Why are the Anime Community being Sensitive about anime became a Mainstream.

[dejiko]

one thing we feel in japan is foreign countries having more influence on anime will change it at home, nyo...it is a very talked about topic for japanese otaku, nyo

 

[Mubashureta]

Well i haven't really seen any of those people but my guess is tourists?
Idk i just like my japanese cartoons

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one thing we feel in japan is foreign countries having more influence on anime will change it at home, nyo...it is a very talked about topic for japanese otaku, nyo

That's a good point

 

[Deleted member 660650]

one thing we feel in japan is foreign countries having more influence on anime will change it at home, nyo...it is a very talked about topic for japanese otaku, nyo

I already hear how Japan is so "Americanized" lately more than ever than how it was already. I'm glad my country's resistance to Americanization is so strong lol.

 

[Mubashureta]

I already hear how Japan is so "Americanized" lately more than ever than how it was already. I'm glad my country's resistance to Americanization is so strong lol.

Same with my country cause Whole paleistaine gaza conflict but anyway

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

One of the most braindead takes I read was the seasons system bad because its evil colonialism and I was are you fricking serious no wonder they ruin Anime and videogames.

Excuse me what? I don't see the kind of connection between seasons and colonialism.

Unless they consider that Animal Crossing is a form of it since you're literally conquering a desert island.

>Thing gets popular
>A whole bunch of outsiders or "tourists" come in liking said thing
>Tourists eventually outnumber "true" fans who were there since the beginning or close to it a million to one
>Creators change their work to cater to tourists leaving true fans in the dust
>Thing goes bad and it's time to leave
It's not just anime! It's every goddamned thing under the sun! So much so that it could be a natural law!

I used to think that "the more the merrier" because I was naively thinking that newcomers could bring some fresh blood into ageing fanbases and that something too niche could die out with fans no longer caring about the thing.

Until I noticed that trend of people joining something not to appreciate it but rather to bring criticism and trying to influence on the creators while implicitly saying that older fans are the ones holding said franchise back and preventing it to evolve.

Evolution doesn't always mean improving and sometimes a franchise could take the wrong path.

I already hear how Japan is so "Americanized" lately more than ever than how it was already. I'm glad my country's resistance to Americanization is so strong lol.

The USA had a great cultural influence post-war so I can see it but I agree that keeping some originality is better than trying to mimic another culture for the sake to attract people from it.

If I go to a different country I would never want to buy a Coke or going to the McDonald's of said country because that's not the local meal.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Excuse me what? I don't see the kind of connection between seasons and colonialism.

Unless they consider that Animal Crossing is a form of it since you're literally conquering a desert island.

To be honest I don't get where they see a Connection either.Maybe the System we use was invented in Europe and maybe perhaps this is why they call it Evil and Bad and Colonial which of course is horseshit as trough all of humanity we adapted Systems and stuff that worked best regardless of Culture and people I mean we use the Arabic versions of numbers and not the roman once and I nor anyone ever complains about that because they work adapting stuff is as human as breathing. Anyhow I think those people just want to virtue signal and seek problems where they are none to feel good about themselves so they want to be seen as good people without doing anything that actually would help people in short.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

To be honest I don't get where they see a Connection either. Maybe the System we use was invented in Europe and maybe perhaps this is why they call it Evil and Bad and Colonial which of course is horseshit as trough all of humanity we adapted Systems and stuff that worked best regardless of Culture and people I mean we use the Arabic versions of numbers and not the roman once and I nor anyone ever complains about that because they work adapting stuff is as human as breathing. Anyhow I think those people just want to virtue signal and seek problems where they are none to feel good about themselves so they want to be seen as good people without doing anything that actually would help people in short.

I could understand that farming type of games are about optimising your crops so you'd have a better production rate but then productivism isn't correlated with colonialism.

It's even more baffling when SV itself is quite a progressist game in its ideas and character relationship. That's nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking.

 

[Daixess]

Honestly I think it's just being mainstream = too many people getting into it and not having an informed opinion, and thus, ironically making it harder to connect with people who like anime because people are getting into it in a way that most "Pioneers" didn't.

On one hand, I get it, because it's probably harder to get genuine conversations. It's not surprising that when anime becomes popular, most people probably won't know fansubs, demographics (especially since most people think shounen is a genre,) and overtime, a lot of anime becomes forgotten.

From my experience, I remember watching anime, even subbed if there wasn't dub as early as 7 or 8. I probably shouldn't have been watching bleach, but I definitely did! And by the time I imagine demon slayer or jujutsu kaisen were popular with my generation, I was getting into Pretty Cure, Vocaloid, and Touhou. Demon Slayer or Jujutsu Kaisen just weren't interesting to me, and I probably have a lot more common with older anime fans in some aspects more than I am with my peers.

I'd argue that there's many points in time when anime became mainstream, but I hope we can all agree that we have been in a different era of anime since the pandemic.

 

[Sleepstate]

This is news to me Anime and the internet have always been synonymous as much as people tried to fight against this fact. it has become the norm but as with any fandom i suppose there is always gatekeepers for some dumb reason