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NEWS: Saudi Arabia's Manga Productions, Toei to Open The Journey Film in Japan on June 25

Pfff, hope this tanks hard. That journalist killer that is Salman now wants to make anime too, I guess...

Pfff, hope this tanks hard. That journalist killer that is Salman now wants to make anime too, I guess...

And that without going with the gall of basically insulting the Japanese audience in the very same poster.

In the case you haven't read the Japanese poster and you don't know Japanese, the tagline says "Japanese people! This is Arab's entertaiment!"

Not quite. The tagline starts with "Nihon-jin yo" with no exclamation mark, so it translates more as telling the Japanese viewers that "This is Arabian entertainment!", not that Japanese people are Arab people's source of entertainment. There's no insulting whatsoever to be found there.

In any case, my point stands, as the poster, in an admittedly pushy tone, is basically telling the audience that this is an Arab movie, when in fact all the animation was made in Japan, and only the story was written by Arabs.

luisedgarf wrote:

In any case, my point stands, as the poster, in an admittedly pushy tone, is basically telling the audience that this is an Arab movie, when in fact all the animation was made in Japan, and only the story was written by Arabs.

Yes, it's an Arabian-sourced story, so I think it's fair to call it "Arabian entertainment", because the story being told is distinctly Arabian, no matter where the animation itself comes from. I don't think it's being pushy at all, but at the same time advertising isn't meant to be subtle.