Why Anime Is So Popular in Japan: The Top 5 Reasons Japanese Like Anime So Much!
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You may have found it impossible to learn Japanese only with anime. However, watching anime is very effective for studying Japanese. The reason is that anime is suitable for Japanese listening. The voices of the anime characters come from voice actors. In Japan, the profession of voice acting is now very popular.
Introduction of popular overseas Japanese anime/manga
Animation created outside of Japan can be inspired by anime, but it can't actually be anime because it simply lacks that Japanese je ne sais quoi.
No. It must be done in Japan, for a Japanese audience. Of which we (at least me) as American(s), watch. Hence Airbender, is not anime.
hanguk aeniTo distinguish it from its Japanese counterpart, Korean animation is often called hanguk aeni (Korean: 한국 애니; lit. Korean animation) or guksan aeni (Korean: 국산 애니; lit. domestic animation).
There are even multiple characters from the original series that appear in their anime iteration. However, while the internet loved it, the SpongeBob SquarePants anime series was short-lived.
Gatekeeping in the anime community is common. I’ve already talked about it before. Most people are doing it wrong.
The God Of Highschool is adapted from Korean webtoons. And made into…. an anime series.
RWBY was made in America, making this drastically different to The God Of Highschool.
The Tower of God, similar to The God Of Highschool, is a popular webtoon series in South Korea.
Avatar is no doubt a seriously popular series made in the USA. So just like RWBY, it’s not made on Japanese soil.
This is something I’ve struggled to find evidence of. Most opinions are always people trying to speak for the Japanese as if they share the same view point.
Anime is a Japanese loanword used to refer to any sort of animation. Outside of Japan, in other countries, anime is generally considered to be a type of a cartoon. You can make a cartoon in a style similar to anime, but it can't truly be considered an anime. Why not, you ask?
For example, Avatar:The Last Airbender is produced in America, but takes on a lot of the distinctive characteristics of anime: Conversely, Panty & Stocking looks a lot like some western animation and is produced in Japan.
To the Japanese, it's still considered anime. This is because, for Japanese, anime refers to any work that is animated. To anyone outside of Japan, it gets murkier. Americans specifically use the noun to mean "animation created within Japan". So, since it wasn't created in Japan, it's not an anime as Americans would recognize it.
Anime is what it is today thanks to the efforts made in Japan for the sake of the genre. It's just like having your ethnic food in a foreign country. Some times it gets close but most of the time it'll have to acknowledge that it's not the same as if you had it in your home country.
While you can say it's ethnic food, it's just not the same. Strictly speaking, 'anime' is just animations produced within Japan, as it's the Japanese word for cartoons/animations, but their distinctive style sometimes dictates how people define them term 'anime'.
Anime doesn't HAVE to be strictly Japanese, but some rules have to be followed for this (the same applies to "manga," the comic book version of anime). If an anime is made in Japan (especially if the original language of creation is Japanese) then it is free to be called anime. Same goes for manga.