Vashdaman's latest activity
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Exciting developments, though, for 2026 on the shojo/josei front (I mustn't get too excited but...) with josei manga Ikkoku Nikki by Tomoko Yamashita getting an anime series in... -
Shoujo/josei is weird because the former always seems to do really well in the manga market, with strong titles performing very well indeed, yet life as a josei fan has always...
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I have an amazing boyfriend now he's so cute and lovely and makes me laugh (we already have hilarious in-jokes!) and feel really really safe and secure, he's giving and...
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This is more from a publishing perspective than anime, but I think it perhaps feeds into it all the same. In Japan, while isekai is of course still popular, they've actually...
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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Genuinely awesome post there, @Rui! I think that might be my favourite anime related AUKN forum post of the year, it's deserving of professional publication! A fascinating...
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Sorry, more stream-of-consciousness rambling! I think it's fairly clear that isekai shows are popular globally too; Sentai have almost stopped releasing any other shows on BD...
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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Thanks for that really interesting charting of Isekai history, @Dai! I find the stubborn popularity of what on the surface sounds like a creatively fairly barren genre to be...
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I don't think this is the case. The thing to bear in mind about modern isekai is that it's a misnomer. These aren't other worlds; they're game worlds. Specifically they're game...
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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Yeah, I'm not well versed in the subject, but it seems pretty obvious that media in China has a lot of red lines that can't be crossed, and very obviously there's little to no...
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I think this is true for the somewhat more "hardcore" anime fans, like us who visit forums like this one, and keep up-to-date with the latest anime offerings, news, and...
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My experience of Chinese animation is by no means exhaustive, and I imagine it affects some things more than others, but I have often struggled to shake the feeling of their...
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Vashdaman replied to the thread Anime as a global product.Also interesting point about Chinese animation hitting the spot that Japanese anime is sometimes struggling to these days! That actually makes total sense given that Chinese...
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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...
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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...
