What the fuck is up with Japs and South Park?

Autism effects most of the population

Are they not supposed to watch it? Or what?

>>89593042
That does explain the declining birth rates.

>>89593042
>effects

>>89593080
Go away grammer whore.

Cute shotas. Also the appeal of cute and simplistic designs being involved with crude humor and vulgar language.

File: c0oogw6xaaad8lm.jpg (39KB, 600x315px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 600x315px

>>89593020
I don't know what you're talking about.

People seem to think that if there are Japanese fans of some American show then it must mean it's super popular in Japan.

>>89593020
It's like Crayon Shin-chan but from America.

File: 39574709_p17.png (279KB, 480x679px) Image search: [Google]

279KB, 480x679px

Children + Vulgarity = Popular in Japan.

Lots of shipping potential

>>89593020
Eat your hamburgers, Cartman

>>89593080
mistakes like these are a diamond dozen

>>89593020
The Japanese dub is meant to be pretty good

>>89594036
:(

File: 1480457528019.png (141KB, 296x317px) Image search: [Google]

141KB, 296x317px

>>89594036
>that pic
why

>>89594036
you forgot cute

it believe that happy tree friends cartoon became popular for a while overseas

>>89593020
fujoshi

>>89593020
It all stems back to the rape of Don King.

South Park's got a pretty active cult following in Japan though a lot of the cultural/pop cultural references are completely lost to the audience. That's part of the charm though. I heard from a few Japanese American friends that the Japanese South Park fandom seems to think of the show as a humorous glimpse into American life.

Japs seem to slurp up anything that's even slightly surburban America.

Japan loves American things, just as we like Japanese things. They also have a better appreciation for our animation than we do ourselves.

Plus, SP fits into slice of life and that's usually the norm of story telling that they like

South Park x Osomatsu-san crossover when

Do you think Japan would like ATHF

File: 1486004106242.jpg (10KB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 320x240px

>>89594036
fucking hell what is that image

>>89593020

The "Japan loves South Park" meme needs to die.

They cancelled it over 10 years ago. And even before then, episodes were regularly banned from broadcast and home video if they satirized Japanese culture (the Chinpokomon episode, the ladder to heaven episode, etc.).

Just because FLCL did a 2-second South Park gag doesn't mean South Park was ever popular or successful in Japan.

>>89593020
>be jap
>unemployed because i didnt have perfect attendance in school
>girls often confuse me with a trashcan and throw garbage at me
>cant fford to buy more clothes for my waifu miku chan because diamonds respawn every 6 hours and i dont have 50 bucks to buy 1000
>cant even pronounce my own name
>have to deal with people stupid enough to want to live here
and people still wonder why i draw wierd shit

>>89596954
Maybe your just not very bright.

>>89596954

Commit suicide.

That's Japan's immediate answer for every moment of adversity.

>>89593020
What the fuck is up with burgers and Naruto

>>89593020

I wonder how the japanese feel about the Whale Wars episode?

>>89596896
In general the popularity of American things there tends to be greatly overstated. Any sign of a fandom is interpreted as broad popularity. If one of the usual Gainax/Trigger suspects refers to American animation it's taken to mean that anime is taking influences from it.

>>89597148
>I wonder how the japanese feel about the Whale Wars episode?

It never aired in Japan. The dub was cancelled in 2004.

>>89596214
>>89596822
>>89594036
>>89593020

I think you guys are projecting. You WANT something you like to be popular in Japan because it would give you some sort of validation. Why you seek validation from faceless Japanese strangers, I'll never know, but that's your hangup.

South Park aired on a niche premium satellite network few people had (WOWOW) for only 5 years and was cancelled due to low ratings in 2004. Almost a dozen episodes were banned, as well.

Maybe there are a few people on Pixiv or Nico who like the show, but they're a microscopic fanbase. Saying South Park was big in Japan, like mainstream big, would be like saying Kill La Kill was mainstream big in America. A small handful of people liked it but it ended quickly and a long time ago.

Doesn't Matt if the dub is finished, there is still fan art coming out of there more recent seasons.

Japs love it cause the vibe can be interpreted any way they want, you look at what they draw and it ranges from cute/ shippy to hardcore or authentic.

>>89597232
It's not mainstream big obviously dumb ass, just like the old Godzilla movies weren't big here but they created a massive cult following

>>89597301
>massive cult following

If you think SP has a "massive" cult following, you're kidding yourself. A reference in FLCL 15 years ago does not equate to a "massive" cult following.

I know you desperately want the Japanese to approve of something you enjoy, but get real.

>>89597269
>there is still fan art coming out of there more recent seasons so clear it's big in japan.

I've seen a brazilian draw yaoi. Does that mean yaoi is super mainstream popular in brazil?

>>89593020
ITT: weebs trying to justify their love for new south park

>>89597232
>You WANT something you like to be popular in Japan because it would give you some sort of validation. Why you seek validation from faceless Japanese strangers, I'll never know, but that's your hangup.

It's an otaku thing.

Since "anime" has been defined by otaku culture as being mature and sophisticated animation for grown ups, otakus very badly want something American that they enjoy to be respected by the Japanese. Because that's the only way to validate it as being equally as mature or respected as anime.

So they furiously search 2chan and other places for even a MENTION of Steven Universe or South Park or whatever will immediately interpret that as "___ IS SUPER POPULAR IN JAPAN WITH A CULT FOLLOWING! IT'S AS GOOD AS ANIME!"

Japanese idol worship. I don't get it either.

>>89597357
Yep cause they're fags.

>>89596896
>>89597232
>>89597322
>>89597385

>"A Japanese person likes it! That means it's okay for ME to like it, now! Hooray!"

That's pretty pathetic, /a/.

>>89597385
RWBY from Rooster Teeth has a sizeable Japanese fanbase, from what I understand.

>>89597453
RWBY is also fucking terrible, I have no idea why this shit is still allowed.

>>89597524
Every season (or "Volume" as its officially referred to) has made huge strides in upping the overall quality. I think a lot of people admit that the first season was the worst, and the third season is where things finally started to get good.

>>89593020

American cartoons, outside of perhaps big budget Disney films, are universally disliked by the Japanese. To even say that some have a "cult following" is an overstatement; only marginal handfuls of Japanese animation enthusiasts enjoy Western shows.

Avatar the Last Airbender was received so poorly it got cancelled a couple episodes into Book Two.

The recent TMNT cartoon was a complete and utter bomb, getting cancelled after the first 26-episode season. The 2003 cartoon didn't fair much better and got canned after season 2.

Even Transformers, which used to be a standby of successful Western cartoons in Japan, has been flopping hard. Prime got cancelled after season 2 and they didn't even finish it.

The horsey show we're not allowed to address by name on this board also got canned after 2 seasons despite a humongous marketing push.

The Japanese just DO NOT LIKE American cartoons. Everything we send to them gets cancelled after a couple seasons, tops. They really can't stand our stuff.

>>89597678
South Park is pretty popular in Japan though. Hell even Adventure Time and Gravity Falls are easily recognized.

>>89597727
>South Park is pretty popular in Japan though

>Cancelled in 2004
>pretty popular in Japan

lol no.

It's definitely the most popular of the cartoons. It's the only Murrican cartoon I've ever found that has a dedicated subbing community that pushes subtitles fairly quickly after release. (It was like two months after a season aired up till S18, but S19/20 were done within days, and multiple sub groups even did S20)

Since all the episodes that were on Himawari got purged, most eps are uploaded on Nico under a special tag now

>>89597322
Someone has too much sand in there vagina.

Your really desperate to make it seem like South Park isn't popular in Japan, you even used the same FLCL argument twice. You should chill out and enjoy a good thread braw.

>>89597727
>Hell even Adventure Time and Gravity Falls are easily recognized.
This seems profoundly unlikely.

>>89597762

Pony gets fansubbed on Nico, usually within 24 hours of the US broadcast. Episodes got purged but they're now hidden under a special tag.

All of Futurama got fansubbed, too.

>>89597232
#NOTALLGOOKS

>>89593080
Technically accurate, since autism is genetic.

>>89597727
>Adventure Time and Gravity Falls are easily recognized.

They're relegated to Cartoon Network Japan and Disney Channel Japan which are high end satellite stations.

Unlike in the US, very few people in Japan have satellite (and cable doesn't exist). It's too expensive for most Japanese people even with the basic package, so foreign channels like CN Japan and Disney Japan are purchased by few. Nickelodeon had a Japanese satellite network for a little while but it failed for this reason.

Nearly all American cartoons are on one of those two premium satellite networks so they make little impact and next to no children actually get to see the shows. Broadcast networks RARELY air dubbed American cartoons because they need to save their limited timeslots to support domestic productions. TV Tokyo and their subdivision TV Aichi are the only broadcast networks that infrequently air dubbed Western cartoons and all of their broadcasts have failed in recent years (the aforementioned CG TMNT, Transformers Prime and MLP).

Just because the show exists in Japan doesn't make it popular or recognizable. You have to actually take into account WHERE they're shown and what the audience size truly is.

>>89594036
Got more my man?

>>89597871
>Just because the show exists in Japan doesn't make it popular or recognizable.

I think a lot of weebs believe that if they see a piece of fanart on Pixiv then it means that the show is popular in Japan.

Weebs think a lot of stupid shit.

>>89598008
>I think a lot of weebs believe that if they see a piece of fanart on Pixiv then it means that the show is popular in Japan.

Most of that westaboo fanart they see on Pixiv and attribute to the Japanese is actually drawn by Koreans.

>>89597762
Can you sauce me? I wanted to see a dubbed episode of South Park for a while now

>>89598204
use the ヤマシタパーク tag on nico

>team "you're a weeb, literally no one ever knows this show"
>team "japan goes fucking nuts for south park"
holy shit ya'll

south park in japan is pretty much as popular as any non-toonami anime is here. it only reaches the 'net crowd, but it does have a pretty good cult following

やりぃ~

>>89598496

>lol the truth lies somewhere in the middle!

Go to bed, Matt.

>>89597678
>All those examples but left out "SHOCK!!!"

Truly a grade A fag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs
X-men cartoon and comics inspired a lot of Japanese comics during it's run, even if you don't acknowledge it's popularity, go look up series writers and artist who took up inspiration from the series.

>>89598656

That opening is from the TV Tokyo dub of the series, which was cancelled after 42 episodes. It didn't do very well.

It was redubbed for Toon Disney in the early 2000s (featuring the US opening), but it also didn't finish the series and only made it to 65 episodes.

X-Men was never a mainstream hit in Japan, unless you consider multiple mid-series cancellations to be a "hit".

File: 59683334.jpg (438KB, 1200x979px) Image search: [Google]

438KB, 1200x979px

>>89597269
I can find plenty of Shipping fuel art but were is this authentic work you speak of?

I'd love to see good South park art that keeps the autonomy of the characters.

File: xvs-s2.jpg (44KB, 728x480px) Image search: [Google]

44KB, 728x480px

>>89598700
Got it's own Japanese series plus helped get one of the best fighting games off the ground.

Cry harder faggot.

>>89598763
>Got it's own Japanese series

You mean the Madhouse shows that were done 20 years later?

Those were co-founded and primarily made for the American market, not because there was any massive clamoring among the Japanese for X-Men content.

The Capcom fighting games were primarily popular in the US where the Marvel IPs had resonance. They were only lukewarmly received in Japan because they recognized few of the characters. The SNK and Tatsunoko VS games were more popularly received by Japanese gamers because they knew who the characters were.

Again, you need to learn that just because someone was released in Japan does not mean it was popular or even widely known in Japan.

>>89598763

hahahaha nigga those games were basically a form of outsourcing. Marvel contracted Capcom to make them some comic book fighting games, that's it.

They're practically unknown in Japan and those who are aware of them don't give a shit hahaha

File: Marvel_Disk_Wars_The_Avengers_characters.jpg (122KB, 711x398px) Image search: [Google]

122KB, 711x398px

>>89598763
>>89598812
>tfw Marvel Disk Wars was never officially brought over because it had prominently had the X-men and Deadpool early in the series
Stupid licensing dispute with Fox

File: 1415969273937.png (676KB, 700x889px) Image search: [Google]

676KB, 700x889px

>>89598496
I just came to this thread to post South Park art, fuck these pointless discussions.

>>89597232
>>89597385
>Japanese idol worship. I don't get it either.

It's the "Sempai noticed me!" effect.

Japanese people are sempai. Japanese people liking American cartoons or at least acknowledging them in the "notice" part.

>>89593020

I love the tweek craig, stan kyle shota they make

>>89598951

America is catching up on that front now, of course it's mostly played for lulz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNq5CJ1-JKM

>>89596954
>girls often confuse me with a trashcan and throw garbage at me
>move to america
>antifas set me on fire

>>89597453
There is even a manga

>>89599037

Cant wait till the new game comes out so they keep rubbing it in. Or they'll kiss.

File: 1479353088673.jpg (957KB, 1012x1200px) Image search: [Google]

957KB, 1012x1200px

>>89599202
Super hero stories are mostly just a bros' soap Oprah, I hope they take a lot of shots at the current state of Marvels comic industry and not just it's movies.

>>89593042
>Austism
>effects
Pottery

>>89596845
>Shauku-Sama
>foraiyuroku
>meyutuwadu-chan

>>89599688
It would be Sheiku and Mitowadu

File: 1447950957166.jpg (474KB, 810x573px) Image search: [Google]

474KB, 810x573px

>>89593020
They got a massive girl boner for cute boy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkl1RXot6g&t=82s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U6CEXdd3Fc&list=LLkPBjO-Pdt_zri2Wf5raKcQ&index=18

File: pixiv search results.png (96KB, 796x246px) Image search: [Google]

96KB, 796x246px

>>89596896
>>89597452
You guys sure are intent on being wrong.

South Park is huge among fujoshi. It's not wishful thinking at all; there's no pride in associating with fujos. The show's popularity is just a fact.

>>89597871

There were at least 100-200 Gravity Falls cosplayers at the annual Tokyo Disneyland cosplay event, actually a few of them running, so there must be an anime here type cult following at least. I also noticed the Disney Japan advertising was all Frozen, Gravity Falls, and I think some Lilo & Stitch stuff while it was airing. I just figured that was because Disney is popular in general there though. The TV channel might not be mainstream like the cinema but enough aficionados that some shell out for the station.

>>89600648
>South Park is huge among fujoshi.

And fujoshi is so miniscule it means nothing.

File: C3d7XAYWQAIITVX.jpg large.jpg (179KB, 1119x1800px) Image search: [Google]

179KB, 1119x1800px

>>89600692

>>89600648

...Why is it so vital to you that the Japanese enjoy something you enjoy? Can you not take pleasure in something unless it has the seal of approval from complete strangers half a world away?

That's psychotic, /a/non.

>>89593077
Japan actually has a serious beta male issue.
They have no idea how to interact and talk to women.
Betas are literally going to end Japanese civilization.

File: fangirls.jpg (142KB, 485x600px) Image search: [Google]

142KB, 485x600px

>>89600648
>Popularity = amount of gay porn fans produce
This is a good thing to you?

>>89598937
The effect seems to go both ways. Japan and the U.S have a weird relationship like that. I think the bombs did something screwy to their heads.

>>89600836

They're in negative population growth for the first time in centuries, yeah, but they were also suffering from severe overpopulation for decades. So a thinning of the population would actually be beneficial to their quality of life.

An island nation cannot sustain endless exponential growth.

I love when the boy characters in their briefs.

File: 54082636.png (453KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

453KB, 600x800px

>>89600841
>This is a good thing to you?

Yes

>>89600836
>beta male
No it's because the younger generation is more focused on having careers than starting families because the benefits outweigh the benefits of being a family and despite the issue being very obvious, few people are willing to make the changes they know they need. When it was proposed to incentivize marriage by granting pregnant women work concessions, they were ignored.

>>89600878
stop

File: 1477030345534.jpg (389KB, 1400x912px) Image search: [Google]

389KB, 1400x912px

>>89600828
The same can be said on how hard your trying to show others that Japan doesn't care. Can't you take pleasure in what you believe you know with out trying to convince a bunch of Anons?

>>89600724
Did you not see the numbers I just posted

There's more South Park art on Pixiv than there is of Batman and Spider-Man. Fucking Spider-Man.

>>89600828
>implying I'm /a/
Nigga, I don't care about South Park and I don't care about whatever anime-of-the-season /a/ watches these days.

>>89600841
Did you miss the part where I said "there's no pride in associating with fujos"? Where did I imply it was a good thing? I don't have a horse in this race, but people are denying reality and it's kind of weird to me.

File: 1475006569188.jpg (289KB, 1104x1199px) Image search: [Google]

289KB, 1104x1199px

>>89597871
I'd say the audience size is quite large, seeing as how dubbed episodes are floating around the internet free of charge.

>>89600921
>but people are denying reality and it's kind of weird to me.

Yeah. The reality is that South Park is not popular or even widely known in Japan, even among animation circles.

Don't know why people are having such a hard time coming to terms with that.

>>89600921
>Batman and Spider-Man

Japan used to notoriously not like American superheroes though compared to most places we export our pop culture too although there are cult followings no doubt, I'm not sure that's that hard to do.

Also Pixiv is used by non-Japanese artists too so it's hard to tell from that.

File: tmp_9532-680749_1301872033298_full-243829192.jpg (6KB, 256x197px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 256x197px

>>89600901

Nahhhh

File: 972812_12507436621795.jpg (105KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

105KB, 640x480px

I think what people ITT are failing to understand is that THIS is the current attitude toward foreigners and foreign culture in Japan:

https://youtu.be/5uC4AUyju7k

Ever since Shinzo Abe and the Ultra-Nationalist party came into power, there has been a huge surge to eliminate all outside influences. Most American media is violently rejected.

So to say that something like South Park is "popular" in that sort of environment is willfully ignorant.

File: Tokusatsu.jpg (60KB, 509x313px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 509x313px

>>89600973
>Japan used to notoriously not like American superheroes though
Spider-Man had a very famous toku series in Japan that was basically responsible for Super Sentai/Power Rangers. He's classic Japanese pop culture over there.

>>89601049
>Spider-Man had a very famous toku series in Japan that was basically responsible for Super Sentai/Power Rangers. He's classic Japanese pop culture over there.

Yes, but Toei's Spider-Man was so fundamentally altered on every level but costume that it was really just Spider-Man In Name Only.

To say they liked Spider-Man is incorrect, because they had to alter every single thing about him on order to get a Japanese audience to watch his show.

>>89594758
it is
my friends like the vulgarity and stereotyping

>>89593020
It's one of the few Western cartoons aimed at adults. So naturally it would be one of the few Western shows that any Japs who aren't children watch.

>>89601040
>your fringe group is tiny and nonexistent
>my fringe group is mainstream even though it's just a fringe group.

>>89593020
I
Boyzu rovu, didn't you watch season 19?

>>89601147

Ah, I see you've never been to Japan, then.

>>89601040
>https://youtu.be/5uC4AUyju7k [Embed]

Wow.

Fuck Japanese people.

>>89600878
i agree, mysterion is a pretty cool character

>>89601104
If anything, the need to differentiate would only make the comparison stronger, since you're then dividing the Pixiv tag between two different ideas of Spider-Man.

Anyway, no one is saying South Park shits yen like Doraemon or even Eva. No one is holding it up as even remotely mainstream. Even on the niche westaboo level, it is (or was) edged out by stuff like MLP and PPG. But it has a very specific niche that it fits into, and it's wildly popular within it, so it's valid to ask about that popularity in context.

>>89601040
>I think what people ITT are failing to understand is that THIS is the current attitude toward foreigners and foreign culture in Japan
no. it's an even less subset of people that act this way than there are americans that do this about muslims in the us

File: 14125261671.png (95KB, 709x566px) Image search: [Google]

95KB, 709x566px

>>89600841
Well it's not all gay Anon...

Where's my Sharon Marsh art...

>>89601040
>>89601147
>>89601434

>Post visual evidence
>Post video evidence

Nuh- NUH UH! It's not true! The Japanese love gaijin! It's not true! IT'S NOT TRUUUEEE!!!

File: 1447913756354.jpg (200KB, 910x1024px) Image search: [Google]

200KB, 910x1024px

>>89593119

This desu

File: 60653477_p7_master1200.jpg (202KB, 600x600px) Image search: [Google]

202KB, 600x600px

and with that, thread is shit, and the (You)s are kill

lets revive the thread with only the best dorks

I think it speaks volumes to the American ego who you lot can't seem to accept the idea that perhaps, PERHAPS a piece of American pop culture ISN'T popular in another country?

Is it really that hard to accept? Can you really not make your peace with it? Just because something is American doesn't mean it has universal appeal.

Honestly, Murricans, this is why we laugh at you so much.

>>89601920
You're quite literally the only one suggesting that anyone would even think that its "popular" by normal standards in Japan
Take off your retard helmet and read the only smart thing said in the thread at >>89601420 again

>>89601920

Amerifats call themselves the "leaders of the free world" without a shred of irony or self-awareness.

They don't know that the actual "free world" views them as our retarded kid brother. It's really quite amusing.

>>89601231
>implying netouyo aren't totally reviled

>>89601763
>hey guiz I post a video that means it's totally mainstream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhkPE6rRlaw

Look I post a video, that makes it 100% true!

>>89602100
The retarded brother who they all mooch off of. Fucking freeloaders.

>>89601763

A lot of otakus still harbor fantasies of "moving to Japan and drawing manga".

They get very defensive when reality intrudes upon them.

>>89602175
can't get any more defensive than you guys right now

>>89601836
Is that meant to be cartman on the left?

>>89602257
>Is that meant to be cartman on the left?

The Japanese idea of "fat" and the American idea of "fat" are very different. That is considered fat by Japanese standards.

File: 1450110462593.jpg (43KB, 570x587px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 570x587px

>>89602175
>>89602221
>>89601763
>>89601231

You really don't get it do you? You pretend like you know more, yet you don't even know that hatred is pointed.

1) American bases in Okinawa because soldiers(usually the blacks) go out and rape the locals, which pisses off all the Japs. When they want yankee to go home, they mean the Okinawan bases because they don't do shit...until China or North Korea start test firing missiles, then they start screaming 'Save us America-sama!'. Abe's policy is trying to create a military that isn't a colossal joke that is the JSDF, something the Japanese don't want because that would mean actually fighting their own battles and they've become quite allergic to pain.

2) Almost all their racism is directed to Koreans who are Japans illegal Mexicans, clogging up everything and tainting their pure Nihon DNA, while regularly defiling shrines and stealing buddha statues.

They were always racist. But they've also been willing to make concessions to dumbass otakus with fat wallets and foreign investors to support their crippling debt.

>>89602257
Clyde

>>89602345
>>>/pol/ is a different board, friend.

>>89597678
>Avatar the Last Airbender was received so poorly it got cancelled a couple episodes into Book Two.

Yeah, I'd read that was because Avatar made each nation an analog to a real world Asian country/culture, with the evil imperialist Fire Nation being modeled after the Japanese.

The Japanese have absolutely ZERO TOLERANCE for media that satirizes or criticizes their history or culture, so seeing themselves parodied as the villains of the show didn't sit well at all and the series was cancelled really, really fast.

That episode of The Simpsons where they go to Tokyo was never aired and is excluded from the DVD sets in Japan because, again, they DO NOT ALLOW any criticism or parody of their culture. At least from outsiders.

Disney animated films are huge in Japan. Frozen is one of the highest grossings ever (top3).

>>89593020
Japanese drawfags tend to be talented and industrious, so a handful of them interested in Western stuff can make a disproportionate amount of stuff that gets shared back in the west.

As for why, it's because kanji require much more precision and practise to learn to write than letters. Doesn't affect artistic creativity (if anything...) but you don't strictly need that to draw cute fanart.

File: ymwFMI6.png (453KB, 643x653px) Image search: [Google]

453KB, 643x653px

>>89600940
>dat Gideon

Maybe just a cult following but enough that there's more new fan art for Gravity Falls from Japan than from America these days and they put a leg of the show scavenger hunt in Japan which was found in a few hours at that shrine strictly for animations. The fans there also left a little illustration and offering at the shrine of their own. (The other country besides America was Russia where Gravity Falls seem to have some fans.)

>>89601321
>>89601040
>/pol/tards gonna hate

Huuuh, guys, prank video.

>>89600648
>South Park is huge among fujoshi.
Good.

File: 41521616764.png (284KB, 1287x840px) Image search: [Google]

284KB, 1287x840px

>>89601737
I only have lewds if that's cool.

>>89600940

>the same 3 people in every photo

LOOK AT HOW POPULAR GRAVITY FALLS IS IN JAPAN, EVERYBODY!

File: 25146689_p0.jpg (251KB, 480x630px) Image search: [Google]

251KB, 480x630px

>>89593020
>What the fuck is up with Japs and South Park?
Cute boys!

This whole thread is pathetic.

>>89601040
>>89601321
>>89601763
>>89602345


Guys, this was a fucking video taken out of context!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIuN3R8EGfo

god! you /pol/tards are pathethic, and nice thread derailing btw!

File: SP_Wendy_is_neko_by_bji4z06kimocom.png (653KB, 750x1200px) Image search: [Google]

653KB, 750x1200px

>>89602913
ya it needs more girls

>>89602779

hey wait a minute...

this is awesome, where did you get this?

>>89602345

What you also have to understand is that the Japanese are still very much an Isolationist culture. Even when they opened their borders to trade, the Isolationist attitudes never left them.

In Japanese culture, it is very much seen as bad form to support a foreign product, including foreign media. "Why didn't you buy a Japanese product? Why aren't you watching a Japanese show/movie?" etc. It's the "BUY DOMESTIC!" attitude cranked to an 11.

Likewise, it's seen as very disrespectful to have foreign friends. "Why aren't you hanging out with Japanese people? Are you too good for your own people?" Being seen with a foreign friend can get you ostracized from your whole neighborhood (and dating a foreigner can get you disowned by your family).

And shops/restaurants are discouraged from allowing foreigners inside ala this pic >>89601040

If locals see that you are doing business with foreigners, they'll bopycot your business and you'll soon have to close. Usually only big cities like Tokyo will serve foreigners because there are so many business travelers or tourists there. If you go to a rural village or town you'll starve.

So with that being the cultural attitude that defines Japan, is it any surprise that our dumb little cartoons have no traction over there?

>>89602996
Ew no. Making it worse.

>>89602987

The Japanese word for "juvenile delinquent" is "yankee". Because they associate all acts of crime with Americans.

To the Japanesem all young criminals are considered American, even when they're Japanese. That's how much they despise us.

ITT: stormfags try their hardest to convince normal people that "ASIANS TOTALLY HATE US GUYS, 1488 DEUS VULT"

File: tumblr_ojlxdxH2xs1qb3fxwo1_540.png (266KB, 540x584px) Image search: [Google]

266KB, 540x584px

>>89603336
pretty much
we need a true hero to save this thread

>>89602801
>"I AM A HUGE FLAMING FAGGOT LOOK AT ME GUYS"

>>89603336
>>89603412

I know you want to move to Japan to draw manga, but it's never going to happen.

>>89603289
A stereotypical yankii also has an Elvis haircut or dyed blond hair. Ever consider that these deliquents associate /themselves/ with American deliquents?

File: SP___Bebe_and_Butters_03_by_sakurapanda.jpg (138KB, 579x587px) Image search: [Google]

138KB, 579x587px

>>89603366
Your absolutely right!

We need the boy who could fire up the thread with the extreme autism that /co/ is known for!

>>89603549
>"It's America's fault for influencing them!"

You're a real weeb.

>>89593020
What the FUCK is up with your retardation OP?

>>89603227
That's a ridiculous exaggeration. They are weird around foreigners but they're generally not hostile.

You definitely wouldn't starve in a small town, Jesus Christ.

>>89603812
>They are weird around foreigners but they're generally not hostile.

Precisely. Denial of service is not considered hostile.

The Japanese are extremely passive aggressive, but rarely overtly aggressive. If you're a foreigner, they'll just pretend like you don't exist, up to and including denial of service or entry.

Foreigners in rural communities pretty much have to eat exclusively out of vending machines.

>>89603855
This is just factually untrue though. Those signs do exist but they're not very common and they're usually more to do with language barriers than anything else. They don't want to deal with foreigners who don't speak the language or understand the customs because they might be difficult or cause a disturbance to other customers.

It's very unlikely you'll be refused service anywhere if you speak Japanese, and even if you don't you'll be fine 90% of the time.

>>89603855

You can't really count on there to be signs. A lot of Japanese shops won't put the "NO GAIJIN JAPANESE ONRY" signs up because they "look bad".

But if you try to walk in they'll chase you out by stretching out their arms and crossing their index fingers in an "X". Basically, they shoo you away like you're a stray animal.

>>89604192

Dude, their motorcycle gangs target and attack foreigners on site.

They mostly stick to harassing Koreans (or "chosenjin" as they call them), particularly the Zainichi Koreans, but they'll go after tourists if they present an easy target.

>>89604617
Yes because motorcycle gangs totally represent the average Japanese citizen.

Look, I'm not denying that Japan can be quite racist and xenophobic, but to suggest that everyone will ignore you and refuse to serve you there is just not true.

>>89602801
Uh that's just one person's photoset they posted of course it's the same person Jesus fuck.

There were lots of pictures of different groups of dozens of people a year or whatever ago when the event was going on that was just one pic chill the fuck out.

It doesn't say something is mainstream just that a few hundred people are devoted enough to make and wear this shit and attend an event together so what you'd call a cult following maybe.

>>89603496
Japanese fans liking Frozen doesn't mean they like Americans or America at all.

>All this defensive kneejerk whiteknighting of Grorious Nippon

Am I in /a/?

File: 1481974649753.jpg (4KB, 225x225px) Image search: [Google]

4KB, 225x225px

>>89604788
>say stupid shit
>"fuck off stupid'
>whiteknighting

>>89604304
A very good friend of mine lives in Japan. He was an exchange student originally but moved there later. He speaks Japanese almost fluently because he studied really hard for 3 years before he went.

What he told me... was that people were friendly to gaijins if they spoke Japanese and looked clean and presentable. He had a roommate while he was an exchange student who was a fat, slobbish otaku who barely spoke any Japanese and he told me that this guy was denied service in the way you're describing, which didn't happen to my friend. Interesting, isn't it? Also they were in the kansai region... I think the student exchange happened in a semi-large city but he lives in Osaka now.

>>89604192
>Denial of service to gaijin never ever happens!
>>89605020
>Denial of service to gaijin sometimes happens but it's not a big deal okay

Make up your mind, otaku.

>>89605105
In America, most businesses reserve the right to deny anyone service for any reason. Why does this anger you when nipnops do it? My friends run a game store and they kicked a guy to the curb for being a fat, stinky neckbeard who made the store nasty for everyone else. 99% sure its the same deal here.

>>89602779
I'M TAKING THIS TO THE BUSH

The opinion of Japanese people ceased to be relevant in the mid 2000s when the anime fad died.

I don't know why you people care so much.

>>89605105
I wasn't even the same guy, you idiot. I saw the conversation, realized I had a relevant anecdote, and contributed. I'm, personally, not denying it happens, but since my friend speaks Japanese and attractive he seems to get a pass with the locals.

File: Creator+of+yugioh+draws+hellboy+_539483736514a346cebe20b090715ab0.png (830KB, 670x832px) Image search: [Google]

830KB, 670x832px

Westaboos are a thing, OP. Kazuki Takahashi and Mike Mignola are fans of eachother and did an art exchange once, for example.

>>89606463
NO JAPS HATE AMERICANS AND EVERYTHING WE DO THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD BUILD A WALL OVER CALIFORNIA REEEEE

But, in all seriousness, anime would be a lot different without American/Japanese mutual cultural exchange. Astro Boy was inspired by Disney and Betty Boop, for instance. Anyone trying to deny the influence Western and Eastern animation have on each other, or that both don't have niche markets in the other hemisphere, is a moron with an agenda. Or just a moron.

>>89605638
I wouldn't say I "care" so much, but I like seeing the Japanese community's reactions to certain jokes or episodes. Like in The Poor Kid, a lot of people found the Penn State jokes super funny because they could tell it was supposed to be purposely completely awful even in the US, even though no one knew or gave a fuck about Penn State.

But then you have the /pol/ retards and blind weaboo faggots in here that just spout whatever they feel like.

>>89598525
Doesn't Trey Parker do all the writing while Matt just kinda sits there?

>>89602779
BEWBS

>>89600841
Defeat equals friendship, indeed

File: 1484864704662.gif (3MB, 640x360px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 640x360px

>>89603551
>you will never protect butter's smile

>>89603227
>Being seen with a foreign friend can get you ostracized from your whole neighborhood (and dating a foreigner can get you disowned by your family).
>Source
>/pol/

>>89599688
セーキ様 or シェーク様
フライロック
Not sure on Meatwad, though. ミートワド、ミートタンポ、and ミートボール are all possibly on the docket, depending on how true to source, literal, or lazy the translation team is.

This thread is weird, why do you guys care about Japan in particular? I think it's cool as fuck when I find non Americans who like American media but I don't really understand what makes Japan liking American shit in particular neat besides them being able to shit out tons of shipping fanart and porn doujins.

>>89605290
It's not even legal for a Christian to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple in the US, and it's definitely illegal to refuse to serve someone because they are a foreigner. Yes, you can refuse someone who is dressed like a slob but you can't base this on whether they're foreigners or not.

>>89613416
Because 4chan started as a site to discuss anime and manga and Japanese culture, and many of us like those things. And also a lot of people here like video games and a lot of great video games and consoles are Japanese.

It would be nice if they liked the stuff we produce since many of us like the stuff they produce. It would be nice if the feeling is mutual. But honestly I can't blame them for disliking Western cartoons and comics. They are overwhelmingly targeted at little children. Western animation took a few jabs at adult-oriented things (Ralph Bakshi's stuff, Heavy Metal, etc.) but it never took off in a big way. The few 'adult' animation popular now like Family Guy and South Park rely on shock value and toilet humor. Animation is such a potentially limitless artform and yet Americans seem unable to get around the notion of it being a 'kiddy thing.' And never mind the big two comic companies, with their endless meaningless deaths and rebirths and relaunches and SJW legacy characters.The West is in a sad state.

>>89613235
>マスターシェイク
>フライロック
>ミート⋆ワッド
>ミートワッド
>Carl Brutananadilewski

As an aside, Japanese Wikipedia is bleak as fuck.

>>89613416
look just a few posts up my dude
>>89606872

>>89613684
I'm still surprised that something like Drawn Together could inspire the people at one of Japan's most prolific animation studios.

>>89597452
You know that /a/ hates japs?

File: 11054440_581504028619561_4935926547852982911_n.jpg (50KB, 600x503px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 600x503px

>>89600940
At least I know Gideon is getting love somewhere on the planet...

File: 1353339565116.jpg (96KB, 640x960px) Image search: [Google]

96KB, 640x960px

>>89601040
>stirring up more racial shit
Give it a fucking rest. Besides, that's like saying every American in the country hates anyone who isn't white and straight. It's just not true.
>in b4 hurr durr it is

>>89613684
It depends, something like Lilo and Stitch is actually more mainstream in Japan than the West, the film just did better there and there is mainstream merchandise sold in stores to this day.

A lot of the other stuff like South Park is a niche group of fans, but how is that any different from anime over here? Something like Haruhi Suzumiya isn't recognized by the vast majority of Americans by far. Pokemon...people know that because it's a video game. A long time ago some people watched DBZ but from my experience most people in the U.S. have no idea whatsoever what that is.

I wouldn't say the Westaboo or Weeaboo communities are that different. The U.S. has way more people but still each is a niche group of fans. I don't know if most Americans even have any idea what anime is to be honest. This place people know because it's an echo chamber.

>>89614994
Its pretty much mostly because of Imaishi

>>89613416
>porn doujins
Well that

File: CtnED64UIAAw05N.jpg (193KB, 1200x796px) Image search: [Google]

193KB, 1200x796px

>>89602801
There was a hell of a lot more where that came from but that was a long while ago. I remember a huge group picture of at least fifty or more gf cosplayers and one of a ton of dippers "fighting" each other in the disneyland park

>Be on 2ch
>Someone says they got an American girlfriend
>Everyone starts cheering him on
>You did it bro
>you have overcome

>Japan doesn't like America

>>89600836
and as a White guy I don't want that to change, Japanese women are crazy for us right now.

>>89596214
Just like Gintama if anything.

>>89597678
But Steven Universe is well recepted in Japan, isn't it?

>>89619078
Pretty sure they stopped airing it after just a few episodes, so i dont think so.

>>89616116
You know what? Try as I might I just can't seem to hold chopsticks correctly. So I'm going to use some empathy and not grill this dude for the way he holds his fork.