What's the deal with some anime and being randomly popu

I loved this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzy8iw-rb14

Frenchfag here, never heard of it, and I had my fair share of classic animu as a kid.

But I can understand how this became a classic among those who watched it. Back in the day, France only had 6 TV channels, including a paying one. Cable was (and is still) almost non-existent. Starting in the late 70s and through the mid-90s, children shows were flooded with anime (one of the earliest example was Grendizer IIRC). This stuff was so popular, the major children show, the Club Dorothee, which mixed anime, sitcoms and sketches, had up to 30hr of airtime a week, with 8hr of live show on wednesday (traditional day-off at elementary school back then). And that was just for the first channel.
Major stuff like DBZ and Hokuto no Ken (yeah, it was the perfect morning in the producer's mind) was mixed with minor and older stuff, like Kimengumi, Uruei Yatsura or Sally.
So it's no surprise stuff that might appears obscure in the US was popular overseas, since the kids were brainwashed with it. Most of the older anime fans will cite Captain Harlock, Space Cobra, Versailles no Bara, Saint Seya or Grendizer as major influences (heck, I've event met my 45 yo teacher at a screening of the last Harlock movie).
Here's a list of anime aired in the Club Dorothee (in French with French titles, but whatever): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Doroth%C3%A9e#Dessins_anim.C3.A9s
And it was just one channel.

Back then there was stuff like this who aired in the morning along with saint seiya, hokuto no ken and dbz
But some governement bitch found it too brutal and anime almost became non existant
Nowaday there is only mainstream stuff like dbz kai, naruto, Op and sometime there is seasonal anime

>>148489993
I was quite surprised to see Girlish Number on TV tbqh

>>148490314
Does Chitose speak in French?

>>148490533
No, it's subbed.
And seeing a French sub is actually kinda weird after years of English-subbed anime.
Also no honorifics. Fuck that shit

>>148489148
It was quite popular in Mexico too, for the same reasons:

restricted to non existant Anime access for the masses

Everything we get from TV was devoured by the childhood, we didnt know best

A clear difference with American cartoon series that were made exclusively to sell toys, so those got mainly dumb stories to atract a theoretical maximum of children

Even when I saw Macross in the form of Robotech, I thought to myself: This series have an actual story that spans across episodes, unlike american stuff where at the end of the chapter all was laughs and hugs

Roy Fokker left a huge impact in my then innocent mind

>>148489148
France is filled with fucking weebs though.
Used to be 2nd highest anime consumption after Japan, US might be catching up though.

>newfags don't know what life was like in the 70s, 80s, and 90s when there weren't six billion new anime series airing every season

>>148490686
>being over 50
>posting on 4chan

You should probably just end it all.

just kidding I know you're 15

>>148490665
Yeah, but this stuff is not frowned upon here.
You can be an adult watching anime and reading manga without being categorized as an antisocial weeb

Different countries can get different localizations and they can take off for whatever reason. It can be cultural, they may resonate with certain demographics at that time, the distribution rights might dictate what's available or something else altogether.

The individual reasons can vary but with so many countries and how they handle media individually you could probably write entire books on the subject.

>>148489148

Frenchfag and literally never heard of it, you propably confused this cartoon with Candy Candy wich was broadcasted in France and was indeed popular (Sandy is meant to be a parody of candy in Les Kassos)

Sandybell is very popular in East Europe.
Similar to how The Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is very popular in Latin America

>>148492385
I can confirm. In Romania everyone who was a kid at the beginning of the 90's remembers Sandy Belle.

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>>148489148
For some reason, perhaps it had a style similar to early telenovella, but this show Ashita no Najia, worked better in Iberian markets than it did in English speaking ones at least initially. That's what I have gleaned by going over the fan reaction over the ensuring years since the show aired.

>>148489148
used to watch it as a kid on French TV.

It was nice.
My personnal favorite show at that time was creamy mamy. Jingoru was a top tier husbando.
It was the golden age of magical girls.

Infinitly better than the ugly precure lesbian crap.

>>148492534
It was strange back in the day and now seeing her flirting with the dudes who's looked are the ones of 25 years old.
Fucking annoying music themes in italian too.
I blame my sister who watched all the time.

>>148489866
Sandy Jonquille c'est mon enfance, adieu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqH6P6y5FY

Exactly as you said, anon. Heck, my mom used to watch Goldorak (Grendizer), Ulysse 31 and Albator (Harlock).
Also, the french openings were pretty catchy.

>>148489993
Remember when they used to change the characters' japanese names to french names? Hikari became Cynthia, Yaeko became Lucile, Kyoko became Juliette, and Yuu and Shiro became Jeanne & Serge.

>>148492884
Creamy, Emi, Vanessa, Suzy, Gigi, Lydie, Lalabel, Sally, Megu... We had both first and second gen magical girls.

>>148491522
I wouldn't put together Sandy and Candy.
Georgie or Gwendoline remind me much more of Candy.

>>148493185
I also really liked the show with the genius midget girl that was secretly in love with the school delinquent and was building tsudere robots.

I don't remember the name.

Also what was great with old magical girl it was about little girsl turned into teen, which was really appealing to the kid I once was because growing up gave them independance freedom and the possibility of doing cool grown-up things.

>>148489866
>tfw no good Cat's Eye torrents exist

be it asia/yurop/murricas it's just the specific titles of the media they manage to get, and spread

/a/ is not exempt from random nonsense either
>muh rm(vb) were "releases"
>streaming

>get anime, mostly will be from murricans - won't/can't watch in own language

>discuss anime - use a site that's likely murrican

even if a series comes to whatever country you're in, there's chance that it will use whatever localization changes murrica had

>original jp name is butt for spic char - murrica uses washington, yurop etc uses it too

>>148494012
>there's chance that it will use whatever localization changes murrica had

Assuming there's a Murrican localization in the first place.

Also, I'm reminded of when some anon told me that the Mexicans got a straight dub of the original Kinnikuman anime, but when they got the sequel, Kinnikuman Nisei, the production the 4kids Ultimate Muscle dub as their basis.

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>>148489148

No idea. Here in Italy we had "I cavalieri dello Zodiaco" which appears to be called Saint Seiya in English. Not sure how popular it was outside of Italy as I'm not much of an animu expert.

We also had "Keroro" (Sgt. Frog) which was pretty big and Kurochan, which seems like it was almost exclusive to us.

Of course we also had the bigger animes like Card Captor Sakura and Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball was huge here, though I don't think that's exclusive to Italy. We had a killer intro for it though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwtHMg5OvQ

A lot of our anime shows had really fucking good intros, actually. Pokemon's had a great one, and I really liked Monster Rancher, personally, though my favourite show has to be Kurochan: It was basically "what if Sonic wasn't shit?".

I miss my childhood. I mostly feel bad for kids today, though. Nowadays kids are getting their grey matter raped by Peppa Pig instead of watching Goku beat the shit out of space aliens.

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I never understood how this shit became so popular in Finland.

The dub was below the garbage level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTMVfLZS-EQ

>>148489148
Localized marketing tends to do that.

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>>148489148

It was very popular in Mexico too. It even had an unoffical comic here.

>>148489653
>french op
>subs in terrorist
How fitting

>>148495924
An anime about wild dogs fighting bears sounds like the kind of thing finns would like.

>>148489148
Yeah ,we used to have a lot of Gem.
But only an oldfag like me can remember them.
https://youtu.be/oB_xxmHVAj8
https://youtu.be/cDeOMmQgyuY
https://youtu.be/k7OcPPqu7e8
https://youtu.be/FALPwgZtvsk

But my favorite was the Kabocha Wine.
https://youtu.be/kP1rk3HaniU

In the Cassos, I confirm that they make reference to Candy candy, like the other anon have already said.

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My grandmother was singing the theme song of this. I thought it was an old folk song, I was shocked to learn it was from an anime

>>148496467
Grendizer was very popular in a lot of arabic counrties. =)
https://youtu.be/bgx7631XXtM

Based Go Nagai.