How come western animes are so rare?
How come western animes are so rare?
Dominic Martin
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Levi Torres
>animes
Go back.
Lucas Moore
>western
>animes
why are you even here?
Joshua Rogers
C'mon, it's a fair question. And the answer is: Cowboy anime just hasn't got an audience? /thread
Daniel Torres
There are plenty of Western-funded anime.
There is no Western anime.
James Campbell
>what is cowboy beebop?
Bentley Walker
He means western like Clint Eastwoon in a poncho western, not anime from the west.
Noah Torres
It's not actually cowboy though. It's in space. Having wild west vibes isn't the same as actually being a wild western.
Christopher Torres
There's some good mangas with this theme but in anime with this theme i just know Trigun
Leo Gray
It would be like an american making a show about the Edo era of Japan. Japan didn't have the wild west so it's hard to make a decent show based around it.
Landon Walker
Japan didn't experience medieval europe either, but they make arguably decent (and some fantastic games) shows in it than even Western studios do in some occasions in depicting it.
William Powell
japan doesn't care about american history before wwii and the few nips who were interested in the period (thanks mostly to westerns) are old and the genre itself is dead
Austin Davis
Unironically the only thing I could find in a quick search that could be defined as a "Wild Western" was Gun Blaze West and that's about it. Probably more but that's the quickest I could find, and it took a bit of searching.
I know there's at least one wild west JRPG called "Wild Arms"
Xavier Myers
Because westerns are founded on the inherently racist idea of manifest destiny
Josiah Miller
Trigun is kinda western-y
Ryan Russell
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Jonathan Sullivan
Well Japan has an analogue to medieval times with it's feudal era. But no such commonality with the wild west.
John Sanchez
yeah it's got the vibe but doesn't quite fit the bill
Brayden Jones
western films are heavily inspired by and in some cases direct adaptations of samurai cinema
Lincoln Johnson
I've had Green Blood on my backlog for a long time now but never read it. Art looks good though.
Anthony Baker
my favorite "girls with guns" anime
Camden Williams
>Blood Meridian anime
Holy fuck, could you imagine?
David Williams
Well like Leoni westerns are. "Proper" westerns don't have as much in common with samurai films (the western is a pretty old genre don't forget, it goes all the way back to the silent film era, or at least the very early sound era).
Parker Williams
read Golden Kamuy
James Rogers
Because John Ford's ghost lives on in Samurai jidaigeki instead.
Ryan Powell
>animes
>western
>phoneposting
kys
Adam Cooper
I have yet to see a single English translated torrent of Gun Frontier, but there non Japanese,non English transactions.
Daniel Ortiz
Didn't Imperial Japan have something similar, but worse?
Christian Murphy
Because it's a western setting much like feudal japan and warring states period are japanese settings.
Jose Peterson
Samurai and Eastwood type cowboys are similar enough that samurai movies get remade as westerns.
Caleb Parker
This has cowboy-looking characters, though who knows if it'll have anything else in common with westerns.
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