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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Some really interesting answers here. I'm slightly surprised to hear all those pseudo European fantasy set isekai shows might have been targeting western audiences. My... -
There are definitely some shows which are aggressively chasing the foreign market, and I think it's usually to the detriment of the overall experience. I've read many...
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I suspect the impact on the type of anime being made is less than you would think, and that comes down to the medium's status as being almost entirely adaptations of light...
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I was going to raise this point: some of the most popular anime today are quite "Japanese" in style, such as Demon Slayer. Anime is an incredible soft power for Japan - it's a...
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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Those are all interesting points that are worth discussing, and just to say I have no clue as to the veracity of the figures I read (it came from an article quoting a Japanese...
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I read a statistic today that the anime industry is today worth something to the tune of 25 billion dollars, and that 80% of the industry's sales are from the international...
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Lupin III: Immortal Bloodline Having successfully fought off the powerful assassins sent after each of them, Lupin and his gang receive a mysterious invitation to an uncharted...
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Vashdaman reacted to RadFemHedonist's post in the thread Underrated/unknown anime movies to watch? with
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OMG yes the first VHD is so so good (also I know you're not a dub fan but the older Streamline dub for it is glorious, just the right balance between campy and sincere), I love... -
Vashdaman replied to the thread Underrated/unknown anime movies to watch?.Not very unknown but I always felt the original Vampire Hunter D movie was underrated in favour of Bloodlust which gets more fanfare. I've always preferred the original and...
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Vashdaman reacted to Professor Irony's post in the thread General anime thoughts/discussion thread. with Like.
Overall, I remember being puzzled about what exactly they were trying to achieve with Stampede. It seemed like they’d put a huge amount of effort into giving the characters...