Anime Ruined My Life (In A Good Way?)
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Anime Ruined My Life (In A Good Way?)
M y fifth storytime animation! Although this one is more like a storyboard animatic bc i started my storyboard class so im trying to focus on that hehheh. Th...
My fifth storytime animation! Although this one is more like a storyboard animatic bc i started my storyboard class so im trying to focus on that hehheh. Th…
That’s fair and I didn’t know that, but like 70% of that came from Japan as far as I can tell. Don’t get me wrong though, 30% of 512 million is still huge, especially in COVID times.
Oh for sure. I wasn’t trying to say it’s this niche little thing. It’s definitely grown in popularity even in the last 10 years. It’s just that for being mainstream, I see it barely mentioned. But maybe it’s a mix of my own environment + having too narrow a view of what mainstream means.
I guess I thought of it as people needing to actively be anime fans specifically, rather than just occassionally watching some anime and having fun with it. I suppose it’s similar to movies in that sense, where there’s quite a difference between a cinephile and someone who likes to put on Netflix to unwind.
Yeah, I think that’s a good way to phrase it. There is also a generational element, as I mentioned with the Gen Z statistic (probably more pronounced with anime because it is animation and a lot of the anglosphere still treats animation as “for kids”).
Also I want to apologize for probably coming across too brusquely before. I jumped to respond and then rushed to actually complete the response before I had to go to work. My bad.
I especially don’t know where anime (or, I guess more specfically, J-Pop) stacks up on the music/radio stage. AFAIK foreign-language songs just don’t crack the American music scene, but I’m no audiophile and I haven’t listened to the radio for close to two decades so
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No worries, I thought your response was fine!