Thread 281712162

How come anime/manga remains an only-Japanese gatekept phenomenon despite its global popularity? How come when Koreans and Chinese imitate the artstyle 100%, it’s called manhwa or donghua? When Americans make something like ATLA, it’s never “anime,” but “anime-inspired?” Why haven’t the French or Brazilians make anime/manga of their own despite being big powerhouse consumers of such? What is missing that only the Japanese can replicate?

Video games in comparison have been revolutionized by the Japanese, but we don’t think of vidyas as a “Japanese-only” phenomenon.

>>281712162 (OP)
The word "anime" refers to Japanese-created animation, not a specific style. Any attempt to disagree with this is simple ignorance.

Certain forms of media are codified exclusively to a mother culture. You can't make K-Pop in Poland, et cetera.

>>281712162 (OP)
>why are the japanese the only ones allowed to make japanese cartoons
It's a mystery.

Jesus christ is this thread satire or what

>but we don’t think of vidyas as a “Japanese-only” phenomenon
Perhaps you've heard of JRPGs?

>>281712225
yes, but with kpop, people complain about how it’s just essentially american pop with japanese idol format

as such you have a lot of black people say how without black people, kpop would not exist

>>281712162 (OP)
There's a linguistic confusion here.
Anime in Japan is anything animated, a Japanese will tell you that his favorite anime is Frozen and be 100% sincere.
Here in the West anime is used to indicate animation produced in Japan.
When you say that ATLA is anime-inspired another problem arise: it's inspired by a sub-section of anime, those that the creators watched and wanted to imitate.
Anime doesn't have a unified artstyle, and when something in the West makes a work "anime-inspired" they just mean "X-work inspired."
Why it's not anime? If an American makes a movie inspired by French New Wave Cinema it's not French cinema, it's inspired.

>>281712429
I don't consider the opinion of niggers.

>>281712552
likewise, a lot of movies globally are influenced by hollywood movies, yet hollywood is still 100% american (plus a little british depending how you see it)

>>281712641
Yes, it's like saying that Disney's Pinocchio is an Italian movie because it's an adaptation of an Italian novel, or that Akage no Anne is a Canadian cartoon because it's adaptation of a Canadian novel.