Why do Americans try to gatekeep anime? It's always been popular, just not in USA? Italy had Gundam in 1980 and was watching Mazinger and Grendizer in the 70s. France anime was big. I know LatAm had Saint Seiya, Ranma and other shows. East and South East Asia? Of course they knew what anime was lol. Americans were the absolute last to discover anime and probably shouldn't have even been allowed to discover. Along with all the other anglo countries. "but I traded tapes in the 90s" you were still a late adopter.
Why do retarded people invent things about Americans to get angry over in the internet?
>>287686868Americans didn't know it was Japanese whereas Italians for instance knew it was. Try again.
>>287686880Prove your claim, schizo.
>>287686887Dude they literally changed names in Speed Racer whereas Italians kept names like Kabuto Koji lmao
>>287686843The average American is insane, as such, the cultured elite must gatekeep anime from them.
I'm pretty certain you're making random stuff up to get angry at americans about
>>287686843Rent free.
mutts（especially boomers）discriminate nips, simple as
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>>287686843It's not Americans per se, because anime did exist in the USA way before in the 70's and 80 but back then it was called Japanimation. The main issue is younger Gen X and Millennial anime fans who grew up on shit like Toonami and the internet and convinced themselves that anime was something entirely new outside of Japan and that they discovered it. As a side note bongs also had some anime relatively early with bong dubs of shit like Urusei Yatsura.This thought lead to them thinking that they made anime popular throughout the world, as a consequence you have tards also spreading the myth that piracy is why anime is popular in the first place and I don't care what your stance on piracy is but piracy was not what made anime popular.
>>287688569Piracy didn't make it more popular but made subbed anime more accessible in the west. That is factually true look at crunchyroll
>>287686843>Italy had Gundam in 1980Not just that. Basically everyone who grew up in the 80s, 90s and 2000s watched anime in spaghettiland
>>287688569TV had anime but did it have all anime? Eh. If you lived in Nicaragua, you'd search for subs in Nicaraguan for the Big 3 and Elfen Lied.
>>287689582I never expected to find fellow Kabamaru fans in Italy. That anime is ancient.
>>287686843Everything just turns into a culture war in the US, I don't know why. American society is like a giant lab for social experiments before the elite applies the results in other countries.
>>287686843>elon musk, mrbeast, logan paul, speed,,,, every eceleb in america suddenly says they love anime and japan suddenlywhat happened to america zoomers
>>287690168>what happened to america zoomersAnime became mainstream and the attention whores wants a piece of the pie.
Because americans ruin everything. Just stick to your comics
>>287686843why havent you spaghetti benders done a proper italian dub of gunslinger girl so i can watch it
>>287686843The person behind Ganbare realizes that "teacher student relationships that go to far outside of adult franchises" is bad news and wants to avoid pissing everyone off even more.Meanwhile, cockroach Reiji and his cockroach shit Rent-A-Bitch franchise is getting away with having that poor shounen lead jizz in a public pool.I know "gatekeeping" is bad. But there's a difference between that and wanting a males in anime to NOT BE FUCKING SPINELESS BLOBS who crumble whenever a female looks at them.
>>287686843Is this image from Blade of the Immortal?
>>287690558Yes
>>287690526>I know "gatekeeping" is badGatekeeping is good.
>>287686843>It's always been popular,In the 80s, not in the late 2000s and early 2010s which are the direct influences of the era today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw6xzv_glU0&list=RDJw6xzv_glU0&start_radio=1Try showing stuff like this today and the mainstream will still get creeped out lol.
>>287686843This girl never actually turned up in Blade of the Immortal, weirdly enough. That was such a strange manga, especially since the climax is sort of like a fistfight in a parking lot that goes on for four volumes.
>>287691477I wish she tried to act tough and got raped
>>287691508At that point shit was getting STRANGE. Like horrific things were happening to people, but only one girl got raped until she got pregnant (not in this arc, to clarify, but in an earlier arc.)
>>287691519Yes. It was my introduction to manga. I bought a volume where Hyakurin was raped and tortured.
