tl'dr. Everything is Disney now.

But in all seriousness, it only takes one or two major exposures followed by a steady stream of releases to form a media niche.

And niches expand from there.

yeah its hard to get investment for such a speculative market

Take Anime in the 80s/90s versus now.

in terms of starting it... idk maybe an indiegogo would change that

That investment wasn't even being purchased as much as just outsourcing.

jus DBZs a good example lol

Maybe. Uganda would have a favorable exchange rate on US dollars. A reasonable indiegogo could be a huge spark in Uganda.

DBZ (really Pokemon) is the point it started to go mainstream.

not that it wasnt big back then but like fuck all my friends from back in highschool are on that dragonball super shit now

yeah i actually learned alot of english from Pokemon back in 2000

Bravestarr, He-Man (and the other really campy cartoons of the 80s) were often animated overseas in Japan to save money.

But then they took their skills and started making their own stuff.

my mother tounge is french but my parents put me in an english public school and switched all the cable to the english channels

And it took off (because it did things western cartoons wouldn't).

That would do it.

yeah speed racer is a classic hahaha

pretty sure iits an example of aforementioned outsourced english shows

Speed Racer is Japan original.

ok nvm it was a japanese show

lol yeah jus looked it up

But the history of how the US outsourced production to Japan and it led to the creation of the anime industry is interesting in it's own way.

If only for the irony that many Japanese companies are now outsourcing to Korea.

so much of anime's animation is outsourced

LOL well thatll teach them for invading korea all those times XD

a significant portion of naruto was animated in china

fun factoid to bring up to jap supremacists and their "it's only anime if it was 100000% japanese"

LOL tbh the sand village looks like its modeled after the gobi desert

weebs make me so mad

people got banned from r/anime for posting SHELTER

hahah its just so ironic because they would be shunned in japanese society lol

which was animated by fucking A1 PICTURES

a huge japanese anime studio

because it was the video to a song that was made by a canadian

also.... are japanese anime fans still weeaboos?

if they're actually japanese they're just otaku

okok yeah very true

forgot that term existed XD

Shelter was a good anime

It was so sad... the feels