Anime sweeping the black community like crack in the 80s

[O³ (O cubed)]

I said it sometime ago, that black folks/kids weren't watching DBZ when I was young in the mid 90s and early 2000s. I was the only nikka I knew watching it. when I wanted to discuss DBZ topics, it was with 2 cac mexican kids. but that was the only anime I watched though. I still don't fukk with that genre at all

Speak for yourself. Brehs were watching Fist of the North Star, Violence Jack, Devilman, Guyver, Legend of the Overfiend, Full Metal Alchemist, Ninja Scroll.

In fact, I was kinda disappointed with DBZ with its 10 episodes powering up before throwing a punch.

 

[CW_1991]

On the topic of anime, I highly recommend checking your Castlevania on netflix. As well as Arcane. Both of them are insanely entertaining and high quality.

They're both Western animation but definitely raise the bar.

 

[Max.]

shyt is corny as fukk

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

It speaks to the lack of variety and interesting messaging in American media. A lot of shows these days usually follow one of these formats:
1.unrealistically good looking people competing to date eachother.
2. Law enforcement tracking down unrealistically sophisticated crime networks
3. Doctors and nurses treating exotic diseases
4. A weak adaptation of a work made several years ago.
5. Chuck Lorre style sitcoms.
6. Poorly animated family cartoons.

And they usually have pretty forgettable protagonists and characters that get killed off just as people are starting to like them.

Anime is more relatable to an audience that's gotten tired of seeing the same kinds of things. Its part of the reason the marvel products are so popular too. They have characters who are flawed and suffer setbacks but keep persevering until they win like captain america, thor, or Spiderman. Its part of the reason pro wrestling is still popular(might even argue MORE now because people can watch all sorts of wrestling promotions)

People want to see characters take Ls and grow from them in new and creative ways or characters who develop substantial friendships. A lot of anime is like that.

A very classic cartoon example is my nikka Zuko from ATLA

 

[Insensitive]

You can do both

Tell that to the people who like "nerd" stuff for the LOOK.

 

[King Sun]

Welcome to the mid 90s brehs

 

[parallax]

At least they are not playing Dungeons and Dragons and shyt. Gotta draw a line somewhere

D and d is fun with a good crowd. If you dont have an imagination youre probably fukked though

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Short of the boondocks i cant think of many, if any black cartoons. boondocks couldve had a simpsons-like run man, its too bad the creator wasnt about that life.

The Proud Family (the OG one not the new joint)
The PJ’s
Bebe Kids
Yasuke
The Boondocks

Those are the main ones I can think of right now

 

[MoneyTron]

I've been watching anime since 1994. This ain't nothing new.

 

[OVER]

The only hope is to build a giant wall to keep out the weebs where we normals can live and talk about HBO shows

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

A very classic cartoon example is my nikka Zuko from ATLA

Avatar is an American cartoon made by people who watch anime and unsurprisingly its got a HUGE following. People fukk with the storyline and character archetypes in anime and Disney knows this on some level which is why these marvel movies getting people to break off hundreds of dollars a year.

Steve Rogers vs Bucky in winter soldier was basically naruto vs Sasuke.

Izuku from hero academia is basically Peter Parker.

Thanos was like aizen from bleach.

Thor has basically become vegeta from dragon ball mixed with Goku's personality.

Its no surprise marvel has even gotten anime studios to make x men and black widow movies. Comics, anime and manga are also very personal works. You can see the author more intensely in the work than a lot of the other products out there where its very obvious there was a ton of focus testing done to create the show.

I think we will start seeing more good adaptations of anime in the future. It will take a while but we will eventually get an actually good ghost in the shell adaptation or someone will do a good psycho pass or Tokyo revengers adaptation. Tokyo revengers would be extremely easy to adapt to America. Set it in NY and diversify the cast and you're good to go.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Buddy made a thread off a random tweet from last year about this nothing corny shyt

 

[Astroslik]

Mobile suit Gundam

Mobile suit Gundam 08th team

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 war in the pocket

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway

Gundam Wing use to be good when I was younger, now that I'm older realize the plot was very trash

What’s the newest gundam series these days?

 

[Son Goku]

Sounds like an issue within the black community, or maybe it's just twitter bird babble.

New Blacks been on anime, so I don't have these problems.

 

[King Sun]

Sounds like an issue within the black community, or maybe it's just twitter bird babble.

New Blacks been on anime, so I don't have these problems.