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... what anime are 5-12 year olds watching? Most of the popular stuff like MHA or Demon Slayer definitely feels like it’s more for the 12-15 demographic in the US.
Pokemon is the biggest one (and other monster series like Digimon and even some Yokai Watch fans), Naruto/Boruto, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Sailor Moon. I even met a girl today who told me she was watching Yu-Gi-Oh.
 
Pokemon is the biggest one (and other monster series like Digimon and even some Yokai Watch fans), Naruto/Boruto, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Sailor Moon. I even met a girl today who told me she was watching Yu-Gi-Oh.
That must have the American cartoon creators fuming like how the American comic industry hates the manga one for outdoing them.
 
That must have the American cartoon creators fuming like how the American comic industry hates the manga one for outdoing them.
Considering it's all the same titles from the late 90s and early 2000s that were dubbed then and were outperforming American comics and cartoons then too, I feel like it's a trend that's never lost steam.
 
Pokemon is the biggest one (and other monster series like Digimon and even some Yokai Watch fans), Naruto/Boruto, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Sailor Moon. I even met a girl today who told me she was watching Yu-Gi-Oh.
Lol, funny enough, that’s the same shit people were watching when I was in elementary school, though I never really got into them because we didn’t have the channels at home. I assumed there’d be a new generation of “entry level” anime but I guess not.
 
Lol, funny enough, that’s the same shit people were watching when I was in elementary school, though I never really got into them because we didn’t have the channels at home. I assumed there’d be a new generation of “entry level” anime but I guess not.
It's the Hello Kitty of our time, it never goes away completely.
 
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That's because both Superman and Captain America represent old fashioned values, hope, and justice. It conflicts with them.
That and at least for Superman, theres no artificial "fault" or "dark side" for writers to use to pad the story out.
That must have the American cartoon creators fuming like how the American comic industry hates the manga one for outdoing them.
I wouldn't say that they're fuming when they copy anime/manga fairly often.
 
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I blame Korra for that faggot lesbian cancer.
Nope. Blame Adventure Time. Their episode "What Was Missing" lightly teased history between Marceline and PB. Frederator(?) did weekly videos hyping up AT and one video laid it on thick asking if PBxMarceline was "adorbs", resulting in a shitstorm that got the chick from the videos fired. Shockingly enough, the video featured art from Natasha Allegri shipping the two and nothing bad happened to her (quite the opposite, she made Fiona and Cake). Fast forward to the last seasons and PBxMarceline is canon.

AT screwed in the lightbulb of crazy for those yaoi/yuri fantards of old that they can't stop at fantasizing cartoon gays, they need to become gays and get the gays in kids cartoons to jack off to to progress cartoons into a new age filled with rainbows and high fashion. AT made the cut, Korra only widened it. And SU ripped the fucking thing wide open.

That must have the American cartoon creators fuming like how the American comic industry hates the manga one for outdoing them.
Cartoon creators? Oh please they love anime and manga. So much so they can't stop ripping it off or referencing it in their crappy shows. Comic creators are the ones who are salty about their shit being used as pet cage lining. Add in Kevin Feige basically saying fuck comicbooks, just give us the characters then we'll do the rest and the writing is on the wall. Stay tuned for Comics Crash 2: Blame Whitey Boogaloo. 🚬
 
New Adventure Time special is out now. Anyone watched it?
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So a while back I watched some animations made by the National Film Board of Canada, and the 2 that I enjoyed the most are The Sweater:

And The Big Snit:

I've watched each one multiple times in the weeks since. The Sweater stood out to me due to a combination of its animation, music, and voice acting. It's just an overall aesthetically pleasing animation to watch.

Going into The Big Snit I knew about the ending, but holy crap did it hit hard regardless. Beautiful piece of animation.

If there is anyone here who hasn't seen these, I highly recommend watching them.
 
The fuck is up with gaijin animation going full cal-arts. Watching the opening for the 90s Batman TAS just depresses me knowing that detail will never return. Although i will say having watched a cartoon like Flapjack back when it was on was a pretty neat experience guess its due to my joy of weird shit like Billy and Mandy.
 
New Adventure Time special is out now. Anyone watched it?
I’m starting to wonder if the creators in general just dislike Finn now or something. The one before this is about Bubblegum and Marceline being together and all, and Finn’s episode is about
him being dead and reincarnating.

Not exactly the close to Finn’s story I was hoping for.
 
I’m starting to wonder if the creators in general just dislike Finn now or something. The one before this is about Bubblegum and Marceline being together and all, and Finn’s episode is about
him being dead and reincarnating.

Not exactly the close to Finn’s story I was hoping for.
I don't have HBO Max

Finn is dead now? Well that's a sad why to end his story
 
The fuck is up with gaijin animation going full cal-arts. Watching the opening for the 90s Batman TAS just depresses me knowing that detail will never return. Although i will say having watched a cartoon like Flapjack back when it was on was a pretty neat experience guess its due to my joy of weird shit like Billy and Mandy.
I was more of a Chowder guy. Not sure I've ever seen a full episode of Flapjack.
 
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