White House wants to put a 100% tariff on anime movies
(media.scored.co)
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Good if true. Perhaps it will stop Japanese companies from Westernizing their products, which people have been worried about.
Retarded framing, though. How about instead of punishing foreigners for outcompeting Americans, incentivize American filmmakers to stop making such absolutely garbage nonsense?
Can we put a 100% tariff on California?
Didnt think about it this way.. but all in all. Theyll just double down on westernization of anime/asian stuff.
Oh, shit!
"In accordance with the tariffs, we will now be producing anime in America" - Japan, hopefully never.
But, seriously, my point is that if selling to America becomes much less feasible, there's no reason for Japan to Westernize their products, since America would no longer be a target market. Which would ironically make anime even more popular in the West.
We are already ramping up "domestic" anime crap via netflix, amazon and disney plus. All these 3 are making faux anime now.
Yup. It's also sneaky, because they're also licensing some stuff, so there's some real anime that's labeled "Netflix" but is still good...then there's some absolutely awful Netflix stuff that's just about as bad as you can get. Sneaky buggers.
That's frighteningly likely, since that's already how Japan deal with auto tariffs.