So now you know why animated characters are so popular in Japan. They express feelings and vent frustrations that the typically reserved, often overworked Japanese can’t, and they’re fun escapes from the everyday grind. So while they look cute on the surface, these cartoon characters are really quite complex and transcend geographic boundaries.
you don’t have to be japanese to make an anime but it makes it easier as japanese studios say, its even ok to have japanese blood withn yourself just so its easily identified withn culture. if you were to make one you would have to have japanese proficiency and go to a university of animation (or really just an anime uni). (or your just making a …
When Genshin Impact launched in 2020, developer MiHoYo expected the game to succeed in China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and other East core markets. But the game broke all expectations, and the Chinese free-to-play mobile game managed to catch the attention of over 10 million players in a matter of weeks.
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Avatar is not an anime but many critics tend to put Avatar in the category of anime due to the inspiration of Cowboy Bebop and Studio Ghibli.
Avatar is not entirely an anime but has mostly been referred to as such.
Avatar is called an anime because it comes from the anime industry. From a light novel to an anime television series.
“Becoming Japanese” requires you to study the language, the literature, the customs, the cultural strengths, the cultural weaknesses, the history, and everything else.
Sure, it is possible for a Westerner to “become” Japanese; that is, to be nationalized and embrace the culture. But it takes years of cultural absorption for anyone to become Japanese or American or British in the same sense someone born to the culture is. Childhood is the formative period of cultural understanding, ...
Yes, it is a part of Japanese culture and introduces viewers to folklore, language, and literature. But you can only absorb so much through watching. If you are a long time reader, you’ve seen me use anime as a springboard to go deeper into history and culture, such as Naruto ‘s links to Confucianism.
Likewise, while manga is vast, it isn’t the only form of Japanese literature. Japan publishes all sorts of novels, nonfiction, and other literary works. Americans don’t eat hamburgers as often as many may think. Big Macs are a tiny part of American food culture.
アニメ or rather anime, is simply a japanese term for animation. So techincally, it Chinese animations is a form of animation so in Japanese you kinda call it anime. Donghua, Anime, Cartoons…same thing in different languages.Hence theoretically , no prob.
Some Japanese anime fans get offended when people call anime (aka Japanese productions) “cartoons”, because cartoons has become synonyms with Ben 10, The Simpsons, Spongebob,etc, and in their opinion, anime is referring to Naruto, One piece, SNK,SAO,Tokyo Ghoul,One punch man , etc.
The japanese stories are a melting pot of cultural infusion, blending in the best of western ideas and concepts, while remaining faithful to asian and japanese themes and contexts in particular, and that makes the content agreeable to most viewers as compared to other animations from other countries.
Others reasons are : Japan was the first country to be industrialised, to produce fashion trends in all the domains that we know : technology, music, fashion, manga, animation…. They were and are still simply the leader in Asia in all these popular cultures. Then after, came Korea and now, China.
In the domain of comics and animation though, Japan is still the Number One, because they were the creators of this genre/culture, were the first to do it and are still the best and most creative with the largest genres and sub-genres (from Shonen to Hentai, from Shojo to Josei, comedy, horror to psycho drama...).
Japanese anime is often surreal. Also I feel like a lot of Chinese anime tend to adapt a more vibrant art style. Another thing to note about Japanese anime is that they tend to have a lot of popular tropes that are commonly used throughout the media, in correspondence to their culture and preference.
Chinese anime aren’t popular at all. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since “Japan” is the originator of anime. No different to how America is the “originator” of Hip Hop. That being said - there’s one reason why Chinese anime seems to have “lower ratings” and less popularity on MAL…. BIAS.
Anime dialogue, meanwhile, is predominantly the sort of dialogue you'd hear among kids at recess. While some shows do, of course, take place in an adult setting and/or have measured, polite, realistic characters, most of anime's iconic characters and lines come from teenagers and/or warriors of some kind.
And formal Japanese is very different than looser language. Verbs are conjugated differently, extra words and fragments of words are added just for decorum, and the language takes on an indirectness ...
Much like their American counterparts, Japanese voice talent generally over-enunciate every word, and put a lot more tone of voice into every sentence. If you picked up most of your Japanese from anime and try to speak it in the same way, you're going to sound like a radio announcer rather than a normal person.
It depends on what you mean by “anime”…. Anime is the Japanese word for “animation and it comes from the French word — pronounced the same way (allowing for accents) — for “animate” . So, if you take “anime” to mean animation, of course there’s Chinese anime.
The best definition is probably simply a “style” of animation that originated in Japan, and so there is American anime and Chinese anime and any other country where that style is produced. By THAT definition, there’s quite a bit of Chinese anime out there, although much of it isn’t very interesting in my opinion.
There are two different things anime fans are called; ‘weebs’ and ‘otakus’. A weeb is someone who is more social but still a fan of anime, they are considered less “nerdy” in nature and can socialize better than those who shut themselves off from society by watching anime.
The series started more than 10 years ago, and it now has 5 season in it original story arc as well as 4 special seasons of prequels and back stories.
However broadly speaking, Chinese animation is just called 动画 ( donghua), or douga in Japanese. This is important since all guoman are donghua, but not all donghua are guoman. In fact, donghua refers to all manner of animation, including 3DCG and shows with a “cartoon” look. As such, when someone praises all of Chinese animation, ...
Simply put though, there isn’t a separation in Japan between what we typically think of “anime” and other Japanese animations such as 3DCG.