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James Fair's avatar

Hello Matt! I have been comparing anime as a region based product like a champagne for years on various forums and other online argument spaces and have always been swarmed by blowback! I do like to take it a step further since anime is an artistic endeavor. So anime is animation made in Japan from (a lack of a better designation at the moment) Japanese perspective. Even someone that has moved to Japan and has lived here for a while still still is missing some je ne sais quoi that makes something “Japanese.”

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Jerome Mazandarani's avatar

I tend to agree. It’s interesting that your perspective on this comes via games whereas mine is animation. Damn! If there isn’t a shit load of animesque videogames that don’t come from Japan.

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