/anime/ - Anime

>>13685
Japananese cultural products are more spread on the globe than some other countries because the Japanese weren't as motivated or efficient when it comes to cracking down on piracy abroad.
Manga is still more easily accessible for free than comics for example.

>why does the country that produces the shit I enjoy to consume seem to produce more shit than the countries that produce shit I don't consume?
It's a mystery.

>>13700
Yes, because cuz i really gotta watch those Armenian soap operas

>>13703
I really gotta watch small girl tease shy boy show #12342 or virign transported to the same medieval town show #2948298
But, in all seriousness, I think anime gained significance abroad because tv networks could buy already produced shows for a lower price than making cartoons themselves. Everyone grew up watching sailor moon or dragon ball or pokemon. Some time in the 2000s, tv networks stopped showing anime (except for pokemon) but the market was already established. There was already a niche subset of animation nerds that were pirating anime and it expanded from there to more mainstream properties.
It's a hell of a lot easier to sort through anime and see what I want to watch than Armenian soap operas with sites like MAL that catalog every anime in existence.

>>13700
>the Japanese weren't as motivated or efficient when it comes to cracking down on piracy abroad
Good joke.

Like that anon said it drags on a bit later on and the conclusion and final message are kinda mehhh but it's still really fucking fun, so I recommend reading it. The characters are the best part of this manga.

I really liked the manga up until Kaiman becomes like 5 different people and as others have said it meanders a lot until that point and the conclusion leaves much to be desired. Regardless, I still think it's worth a read for all the fun and insane bits a plot summary leaves out.

>>9582
>thoughts on this manga
Pretty creative but not my cup of tea

anyways how you fags liking dai dark

>>13561
I like it but its still in the baby steps of the story. We haven't seen too much of the Solar Mass and I hope the only character that can actually put up a fight against the protagonists isn't just that kamen rider dude.

>>8475
Dutch doesn't really look vietnamese

>>8480
No, but neither do a lot of Vietnam War vets. Between his (alleged) time he'd spent fighting in Vietnam and the 20-30 years he'd have spent in the area afterwards between the end of the war and the start of the show, I don't think it's out of the question that he might have picked up a decent amount of French.piratePirate

Fantastic show.

Balalaika is based best girl

Just read the latest volumes of the manga after watching the anime and holy fucking shit there's a lot to unpack.
[spoiler]So, apparently Dutch is in fact not American or a Vietnam vet but a pretty high-ranking former officer from Burkina Faso. He was part of a group of young officers who were trying to overthrow Blaise Compairé's government in the 1989 coup attempt and basically return the country to how it used to be under Sankara. He was the only one of the leadership who survived getting executed after the coup was foiled and now the neo-colonialist French state is basically trying to eliminate him as a loose end. How can one guy get more based than this?[/spoiler]

>>1359 i made it

>>13604
basado

>dickblast uni
0 bitches to be found

>>13620
based

>>13620
so just like any other computer science program

jjba characters are attractive and dragon ball chars arent

>>13587
>Gay JoJo porn
That's what your average JoJo fan watches to relax after hard day of watching JoJo.

>>13603
Hell yeah.

kek I mean it makes a lot of sense that you found endless amounts of yaoi* instead of whatever you were looking for, since Stardust Crusaders had only like 4 female characters.

*yaoi: male x male art and (fan)fiction made by women for a female audience. Its rough Western equivalent is called "slash" (after "male/male"). It's different from bara, which is gay porn drawn by and for gay men.

>>13588
Yaoi/BL* has been popular since the 70s, I think. And JoJo has always had a significant amount of female fans, most (but not all) of which are "fujoshi"†. Jotakak, the pairing of Jotaro and Kakyoin, is extremely popular, probably the most popular JoJo ship‡, because Stardust Crusaders itself is the most popular JoJo part of all time. This has been true since the late 80s which is when Part 3 started. JoJo attracts so many female fans because of its huge cast of diverse, cool male characters dressed in flamboyant and stylish clothes, and fujoshi in particular because said male characters, who are usually if not always single, spend a lot of time together and often have passionate feelings for each other in the form of rivalries, friendships, etc., which makes it easy for fujoshi to interpret their relationships as romantic and/or sexual in fan-created media (which shippers‡ in general do whenever there's tension between two characters).

As for the materialist explanation for the popularity of yaoi and the existence of fujoshi, there are already a couple of threads where they have been discussed (in short: there are many different reasons, some of which haven't been talked about on this board). Also, female creators, many of which were yaoi artists, used to be the majority at Comiket (and still are in a number of other Japanese anime/manga conventions) until lolicon artists started to actively compete against them with more sexually explicit content (see: https://crawfordpro.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/article-the-castle-of-doom-and-the-lolicon-boom/). So, if anything, yaoi was already popular before straight hentai doujinshi (through lolicon, I presume) experienced its own "boom", though I'm not sure of how popular straight hentai made by men was before that. However, this last part is just speculation based on wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Also did you know that CLAMP (the mangaka behind Cardcaptor Sakura and other classic anime) made a BL Jotakak parody doujinshi where Kakyoin lays an egg containing his and Jotaro's son called Jota Kujo who would later appear briefly in a 1994 OVA? lol
https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Clamp_in_Wonderland

>could be
Back to the animefanon with you.
>it was too early
It was a silly cartoon aimed at children that got old 6 episodes in for people that only watched Evangelion and decided that they were anime experts.

I agree with you OP. Mostly just to spite this faggot >>13540

>>13330
See >>10524

>Kamui Den is a manga series written and drawn by Sanpei Shirato. Set in feudal Japan, it tells the story of a low-born ninja who has fled his clan. The series combines historical adventure with social commentary and themes of oppression and rebellion that reflect Shirato's Marxist convictions.
And of course only one volume was ever translated.

FYI elemhunter of HabaneroScans spent a good couple years scanning raws of issues of Garo and uploading them to nyaa.si and archive.org.

https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q=Monthly+Magazine+Garo
https://archive.org/details/monthly-magazine-garo

HS were also responsible for fansubbing Urasawa Naoki no Manben. a really great series that I'm sad no other group has picked back up.

>>13341
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK
this sounds interesting as fuck
how often do you see manga or anime written by Marxists? I've always wanted to see that. I'm gonna read this one.

>>13356
>archive.org
thank fuck, imagine if there was only the Nyaa torrents and they had 0 seeders due to lack of interest as it often happens.

I have read some works by Yoshihiro Tatsumi which were all good and sober.

Joe Rogan is based :^)

yeah an artist I followed thought Putin was communist and was invading Ukraine to spread communism. also, think it was done some day that Putin did talked about his “de-Nazification” speech, so it not only clicked this dude as a dumbass but also a fucking Nazi sympathizer.

>>13530
was the artist Japanese?

>>13494
>you follow a shallow person to find out they're shallow
Then stop following them. It's that simple.

>>13478
Yes.

>>13414
Okay.

>>13364
Japanese anime predates Disney p sure.

>>13034
Short answer: That is what the majority of the market wants and they are in the business of selling views of their anime.

Some studios recognize that non-whites are part of their audience and have an ensemble of protagonists , such as "Black lagoon" that had Rock , a Japanese man , Revy a Chinese-American woman , Dutch an African-American and Benny , a white (Jewish?) American . and it was pretty well received. Probably because they concentrated on making storytelling their first and only priority and left idpol at the door.

>>13418
Tezuka got inspiration from Disney

>>13419
>white (Jewish?) American
pic rel. Also recurring cast included the Russian Balalaika and the soldiers under her command, the Chinese mafia, an Indian money counterfeiter girl, and a ex-FARC militant maid from Colombia. Black Lagoon is really damn diverse.