Why is donghua less popular than anime?

ColourWheel said:
Chinese Donghua is decades behind Japanese Anime especially when it comes to global marketing their media. This has nothing to do with Japan keeping anything down. I have stated this before a large majority of Chinese Donghua that exist isn't even licensed for distribution beyond China's own boarders. That's the Central Propaganda Department of the CCP problem if they don't allow their own animation outside of it's own country. The only reason why Westerners are even exposed to a majority of Donghua that gets produced is because it's being pirated.

katsucats said:
Just another one of these ignorant statements. Anyone has seen any donghua knows that most of them are released for free by the official producers on YouTube. The only reason anyone pirates them is to release them one week early because paid memberships get advance access. I'm starting to yawn at the low levels of effort the xenophobes put in.

ColourWheel said:


Again another example of a User quoting me completely out of context completely over looking the fact I originally mentioned a complete lack of "global marketing their media", and also an extremely weak attempt to try to paint me as some xenophobe. Never see Donghua ever being advertised in the West, doesn't matter how much Donghua is released free on YouTube if no one knows it's there. But here is your chance you got an entire platform to start linking every Donghua Series you know that is availably for free on Youtube on behalf of the CCP, assuming they are actually posted by official producers. I am not just talking about linking random single episodes here and there either. This is if you got the full permission from the CCP to do this free advertising for them too.

Again this has nothing to do with xenophobia, I have many friends and acquaintances in real life who are not only Chinese American who think Donghua sucks But friends who are originally from places like the Philippines, Mongolia, Malaysia, Cambodia, India, etc... who all watch Anime too and also think Chinese Donghua just sucks in comparison to actual Japanese Anime. I am personal friends with a majority of every Chinese native restaurant owner in the entire state I live in due to my past business dealings in Commercial Real Estate. It's a pretty common consensus where I live in America where many different people with different Asian backgrounds all co-exist with each other who don't feel that strongly about Chinese Donghua at all. None of my Asian friends or acquaintances ever rave about how good Donghua is over Anime not even if they are originally from China. I have even told one of my Chinese American friends who actually likes Donghua to their face that I think Donghua just sucks. I highly doubt they think I am some xenophobe if they keep coming over to my house to shoot pool and drink beer with me almost weekly. Even so, they still agree with me that Chinese Donghua is subpar compared to Japanese Anime.

I look at Chinese Donghua the same way I look at Country Music, I just simply think it sucks and I have no interest in consuming it. Just because someone has no interest in a certain type of media and refuses to promote it doesn't make them a xenophobe. You throw around the word "xenophobia" just as reckless and idiotic as those who constantly throw around the word "woke" just to label anything they don't like, regardless of actually being able to even define it or use the word accurately.