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>> Anonymous
>>206186
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I am Canadian
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Oh" Its wonderful!
I am very happy to exchange with foreign peope!
soryy, I am poor at English.Is Japanese anime
popular in your contory? What do you like anime?
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United States.

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>>206588

Anime and manga are really popular in the US. These days you can't walk into a bookstore without seeing entire shelves filled with manga.
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I'm Hungarian.

Enjoy the neko(cica). ;)
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Philippines.
>> Móci
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The anime and the manga are not very popular, but spread it a good tempo, i think.
I love the anime, because it's better than the classic films: very good (sometimes kawaii ;) ) characters, nice drawing, good music, and strong story board.
Anime = very very good entertainment.
I hope the spelling is correct, i use kanji:
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Ukraine
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>>206186

My country is on earth.

My arrogant disrespectful ass, is in the nation that bombed yours.

Wechselweise bin ich ein deutscher geborener Staatsangehöriger.
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As for me, this dude needs good old prophylactic b&.
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>> theRat
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Colombia, and anime is spreading like AIDS...
Yeah, save the narco and drug jokes.
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France
anime is really popular, especially for 2 or 3 years, since the high speed internet spread

(here's some old French anime wall : Inspecteur Gadget :p)
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What do you like Japanese anime?
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Can you find good picture in this room?
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I'm from the Philippines myself. There is some extent of popularity here but I'd rather die than be recognized an otaku. I personally like stuff like PPD.
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From Sweden and Anime is spreading here, and most anime are subtititled instead of dubbed.
>> Anonymous
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Even official releases?
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Yah, as far as I've seen. I usually download my anime cuz I prefer fansubs before the official ones and that swedish Anonymous maybe buys more anime than me but...the fact that they has options for subtitles instead of dubbing is great.
Two years ago or something, Card Captor Sakura was aired on tv...uncut...with Japanese original audio & swedish subtitles. Awesome, I say! This should really happen more often in other countries I think : / Wonder why companies in US & Germany are so into dubbing everything...?
>> Anonymous
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Illiteracy? >:D
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Mexico
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A few years ago some series actually got airtime, but only a few of the most popular series, primarily targeted at young kids. Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Sakura. The series were heavily butchered, and consistently stopped airing halfway. How they butchered Sakura especially hurt, since it was so painfully obvious, even to me, and I hadn't seen the original yet. Like all series, it was cancelled halfway through. Also the theme songs were done in a rather mediocre fashion, although the voice acting was generally better than that of English dubs.
Currently, no anime is aired on Dutch television. Films on DVD are almost impossible to get, only Ghibli stuff lies on the shelves. Nothing wrong with Ghibli, but still...
Sometimes MTV aires something worth watching, but only rarely. Of course, if you're into hentai (eroanime) you've got a wide spectrum of choices in the local video shop. No, you don't even need to go to an erotica store. Go figure. Unfortunately I hate hentai.
All in all the situation is pretty hopeless. Or it would have been, were it not for the fact that broadband internet is extremely cheap over here. There, I managed to end my post on a positive note :-)
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BLEEDMAN, GTFO
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Brasil \o/
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>> Anonymous
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I'm from the USA as well.

Anime is pretty popular here, these days. There are still a lot of people who are uncomfortable with it though. Many of my friends refuse to watch anything animated, they think it is very childish, I guess.

My answer to the question of why anime in the USA is mostly dubbed, I think that Anonymous that said "Illiteracy" is probably on the right track. I think the cause really is that many people here do not read, as much as possible. Because of this, many people read very slowly, and have a hard time keeping up with subtitles.

Judging from when I was in high school, many other people there had a hard time reading. Maybe this is part of the cause. The companies will give the consumers what they want, after all.

My real complaint with buying anime on DVD is that the subtitles look like crap. Many soft and especially hardsubs look really good here (mplayer on Linux, but they look equally good on Windows). I enjoy the colored and animated openings, for example.
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I'm from the UK. I wouldn't say anime was terribly popular here, but it is "known of" by most.

A lot of (clueless) people here refer to anime solely as "manga" unfortunately though, due to the name of the first professional distributor of anime in the UK (Manga Entertainment). The same thing happened when the vacuum cleaner was invented, people here still call them Hoovers, because of the name of the most popular brand at the time.

Anyway, anime really started to get recognised in the UK back in 1992 after BBC2 aired Akira (subbed) for the first time. Popularity rose again in the late 90s when Channel4 aired an "anime season" which spanned a whole month, and continued to air anime late at night for nearly a year afterwards (Fist of the North Star IIRC, lol.)
>> Anonymous
>>206667

Deutschland für den Gewinn
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I'm from Ukraine! *_*
Hello to everyone :) It's a really nice-nice-nice thread ^^

As for the anime/manga popularity in our country, it began rising about 7-8 years ago. But at those times it was so hard to find something at all. Now its much better and there's lots of official releases also. Well, these are russian publisher's releases, but who cares ;)
So, watch anime, read manga, play videogames! It's really fun ^^ nyanyanya
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While I did enjoy Inspector Gadget, it isn't really anime, even though it was mostly drawn in Japan. Pretty much everything else was done in Canada, but a Frenchman was the director.
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Thank you very much Everyone"
I am happy to my contry anime is popular!
If I can upload some pictures…?Will you teach
me What anime do you like? I have 500 anime pictures!
I have 80 Nanao Narus picuture.
I have 130 Da capo
I have 100 Sister Plincess
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>> madchick
Indonesian
Halo (Hello)
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hellow"???????
sorry I am poor at English.
Japan is PM11:15. I must do homework.
see you again!??????
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Do you have any Kodomo no Omocha or Great Teacher Onizuka wallpapers? Also can you advise any good Japanese anime wallpaper gallery?
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I know some Japanese anime wallpeper garally!
http://www2.atwiki.jp/uploader/pages/9.html
http://crossxover.blog92.fc2.com/blog-category-3.html
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Russia!