Short History of Chinese Otaku Culture - Building A Pop Culture Industry From Scratch

[@CoolHistoryBros]

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[@mban2748]

I'm from USA. Born in the mid 60s. in the 70s, my brothers and I watched Ultraman every weekend when it showed.

[@The_Real_Kal-El]

Yo man is your accent real? It sounds and feel over exaggerated. I want to sub to this channel but I can’t get pass what I feel is an accent that is played up. It takes me out of it. If this is your real accent my apologies, I just hate it when Asian KZbinrs play up the accent.

[@Junbug92]

When do you plan on uploading again? Just wondering

[@RainbowKid0Hakuzo]

I don't know why you stopped uploading these last months but I hope you are ok and you keep your work because I honestly love them and watch them all. Best wishes

[@zhcultivator]

Hi there, What if Mohism took over China philosophically? instead of Confucianism... what do you think would have happened?

[@AccentedCinema]

Anecdote: Otaku media was so popular in the 90s, our parents hated it with their guts. So many stories of parents banning their children from watching anime. That's how popular it was.

[@CoolHistoryBros]

Now that their kids are earning big money, I'm sure that they're feeling very foolish now.

[@kweassa6204]

Woow! Accented Cinema!! YOU ROCK!

[@ajithsidhu7183]

@@CoolHistoryBros please do on racism in East asia

[@Neuvari]

accented cinema please tell me where can i watch or download deep sea donghua!!!!!!!! or at least review it in your video

[@ikmalkamal5830]

Parents are stupid like that. No wonder the grown up children neglect them and dump them. Serves them right.

[@Kasaaz]

I do think Japan has a particular fascination with insects that most other cultures and countries don't really have and that's maybe why Kamen Rider did so much better there than elsewhere.

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

Kamen raider used to be very popular in Indonesia tho. we call them ksatria baja hitam (basically blacksteel warrior). But i think it's due to popularity of sentai/hero series in general rather than fascination in insects, cause we don't have that culture.

[@Kasaaz]

@@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12 Sometimes it might even be things like who people in the television industry might know at the other companies and stuff to get deals done. It's very fascinating.

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

@@Kasaaz yeah that maybe is, but then again in Indonesia all three tokutsatsu are very popular, ultraman, kamen rider, and power rangers (american version with american actors) are aired daily before and after school time in my childhood.

[@DemonFox369]

Pokémon originated as a concept because the creator was into bug catching. Pokémon has the bug catching contest in the original games. Yugioh may have started from bug catching too. I think Digimon, Yokai Watch, and Megaman have some relation to bug catching as well.

[@goldman77700]

@@DemonFox369 Yes Satoshi Tajiri. Pokemon was the merging of his two first great loves into one-bug catching and video games.

[@湖心幽亭]

Imo the Cultural Revolution only damaged the animation industry, but it was the introduction of anime and free market system that killed it. You can still see some nice animation released after the CR, like Nezha and shan shui qing. The Chinese animation before was definitely beautiful but with terribly high cost that have to be funded by the government, so the industry was easily crushed down when Japanese anime (how can you compete with a lower cost and higher productivity opponent?) came to compete and the government stopped funding the production. After that Chinese animation went on to reform and learn from others, and produced the donghua we see today.

[@phoeben9764]

I wonder if that's what happened to Qin's moon (Qinshimingyue). It had the potential of being a classic anime, but went downhill from season 4 onwards

[@موسى_7]

I really liked the old Chinese cartoons which look like ink paintings. Think of Havoc in Heaven.

[@zhanlin6179]

Lets just be fair, without the culture revolution, the animation industry if being unharmed could potentially find its way out facing the introduction of free market system, and yet since in reality the industry is being damaged prior to the introduction of free market system, anything can knock it off by that point.

[@001suisen4]

It's not a matter of cost. It's a matter of content and creativity. Japanese anime simply has the best content in the world. That's the secret to its success.

[@Raida]

On your point of the 3 Big Tokusatsu, as a Malaysian, I think this is a difficult question to answer. Growing up in the 90s to early 2000s, Ultraman was undoubtedly the king, but in recent years, I'd say that Kamen Rider either rivals or surpasses it. Living in Japan though, I'd say this is not too dissimilar from Japan as just comparing the original Ultraman series and original Kamen Rider series shows that Japanese fans responded MUCH more strongly to the former than the latter. The issue is that in the mid-2000s, Ultraman didn't have a major network presence and didn't start regularly airing new Ultra Heroes until the mid-2010s. Meanwhile, Kamen Rider really started to revolutionise itself from the 2000s, and with the competition essentially taking itself off the board, this gave Kamen Rider free reign to be THE favorite Tokusatsu of many Japanese people.

[@Raida]

Btw, given how your video later goes into the popularity of Danmei, I think that has its own weird reflection in Kamen Rider from the 2000s too, as it started to employ VERY good-looking actors to portray characters who had very intense love/hate relationships with other characters portrayed by very good-looking actors. Nothing explicit is ever shown, but it was a huge thing back in the early 2000s that a lot of young mothers were VERY interested in Kamen Rider because of this practice.

[@loull_aroll]

Born in 1989 in China, I remember having access to anime and manga at a really young age, in Kindergarten. I vividly recall reading and watching Fist of the Northern Star, and now looking back, it's a lot more violent than most shows these days!

[@samweirich5973]

Bro, come back, we need more content.

[@calafiori]

In Brazil, I grew up in the early 90's with all the Japanese super heroes of the time: Black Kamen Rider, Jiraiya, Jiban, Flashman, Changeman and Jaspion. Loved them all and they were all pretty popular here. A couple of years ago I found a VHS with recorded episodes of Jiban and Changeman, what a ride it was watching that again!

[@uyuman1]

I was surprised to see a new video from you discussing Otaku culture in China, when I clicked I thought it was an Accented Cinema video as I am subscribed to both channels.

[@marcobuncit7539]

Well, both are even colaborated with Accented did put CJ's Jet Li's quotes & that CJ did provide a sequel of Accented's chinese animation review.

[@adrianusnicholas8600]

You know Indonesia has a large amount of fans of manhwa and manga/anime and may even did the same thing of publishing wattpad novels with manhwa esque covers. And those may be the influence of the manhwa-like ken dede comic a friend told me about.

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

Will we see the rise of a domestic otaku culture in Africa?

[@CoolHistoryBros]

Not unthinkable. Check out Saturday AM with their line-up of manga series created by African American authors.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I have heard of a Zimmerit article about Ivorians enjoying Grendizer (aka Goldorak). I have also seen an Anime Herald Article about young Nigerians enjoying anime too!

[@zhcultivator]

I hope so tbh

[@phoeben9764]

I was watching through all your other Chinese videos, and thought it would be a great video if you can introduce the history behind all the 'trope' locations in Chinese historical dramas, such as the Yumen pass, the Xiyu, and so on.

[@majutsushisliceoflife]

This is quite an eye-opener! I was wondering why there were so many Chinese cosplayer pages on Facebook,(I started following a lot of them) and now I know why.

[@Youngcl77]

上有政策下有对策literally works in every country 😂

[@feilox]

Yep the professional Chinese cosplayers are amazing, they are equivalent to western supermodels or internet celebrities. It's just amazing when someone put that amount of time and effort into something.

[@fatemajamali]

I really appreciate your videos. They are very informative

[@irinaiturri]

Here in Brasil in 80s and 90s the most popular tokusatsus was Jaspion, Changeman, Kamen Rider Black (and Back RX) and Jiraya (but many other tokusatsus came here too). Of course Power Rangers came here too

[@ilyasanzo]

In Malaysia in the 90s.. we boys growing up reading Hong Kong comics like from Tony Wong and such. The one punch man drawer animator even influence his drawing from Hong Kong comics. But we will never see the comics become animation.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Filipino western style Komiks and Filipino manga style Komiks are rather prominent in their country of origin.

[@herbertvonbismarck8303]

Could you do a video on South Korean culture in regards to web comics?

[@CARL_093]

Thanks bro Do not forget goryeo jeoseon relationship to yuan ming and qing dynasty china

[@jaylee571]

waiting for your hongwu emperor history video

[@leorianr]

Great video indeed! I´m from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean and Power Rangers is still very popular but mostly because of the original 90´s run. The most popular anime here is Dragon Ball and to this date is a cultural reference, even some words like "saiyajin" are part of the popular slang.

[@kkamiya9038]

In Hong Kong, it was Kamen Rider, Ultraman and Super Sentai, that was the most popular of the Tokusatsu. There were others shown too. Anime wise, Doraemon is the longest running. Dragonball series, Saint Seiya, Captain Tsubasa, Sailormoon were most popular during the 80s and 90s.

[@TurlasThe6]

Hey CJ! Hope you're doing well. Working on anything or taking a break? Always look forward to your videos! 😄

[@androidandroid2966]

As a British colony, Hong Kong developed somewhat differently than rest of China. Both Ultraman and Kamen Rider was enormously popular in the 70s, as well as the mecha anime’s of the time. Basically, most of what was popular in Japan came over to Hong Kong in just a few years.

[@emilioalvarez3731]

Love the channel! Just finished the Water Margin megavideo and this just came out what a treat

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

In Indonesia all 3 tokusatsu are really popular in my childhood. I remember watch them all when i was an elementary schooler before and after school. Albeit power ranger in Indonesia uses American power ranger (American actors but just in Indonesian dubs).

[@dohminkonoha3200]

いつも通り素晴らしいビデオ👍📹

[@theawesomeman9821]

"The Avatar King", and "Mao Dao Zu Shi" are some of China's best animated shows. I think they're on par and even better than many Shonen anime from Japan.

[@001suisen4]

It doesn't even come close to Japanese anime.

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@001suisen4 did you watch any of those Chinese shows?

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

About danmei as a boy with female weeb friends i agree... cause all of my female weeb friends are all fujoshi and they are fuckin rich, they are willing to spend so much money for BL... Even my artist friends can get a lot of money from selling characters with BL ships (they are not paired in one merch or showed too sexually to be not too obvious, so they usually sold both characters separately so they can sell 2 goods at once and circumvent the censorship) in conventions daily even when they don't sell an openly BL stuff (edit: cause in Indonesia LGBT and pornography is also banned and censored due to religion). Those stuffs are popular as fuck everywhere. As a yuridanshi I can only hope the yuri genre is as popular as yaoi is... Thankfully this year there are many big yuri titles adapted into anime! I can see the light of hope when the yuri community is budding up and starting to rise into a golden age!

[@michaelrae9599]

I was like, "Oh wow, I remember Ultraman" and felt proud, until I was then told that knowing that makes me really old. 😮

[@marcobuncit7539]

"Sometimes the best getaway for my hentai is by going on another gateway for my hentai." --- Sun Zu, The Art of Getting Uncensored ---

[@black_thunder2159]

one overlooked & tend to be despised take; learning by copying is the best way to grow. It allows you to see what works best, adapt, & built your own infrastructure to greatness in the future. others are just too full of their ego & pride to acknowledge nothing is original as everything was inspired by something or an idea.

[@eavatar]

in Brazil Super sentai are super popular, but at least one otaku generation has sweet memories from metal heroes like Jiban and Jaspion. CJ, do you have plans to make a video about XIX/XX centuriy asian diaspora to west?

[@daniellin1726]

This is a fantatsic summary on the topic! First I've seen of its kind since 七海琉璃's talk on it many years back.

[@NobodyHere951]

Will you be doing an animated Journey to the West summary?

[@yesfinallygot1]

i love this channel bro. best of luck in your tabletop endeavors!

[@elkingoh4543]

As a Malaysian, want to thank you because mentioned Mechamoto the Movie. Can't wait for international reaction to Mechamoto The Movie release

[@TheManFromWaco]

So basically, after Japan lost the Second World War, it built the Greater East Asian Weaboo Sphere instead. I'll show myself out.

[@anngo4140]

Where you been my guys :(

[@Teng_xiaole]

ultra man was super popular in my younger years in China (early 200s), but towards 2010, I remember Kamen rider starting to air

[@zainmudassir2964]

This makes me want to start animation studio in my country by offering cheap animation production

[@hanchiman]

Personally, would like to see the HK style of Manwa art like "A Man named Hero", "Tiger Dragon Gate" or a remake of "Young and Dangerous" being made into animated cinema instead of Live Action movie.

[@hailongnguyenha5421]

It is a shame though because the original comic "Teddy boy" that "Young and dangerous" adapt from is very good.

[@hanchiman]

@@hailongnguyenha5421 yeah also the Chang Ho Lam actually at some point in the story ended up as a drug addict but then managed to quit. The last chapter is him retiring in Burma or Myamnar I remember living in peace. The last movie staring Ekin Chen was from early 2000 I remember where he was meeting the remaining childhood friends at a dinner

[@hailongnguyenha5421]

@@hanchiman He quit drug by learning Muay Laos in Laos and the last chapter is him retiring in Laos. The Japanese assasins and the one blonde Muay Thai fighter are often cooler than the maincast, shame they are not included in the movies.

[@hanchiman]

@@hailongnguyenha5421 yeah also I remember Bao Pei (Dick skin) end up as a bad guy or something where he become some sort of boss and fat

[@hailongnguyenha5421]

@@hanchiman He become the underling of a major antagonist( the blonde pontytail guy ), there are no bad guys because the protagonists are also pretty bad in the comic.

[@frankleepower2333]

In the 1970's, California, Ultraman and Speed Racer were very popular after school shows to watch.

[@WiseYuri]

Out of the big three sentai series, in Italy Power Ranger was massively popular back in the 90s and it's still remembered today by the older generations, while Ultraman and Kamen Rider never got localized so they're more than niche here. Italy was also big on the "Attacker, You!", that spokon on volleyball.

[@14.huanle60]

In Vietnam when talking about super sentai (năm anh em siêu nhân) 2 most well-known sentais come to mind which are Hyakujuu Sentai Gao Ranger (Bách Thú Chiên Đội - Siêu nhân Gao) and Ninpuu Sentai Hurricane-ger (Nhẫn phong chiến đội - Siêu nhân cuồng phong). For the 9x and 20x generations these particular sentai series were the chidlhood for many, including me.

[@hailongnguyenha5421]

Okay, quite late now but what are the animes in the introduction (excluding Genshin)? I can't find them anywhere.

[@fleem5]

Born and raised in Hawaii. As a kid in the 70s and 80s Kikaida and Kamen Rider were aired locally. Many were aired as well (Go Rangers, Zaboga, Inazuman, Rainbow Man, Ultra Man, etc.) but those two seemed to dominate in popularity.

[@rockmsp_art]

In India. Most people have already watched anime without realizing it, and some anime have been dubbed, such as Naruto. Naruto got overrated as a result of content creators who did not completely watch Naruto and created cringe-worthy stuff to attract a larger audience.

[@kkamiya9038]

What happened to this channel, there's suddenly no new video.

[@mban2748]

I found your other channel discussing Kara-Tur. Now I'm subbed to both. I enjoy your style and learning about your culture. I also enjoy Xiran's content. I'm just saying hello and I'm one westerner who doesn't mind accents.

[@AlexandreSantosBR]

In Brazil by far the most common was Metal Heroes, specially Jaspion. Ultraman was also famous with an older generation, together with Spectreman. But Tokusatsu have been out of fashion and mostly forgotten in Brazil since the last 90s.

[@irinaiturri]

because of power rangers =/

[@diablorojo3887]

Brasil here, and Black Kamen Rider all the way I am curious about the reception on China of manga/anime that are cherfull of the continent culture like Ramma 1/2 (problably censored), Hokuto no Ken, sekigaki otokojuku, etc. I am current reading a "Manhua caled "Journey to the east", pretty interesting

[@FOLIPE]

I think that neither Kamen Rider or Ultraman, but Juspion/Jaspion, is the most popular in Brazil.

[@eavatar]

*slaps with spectroman giant hand* respect your elder. Before Kamen raider we had ultraman and spectroman and after them came jaspion, giban and lion man. Even Patrine came before Kamen raider.

[@diablorojo3887]

@@eavatar spectroman is very old, and Jaspion and CIA come in the same batch as KR, patrine is way after if I not mistake

[@eavatar]

@@diablorojo3887 Kamen raider was the last and the least successful show which was aired during manchete final days. And it is remembered just by hard core fans. And Patrine came first

[@PikaCheeks]

I'm Vietnamese Australian and in Australia it's just Power Rangers of course same like America but I think in Vietnam, Super Sentai was very popular, especially GaoRanger (Wild Force) for some reason.

[@tanglung1543]

Wow!!! Cool History Bros, you made another amazing video. And I must say that yeah, I believe what you say here!!! Talking about anime-style series in Western culture, there is this Crunchyroll Original named #OnyxEquinox (based on Mexican-Mesoamerican Culture) and it was very popular IN JAPAN ITSELF!!!! I loved it alongside #Kingdom. Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 to all the Worldwide Otaku Culture!!!!

[@theawesomeman9821]

The Chinese may be late to anime but they do a fantastic job perfecting the anime style of animation.

[@inggitgarnasih1305]

Indonesian here, around 90's to early 2000 Tokusatsu were big, besides those three, Godzilla franchise was notable enough to be aired in TV. I'd say now days only Kamen Rider that still watched online since they has many iteration. I see that some ACGN works gets international attention either already had massive fanbase or implement more traditional look and story in saturated media. Like how most of danmei novels that got licensed in the West, the fans already read translated version online now it got printed and introduce into bigger market. Games with western fantasy already plenty, Black Myth: Wukong came with JTTW settings and pleasing aesthetic... People get excited to try it.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Ishinomori Productions coproduces Bima Satria Garuda. It’s a franchise which is super popular in Indonesia, where cheapish Sinetrons rule the roost.

[@lerneanlion]

Since it has been quite a trend in anime to adopt German culture and stuffs into series with the European settings, will donghua do the same? If there are some manhua with the European-like settings existed out there, of course.

[@CoolHistoryBros]

I think it is quite unlikely that they are going towards that direction. From what I see, there is a tendency to explore ethnic minority culture of China.

[@lerneanlion]

@@CoolHistoryBros Can you explain why will that be the case, please? I mean, I see no reason to not do so. And even if that reason is to avoid direct competition, they can go for cultures of other countries like the ones in Eastern Europe to make the setting more Slavic instead while also keeping the sense of mystical things in place.

[@CoolHistoryBros]

I think it's a matter of education. I don't think their education focuses much on Europe, Russia maybe, since there were historical ties. I don't see much content at all on European fantasy. I think Japan is the exception here in Asia.

[@lerneanlion]

@@CoolHistoryBros Well, maybe we might get to see the donghua that featured the Eastern European setting with heavy cultural stuffs originated from Slavic and possibly, Tatar cultures one day in the future. Right? I mean, anything can happen.

[@dayandlight111]

@@lerneanlion France and Italy are far more influential than Germany among the Japanese like anywhere else ... you may think of attack on titan as "Germany". Most Japanese see no Germany in it, expressing how unpopular Germany is... german culture is nothing near France or Italy (People don't even know about the existence of german cuisine) and that includes Anime world

[@squalleonkeneddyheart4191]

This explains why Vox leads the Superchat rankings lol

[@ariprabowo85]

An Indonesian here. I grew up in the late 80s and throughout the 90s. I remembered that otaku media, or any foreign media, were only accessible to middle and upper income families in urban areas, particularly in late 80s and early 90s. After 1998, many private-owned TV stations would air dubbed classic Japanese anime and Tokusatsu series like Ultraman and Kamen Rider (In Indonesia, the show's title is changed to Kesatria Baja Hitam - Lit: Black Steel Knight).

[@rdzreborn2k7kt]

I'm from the US and been looking up tokusatsu shows like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai on tubi my favorites are the following Kuuga, Jetman, Ryuki and Zero-1

[@veergaitandra]

here in india, power rangers is most well known tokusatsu series but personally i love ultraman more.

[@thehumus8688]

serriously Chinese YAOI manhwa and Light novel have TONS of title and I think make up majority of its content (like at least 40% of the genre) At the early period its not that much, but today there like tons of YAOI and BL in the market

[@RizalBoon]

In Malaysia, I would say Ultraman might be the leading Tokusatsu, There is even once a collab with local studios and that is wholesome. Although I would also say Power Rangers are not far behind either as I have a childhood bias with Power Rangers and one of my friend would not shut up about Kamen Rider Ryuki at one time. Haha good old times

[@Botar48]

I find openly ignoring the copyright laws to just make movies of stuff fascinating. Technically first Star Trek movie ever was made my country Turkey. We just took characters and setting of Star Trek and shamelessly made a movie.

[@NaseerZanki]

Good explanation 👍👍👍

[@gabrielcarvalhosaraiva4138]

Jaspion -Brazil

[@hailongnguyenha5421]

What are the anime the start of this video? Save for Genshin of course.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Otaku Colombia papá!!!!!

[@DemonFox369]

Animation can really be similar in concept to shadow puppetry

[@Neuvari]

where can i watch or download deep sea donghua??????

[@songjunw8981]

My opinion; without Wan Laiming, there'll be no Osamu Tezuka.

[@elkingoh4543]

The Chinese and Japanese animation is gangsta until Mechamoto came in

[@Policorrectus]

I hope Chinese Otaku Culture will make further impact in North America. The North Americans need more help to save them from "Not" Velma, "Princess of Powah", Fake He-man and Teela....

[@mmcsarte]

Ultraman was huge in Brasil in the 90s, but now Power rangers dominate as US media took over cable channels

[@bar-1studios]

Well, *Castlevania* is still an anime. Even if it was written in the US, all animation duties were still shopped out to Japanese studios.

[@danielmonzon7165]

i am surprised you only mention the manhua and not the donghua of combat continent. Also swallowed star, doupo canquiong and many more of top quality donghua was not included in the video

[@BritanniaItalia]

please come back :(

[@VieShaphiel]

It was probably Power Rangers in Taiwan as well... at least in my generation (born in the 80s)

[@unifieddynasty]

What a great video. Your channel does a great job of showing how interconnected we all are. If only the Chinese government/culture would liberalize a bit more; they would realize the huge boon to their soft power in the world.

[@phelyxz]

Of course Chinese first Cartoon features monkey king 😁

[@noonehere_kasut]

FYI you forgot to change the caption at 15:06 for Castlevania! Appreciate this video though! I'm Malaysian and it's nice to see Mechamato mentioned ( ﾟ ▽ﾟ )/

[@ТакэсимаэтоЯпония]

interesting topic

[@yulusleonard985]

lol no wonder Luxiem insanely popular in China.

[@yulusleonard985]

@UCvsvU28N-iZifWILsb952kQ they are not targeting fujis. Luxiem also not targeting fujis by design but it happens over time, they stumble upon a gold mine and they learn and adapt and now they overtake Hololive in global revenue. It a happy accident that anycolour never predict. They never predict anything but 2022 is a great year for them. I dont know about 2023 but seeing their newest members are pure blood Japanese/Chinese/Korean I know where they are heading to and hope they can find success.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Power Rangers and Ultra Man from Colombia.

[@archmagos1436]

It seems your patreon is not accessible -- is that intentional?

[@crazyviking24]

From the United States and Power Rangers is the first that I remember and then Pokemon and DragonBall and Digimon.

[@Nemo_Anom]

I'm really curious: I cannot place your accent. It sounds almost Cantonese, but I don't know of an East Asian language that has a rolled/trilled 'r' sound. What is your first language?!

[@malagebide]

Indonesia

[@francissreckofabian01]

I don't really like anime or Manga (my nephew loves it. He even learned Chinese). but I have the boxed set of Kimba (I was a child of the 60s). Also liked Astro Boy and I have a Gigantor doll on my desk. But I don't like anime (I . . . . think???!!!) I remember Prince Planet and, of course, Marine Boy. And, as an Australian child, I loved the Ninjas and The Samurai. Not anime but still. Heeeyyy! Did you just call me old??? I resemble that remark. P.S. I also have a Gojira doll. Full scale. It goes through my roof and the tail is in my garage. I didn't think I'd find this topic interesting but I did.

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

Nice

[@fabienlyraud8475]

China is probably the next great nation of pop culture. In China pop culture is also a resistance force against Xi power. Soul Land is the greatest franchise in China. And the villain organisation, the martial Soul Hall is a mean to criticize the imperialism of CPC. The villainess Bibi Dong is a female vesrsion of Mao. In drama i've seen bureaucracy criticism, totalitarism criticism, transposition of Tibet occupation in the fantasy world and recently a denonciation of ethnic repression. Pop Culture has permetted to open mind of the young generation and it's an element to open road to democracy.

[@SatanBla]

i hope none of this happens. mao was a hero. you want to liberalise china, a liberal china will end up like the woke west. no thx. democracy as practiced in western countries is awful where you value popular people over effective people. it's recipe for disaster. china should focus on meritocracy instead of democracy. i don't care about the most popular guy in school. i care about who can do the maths.

[@malagebide]

This is a cultural invasion of sovereign countries! The shameless behavior that the CIA would only do! Why don't you resist your country or your parents first!?

[@supa3ek]

Actually chinese had a very strong cartoon culture way before japanese anime. If you go to any chinese library you will see very old cartoons dated way before 1917 manga ! In fact its origin dates back to a thousand years ago where they used it for portraits. Its only in recent decades that manga has had an impact on the style where a lot of chinese cartoons have adopted foreign styles into it !!!! But if you see the cartoons in any chinese library you see it is different (1 difference is in the disproportionate eyes).

[@fabienlyraud8475]

Under the revolutionnary era, chinese pop culture was dead in mainland but survived in Hong Kong and Taïwan. HK and Taïwan have saved chinese culture and not only pop culture. Wuxia litterature, cinema and manhua have had a live in Hong Kong and Taïwan before their return in China in the beginning of the 90's.

[@leexingha]

as a long time anime fans, manhua from time to time are getting good. nowadays, many esekai are trash. back then, my lists is full of JP anime and hardly of CN. but now, my lists were dominated by local anime

[@zhanlin6179]

Local anime…你是国人？

[@001suisen4]

The term "manhwa" is a name that Koreans gave to Japanese manga after stealing it. By using that name, Koreans are spreading the lie that "manga is an original Korean product." No one in the world uses that name except Koreans.

[@undbidmonster0763]

In the Philippines, Voltes V is popular

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Hey, this year, the Voltes V Legacy #teleserye is coming soon! It’s going to be a wild ride.

[@siendut123]

di indo paling poluler sih ksatria baja hitam

[@silversurfer2977]

Please come back Cool History Bros. I want to know which nation are you from.

[@Punktdyr]

i have never seen a super sentai show on tv. but i know power rangers has aired at one point. PS i am from Denmark.

[@TheManFromWaco]

10:50 "Boy do these companies know how to make money!" As somebody who spent more than I care to admit on MICA Team's "Girls Frontline" mobile game... yeah, this is true.

[@deepseer]

It belongs to the "moe anthropomorphized weapons" gene, popularized by Japanese game Kantai (Fleet) Collection. However its monetizing model is upgraded to meet the demand of players outside Japan.

[@al22st]

Chinese Karl Marx anime is a thing