Comic_Sans said: Randoll_ said: ?die He/She probably meant the article "die". (Die Bundesrepublik) |
nozoris said: Not sure if anime is popular in my country (Malaysia) but I do know some ppl who are rly into anime/manga here. Yes it is as there is usually a anime event. Sadly there isnt much in UK |
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EpicShounenGuy said: I think in Brazil anime is quite popular I think it used to be more popular back in '06 til '09, but still anime conventions are almost always full... |
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mayukachan said: Seiya said: pretty much every worthwhile Anime from the 70s, 80s, and 90s has been dubbed in Italian. *whispers* Lupin III! Well, yeah. It's completely true. Anime were are very popular in Italy. But we can say that nowadays anime are pretty popular all over the world. |
Praland said: America of course, America it's number one on everything. Bless America, bless Freedom. My freedom boner salutes you sir! God bless the greatest nation on this planet! |
DateYutaka said: Valkata said: Well anime and manga are becoming popular all over the world. There are a lot of cons in Europe, of course the US ... france is waere its bigggest in eu nation by far Yay! |
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| in France we are the second country who buy the biggest amount of manga after japan in the world but in therms of anime visibility i don't know, maybe if we were not pirating everything i will able to tell it x). |
Radamenthe said: in France we are the second country who buy the biggest amount of manga after japan in the world but in therms of anime visibility i don't know, maybe if we were not pirating everything i will able to tell it x). I've often heard that manga is indeed pretty popular in France....but is it the biggest manga purchaser after Japan? I'm not so sure about that....but I would love to see the numbers. All the big publishers are in America when it comes to English translated manga (Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha Comics USA, Seven Seas, and Dark Horse) But I honestly don't know....again, if someone has the numbers, I'd be very interested in seeing them. |
| The Empire of the Rising Sun... oh wait it's same thing |
| For manga France has the second-largest market after Japan, for anime it's harder to say since you can't just compare the sales because lot of the popularity comes from watching TV. |
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AveryGamerDude said: I know that manga is most popular in France, but that doesn't make sense to me for some reason. :/ Maybe it's because there were a lot of cooperation between France and Japan for the production of animes in the 70s', 80s' and 90s' (for exemple Ulysse 31 and The Mysterious Cities of Gold). They were also a couple of anime based on French novels (Ie Naki Ko, Perrine Monogatari, ...) that were really popular among children. Kids that grew up with these "cartoons" maybe had more tendencies toward animes when they were older. (In fact, the only animes that were interesting when I was a kid all turned out to be animes...) (Calimero, Maya the Bee, Hey! Bumboo, ...) |
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AveryGamerDude said: I know that manga is most popular in France, but that doesn't make sense to me for some reason. :/ France in general has a strong affinity for comics, stronger than most other countries except maybe Belgium and Japan. Comics are just more mainstream over there so there's less of a barrier for manga to gain popularity. |
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Protaku said: (Insert your own country here) ^this Also it is really popular in Russia, to the point that people make fan made voice overs for all shows (DUB is a rarity). |
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| I heard it was really damn popular in Sweden |
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| I don't think anime is big here in the US. I mean sure there's a lot of cons and stuff but if I compare it to Philippines where literally every male teen have watched anime some point in there life, US pales in comparison IMO |
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| I'd assume that anime would be pretty big in other Asian countries such as Korea or China. |
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geralt said: I have a Filipino friend who's told me anime is quite popular there. Naruto alone did it, don't get fooled by your friend. On a more serious note, it has something to do with a local garbage network in the Philippines that keeps recycling shows that was already popularized by a rival network. Can't just get enough with Cardcaptor Sakura, Jackie Chan adventures, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Bleach, Detective Conan, Pokemon, Doraemon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mojacko, Voltes V, Slam Dunk, then go damn live in the Philippines and wait for the cycle to repeat so you can watch all of them. |
| Aside from Asia, I would say Italy, France and Spain. |
| I remember this Japanese show and there they said that anime is very popular in Philippines and sent someone to visit the country and they were even surprised that some anime's were actually made in Philippines and all.Then they showed anime related things etc. Here I found it, lol But I think it's either Philippines or Taiwan. Taiwan sells a lot of popular anime merchandise. |
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| Here in France manga is quite popular even more then comics i think but when it comes to anime they most know the old ones like Saint Seya, City Hunter, DBZ etc but not everyone ofc and there's lot of cosplay around here and i mean a lot. |
| I think I remember seeing an article on Crunchyroll about this. I believe that it was the Philippines that topped the list with Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore not far behind. I believe it was then followed by the US. RageNation said: It's moderately popular over here. I mean there was probably only a handful of kids I knew at school who watched anime but pretty much everyone grew up on stuff like Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Naruto, Beyblade (To a lesser extent) and Yu-Gi-Oh.Ive been to australia and america they both seem to have large anime fan bases In general it's a very niche thing and even when you go to anime conventions the most popular stuff is usually shit like Naruto and Attack on Titan. Although Love Live recently had a pretty big boom in popularity which made me very happy. But the conventions do draw in some pretty big numbers so I'd say they've got their audience. |
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Griffith said: geralt said: I have a Filipino friend who's told me anime is quite popular there. Of course it's popular there, they pirate everything. i will definitely not going to deny that fact |
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| Yeah anime is pretty popular here in the Philippines. It's generally accepted and you don't get called a weeaboo for liking it. It's treated as just another form of entertainment. |
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| I think it's quite popular here in Singapore too, just that people here don't flaunt their interests that much or afraid it'll be embarrassing for people to know 'cuz a lot of people here can be very judgemental. |
Gin-chan said: Anime - it's not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of animators.  |
| well in my country korean culture is more popular then anime...so i will say usa |
| Israel has a big anime community and we have 3-4 conventions a year. |
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| probably south Korea, seeing as they help produce some shows. |
| Well I think anime is famous in Korean, they have like LN's or just animes movies come out like right as soon as when Japan's come out. |
RioOba said: Why are people saying USA? There aren't a lot of anime watchers here unless you live near a Japanese community. There is. People who watch it avidly and sporadically hide it from society though. |
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| China easily has the largest anime community in the world outside of Japan. For example, let's look at the alexa rankings of the primary anime streaming sites: nicovideo.jp, the primary anime streaming site in Japan: 75th in the world bilibili.com, the primary anime streaming sites in China: 139th in the world myanimelist.net: 1,177th in the world crunchyroll.com: 1,315th in the world Plus, we can look at the number of members in anime-related forums. r/anime 361,616 subscribers, the subforum for harem animes（后宫动漫吧）, ONLY A SUBGENRE FOR ANIMES on Baidu Tieba（百度贴吧）, China's answer to reddit, has 1,405,964 subscribers. The Attack on Titan fanpage on facebook as 1,060,500 members, coupled with the 737,629 members from MAL, that's 1,798,129. The Attack on Titan subforum on Baidu Tieba（进击的巨人吧）has 1,566,216 members, EVEN WHILE THE SHOW AND THE MANGA WAS OFFICIALLY BANNED IN CHINA, AND FANS ARE FORCED TO USE ILLEGAL MEANS TO WATCH THE SHOW. and lastly, here's the link to the aformentioned websites: Bilibili.com 后宫动漫吧 进击的巨人吧 |
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| Everyone knows it's gotta be the nation of extra-terrestrials from Jupiter. |
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| Well aside from the other nations in eastern and southeastern Asia, just based on my experience with all sorts of different people from all around the world, I'd say that Russia and Latin America take the cake easily. Germany also has lots of anime fans as well. Of course, USA is near the top too, in the end most of us are watching anime, reading mangas, and playing visual novels with the help of translators from USA. |
RioOba said: Why are people saying USA? There aren't a lot of anime watchers here unless you live near a Japanese community. That is true in north america It is really hard to find a anime fan/Otaku |
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| Philippines and Mexico for sure. Philippines is the weeb capital of the world. |
| France has a decent following if manga sales are anything to go by. |
| 5 main aspects I base my ratings on: 1. Did DramaEnthusiast make a thread about it? 2. Is it better than Breaking Bad? 3. Did MellowJello recommend the shit out of it? 4. Has it caused a (very entertaining) shitstorm on MAL? 5. Is it actually good? Scratch the fifth point, it's not very relevant... |
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