Did yo ever expect anime to be as popular and mainstream as it is today?Not so long ago Junji Ito was that weird obscure mangaka that only Horror aficionados knew of. People only knew about his stuff if you actually digged in deeper past the regular shonen slop.Now a mainstream ass game is selling skins of his works
Yeah because it was always mainstream where I live thanks to our high Jap population, occupation of their country, and trade deals up until the 80s
>>274992644>Now a mainstream ass game isThis happens, the work doesn't even have to be as well known or popular as Junji's. Crossovers like this are easy and also nice. Identity V has Satsuriku no Tenshi (and Junji along with countless other series), DBD was MADE off of crossovers. There's not really reason to be surprised about this.
>>274992644>Not so long ago Junji Ito was that weird obscure mangaka that only Horror aficionados knew of.No?If you like anime and liked horror too then you knew Ito Junji.
>Did yo ever expect anime to be as popular and mainstream as it is today?ever since dragon ball, sailor moon and pokemon, yes.
>>274992644This isn't exactly the thread topic, but WHY is Junji Ito's shit so popular? It isn't even horror most of the time, majority of his stories are just goofy shit with annoying and retarded characters. That recurring kid that acts stupid all the time, the family of weirdos, all the slapstick nonsense. Maybe 1/3rd of his stories actually have any horror. It's like calling Dandadan horror.
>>274993180his art style is amazing, regardless of content
>>274993180>This isn't exactly the thread topic, but WHY is Lovecraft's shit so popular? It isn't even horror most of the time, majority of his stories are just goofy shit with annoying and retarded characters. That recurring Antiquarian that acts stupid all the time, the pantheon of gods, all the slapstick nonsense. Maybe 1/3rd of his stories actually have any horror. It's like calling Aesop's fables horror.
>>274993283True. And why do all modern Lovecraft adaptations have overly prominent black casting? Yes I know his cat's name, is it revenge for that or something?
Anime became too popular the minute it started being aired regularly in the US, way after other countries got it It leaving Japan was already a problem
No.I hate it.
>>274992644I grew up watching anime on public TV before grade school in the 90's, as did 80% of the students I went to school withanime has been mainstream since before I was born
>>274992644Junji has been the most well known horror mangaka in the west for decades
>>274993327you mean Lovecraft Country? Them being black is the whole pointAt the end, the main villain who's a wizard (that isn't racist unlike everyone else in this time period, it takes place in the 50s) threatens the main cast of black people (it's like four of them) to help him with his evil deeds or he's gonna curse them and make sure that there's nowhere in America they can go without being hunted down, they won't be able to live their lives without feeling unease, they're be cursed to always be outsiders who never know a moments peace, no matter where they go on the planet they'll always feel a sense of dread And per most Lovecraft stories, this causes the protags to break out into loud laughter because the "curse" he's describing is just what it's like to live as a black person At some point in your life, you're gonna have that moment and you've got two options from that point on cryorlaughMost niggas choose the second one Sometimes this epiphany gets ignored and you end up like Morgan Freeman, but he'd change his tune real fucking quick if he ended up in jail
>>274993857Not just that, there's also that Color Out of Space adaptation where a random black guy is the hero, gets called out as hot by the (of course) white daughter and is the lone survivor of everything.
>>274994029Nicholas Cage isn't black
>>274992644>slopRetarded pretentious tourist. Shonen is the peak of this industry. And abusing this shitty buzzword towards hard works shows it has zero meaning. First you cry about AI and now you start crying over regular artists work too with the same damn buzzword?
>>274994049Nic Cage isn't the hero. It's some black water inspector that Nic Cage's daughter wants to fuck.
>>274994065the water inspector isn't the hero he's just some guy that's defined by the locals considering him an outsidernic cage's character is the byronic hero
>>274994091Nic Cage fucking dies, his daughter fucking hates him and she spends the whole movie wanting to fuck the black guy who's the sole survivor. The propaganda is obvious. Don't know what to tell you.
>>274994116I don't know how to tell you this, but all the important characters morally degenerate and die in the original story. It's like the premise
>>274994242So in the original story is there a surviving black water inspector that's morally perfect and incredibly handsome (allegedly)?
>>274994116>Nic Cage fucking dies,after fighting desperately against the supernatural phenomenon thats eroding his home, his family, and his sanity>His daughter hates himyeah because he's going insane and acting up>the black guyhas less than 15 minutes of total screentime. you're tilting at windmills mate. and I think you should take a long, hard look at who ultimately makes more money from you getting angry against the existance of your fellow man like this.
>>274992644Yeah, actually. When I was thirteen I had this zoomer patriotism where I was like "OUR generation is going to have normalised anime and D&D, unlike those boring millennials". And I was right. Huh.
>>274993180>This isn't exactly the thread topic, but WHY is Junji Ito's shit so popular?Because of /a/
I expected it. The real question is if it was good or not.
>>274993180imagionationlet detected
>>274992772Please come to Brazilllll
>>274993180I'm not allowed to like goofy shit!? Fuck you!!
>>274993046Still waiting for some big nigs from Japanese slaughterhouse to show up.
>>274994029He's not the hero, Chong is.
>>274994116I guarantee you that the director is immune to that kind of pressure.
>>274994261I don't disagree with you on that point, only on the one about Nic Cage not being the hero. Cage is the most important protagonist in a film about going crazy and dying, of course he's gonna die
Kuso thread
>>274992644Having grown up when the biggest series were already mainstream, I assumed it would happen sooner than it actually did. Looking back, the only reason it didn't is because of that brief adjustment period between the '07 financial crisis and Crunchyroll taking off in earnest as a legal service.
>>274992644I watched anime when it was broadcast on late night terrestrial TV in the 90's, there were already walls in video stores dedicated to it so to some degree I always assumed it was popular, and the delivery mechanism just sucks less now so even more people can watch it.
>>274992644I'm more disappointed that western comics never got popular again after the 90s.
>>274993581literal boomers grew up watching japanimations like robotech
>>274992644It doesn't surprise me but I didn't really see it coming when I was growing up liking anime always made us "the weird kids" it was something normalfags laughed at as they orgasmed to sports media (arguably more gay and childish). I think everybody being desperate for copes in the 21st century and streaming media has a lot to do with it (Crunchyroll Netflix etc). Same with video games being so widespread popular now the industry is objectively worse than ever but so many people use vidya as a cope and it takes up half their personality now. It's completely normalfag for Zoomers to like anime and buy merchandise it's strange to live through the difference than when I was a kid.
>>274998334>last boomers 64>robotech 85doubt.
>Not so long ago Junji Ito was that weird obscure mangaka that only Horror aficionados knew of.Lol
>>274998334My mother grew up with Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer and a few others. Most Boomers never really figured out they were Japanese animation. To them it was just cartoons from their childhood on tv.
>>274998414sure, 30+ years agoAs soon as I started using the internet in 1997, Junji Ito was already plastered over every anime forum
No
>>274992644Honestly no. I didn't think it'd get much bigger than it was when I first really started watching it 13 years ago (I was late to the party). But covid, netflix, and tik tok have brought it to the forefront. I don't like it.
>>274994649>zoomers are in charge of Netflix and crunchyrollHuh?
I was shocked to finally find a friend who watches anime in 2005 (he's still my best friend). I knew literally nobody else who watched anime back then. But then year after year it became more and more normal, I never even noticed a big shift, it was slow and steady and now I can talk about new chapters of One Piece with guys at work, I don't even know how that happened
>>274992644It was surreal for me when Naruto finally ended it felt like the end of the anime industry as a whole especially since the important stuff like FMA, Inuyasha was long gone.That's roughly when I started really getting into OnePiece since I thought it was some Digimon kinda toy anime thing for kids due to how grotesque everyone's drawn.Still, the ashnime ending was what really marked an end of an era.Some of my normalfag core friends casually talk about Kimetsu, BlackClover, Frieren and Ithink it's cool because I never would imagine them to even be aware of it all.The otaku spirit brings happiness to this world, I believe that
>>274992644partial nge is the epitome of ip milking so i thought that would appear in more "mainstream" games other than gacha shitbut anime marketing has already reached globohomo status where an established theme NEEDS a coverboy, and i guess currnetly ito is practically the only one constantly producing crap to feed the machinefunnier was jojo was always a DUWANG meme and a gar OVA/fighting game. now it's just co-opted to be gay because muhvouge references
>>274992644>Did yo ever expect anime to be as popular and mainstream as it is today?When japs decided to license their cartoons at a discount compared to western cartoons, it was a matter of time until these kids grew up and got into the medium, long term planning executed with perfection
>>275000399>now it's just co-opted to be gayAnon it was always gay. When it has gay characters you can't tell them apart from non-gay ones because they act exactly the same
>>275000488let me tell you what's actual gayer
>>274992644I underestimated how well known Junji Ito was.For years now he has been one of the most popular mangaka on display in my city. To the point that Japanese people living here would bring up Ito as the first example of mangaka that westerners know.I thought of him as the horror guy from internet memes like 15 years ago but he apparently was a lot better known than that irl.What really blew my mind is last year I went to the major independent comic store (The Beguiling) and the guy who shared an entire wall with just Junji Ito was fucking Kago Shintaro.How are that many people off the streets buying translated physical copies of ero guro that he gets a wall front-and-center?Times have changed.
