher
Does Carole and Tuesday count?
Asher Perry
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.
Jack Reed
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.
Jaxson Nelson
Wait, Tim Heidecker seriously got it canned? Got a source on this? That's hilarious if it's true.
Isaiah Nelson
Was it popular in Canada?
Matthew Campbell
Outlaw Star bombed hard in Japan.
Kevin Rodriguez
Oh so instead of season 3 of Big O we got Tim & Eric retard time #356? That's unfortunately not surprising.
Jose Martinez
But I like Dr Steve
Xavier Kelly
Kinnikuman Nisei AKA Ultimate Muscle
Levi Allen
Really?
Joseph Thomas
Kinnikuman (the original franchise) was quite popular in Japan back in the day
Gabriel Thomas
yes, but Nisei from what I remember needed 4Kids money to make the last season
Noah Collins
Is it me or are most of the original Toonami lineup (apart from Cowboy Bebop) "popular in America but not in Japan" shows
William Murphy
more white than you muhammed
Caleb Anderson
I think Hetalia is possibly an example of this.
Nathan Parker
It is virtually unknown in Japan.
Kayden Baker
Hetalia was quite popular in Japan especially among fujos
Proof?
Gabriel Lopez
can netflix funding this for another season?
Kevin Collins
I don't think so, since it had a shitty timeslot on YTV.