Monsta X makes yet another mark as they become the first Korean act to guest star on Cartoon Network’s We Bare Bears...

I'm surprised it's not BTS. There the most popular K-Pop group.

Why exactly did K-pop blow up after a full decade of J-pop dominating when they're basically the same fucking thing anyway

Its more news for the k-pop group. Some asian american sticking his favorite k pop band into his cartoon isn’t news for the show or cartoons in general.

Good question. I'm not a fan of either, but based on what little I've heard, Kpop has more overt American hip hop influences. Jpop has become its own weird inbred genre of very fast beats, squeaky voices, and elementary school dancers that lack the energy and snap of their Kpop counterparts.

I guess the Koreans have more to prove and want it more.

Koreans really like being pandered to huh, unlike the Japanese they just ignore western pandering.

Yeah it's weird. I don't know what media agencies are involved but they're on day time tv and they make entertainment news.

Jpop has shitloads of American hip hop influences too, hell almost every Jpop act when it was at its height had either a hip hop interlude or full hip hop songs. Maybe it really is just the Koreans playing their hand better.

>every antagonist is non-white
How is this bad in the current age of white guilt?

Sure, I'll believe you. I only encounter Jpop while watching the rare anime, so I'm not familiar with the full scope of it.

On the other hand I've come across Kpop because I was impressed by the ladies and their dancing. Their sound and looks feel more contemporary.

This is the gayest thing I've ever seen.

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that's not inoffensive.

So they basically know their audience consists of nothing but little girls and womanchildren?

I know guys like you just hate stuff on principle, but really? wbb? really?

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>some peopa call me a pora beah
>... okay
That's pretty funny.

I don't think Jpop even had a presence in the overseas market. Most knowledge of it came from being tied to anime. At least Jpop never had the presence that Kpop had on overseas market.

well it is a boyband

Yeah what was with the animation on that entrance? Rotoscope?

Might have been.
Maybe it's an excerpt from one of their dance routines?

Better dancing and bigger production value on music videos.

I love that We Bare Bears is finding success in Korea and Japan.

I for one am glad that WBB is promoting exploitative, extremely hostile industries like K-pop.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Asia sure fucking loves this show. Like I knew it was popular over there but god damn.

I liked the first couple episodes a lot but after like the sad burrito episode everything felt mediocre

It better. There's some bad ones pepper in there, but this season has been pretty good.

It's their TTG.

What happens in kpop?

>g-grorious nippon is better!
I don't give a shit about kpop or kpop but wow S E E T H I N G

Yeah it's not just the show, it's the merchandise. It's like Hello Kitty.

>that fujo
They know the fanbase.

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Well the bears have such simple designs that they could be placed on anything/made into anything just like Hello Kitty. CN must be happy that they've find another goldmine show like this.

the same stuff that happens in American media

>he doesn't know

And what's that?

I could literally give less than a fuck

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I'm immediately reminded of this
youtube.com/watch?v=BasedRzgbWZ1Y

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Don't you mean "couldn't"?

the greatest bear ever

What video was this? Says it's unavailable.

How odd

youtube? easier to get noticed by fans around the world

Fuck off rick, the show is a snooze fest. Had a handful of good episodes but it's lost its potential.

I know this show is still on the air solely because Korean and Japanese girls love it, but it's still horrible

Kpop company's have no problems uploading their MV's to youtube. Jpop company's only post a snippet and remove all full MV uploads. Jpop company's don't care about anyone outside of Japan.

It feels like this show gets a lot of hate here because there's a disdain for millenial life especially through the "calarts" lense where the slice of life pacing leaves little room for enough humor to satisfy most viewers and the cast doesn't even have waifus. It's a perfect storm to turn off your average Yea Forumsmrade.

Ice bear is literally the whitest white can be

It could also be that it's fucking boring, not funny, and drier than a ricecake?

So which of these guys will turn out to be involved in a huge underage prostitution ring and unceremoniously fired from the group?

Or maybe the slice of life pacing leaves little room for enough humor to satisfy most viewers.

I have seen many slice of life shows that were perfectly capable of being funny. Clarence was SOL and it was funny. Mitsudomoe was SOL and fucking hilarious.

WBB just sucks.

Literally who

bitch Gorillaz was in last week's episode. bootleg Gorillaz at least

also yes WBB is extremely popular in Asia, not just East Asia but Asia in general. there's a shop that sells every kind of WBB merch that you can imagine, from plushie to a goddamn towel rack

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I thought the same. Clearly a parody of themselves, but also completely themselves.

I wonder if you realize how far from the target audience you are.

Jpop bands didn't have as much teenbop marketing
I mean kpop groups really liked to sell you on who's who and resembled more of 90s boy band and pop group icons in marketing

Jpop never seemed to find much interest in doing that and was more like late 90s corporate rock in it's marketing

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japanese artists and groups tend to be more insular because with their larger market and population there's less need to venture outside of japan to make a buck. so they gatekeep a lot of their content and keep it that way

I love how all these hype generating click baiters come up with the most specific and particular "accomplishments" to sell their shit like any of it means anything.

It's the hair

any figma?
pic related doesn't count, they're figurines.

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And yet many of them have to learn japanese anyway when singing in Japan. That shows how irrelevant gookian is.

I'm pretty surprised they didn't pick BTS.

nah, they sell knockoff lego of WBB and WBB trucks though

Or what happens when you give the Korean studios who do these shows say.

JM/Mir is the most famous in this field but Akom (It was Nelson Shin's idea) also did a Transformers couch gag for The Simpsons because "Before we did The Simpsons we did Transformers".

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OUT FAMICOM

>implying they're not the prostitutes

Korean here. This show is probably the most popular western show right now next to spongebob.

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Do men even like kpop? As far as I know they aren't even fans of krap.

youtu.be/rJnICByeL8Q

It's looks like it's all pretty boy stuff marketed to girls.

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They’re the “not BTS”-group of Korean boy bands.
As in,
>Roses are red
>Violets are blue
>I couldn’t get tickets to see BTS live
>Ehh, you’ll do

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>Do men even like kpop? As far as I know they aren't even fans of krap.
Yeah but they're usually fans of girl groups of course although the guy from your video's group have plenty of casual fanboys too.

The Pepsi of k-pop.
And Pepsi is the Monsta X of pop.

What's the story behind that file name?

No, because WBB doesnt deserve it

nobody asked

More like they’re the next K-Pop boyband to replace BTS once some BTS members start their mandatory military service.

>be me
>every fucking girl at college its obssesed with BTS
>yourcomment.html
>mfw one of these Chinese Justin Biebers will have ballsex by bullies, meaning that i can finally say "BTS is full of gay shit" without consecuences

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>WBB is a korean show
It took you this long to find out?

They are currently the prostitutes but they'll be the pimps when they're older

>implying nips don't learn gook when going to gookland
The only reason you don't know it is because Nipland is literally a land of neets

So which of these guys will turn out to be a raging homo involved in huge gay orgy's?

The B in BTS stands for the big Bills you'll be paying them just to show up on your studio

>Spongebob
It's been nearly a decade, there's really no fucking escaping it wherever I go

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At first I thought that this cartoon has such hot guys and I never knew about it

I see the show's on its way of becoming a Korean Simpsons.

>he doesn't know about Adam Lambert

>Panda falling as soon as he gets up
Kek, that trope never gets old.

That's pretty cool. Is it because of the Korean representation?

You ever watch perfect blue?

Isn't that Japanese idol culture?

I would love a WBB and Sanrio crossover.

You don't seem to know how this works. Or maybe you do? Tell us more about your prostitute-turned-pimp days, user.

Yes.
They have giant girl groups that have a ton of male fans.

Do you think it's because it's a more chill cartoon or is it because of the marketing and merch they sell?

Tbh I despise how much Korean culture is seriously starting to eclipse Japan and even some aspects of the US. Their going through their capitalist honeymoon phase and they have an extremely strong economy to have even stronger arts industries. I feel like generations will have a new divide soon: older generations will have enjoyed Japanese culture and shows, while younger ones not yet in their 20's will have gone for Korean stuff. Tbh it makes me feel really old and I'm only 26.

does korea have any good cartoons

Oh boy, I can’t wait for the three way culture war that will make me want to die.

Gen X: Transformers is the best and our comics remain legends today.

Millenials: Accepting our anime overlords is the best course of action. AT and RS is the best we can do now.

Zoomers: Ugh zombie WBB started season 10.

Japs are all over it

J-pop, like pretty much anything Japan produces, is make exclusively with Japan in mind. Basically it's a situation where if the overseas like it, that's cool but until recently they couldn't profit with it. It has always been the westerners looking for Japan, Colon thought he arrived to Japan when he discover America.

K-pop is a complete different story. Korea has always been dominated in every sense of the word by a foreign power, either China, Japan and now America. Their culture is built around following the trend, like the massive conversions to Christianity after the Korean war. Meanwhile nips are insolationists, they feel proud of their uniqueness. Koreans wanted to be known for something besides the Kim dinasty in the north and the masses need some control after the protests in the late 80's. K-pop was funded by the government, the record companies hired Swedish composers in the early 2000s that worked with Britney Spears and NSYNC to teach the Koreans how to appeal to the west and spent millions in international lobbys; and they never stopped until now. BTS didn't just happen, it was an effort of decades only for gaining America's recognition and making foreigners to visit Korea. No one wanted to go to Korea before the K-pop explosion, except for getting mail brides or filming low-budget martial art flicks

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>Meanwhile nips are insolationists, they feel proud of their uniqueness.
Ironic considering that they're collectivist conformists.

Lol, korea has no real culture you bugman.
Go back and drink your poop wine

it's the same. i remember a story where a K-Pop fan somehow snuck into her idol's bedroom, took a photo, and bragged about how she kissed him in his sleep

>season wrapped up
>impending hiatus
>full celebrity voice cast
The english dub might end while the Korean dub continues.

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K pop fans are fucking creepy

They aren't the same thing. They sound very different, and Kpop appeals much better to Americans. They're also aesthetically different, with Kpop emphasizing perfect, sexy, mature women, and Jpop emphasizing cute girls. The former appeals way more to Americans.

People really overstate the idea the Japanese are highly collectivist while Americans/Westerners are highly individualistic. When it comes to media it's actually completely the opposite.

I could see that, especially their comics and cartoons that cover so much more than western media. I'm still surprised there is a market for 50 episodes of Polar Bear's Cafe.

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