Under what historical circumstances would Japan have never

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If you prevent Disney from having any influence there. So I guess a massive cultural embargo that probably still wouldn't have worked.

You can't escape this.

The Lumiere brothers die in an incident during their infancy

>>1857423
>>1857419
They were making manga in the Meiji era and it really took off in the Taisho and Showa periods. I doubt they would somehow miss making manga into anime unless the Tokugawa win the Boshin war and even then I'm iffy.

>>1857426
Soviets had their own Winnie the Pooh. Also a famous book which was made into a manga during the Taisho period, the Crab Cannery Ship , is extremely leftist and is getting a lot of Marxist sympathy in Japan today.

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>>1857419
If Disney and the American tradition of animation never existed.

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why would you want that?!?!

>>1857426
>Implying that KMT would have any piece of it

Fat chance. Also Cheburashka is already somewhat popular in Japan as it is, it would be even more under a Soviet occupation.

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>>1857423
>>1857435
Disagree.
In any time line television exists in Japan, anime is invented at some point.
You underestimate how much culture Japan can produce.
Of course, in different time lines, different kinds of anime would be produced.

>>1857426
Soviets did not have the capability to properly invade Japan's main islands. Great meme though!

>>1857490
It's not a meme, and in fact more than a few people in DoD wanted the nukes on Japan for that particular reason.

>>1857476
I just wish we had nuked Japan more

>>1857497
[Citation needed] for both claims

Also, the Tehran conference explicitly gave military operational control over the Japanese main islands to America. The Soviets could have tried breaking that agreement, but then America would have crushed the Soviets.

>>1857497
>It's not a meme
Not him, but it is. The Soviets could have landed enough troops to stake a claim, but they didn't have the ability to actually invade the island and fight a war.

>>1857497
Gonna need some sources

The Russian Pacific navy was in shambles and they barely crossed the 2 miles to Sakhalin

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Anime is saved.

>>1857504
The US military avoided bombing much of Hokkaido for one reason: to deter the Soviets.

And guess what, the Soviets had a chance to invade Hokkaido after taking Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but they didn't. There was no peace treaty or ceasefire at the time. The Soviets stopped because they knew it was
1. Difficult as hell
2. Politically treacherous
3. Gonna piss off America big time in a region where the Russians were weak

The "not a meme" anon is simply wrong.