| Ruler said:
maybe in NA it was this way but its because your TV channels wouldnt allow animes to be aired probably because of xenophobia. Everywhere else in the world Anime was big, it always was. |
You just made that up out of thin air, didn't you? And you think western companies dubbing kid's anime that's set in the west means they were bringing over shoujo or josei? Even now, fansubbers aren't worried about the kinds of anime you've linked and they never were. Fansubbing started because no one could get anime that was aimed at an older demographic. When they could, it was butchered, and people were angry. I was there, I remember that.
Also, you realize that by showing a handful of western countries are richer than Japan that it means you were wrong about most western countries being richer than Japan, right? Even if you exclude Latin America, Japan is still richer than most of Europe. If you include Latin America then it's not even close.
Here is a good article that was written in 2008, before Crunchyroll showed these companies the smart way to make money off anime in the west.
A Brief History of Fansubbing
Japanese animation began to become visible in America in the late '70s and early '80s. Series like Star Blazers and Speed Racer were the favorites of American distributors who saw animation as an industry targeted primarily to children, nothing more than cartoons. It was rare for a mature, meaningful anime title to make it to American shores, and those that did make it were oftentimes subjected to incredibly bad adaptations that made the Japanese studios wary.
