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lucio542
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Location: Brazil
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 Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:30 am
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Welp in 2 weeks it tops chihiro and then the sky is the limit.
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kikuzinho
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:58 am
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it's really weird that a sequel anime film managed to get this far :O
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lostrune
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:43 pm
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If I had to guess, I'd say Kimetsu no Yaiba's popularity in Japan is because of both the traditional Japanese setting and the sibling relationship between Tanjiro and Nezuko. Family bonds are valued a lot in Japan, and despite seeing people claim how KnY is just a generic shounen, it clearly stands out as being an action shounen that has such a heavy focus on a sibling dynamic.
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CrownKlown
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:26 pm
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I think stuff like this and the constant articles about various give bodies using anime characters for promotion let alone private companies dispels this notion of anime as niche in Japan . Like is everyone a fan , no, but is it embraced overall I would say so. To me animenewsnetwork in Japan is like baseball or football is to Americans .
And although I have only been once it's the sense I got being there as well from seeing hello kitty dolls at various historical places , black egg hello kitty in hakone, to seeing inari kon goods at fushi inari shrine .
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SkyMeister
Joined: 11 Nov 2020
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:10 pm
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| CrownKlown wrote: | | I think stuff like this and the constant articles about various give bodies using anime characters for promotion let alone private companies dispels this notion of anime as niche in Japan . Like is everyone a fan , no, but is it embraced overall I would say so. To me animenewsnetwork in Japan is like baseball or football is to Americans .
And although I have only been once it's the sense I got being there as well from seeing hello kitty dolls at various historical places , black egg hello kitty in hakone, to seeing inari kon goods at fushi inari shrine . |
Anime IS niche in Japan and this isn't based off of an original anime. It's based off of an incredibly successful manga like the overwhelmingly majority of popular anime. Most popular "anime" in Japan is based off of manga. Most people in Japan don't care about animation outside of Ghibli, so it's NOTHING like the ubiquity of baseball and American football in the United States. Most people don't care about voice actors, anime directors or anime writers outside of otaku. It's actually a myth to suggest anime is ubiquitous in Japan. Manga, pachinko, video games and dramas far outstrip anime in popularity and mainstream appeal.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:41 am
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| Quote: | | Anime IS niche in Japan and this isn't based off of an original anime. It's based off of an incredibly successful manga like the overwhelmingly majority of popular anime. Most popular "anime" in Japan is based off of manga. Most people in Japan don't care about animation outside of Ghibli, so it's NOTHING like the ubiquity of baseball and American football in the United States. |
It's definitely not on the level of American sports and sure most people probably only have a casual interest in it like a lot of millennials in America only watch My Hero Academia and stuff on Netlix, but I feel like there's this weird denial thing going on where there's this perception anime isn't popular in Japan but anime movies regularly top Marvel and Disney movies in the box office charts every season.
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