"Is Netflix trying to infect Westerners with 'anime'"?
And I wonder what's up with snobs trying to differentiate between cartoons made in the West and cartoons made in Japan with goofy, unnecessary foreign words. Just because it's got a fancy foreign word that means exactly the same as the English word you dread, doesn't make it any more or less "mature". Same fucking thing goes for "comic book", "graphic novel" and "manga". They're all fucking comic books. It's the content that determines the audience, not the medium itself.
Oh. Well, probably. But Hollywood is being influenced by Chinese tastes, so.
The problem is, it'll be like everything else - if it (the content specific to that genre) changes too much, it'll lose its core audience, while the herds come and graze it dry, leaving nothing but bare ground, just like with everything else lately. Then you just have to wait for the herds to move on to the next big fad to ruin, and a renaissance might happen. But you'll wind up with a weird hybrid grandchild in the end.
Thing is, Japan was inspired by America when it came to stuff like animation. The only Japanese fare I remember being around when I was a kid was Kimba/Astroboy, and Ultraman, and I only watched one of these. The creator of Kimba/Astroboy was happy to admit he was inspired by Disney. It's like watching a cultural aspect being treated like a tennis ball, being bounced back and forth between the Japanese and Americans in the first place.
The major difference is, Japanese weren't poisoned by the television-created animation "ghetto", that implanted into the brains of an entire generation that animation is somehow only "for kids". They also didn't come into the game early enough to be stuck with the notion that "cartoons need to be musical."
Are you sure you're in the right forum?
Why are a lot of people here unashamed weebs? Muh based Japan?
Yes?
Yeah, I legit don't understand this thread. Of course they are.
Shouldn't the question be:
"Is Netflix trying to infect Westerners with 'anime'"?
And I wonder what's up with snobs trying to differentiate between cartoons made in the West and cartoons made in Japan with goofy, unnecessary foreign words. Just because it's got a fancy foreign word that means exactly the same as the English word you dread, doesn't make it any more or less "mature". Same fucking thing goes for "comic book", "graphic novel" and "manga". They're all fucking comic books. It's the content that determines the audience, not the medium itself.
Oh. Well, probably. But Hollywood is being influenced by Chinese tastes, so.
The problem is, it'll be like everything else - if it (the content specific to that genre) changes too much, it'll lose its core audience, while the herds come and graze it dry, leaving nothing but bare ground, just like with everything else lately. Then you just have to wait for the herds to move on to the next big fad to ruin, and a renaissance might happen. But you'll wind up with a weird hybrid grandchild in the end.
Thing is, Japan was inspired by America when it came to stuff like animation. The only Japanese fare I remember being around when I was a kid was Kimba/Astroboy, and Ultraman, and I only watched one of these. The creator of Kimba/Astroboy was happy to admit he was inspired by Disney. It's like watching a cultural aspect being treated like a tennis ball, being bounced back and forth between the Japanese and Americans in the first place.
The major difference is, Japanese weren't poisoned by the television-created animation "ghetto", that implanted into the brains of an entire generation that animation is somehow only "for kids". They also didn't come into the game early enough to be stuck with the notion that "cartoons need to be musical."
I'm pretty sure RGE has quite a few followers, more than the 500 rule.