/lit/ - Literature

>>17377314
someone posted a picture of a book by Matt Alt about this exact topic.

They made a shit ton of product and made them cute

>>17377314

tldr mccarthur plowed their society under and rebuilt it to suit his personal geostrategic goals.

It just happened to coincide with the sissification of the West. If boys were actually allowed to be boys and grew up into men, this never would have happened.

its the japanese revenge on the world for the bombs

The Anime Machine - Thomas Lamarre
Anime: A History - Jonathan Clement
The Soul of Anime - Ian Condry
Media Theory in Japan - Steinberg & Zahlten

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>>17377410
>>17377556
These

>>17377314
Full support by the state dept. of the United States

>>17377314

Japan and South Korea are pretty much the only non-western first world countries. Their economies can support massive entertainment indistries, the products of which are novel to westerners. Plus, the kawaii thing has universal appeal

>>17377314
>global success
Prove it.

>>17380307
4chan is an anime board

A combination of several factors.
1) Japanese culture places a high value on art and the creation of it, not for a deeper meaning but as an intrinsic good. Producing art isn't just a hobby for a small few but something enjoyed on a much larger scale to varying degrees
2) Massive economy built around consumerism means a never-ending flow of new products in all sorts of niches
3) Unique style that you can only obtain elsewhere in the form of cheap ripoffs
4) It is easy to obtain and accessible
5) There is no political factor so it can appeal to everyone

>>17377314
You know what it is. I know what it is. We all know what the secret is. It’s the hot underaged girls

>>17377314
The Japanese didn't go out of their way to export their pop culture, it happened more or less naturally as a result of the American pop culture industry abandoning the "hardcore nerd" demographic around the same time as the internet started to take off. The overseas popularity of anime is almost entirely due to piracy, Japanese pop culture companies have only started to take an active interest in foreign markets in the past couple years. Even then marketing is hard, primarily because the psychology of the Japanese otaku and the American nerd are wildly different.

>>17377410
It's wildly popular in Latin America

>>17380798
Speak for yourself I was born to be a japanese otaku

>>17381042
they're next nigga

>>17380798
I think 4chan proves a lot of Westerners enjoy anime exactly the way it's presented, but it's true that if you look on e.g. reddit and twitter only certain things like catch on, like Persona 5 for instance

>>17380798
>The Japanese didn't go out of their way to export their pop culture
Compare this to Korea, where it's literal government-sponsored shilling in a desperate attempt to play catch-up once they saw Japan's organic success.

>>17381292
It's a weird amalgamation though. They still seem to retain their machismo and traditional interest in masculinity while synthesizing it with their interest in Jap stuff. Truly, they have looked beyond the jock-nerd dichotomy.

>>17381042
Males aren’t men in South America either. We’re as pozzed as you are. It’s ogre.

>>17381412
South American jocks don’t care about Japanese culture either. It’s the millennial numales and arthoes who love it.
Dragon Ball is an exception of course but it’s more of a cultural phenomenon in the vein of The Simpsons rather than an interest in Japanese culture.

>>17381623
>Simpsons
Are the best sneedposters Latin American?

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>>17381623
Good takes.

>>17381955
>takes
back to twitter

>>17377314
japanese house music

>>17380724
This