Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 4, 2023 19:31:02 GMT
Plus, when it comes to American animation, it's usually stuff from the big states like California & New York. You almost never hear about anything from other, less populated states unless it's something like South Park(Colorado) or Danger Rangers(North Carolina). Canadian media seems to get decent attention, but British, Irish & Australian lost media don't get much around here.
Outside of those main series, the general aesthetic I WOULD consider mainstream at this point (not to mention, I imagine a fair number of people keep their anime interests to themselves so as not to be associated with sweaty, fat, neckbeard otaku stereotypes) and I do think there is enough people interested in anime as a media form to justify a lot of "obscure" anime searches here.
And indeed, animation outside of a few states and Japan basically gets no interest here in the USA (outside of some webtoon and light novel related stuff). Unless it aired directly on American TV and/or got a VHS/DVD release of some type, European/African/South American/etc. animation is super, super niche. GKids has tried to push out a few products, but not to the extent of full series or anything.
Meanwhile with animation from elsewhere... yeah, most Americans just don't care(unless it was already in English like with Bluey or Peppa Pig). The only time some people would know about them would be from either Saberspark(who covered Squirrel And Hedgehog(you PROBABLY know where it's from) Russian animated movie Animal Wars, French series Unicorn Warriors: Eternal & Bulgarian Treasure Planet) or Animat(who talked about Danish animated franchise Jungledyret Hugo). Even something as impactful as Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, a 1975 stop-motion Norwegian film, which influenced the racer scenes in Star Wars, as well as Wallace And Gromit, isn't all that well known outside of Norway & a few other Nordic countries.
