How Anime Beat Disney
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Anime in the past 4 years has exploded in popularity. Streaming services are fighting for distribution rights and spending millions on Japanese animation, including one of it's competitors, Disney. McDonald's just rebranded as it's anime counterpart, WcDoanld's. In 2024, it's cool to be into anime, but that wasn't always the case. In this video, Andy dives into the complicated rise of anime to understand how it broke out of Japan and became a global success.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 How Pokemon Shut Down Tokyo
0:51 America has gone crazy for Anime
2:26 The Origins of Manga
4:16 Disney's influence on the Anime
4:54 Anime style, explained
5:49 Walt Disney's impact on Osamu Tezuka
6:30 Wartime Propaganda
7:31 The Rise of Atom and Modern day Manga
9:29 The first Anime: Mighty Atom
9:54 Making Anime accessible to America
11:20 The growth of western animation
12:15 What makes Anime stories unique
13:41 I watched a bunch of Anime
15:05 Why it was harder to find in the 1980s-2010s
15:50 Studio Ghibli (& Disney)
17:54 Attending an Anime convention
20:39 The year Anime went mainstream
22:00 Anime working conditions
23:00 Why Anime Won
#anime #disney #japan
A lot of it seems to come from how Japan sees animation as another medium for storytelling, rather than something relegated for children's media
This is like 90% of it. Of course animation is a medium, not a genre, but the West has been so entrenched in that outdated, Disney-mandated idea that it took The Simpsons to bend that trend; even then, it didn't fully break. We're fortunate that at least we're seeing more of those boundaries broken, but I can''t help but wonder how much worse was animation held back as a medium before Astro Boy, Akira, Dragon Ball and Gundam changed the game.
Yeah
@@FlyingCIRCU175not West. Only USA
Pretty much. Every genre under the sun is represented in Anime. There's a show for everyone in every demographic.
If you want cyberpunk, anime has you covered with multiple Ghost in the Shell series. Meanwhile in western animation there's... Uh... Reboot? Does that count?
@@GabeSweetMan yeah japanese anime has rebooted some series but compared to American you can expect a little effort he’ll I think one day reboot dragonball they have done recaps on films
Wow, what an unfortunate day for this to be released. RIP Akira Toriyama
Yeah
RIP to the goat
He was a racist.
Maybe it’s a good day to a honor a legend for his sake it came
@@hipstersephiroth3722 you know, you're absolutely right. What a great day to share his work with the world, regardless of the circumstances
Anime is beating out Disney is because Disney had stopped caring about its animation. Instead of making more cartoons, Disney is pumping out live action animated remakes. Former CEO Chapek claimed adults don't like watching animation and that the genre is for kids. They stopped looking at animation as medium that should be viewed by all.
Disney should've quit with the crappy song and dance sequences DECADES ago. Such things aren't really a thing in Anime movies, and they're so much better for not being interrupted with a Damsel getting all Damsel-y or the sidekick doing an inspirational number about how to cheer up or something, where we all collapse in a laughing heap despite whatever drear doings are occurring.
Ah, but EMOTION..(!)
Watch anything by Makoto Shinkai and have your feels stretched to breaking point - something Disney just can't do.
Instead of complaining about Disney and the current state, you guys rather watch other animations outside the US, besides Japan with anime.
@@jpofgwynedd3878”Ah ah ah, Disney bad, and me hate musicals so they bad. Anime is like perfect, and so much better cause they not be like Disney or anything made in U.S Since only anime movies be good and nothing else can unless they be just like it”🤓☝️
They've made too much "Woke" strong females lead.
It's about money. And it didn't affect just Disney. In 80s and 90s, cartoons (in the west) were basically made to advertise toy lines. And these cartoons had to have a compelling story that would draw in children to make want the toy, but also parents to actually go out and buy it. The other thing - adults didn't watch cartoons as much - they didn't have time to catch it on TV, and the only alternatives were going to rental store or to go to the cinema. So, which adult in their right mind would start a car, and go specifically to rent The Little Mermaid for themselves?
Fast forward, we have streaming platforms. And streaming platforms are paid by adults. And everything is on click. So, let's get that nostalgia going, and milk some money, but this time not over kids wanting a toy, but directly from the adults, by making remakes of the shows THEY liked as the kids.
And thus the kids in the west are slowly being stripped away from the good and imaginative stuff, because the parents are cashing their money on nostalgia, and the incoherent crap is produced, because, why bother with a good script, when they will pay anyway? Children were the "middle men" for making money, and now they are not anymore needed. And that's where Japanese took over. They never changed their model, and they are still producing stuff that spark kids' imagination. They are faithful to their audience, and it shows.
Japan knows that Anime is a medium, NOT a Genre sectioned off for children's entertainment.
That is the BIG difference between Anime and Western Animation.
1989: Why don't westerners read Manga, because they didn't have Osamu Tezuka
2024: Why don't boomers read Manga, because they didn't have Akira Toriyama.
You're mistaken. The most popular Japanese cartoon animation demographic is "Shonen" which is a school boy demographic. It's just that those with arrested development and whom are on the spectrum are into it in mass. The adult animation "Seinen" there is nowhere near as popular as the childrens demographic for cartoon animations.
@@urbanyouthsHe didn't tho. He literally named dude who inventent that genre...
@@piotrkarp9562 The most popular anime is by far Shonen which is for school boys, not Seinen. One work alone isn't overshadowing that fact.
@@urbanyouths You're missing the point of the OP. It is also true that Shonen is the most popular genre, but even so it doesn't have as much hand holding in terms of story telling compared to Western animations. It doesn't treat its audience like idiots and instead have more subtleties, instead of having to tell the audience everything. There are still great stories from Shonen genre, with great lessons. Majority of Western animations treat it like children's media, with heavy censorship. Shonen genre still has heavy and dark topics, relatable to even adults.
@@Nicopearwestern animation also does touch on heavy topics they just can't be as blatant as anime can do to censorship laws put in place by parental groups.
Haven't watched much western animation after Legend of Korra which is basically a Shonen, but a lot of the feel a lot safer now but that's probably bc a lot have always been for kids and I'm an adult, which is true in Japan too. There are shows that target below the shonen demographic that nobody in the west even hears about bc we already have our own stuff. If I had to guess studio expects take very few risks now bc the medium is so expensive for very little profit,especially when they haven't been able to advertise merch during the shows time slot since the 90s so they can't supplement the price from merch as effectively. Anime actually faces a similar problem with profitablity. They have incredibly tight budgets and most lose money and have to be subsidized by the one or 2 shows a studio makes that does make money. And most of that money doesn't go to the animators or the studio but the production companies. There is very real worries that the anime industry could see a partial collapse in the next 3-5 years that's how messed up the industry actually is.
Also don't act like there haven't been bangers in the west that do tackle heavier themes. Basically all of the DCAU from Batman the animated series through to Justice league and batman beyond, Tean Titans, AtlA, Fosters Home for imaginary friends, Gravity Falls, and over the garden wall all come to mind. There are a few more that I have heard of but haven't watched that have come out recently. I've heard good things about Owl House and that She Ra has its moments. Yes these are fewer and farther between but we also don't make like 60 new shows a season, 70 of which are isekai, so numbers are kind of on their side.
Just so we're clear.. Disney wasn't beat from a technical perspective. They were beaten for their inferior storytelling.
Yeah Disney Renaissance era is 2d animation peak and Disney really great in CGI department especially Pixar always innovated in CGI with each film
Anime beat disney on many aspects.
@@aerith119only in story telling
@@bendivmukeba I respect your opinion but I strongly disagree.
@@aerith119elaborate…
japanese make more matured and deep stories
Agree 100%
Yes absolutely right ❤
@@youngbilofi5836 Pixar has done that well
Not always, they also make bad anime as well, case in point, there's a soft core hentai that many have called 50 Shades of Buddha
And also because unlike the west, Japanese people are not obsessed with identity politics. Black, White, Latinos, Indian, everyone can enjoy anime without any of them being "represented".
Great video. My instructors at The Art Institute of Dallas in 1998 told us "Japanimation" is a fad.🙄 They said we should only copy Disney. Fast forward to 2024, all Art Institute locations went bankrupt, and Disney is in financial & moral decline.😈
I'm sorry, but Japanimation sounds like my mother she'd usually follow it up with why are you into that crap.
@@slivorywings2821 That was the term the US media would call anime during the 90s.
Moral decline? Can you elaborate on that?
Yes, when I was in school my art teachers will tell me stop drawing Japanese manga style I need to draw realistic
@@princessjellothey go woke, everything must have diversity, Ariel become black, snow white become hispanic, their story kinda preaching about women power, feminism, and other shit rather than telling exiting plot
one missing part of this is the organic underground communal and technological part of the story. outside of the official stuff like robotech and speed racer, there were people bringing anime over on vhs and using amiga computers to add subtitles showing that there was a larger market for early companies like adv. likewise, as the internet grew, fansubs and scanlations brought over so much more than what was thought to be marketable enough to sell on dvd. it’s so easy to watch anything officially now, but the organic growth was very community driven.
Absolutely! I realize it may be dangerous to note what’s basically piracy on TH-cam but like. Fansubs and scanlations were what brought attention to so many series. Still are, depending on the genre you’re working in (especially if you want to keep up with manga that’s not Shounen Jump fare).
Hell, I’m surprised Crunchyroll’s origin as an unofficial streaming site was just glossed over. That’s something they want buried I’m sure, but it’s still a part of their history.
It’s definitely amazing how much more accessible anime and manga are these days, but at least some of that was us pirates demonstrating how demand was there for more than what could be sanitized for kids - and how we wanted those uncut versions too.
@@Caterfree10 right. there's also the entire grey market discussion of 'acquring' something when there's no viable alternative, etc, but the fact is that anime was VERY much a punk rock countercultural movement especially from late 80s through the 00s. that community part isn't just a side note, it dwarfed the official stuff for quite a while and birthed what is now an entire industry. to pretend it was just those handful of legit companies is to ignore a major part of the history.
@@chrisronin It's certainly a critical part to miss out, but it's also understandable given the short duration of the video. Many of the companies who licenced releases of anime in the 90s and early 2000s grew out of the fan community and effectively "went legit". Crunchyroll started out the same way a decade later moving from fansubs into licenced subs.
Rip Akira Toriyama. He’s training with King Kai now ❤
and is friends with pankraz from DQ5 in heaven.
Dealing with periodic interruptions from George Takei
Meanwhile Netflix's reaction to the anime gold rush was to remake the most beloved animated show ever in live action with allegedly professional actors reading a version of the script mutilated by an AI in front of a technology that continues to look worse than the green screen.
I like the bulk head.
It’s how it is
Which one? YuYu Hakusho?
@@Kazuma_kiryu311 I think fullmental alchemist
@@watchforever1724 Wait, Netflix made that? I haven’t seen it, but I know it’s one of those things that’s hated like the Last Airbender movie.
The poor conditions at animation studios is not restricted to Japan. Its like this across the industry, including Hollywood. In fact most Hollywood vfx and animation are outsourced to the rest of the world. I've had to work 120+ hour weeks and not get paid any overtime working on some Hollywood Movies
True us in America we had the me too movement not too long ago that expose the amount of sexual abuse that happen in Hollywood and that sexual abuse their work abuse and racism ah heck their was alot of racism happening on tesla factories
Fuck Hollywood and Disney, they are all going woke
We also have to give credit to Video Games specifically Nintendo and SEGA for helping young kids during the 80s and 90s to be aware of where some of their best games came from and how important some game design sprites and polys were to getting us familiar with Manga design.
Zelda Ocarina of Time was one of those games where the character art was clearly Anime in a Western Fantasy.
I agree very much
Yup, I woulda never got into anime if not for kingdom hearts and final fantasy to be honest...also pokemon
RIP Akira Toriyama
RIP Akira Toryama indeed
Nerd culture is probably only a thing in the west or Anglosphere, 'cause anime, gaming and the likes have always been look at as a cool kid thing here in southeast asia ever since their introduction
nerd culture is a thing in japan as well. That's why they have the word otaku. I feel like nerd culture is less of a thing in latin america as well, since my mom grew up watching anime as a kid.
@@jyke321Your missing details, In Latin America people tend to be somewhat restricted with what they like if you keep it in group for example Knights of the Zodiac,Captain Tsubasa, even Sakura Cardcaports have followings there but its not as open as Telenovelas. Unlike Japan where its everywhere , many women in Latin America still see it as kids stuff
@@theultimateartist4153 still, that’s not as ridiculously obvious as in the US, where animated shows are often seen as being for kids (instead of being a respected medium like in France) thanks to the infamous Hays code and, most complicated of all, the terribly researched Comics Code Authority.
@@SlapstickGenius23CCA is a weird beast, because without it Batman would be a more of a villain and Superman would be more like a dictator. It also allowed Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to create the market friendly MCU we have today but your not wrong. Without we would be living in a different world especially when it comes to Saturday morning cartoons. Also America's kid perspective had an influence in the Caribbean and LatinAmerica as well. Its a weird world
Even in south asia here in india it's always been cool
Moment that I love when Gundam founder Yoshiyuki Tomino savagely roast Modern Disney for being mediocre
What did he say?
Where can I find this?
I haven’t seen it.
Tomino is always saying the realest shit. I love it
Tomino is based
Naruto, Pokemon, Attack on Titan and Full metal alchemist have changed my life forever.
Same but I would have put on Bleach in there 😀
try Slam dunk, Jojo, Ghost in the Shell(SAC), Death note, gantz... man I am struggling here, there are just too many good anime in this world to be named. While on the Disney side. I watched a bunch but fail to remember any, well maybe alladin...
Naruto is the goat
I remember watching this show making my life look good
Japanese anime is diverse, Disney is one corporation with monopoly. My fav animes are yu yu hakusho and saint seiya
Fact
Before his fall from grace at Disney/Pixar, John Lassiter clued into something. He was on a business set to the then recently opened Hong Kong Disneyland. While watching the parades, he noticed that they only featured characters up to a certain period for Disney, I believe it was nothing after the Lion King. He then learnt that Hong Kongers didn't care about the characters for the Hunchback or Atlantis or anything in that period of time. The characters were seen as not being very iconic or vivid. This influenced his run of Disney's animation department by being character-focused, which paid off with film such as Frozen. It seems Disney's movies have lately been hit or miss when it comes to their characters.
Thank you for sharing, this was very interesting.
Lion King was peak Disney, cant convince me otherwise
I think I noticed that with the U.S. too, though not as much. I've noticed the mid to late 90s Disney animated movies while they were kind of big hits or had a cult following, they still were not as hugely popular or as iconic as the early 90s Disney animated movies.
There's still the prevailing thought that animation = for kids. It's a common joke around awards season & it happened again during this year's Oscars. More serious, mature oriented animated works are being produced now, but it's decades behind anime/manga that literally has something for everybody.
Yeah I remember that joke during Oscars by Jimmy Kimmel about how the animation is just for kids, and thinking "you're way behind the times"
@@elcee8I just think this whole debate about “How anime is much broader than western animation” is kind of forgetting what the most important metric is. Disney executives, Dreamworks executives, Illumination executives etc. all care about chasing that bag and for the most part they’re straight up beating anime and it’s related Korean and Chinese counterparts. Just last year revenue for this industry in the US was $374 billion a year, by comparison JP’s anime industry was just able to bring in 26 billion- an all time high.
And as long as these companies make more money- and being way more lucrative- than their JP counterparts there’s no reason for them to take the JP route which does involve fighting a lot of stigma on watching animation in general.
@@elcee8 As for story telling, I think that this is up for preferences. I think western animation (which really is just another term to mean Hollywood) has its own charms and anime does as well. Having watched shows like ReZero, Angel Beats, Charlotte, Overlord, Jujutsu Kaisen, Naruto, Blesch, Golden Time etc (literally over a hundred at this point) I can understand the perspective that because storytellers use anime as a medium rather than a tool to target a specific demographic that it’s better. But I’d argue Hollywood has been better in having their stories touch and resonate with a lot more people- not everyone is going to be able to resonate with something like Darwin’s Game or Overlord because they’re just too niche. Anime’s like Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia (though it has fallen off in my opinion) and ReZero do touch upon interesting facets of human nature, morality and ethics, but also self worth and redemption/forgiveness. But compare it to films like Coco, Kung Fu Panda, and The Iron Giant and it’ll be hard to find someone who can find Jujutsu Kaisen or My Hero Academia more relatable or heart moving. And this is coming from someone who considers Jujutsu Kaisen to be one of the BEST animes and stories told ever. Right up there with AoT, Spirited Away, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, you name it.
@@elcee8You may disagree with my points and that’s fine, I think animation between Hollywood and East-centric sources are mostly by preference at this point. I would love it if Hollywood does end up putting in effort to create mature animated movies or shows but it has clearly shown it doesn’t need to do so in order to win in what really matters: the wallet. And before anything can be said about how Hollywood and specifically Disney has seen a falling in their revenue sources for animated movies I just want to point out that these are for a *wide variety of reasons*, and I don’t take it as them *losing* to anime but moreso them *failing* to perform to what people expect from a giant studio like Disney. Which says *more* about how influential and successful Disney has been rather than how much better anime is doing than western animation.
jjk isn't that good lol@@oli3492
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood was what got me started some years ago and it's still my favourite, definitely recoomending it!
I totally agree. I didn’t start with full metal alchemist brotherhood but it has one of the best storylines ever
same, I started with Pokemon but the shows that prove that anime can be more than a kids show for me was FM:B and after that I enjoyed Inuyasha and Fairy Tail
Brotherhood is a great anime. I started on the original 2003 and then read the manga.
2003 is better imo. Brotherhood ain't that special
Anime is just for weeb people
This guy skipped over dragon ball harder than I skip over studies
Literally the most important anime for the international acceptance of anime.
YEA THE MOST IMPORTANT I WONDER WHY PEOPLE SKIP IT
I remember as a young otaku back in the early 2000’s when it was just starting to really blow up in popularity here in the U.S., and how exciting it was to go to FYE and plop down $30 to buy a new anime that you had no idea about. Manga, ADV, Funimation, Viz, Bandai, Pioneer, CPM, Anime Works- these were all the big companies bringing over anime back then (And various outlier companies like Disney localizing Ghibli’s films).
Of course you can’t forget all the tv blocks like KidsWB!, Toonami, Jetix, Fox Kids/FoxBox, and [adult swim]. Without these, I highly doubt anime would be as popular as it is now.
I do feel for americans when they say anime where hard to access or beign bullied for watching it, due to television not broadcasting it as much, while in most of european countries they were in every tv station on multiple times of the day,when I was little american animations were actually harder to watch as they weren't as available, (apart from disney), so I grew up with japanese animes and by the time american shows came more available, most people preference were still japanese. Beign a child in the 90' they still aired anime from the 70's so most of us here grew up with those all the way to now.
Yeah, I remember watching stuff late night on a tiny TV with low volume because I was supposed to be asleep.
@GamerFromJump that's such a shame, as a child pre internet boom era, i tough everyone grew up with anime as they were so popular in my home country, japanese animation has entered so much into our homes that even now u can see comedians, tv personalities and youtubers making jokes or reference to anime. Mind you tough is because my country at that time was cheap and japanese animation were more affordable to buy and after seeing how much kids bought all figurines, stickers, school equpments etc etc they kept bringing more shows.
@@kiwiparty3122 - Yeah, it was different if you were an American kid in the 80s and 90s. Today it’s practically an embarrassment of riches compared to that time.
I remember it was literally impossible to watch anime what you had was VHS tapes recorded from what was aired in Japan and a index cards with a basic description of what is happening no subtitles.
@Lostboy811 Wow, that's actually quite fascinating, so where could you buy those tapes, like in mainstream shops, or were they dedicated shops for those anime vhs tapes? All the animes we watched were already dub, it was quite funny tough cause you would have a generically japanese boy/girl with the most regional name of my country, including the regional dialect 🤣
Japan respects animation and Disney does not.
Disney does respect animation.
@@kingboo8354 The Pensuke Files respects animation more than disney, and it isn't even animated yet! Pensuke Files Cartoon here we goooooo!!!
@@kingboo8354 dinseyplus has bleach ,tokyo revengers etc yet no advertisements from disneyplus at all. Except for disneyplus france channel or two. Not many people talked about tokyo revengers when it dropped due to this problem of Disney's failed marketing. Bleach so far is still killing it in the platform due to how big it is and being part of the big 3.
If you want to talk about why anime exploded in popularity in the west as it's more universal appeal with adult subject matter so obviously being something people really want, you can't really do so without talking about the massive millstone American media imposed on itself with the CCA or "Comics code of America."
In short, America let a bunch of incredibly self important Karens, under the delusion that they were somehow protecting children from the scourge of exciting content, create legal limits on comics and animation that essentially outlawed the soul of dramatic conflict itself. It's why so many cartoons in the 70's were suddenly about detectives and villains that were both black and white lawful or evil and completely toothless.
Huh, never heard of that. Thanks for sharing this.
yeah, that the biggest flaw of american cartoons for decades
I remember the haze code that was in Hollywood way back then and in the 80s conservative wanted to ban rock music imagine if metal gear was realse during teh red sacre it would gotten ban for not being pro America enough because the game criticize America politic
You're mostly correct with everything here. Really appreciate the research. And I know you weren't dropping this at the same time as Toriyama's passing, but wow, what a surprising coincidence... RIP, Akira Toriyama.
I do wish you'd gotten around to mentioning the likes of Fred Patten and Mark Merlino - although both of these have passed, and their attachment to other fandoms might be something of a distraction. Those two in particular were a huge part of bringing anime to the West though. Mark only died quite recently, RIP.
14:06 - *Hikaru not Haruko
22:38 - Speaking of horrendous work ethic, it wasn't always this way, and there's several studios who are quite insistent on their staff being well paid and given healthy working hours - in particular Kyoto Animation (who are the studio that hit international news not that long ago because of an arson attack on their main studio). Hayao Miyazaki and several other prolific creators were responsible for the first anime studio labour union. It didn't last, because Japanese law has a habit of being incredibly difficult to shift, and lobbyists intentionally pushed to stop it from progressing, because the system being that bad worked for them. Multiple fights to change things have been attempted, but it's still painfully slow.
Japan treats anime as what it is, art.
hell no Hollywood treats live action as what it is, art.
@@abena1iqshut the hell up
@@abena1iqnot anymore
@@abena1iqthis is a fact
ANIME IS ARTS AND REALITY STORY ❤
For me it wasnt shonen that made me fall in love with anime, it was romance anime.
That to me surprised me with the sheer depth of different but equally quality genres of anime. I still remember the feeling of discovering anime back in 2012.
It was so good i remember watching hundreds of anime and each one of them were incredibly good and completely different from one and other. And from that point i never looked back.
The popularity of anime can be attributed, in part, to its unique ability to convey emotions in a way that surpasses human capabilities. Unlike live-action performances where actors are often credited with carrying a film, anime transcends this by eliminating the need for acting and instead delivers pure emotion. This distinction is what makes anime truly exceptional
Spot on
RIP Akira Toriyama.
🙏
Yep I live in America and when I go to work its crazy the amount of people wearing anime shirts or hoodies and book bags who are all 18-35 years old but I rarely see disney stuff being worn.
Hello, I am french. 40 years ago, we were already fond of manga and anime. It really started in the 80's for us.
Manga too are very popular. When I was little (2005), there was already as much manga as french/Belgian comics (and almost no American ones) in the places where you can rent books (for nothing, it's basically free)
France has always been a major innovator and leader for animation and comics, it's not surprising to me at all that anime and manga would be popular there. I grew up constantly reading French comics. XD
frieren cosplay melted my heart
Why anime is rising and Disney is dying? It’s simple, Japanese are focusing on telling great story, creating strong impact effects on fighting, creating amazing action sequences, making amazing artwork while Disney is focused on making their film more lgbtq friendly and politics correct. 🙄
Agree
Anime is Another level 🤘😎
Correct 100%
Disney isn’t dying and they’re still as creative and unstoppable as ever. It’s not their fault you’re homophobic and hate politics.
@@kingboo8354 eh im not homophobic nor do i hate politics disney just sucks
@@kingboo8354💀
Mean while, in Latin America anime started back in the early 80's, by the late 90's early 2000, we had a TV channel dedicated to it (Locomotion then changed to Animax), i'm glad Anime expanded even more, i remember trying to do my school homework fast, so i could watch Saint Seiya at 5 pm.
The fact the animators are getting low pay for such monumental work is an insult to existence itself.
This is a fantastic video man. Well done. The history of Anime is wild to deep dive into, especially when you consider how it was perceived when I was a kid.
It's funny how anime is so big now
When I used to watch anime I was called a nerd a weirdo shit like that
You can say the same about Video Games.
But today, Video Game industry is bigger than Film and Music industry combine.
Fact
@steak5599 yes I played and still play video games
"Anime BEAT Disney"? But were they ever really in conflict? Sure, there's the infamous clash between Miyazaki and Weinstein over Princess Mononoke, but I don't really see how the Western and Japanese industries were ever competing, or at war with each other. There exists disagreement over how to make animation between these two cultures, but nothing that could really be considered a power struggle. Even today, anime and western animation have largely just been doing their own thing coexisting while occasionally acknowleging each other in passing.
I remember in the 90s, there is an uncle of mine who is not fond of cartoons and doesn't even knew what anime was. Joined me to watch an English dub anime Street Fighter 2 Movie, not sure if it was the Chun Li scene but after the movie he asked me if I have other anime like that, that he can watch.
Touch some grass
anime is trash
Hollywood is better
WB DISNEY HOLLYWOOD IS BETTER!
@@abena1iqnah you’re trash
Anime is about passion, disney is about money
TRUE 😀 Anime is about passion and life, Disney is about money and more money 🤑
My favorite stuff that is widely known: Steins Gate and Log Horizen.
My favorite underrated gem: Origin: Spirits of the Past
Loved the video so muchh!!
But there was only one misconception that many people have: anime is NOT a genre. Its an art medium- its animation. Anime is so much more than high school girls or crazy transformations. Anime, just like any story telling medium, can be ANY genre. Thats why we have thrillers, horror, mystery, adventure, etc.
Alot of my friends who started watching anime because of Death Note realised that anime isnt just one thing. Its a medium for anything
I'm still confused as to why some people still consider Anime as its own genre when the word literally just means cartoon from Japan.
Because anime isn’t a genre, it’s an art form.
Steamboat Willie first released in 1928. Not 1922. However, that doesn't mean Disney animation wasn't around at that point in time. Disney's Alice pictures were being screened. Also common in 1922 but not Disney originated are Fritz the Cat and the Out of the Inkwell series.
This channel’s quality deserves greatness.
Excellent video
Thanks for making this video! This was so cool to learn about!
Western animation deserves more as much as anime does they are even the ying and yang of art and design. But I don’t think it’s fair how anime is outnumbering animation.
Seeing tv networks move to reality tv what really drove me to anime back when I was in High School (never really enjoyed those type of shows when I was growing up). I'll never forget the feeling of being first introduce to the world of anime.
I was already watching it before, but Cartoon Network switching to CN Real around the Recession pushed me to start deep diving into it
As good as Anime is, Disney has been shooting itself in the foot for awhile now.
How lucky i was that Catalonia had TV chanels broadcasting many anime shows since the late 80's. The rest of Spain had to wait several years to get DB dubbed in spanish.
What a timing😢
With all the praise you have for anime. I respect you for bringing up the work condition of these animators. Really nice vid
When I look back it’s kinda dumb. But the reason I started watching anime is because the humans have 5 fingers. Most American cartoons only have 4 fingered humans.
i've been learning concepts from anime for a while now. possibilities of traits a person needs, what to do and not to do, ethical conduct, hopes and dreams, how to live to celebrate the little victories we have no matter how small... it's been very informative, this anime business. they don't know just how much they're teaching from overseas.
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I heard a lot of youtubers misspell "pokemon" as "pokimon"... but it's the first time I hear someone spell it *"prokmon".*
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omg 😂
Great video! So interesting to see how anime became so popular! it is everywhere for sure
Honestly anime goes in storytelling where cartoons sure as heck wont. Even when the demographic is kids. And theyre not pigeonholed to only comedy and action majority reserved for super hero shows, on top of not being 95 percent lazy flash animated tripe. Its also not afraid to have fun with the medium and go crazy with it whereas western animation since the 2000s tries so hard to make it as groudned as possible within the medium. Its not afraid of kitsch, its not afraid to be melodramatic, its not afraid of being ernest and sincere. It's definitely not afraid of having good looking characters. And its also in service of the manga its adapting that makes it just as popular whereas cartoons just take the gist of comics that they feel no more worth your time than the weekly funnies in an old newspaper, it's no wonder the manga section at Barnes and noble keeps taking away comic shelves. And anime isnt afraid to give us new stuff unlike cartoons that go for the umpbillionth remake, revival, reboot of the same handful of ips but lamer. (I'm not saying anime doesn't do that, but it's not the majority of what they do)
Anime can go darker tones and and show philosophical dilemmas, but still being fun to watch.
What a timing for this video.
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Rest in peace Akira toryima
Anime has been imported to my country for as long as I can remember. Though Astroboy and Voltes V were my brother's introduction, I've watched this anime that I can't seem to find. Maybe someone in the comments can help me... It's about a team of caped superheroes with roughly the same outfit and each has a different set of powers. The only one I remember, cuz me and my friends would assign ourselves to them during make-believe, was the fire-breathing one. He only had these squiggles for his eyes instead of the normal large anime eyes and if anyone knows it's name, that would be great.
But the ones that reared me as a child were: Peter Pan no Bouken, Little Prince Cedie, Little Princess Sarah, BT'X, Magic Knight Rayearth, Time Travel Tondekeman, The Secret Garden, Akazukin Chacha, Cardcaptor Sakura, Naruto, Hell Teacher Nube, Ranma 1/2 just to name some.
It’s incredible how there is 2 absolutely incredible artists with the name Miyazaki, the Studio Glibly one, and the President of FromSoftware and the director of games like Elden Ring
nice video very good information and very well done glad to find it. keep the good works greetings from Colombia
Disneys downfall is more than just this. They have abandoned their core customers- focusing on niche seemingly progressive storytelling.
Secondly, Disney abandoned competing with anime studios.
Lastly, you’re forgetting about directions from Blackrock, vanguard, and state street.
Disney is doomed.
They're not going to die that easily.
Good 4 Them!
Disney could be so much more. I'm tired of the forever PG-13 nature of their films as if we never grow old. Yea, I get it, they're catering to the family & kids audience only but it REALLY limits their expansions and --> [] creativity []
These anime never as successful as Disney,so why Disney need care?
So Disney needs to be making films for adults despite having Marvel and Fox doign that?
Video rental was one way to watch anime back in the 90’s. Another way was the fan subbing movement across the state. People would literally mail in an empty video cassette tape plus return postage, and the subbing group would mail back anime that they themselves subtitled. Kind of crazy just thinking about those days :)
Great video! :)
Tezuka Osamu also created the idea of “kuchipaku” or animating mouth in 1 frame to build the illusion of talk.
Started watching Anime in Indiana and Ohio on satillite and local channels that broadcasted it early(as well as libraries that had dragon ball on vhs) when I was around 4 or 5 years old. I was the weird one for a while but now all we forward thinkers are vindicated as Japanese anime and manga is the greatest visual art ever made! I am now 35yrs young and thankful to all the mangaka artist and animators who don't get enough credit for their dedication. #ripakiratoriyama
I am forever grateful to the animators from Disney and proud of the creation, innovations, and for mickey mouse/bugs bunny and acme hannah and barbara and all the beautiful works of my fellow american animtors who made anime and video animation possible.
The only contender to Anime is WB Animation. Both care about the art, voice actors and storytelling ❤
Well since this channel is "Humanity understood through geography", it could be interesting if you got into an anime about when humanity expands beyond said geography (into space), namely Gundam. It is a big and long-running franchise but Gundam 00, Iron-Blooded Orphans, and Witch from Mercury are all good starting points. They are shorter and self-contained away from the original and still ongoing main timeline, carrying and building on a lot of the same themes while doing their own thing.
Another good space themed anime is Space Battleship Yamato. It isn’t as widely available in the West, but it is one of the anime that defined the medium in Japan. It’s American localization, Star Blazers is also a pretty faithful representation of the Japanese version compared to other dubs at the time (though there are things that were cut out of course). I definitely recommend watching it even if the localization is the only version you can find.
Anime Doesnt lecture you.
If what you’re saying is “anime isn’t political” yes it is. There are many anime with political messaging. The entire gundam franchise is about “war bad, don’t do war”
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The way I screamed at the Freiren and Himmel cosplayer. ❤ I think that’s what’s great about anime- it gives you that unexpected joy.
Nice feature! ❤
Thanks for the great summary of the history of anime!
I agree with the atmosphere in the anime con. I have worked in Japan Expo in Paris a couple of times. I saw visitors' expressions became softer and more smily like Japanese ;) It really does serves as a community. It's really interesting to see.
It's always nice to see open-minded people discovering something new
Fact and true 😄
my favorite anime's are:
Attack on titan
Demon Slayer
Jujutsu Kaisen
Mashle: Magic and Muscle
Tokyo Ghoul
Snow white and the red hair
the ancient magus bride
sword art online
the blue excorsist
spirited away
and
a whisker away
and spy x family
Very well made video!
Toy Story was the first GCI animated movie REALEASED, the first computer animated movie was a Brazilian movie called Cassiopéia. Anime isn't a genre, it's a medium.
Kengan Ashura got me into MMA. Loved the fluidity of the fights scenes. Im now currently a Martial arts practitioner who has participated in a few tournaments. All thanks to anime
I mean, it’s not that hard considering the current state of it. Hell, even Glitch is doing better, and that’s a smaller indie animation studio
Anime has been in my life one way or another starting when I was about 3 years old and I saw my oldest sister watching Sailor Moon. And then, 3 years later with Pokemon and later with Digimon and Sonic X. Anime was a big part of my life, but, I didn't fully get into it until after high school several years later. Right now, anime and manga are a huge part of my life, which I give partial thanks to my aforementioned sister and some friends I made along the way.
This is the first video of yours that I have ever seen. It was fantastic.
I always watched anime because I had the feeling that it took itself and it's audience more serious.
the superiority of Latin America people being anime fans since the 1980s
only the truth!
Really cool to see someone take the plunge into anime and manga, and you did it the right way. When you consider anime is the artform, but within it you have a multitude of genres, having people that know your tastes recommend stuff to you is the best way to go. A lot of people get the wrong idea of anime because zealous fans introduced them to stuff that turned them off, when there was plenty of stuff out there that if they'd seen first, would have probably made them fans as well.
Disney said “if you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em.”😔
Frieren, Frieren, Frieren....
I went to animecon too on febraury, though I don’t recognise the cosplayers so I’d guess you were there on saturday while I went to it on sunday. It’s certainly a smaller con compared to like MCM but that does make it easier to interact more with people which is my experience. Hope to see you the next one 👍
wow this was a really well made video. Glad I gave it chance when it poped up in my recommended lol
One thing you probably wouldn't know about being in the UK is "Adult Swim" and the impact it had on anime in America. In the early 2000s, at night Cartoon Network would show anime like Kenshin, Inuyasha, etc. It was still considered "nerdy" by mainstream culture, but the fact that you could be "channel surfing" on basic cable and stumble upon anime exposed a lot more people to it. I know that was the case for me.
Anime girls are actually cute, rather than pandering to feminists. Plot and dialog are actually good, rather than being woke. Same case can be made for the game industry too.
Anime girls look the same
Then you should watch some harem genre anime then because each female character design is different to me @@danielellis6327
Because the themes are more mature than most cartoons. And the character building adds to the enjoyment than stagnant cartoons.
My favorite is Gurren Lagann.
"Just who the hell do you think I AM!!!"
- Simon the Digger & The Mighty Kamina
Wait... I'm 37 and when I was a kid, Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon was super popular. And so was other anime before and after it, like Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, Inyuasha, YuGiOh, Naruto, and even Trigun. So when was anime _not_ popular in the West? The 80s? At most recent, maybe the late 90s, cause DBZ was _huge_ in the early 2000s.
The 80s were the beginning of anime becoming more popular with Voltron and Speed Racer etc.
In the 90s anime finally connected with a generation in the west with millennials and after that animation just kind of blurred across the world for Gen Z with the internet.
It might be more like visual thing we learn in recent years with emoji etc
Manga and Anime are very different and some people have weird perception on anime... but from South East Asia I just take manga and anime for granted, growing up with some amount of it.
It's interesting how it got more accepted outside Japan nowadays.
Its at the point now where, at least in my experience, most people my age have seen the new popular anime instead of the new disney movie/show. Honestly even for myself im not even aware of what the last major disney film released was, but im keeping up on multiple anime and manga series.
Touch some grass
anime is trash
Hollywood is better
WB DISNEY HOLLYWOOD IS BETTER!
@@abena1iqget off of TH-cam
I remember times when I watched anime and didn't even know it was named like that. Pokemon was actually the beginning of the hype in Europe, which was more familiar with anime productions, since a lot of countries were buying anime from Japan. Italy was probably the biggest consumer, Germany had also a lot of anime bought, in my native Poland I was lucky to watch some of the NHK series done by Miyazaki and his staff before creating studio Ghibli. But the real breakthrough was with Sailormoon in my country in 1994, just two years after its original premiere in Japan, moreover, it was one of the first countries to ever play it in its fulness and release movies mon VHS. Being an anime fan then wasn't easy but when it was finally normalised I've met one of the friendliest and kindest people there are. I even know people who do not watch all anime but are fan of a particular title - and that's cool, too.
It's been a long road and now people can enjoy it freely, without feeling awkward or being called names. I am so glad I was able to watch the evolution from the golden years to what it's now.
Great video.
DBZ was my first anime. Pokemon I did liked as kid
Let’s just say the spirits finally aligned…