| Holding back the urge to include American animation in the title, since I bet there'll be a lot of responses about that and chances are likely people pay attention to American animation (or foreign studios who are involved with American series such as Studio Fortiche for "Arcane"/League of Legends), so it doesn't interest me as much in regards to this question. For me, I do watch anime the most, but still pay attention to animation from other countries (even if it may not be as much or done as actively as I once did in the past) and am open to checking out a lot of stuff regardless of its origin. One of my favorite animation studios after Ghibli is an Irish studio and last year I went to see "Flow" (Latvia, Belgium, and France) and "Memoir of a Snail" (Australia) in theaters (I'm pretty sure I coincidentally found out about both because their trailers were shown before "Look Back") and I thought those films had a lot of merit. There's a lot of good art from around the world, but I wonder how many anime fans are interested in non-Japanese animation. |
bucciestMay 3, 1:55 PM
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| I do care about animation in other countries. |
| I like watching cartoons from other countries too. |
| I've always just loved animation in general, so yes, I'm interested in animation from other countries. It's definitely not just anime for me. |
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| No. I hate any kind of animation outside of Anime. I tolerate Chinese and Korean animation cuz they share a lot of things with Holy Anime. I detest Western Animation with all my soul. Western animation is dead by this point and everyone watch Anime now. Anime is my religion and Anime is the reason of my existence. Anime is the true Animation and leader of animation. |
ToumaTachibanaMay 3, 4:04 PM
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. 日本 I believe in freedom of expression. |
| I like some animation from china |
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| Animation is great from basically any place you pick. Arcane is my 2nd fav show ever only behind Steins;Gate for example. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| I mostly just consume anime, but I sometimes like certain cartoons. Regular show is cool. |
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| @_Mazino It looks like you're very interested in Chinese animation in particular. I've admittedly yet to watch something with writing that clicks for me, but there is beautiful looking stuff from China. I once saw this animation of a man fishing in what looked like a mythological world, but I can't for the life of me find that clip right now... And "Da Wang Rao Ming" has one of the most visually pleasing openings I've ever seen. Recently I heard about "Ne Zha" since that broke a lot of box office records, so will likely check that out at some point. |
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| I love all animation, especially from countries like France. |
 Code Lyoko, we'll reset it all Code Lyoko, be there when you call Code Lyoko, we will stand real tall Code Lyoko, stronger after all |
Reply to MoonBunny9297
I love all animation, especially from countries like France.
| @MoonBunny9297 Yeah, France takes animation very seriously, but it feels like they get overlooked. I did have a trailer of "The Illusionist" included in my original post at first, since I think it's getting a re-release in some sort of way. |
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| I like animation from any country really, but anime is definitely my favorite. |
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| Yes, I do care. There are really good animation series other than anime. |
| I like animation in general. I just don't learn about new and interesting movies and series from other origins often so I rarely watch them. In the past I used to regularly go to an animation festival to watch short films from all over the world. Unfortunately, I've moved and the closest festival now is a bit too far to go without staying the night out. |
| I'm only mildly interested these days. Too busy with anime. Flow is on my watchlist, though. I used to watch more non-Japanese animation years ago, and have seen a few European animated movies. I absolutely loved Song of the Sea from Cartoon Saloon, highly recommend it to basically anyone. bucciest said: I did have a trailer of "The Illusionist" included in my original post at first, since I think it's getting a re-release in some sort of way. Can you elaborate on this? Quick googling didn't give me anything... I really liked this one. I did find out that the director does have another movie coming out, which I didn't know about. |
| I do, Chinese anime especially has lots of potential rn |
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| I saw Flow a couple weeks ago, it was really interesting and really makes you think about the ending. I also recently watched Common Side Effects on Adult Swim and thought it was surprisingly really good. |
| Japan doesn't have a monopoly on animation there is alot of great shows not made in japan. |
| Yeah, I like animated shows/ movies in general. I've been watching from my country and other countries since I was little, animated shows (cartoons) and I continue to do so now some times. And when a new animated movie comes out in theaters, of course I'll go see it if I get the chance. In my mind I seperate anime/ donghua from other animated shows though. |
| Yeah french animation rocks we have cartoons like Asterix, Tintin, Barbar, Inspector Gadget Totally spies lucky Luke Yeah I like all animation on general |
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| No. The only animation I watch any more is from Japan, and this is likely to remain the case indefinitely, unless the conceptual frameworks, values and attitudes involved in the creation of western animation undergo a radical shift all the way down to the planning stage of production — something that I think is very unlikely. Though, I will admit Redwall's (1999-2002) televised adaptation was a pleasant surprise for someone like me, who was otherwise passively exposed to nothing besides substanceless animated sitcoms, slapstick "comedies" and educational toddler's cartoons. Maybe if more kids nowadays, who are glued to a screen of some description anyway, grew up watching animation that nominally respected them, then they'd develop into less sensitive adults. |
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| Just Japanese, can't get into animation if it's not Japanese save for some old cartoons like Tom & Jerry. But I would honestly be open to Korean animation if it was any good thanks to how much I'm used to consuming Korean dramas and movies. |
| I like 2D far too much over 3D for whatever reasons. And since western 2D has widely disappeared, and most of the time, it's aimed at children, I'm not even looking anymore. There aren't as many genres either in western animation. Everything is better with a wide variety of genres to choose from ~~ |
   There is only one truth in this world かわいいは正義 Also, robots are your friends ✿❀(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ⋆˚✿˖° Check our anime affinity, Senpai! Fellow cute girl lovers FR accepted. Watch NGNL, ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ you bastard~~desu Yuri is life. Now, break a sweat. ★May the stars shine upon you.★ |
| The actual question is "are you a weeb or not". It's like the difference between a polyglot and an average stupid american who speaks only (at most) one language and is proud of it. |
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| I watched a few Chinese cartoons, that should count. |
| I enjoy animation from other regions as well. Italy and France have some really good ones such as Code Lyoko and W.I.T.C.H. |
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| Of course, I'm not close-minded. I grew up with animations from all over the world, even if I experienced them in Mandarin dubs first. I like to watch media (even stuff with real actors) from all over the world. Good stories are good stories, it doesn't matter what country they are from. Below is a list of some of my favorites (Although it's hard to find some of these with English Subs and in Good Quality): A Day Before Us One of my favorite Korean animations ever, all three seasons available on YouTube with English subs for free, the last time I checked Pinball Legend Can't find this with good quality anymore, let alone English subs, so here's the theme song instead. Kind of similar to B-Daman Mantra Warrior The Legend Of The Eight Moons A Thai animated film available on Netflix with English subtitles below is the trailer I didn't mention the obvious ones like Link Click or To Be Hero X because most people who are interested in animations made by other countries would've seen them already anyway. |
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| Well now since all animation is just done on computers, everything gonna start looking the same. AI gonna get rid of most national differences. Only the languages will be different, but AI will translate it all so we can just watch computer generated slop translated by computer. Yay, progress. |
| In theory, sure. In practice, I only watch animation from Japan. I've been meaning to watch Mars Express (2023) which someone recommended, but haven't gotten around to it. Guess I just don't care all that much if it isn't from Japan. Might just be related to availability, though. Finding out about and acquiring anime is trivial for me. Unless someone tells me, I won't even know about non-anime and even once I know, getting my hands on them is bothersome. Not that getting them changes anything, as they just go onto the pile of stuff I could watch if I felt like it, which currently includes about 300 anime. |
| I don't care about animation, only the story, the plot, the hot dominant waifu |
| grew up watching animation from other countries besides japan, so yes. |
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| I love animation so I watch everything look's nice and good from anywhere .. |
| " At least we stare at the same sky"  |
| I've seen a lot of animation from my own country. I don't know much about animation from other countries besides mine and Japan, but I am willing to watch them if I find any that interest me. https://myanimelist.net/anime/10259/Da_Yu_Hai_Tang_Movie |
| その目だれの目？ |
| I like animation in general. It doesn't matter what country something is from lol |
| I’ve watched animated shows and movies from other countries like China, France, and America. Honestly I have to branch out because Japan makes the objectively worse kind of animation out of any country. |
Reply to Retro8bit
I enjoy animation from other regions as well. Italy and France have some really good ones such as Code Lyoko and W.I.T.C.H.
| @Retro8bit W.I.T.C.H is an amazing magical girl cartoon. |
| Code Lyoko, we'll reset it all Code Lyoko, be there when you call Code Lyoko, we will stand real tall Code Lyoko, stronger after all |
| Yeah, I like some animation from the US, Japan, China, Korea, and I've also seen some from France and Israel that I liked. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I like animation in general. I love to see more animated series/movies like Arcane, Link Click, Spider man: Into the Spider verse, How to train your dragon etc. |
ZXEANMay 3, 8:42 PM
| I’m not married to Japan, so yeah, I get in bed with other animation. I even hold my favorite non-Japanese cartoons in a much higher regard then most anime I’ve seen. If you saw my liat, thats not much of a surprise. There’s a lot of s stuff I was very generous towards. I regret almost none of it, but the point still stands. |
| France does a lot of good things. Primal, Ernest & Celestine, Le Sommet des Dieux, Asterix I have friends that work with that, so I will say I watched what they do, or recommend like, Until Sbørnia do us Part from Brazil, trailer \/ But rarely. |
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| Absolutely ! While I watch more anime than other countries' animation, I love to discover new artists and shows ! And while I love anime, because like manga, it is very diverse despite the few variations it brings in-between project; other countries animation projects (especially independant ones) are a lot more diverse in their techniques. What I mean by that it that from what I've seen animation is an extremely large and diverse medium but anime isn't that much in comparison to other countries. I could be wrong since I'm not that knowledgeable but I've never seen a japanese paint-on-glass animation, or much japanese stop-motions, or much anime experimenting with different animation techniques at the same time (MP100 or some Bocchi the Rock moments were so cool because of the change of techniques). It the same thing with manga but increased tenfold with manga being almost only in black ink and screentones (with sometime watercolor) or digital black/grey/white lines with sometimes colors (The fully colored manga are from what I've seen digital or watercolored). At the same time bande-dessinée can be a lot more diverse (not alway of course) with their pannelling, or just their techniques (collages, oil painting, drypoint engraving, linocut, colored pencils, felt-tip pens, embroidery, etc.) or even the book subject. And that's why it's so remarkable and amazing to me how some mangaka achieve to be so unique and refreshing while having these restrictions. I also find the casual sarcasm or flatness of tone in some non anime indé shows to be so good like in Wavier Renegade Angel, ENA, Vewn's animations or Pop-Ocalypse🫧. |
| I've watched animation from different countries but prefer the japanese one so far :) |
| The only animation i care about outside anime is Warner Bros DC animation. |
| I used to watch all sorts of cartoons from many different countries in my childhood The ones i watched the most are French and American cartoons Nowadays i don't watch them as often as i used to but i still like to get back to them for the sake of nostalgia |
Reply to perseii
I'm only mildly interested these days. Too busy with anime. Flow is on my watchlist, though.
I used to watch more non-Japanese animation years ago, and have seen a few European animated movies.
I absolutely loved Song of the Sea from Cartoon Saloon, highly recommend it to basically anyone.
Can you elaborate on this? Quick googling didn't give me anything... I really liked this one.
I did find out that the director does have another movie coming out, which I didn't know about.
I used to watch more non-Japanese animation years ago, and have seen a few European animated movies.
I absolutely loved Song of the Sea from Cartoon Saloon, highly recommend it to basically anyone.
bucciest said:
I did have a trailer of "The Illusionist" included in my original post at first, since I think it's getting a re-release in some sort of way.
I did have a trailer of "The Illusionist" included in my original post at first, since I think it's getting a re-release in some sort of way.
Can you elaborate on this? Quick googling didn't give me anything... I really liked this one.
I did find out that the director does have another movie coming out, which I didn't know about.
| @perseii I've seen all the films in Tomm Moore's Irish Folklore trilogy (plus "The Breadwinner") and have liked them all, but "Song of the Sea" is my favorite and I would also definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. perseii said: Can you elaborate on this? Quick googling didn't give me anything... I really liked this one. I did find out that the director does have another movie coming out, which I didn't know about. Ah, that's making things click into place! I wasn't aware that Sylvain Chomet has an upcoming movie (hopefully it gets a release in theaters near me so I can see it), but Madman Films re-uploaded a trailer for "The Illusionist" last month and there were comments about how it was a re-release (not theatrically, but streaming or DVD or something along those lines). Except now I'm not finding any information to back that up and it's making more sense that they put out that trailer just to get his films on people's radar again with the new one coming up. |
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| I include all animated works from other East Asian countries as anime, rather than just exclusively Japanese, so yes, I care about all that as anime, regardless of it comes from China or South Korea instead of Japan. But I also do and have always liked many non-anime/non-East Asian works too. Western cartoons mainly and majority American, but moreso stuff at least a few decades older now rather than super new and recent content. Like, some of my favorite TV series apart from anime are still Western animation/cartoons. |
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