10,000 Japanese anime fans pick their favorite foreign cartoons

captainpat said:
Come to think of it. There is almost no Japanese fanart of ATLA or Korra.


Definitely untrue, especially with the way Nick kept screwing with it.
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I think he meant "in Japan".

In America, Korra started out with AtLA's typical ratings, but for whatever reasons the ratings dropped and dropped and dropped, until it was kicked off the air and the end of the series was made available on the internet for whoever was left.

In Japan, AtLA's dub was bad and they may have disliked the "Fire Nation as Imperial Japan" metaphor, so AtLA was cancelled partway into season 2. As a result, the sequel Korra might actually be more popular in Japan than the original AtLA was.
 
AnathemicOne said:
RWBY in top-anything shows our lack of good animated shows produced in the West, not sure if I should be mad at Japan, the US, or both.
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The past volume that just completed is vastly improved over the previous two, particularly once the darker turn started up. There's still a lot of room for improvement in a lot of areas, but if they continue on this trajectory things should continue to get better.
 
Juicy Bob said:
Surprised The Simpsons wasn't in the top 20.
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I'm from an Asian country, and I haven't seen Simpsons much around here at all.


Tom and Jerry, on the other hand, is everywhere. It used to play for 4 hours or so on TV in India when I was there, and around an equivalent time in China and Singapore.
 
BocoDragon said:
I know from experience with Japanese or Korean gfs that The Simpsons completely doesn't exist in East Asia.

It's funny.. all the totally American things that make it into Japan... It's odd the ones that don't.

I'd have thought Japan would get Simpsons merchandise anyway.
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The Simpsons exist in that part of the world, in Japan they're used to advertise CC Lemon, and the show airs on WOWOW or it used to. Which is a pay channel.

It's there, just not a pop culture thing, but lots of people recognize Homer and Bart.
 
LQX said:
I get that, but the way you are coming of its as if this is an American trait, rather than a somewhat common ignorance and arrogance the world over as to why whats popular here is not popular there. Have you not seen the hundreds of threads here asking why Americans do this and that differently from Europeans?
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I didn't say it was just an American trait, I just used them as an example in my bug eating analogy, maybe I should have said Westerners instead. Semantics and such aside my original point still stands whether it's Australians not getting why Mexicans don't care for Vegimite or whatever. It's just an close minded and arrogant way of thinking.
 
Kinokou said:
That list seems awfully anglocentric
does the term include american things?
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The only thing I recognize that isn't english or American is Moomin, and many of them were Japanese animated so does it even count?
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Japanese love world animation and this list lacks a lot. They even published DVDs featuring Eastern European stop motion animaion

Where are internationally acclaimed series like Danger Mouse and Count Duckula from UK, The Raccoons from Canada, Les Mondes Engloutis from France, Krtek from Czechoslovakia etc
They were renowned in Japan as well
 
Steven Universe would've been number one if it had been there.

Tom and Jerry??? Even when they like our cartoons, the Japanese confound me
 
The article mentions that the list of shows/movies to vote on was taken from "a pool that was 52.3% female and 60.1% aged in the teens and 20's." Presumably, these are people that already read the website that hosted the poll, as in the same people who would cast votes.

Meaning that any show not in the pool probably would have gotten zero or few votes.
 
Tom & Jerry is a good number one. Loved it myself as a kid and majority of the classic cartoons are excellently put together without any spoken or important spoken dialogue making them easy to consume no matter the culture.

Also proof of everlasting love of humans for perfectly timed physical humour involving painful looking but temporary damage.
 
Not really surprised at the lack of Simpsons, always had the impression they didn't quite catch on there as much as other places. Japanese versions of the old Simpsons games for the Super Famicom and Mega Drive are somewhat rarer than North American/European copies of the games(the Japanese version of Virtual Bart is one of the rarest games for the Mega Drive). Bart didn't set Japan on fire in the early 90s like he did out here in the West.
Boss Doggie said:
Yeah Tom and Jerry is revered in Japan. Quite hilarious too when you think about it since TandJ is barely appearing nowadays in American TV.
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Tom and Jerry airs every single day on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang in America. Looney Tunes airs most days on both channels as well now.
 
Not said:
Steven Universe would've been number one if it had been there.

Tom and Jerry??? Even when they like our cartoons, the Japanese confound me
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Its a classic thats been around die decades and requires little to no localization. Is it really that surprising? As many have said it's hugely popular around the world?
 
Early Tom and Jerry is great!

Nice list that amounts to "which shows has the best overseas presence."

Which is why if you did a reverse poll, a Japanese person would likely exclaim "Really? 'Cowboy Bebop' over 'Kancollle'!?!"

My brain is melting trying to figure out how Moomin didn't chart.
 
meltingparappa said:
Early Tom and Jerry is great!

Nice list that amounts to "which shows has the best overseas presence."

Which is why if you did a reverse poll, a Japanese person would likely exclaim "Really? 'Cowboy Bebop' over 'Kancollle'!?!"
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When I was in Japan, even a good number of people in the otaku-focused model shops had no idea what FLCL was. There it's a pretty obscure OVA from 15 years ago.

Here it's one of the few anime that aired on Adult Swim.
 
The other shows listed, were they translated?

I remember when I was a kid and didn't speak English, Tom & Jerry was really popular cause it had no language barrier.
 
meltingparappa said:
Early Tom and Jerry is great!

Nice list that amounts to "which shows has the best overseas presence."

Which is why if you did a reverse poll, a Japanese person would likely exclaim "Really? 'Cowboy Bebop' over 'Kancollle'!?!"
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Probably not, considering Cowboy Bebop was and is very popular in Japan, whereas the Kancolle anime made even Kancolle game fans upset.
 
meltingparappa said:
Early Tom and Jerry is great!

Nice list that amounts to "which shows has the best overseas presence."

Which is why if you did a reverse poll, a Japanese person would likely exclaim "Really? 'Cowboy Bebop' over 'Kancollle'!?!"

My brain is melting trying to figure out how Moomin didn't chart.
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Isn't Moomins a collaboration with a Japanese company? Might technically be considered a copro anime.
 
FelixOrion said:
Did you get to Boomhauer? I lost hard the first time I saw this and they got to him.

Peggy's voice is spot on though and Nancy is ara ara~ as all hell. It's amazing.
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They didn't even try with Boomhauer lol. I can't say I really blame them.

I read somewhere a long time ago that T&J was absurdly popular in Japan for some reason. There was like a top 100 anime poll that was populated exclusively by domestic shows, but Tom & Jerry showed up on it randomly.
 
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