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Vashdaman replied to the thread Your anime viewing journal.I've got back onto GTO again after being sidetracked for a while, I'm still only maybe fifteen or so episodes in but still loving it. It is one of those shows though that when... -
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Maybe it’s because I never had many ADV discs, but I don’t think I ever saw much of their marketing material. The famous What is Anime schtick was a running gag at the local... -
In the 90s, Manga Video took a medium that was barely recognised in the west and marketed it as a genre of adult-oriented SF and fantasy. The late 90s and early 00s saw a shift...
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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...
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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...