An American video game company called WayForward is going to release a spin off game in the Japanese Kunio-Kun series called River City Girls and it seems to have some quality comic book of its own drawn by Priscilla Hamby. So I think its Yea Forums related.
Long story short, the American video game company made the pretty decent looking western game/comic set in Japan. I dont think this is "weebshit" or manga/JP game. The original series was made by Japanese but this one is wholly made by Americans/westerners and they've mainly marketed in the west, not in Japan. (The game doesn't have Japanese VAs and most commentators on their Youtube videos are westerners.)
Why cant the American comic/cartoon industry have a comic/show like this while the American video game industry can? Is it a taboo or something? Sorry but I honestly think stuff like this is more appealing to everyone, especially teenagers, than any modern American comic/cartoon out there. I want a comic/cartoon show like this. This game just proves Americans can make a decent anime influenced comic//show set in Japan. Do I ask too much?
The American video game industry is 10 times more powerful than the American comic/cartoon industry. FACT.
Camden Jackson
It's dumb because they likely don't know anything about Japan and will get things messed up, and they're just doing it to get attention from weebs. When anime set in Japan are good it's because the people making it are actually familiar with the place. When Americans do it it just seems like weird fetishizing of an alien culture.
This River City Girls game looks cool and it's just a beat em up so no one really cares if it's set in Japan. But generally people should write about what they know, or do research if they want to write about a foreign place.
Grayson Anderson
Probably no but who cares about that shit? Japanese have made a bunch of manga/anime set in foreign countries without knowing western life and they get popular even in the west.
Thomas Martin
Americans can't comprehend a world outside America, just look at any 4Kids dub
Jose Bell
>But why muh comics don't please my weeb fantasies.
The video game industry has stagnated as well but at least they still have a potential to make stuff like this. And more importantly, this isnt agenda/internet trend driven. Its Tumblr leaning but still it just looks "normal" and has a new look as an American product. Its actually something new and fresh, and can work for everyone. I dont see comics/cartoons like this in the mainstream market at all.
Juan Stewart
Trust me you don't want any American stories set in Japan. They're always weird orientalist shit with OH THE JAPANESE SO WACKY themes even though United States is much crazier country.
It's better to write about places you know something about or just make up your own fantasy universe.
Thomas Baker
>Japan >Walk outside >Get cursed >Go back inside >Turn stove on >House burns down >Call fire department on public telephone >Accidentally summon demon But seriously, their superstitions are pretty fucking weird.
Cooper Martinez
wonder if you could play as the boyfriends in a new game +?
Dominic Rodriguez
Because weebs are WAY more nitpicky when it comes to things about Japan. No one cares if Japan thinks Americans eat Hotdogs and Burgers for every meal, or are all blonde and blue eyed. Most would find it more amusing than anything. Call a Kimono a Yukata once, and you'll never hear the end of bitching.
David Scott
Alot of people forget about Kaapa Mikey which is a shame. It was bad but in a good way that was just good dumb humor that didn't make you feel like you lost brain cells afterwords.
Chase Phillips
Why set another show in Japan when it's an oversaturated market? Japan is fucking boring anyways, even Alaska is a more interesting location. Only ignorant weebs think Japan is interesting.
Carter Thompson
Nice that the creator of Devils Candy got a pretty sweet gig.
Joseph Hill
150+ countries but you want to limit settings between US and Japan? Not even fake places.
IGPX was one remember it was Toonami's first anime they ever made. Samurai jack might coujt. But if you want anime influenced shows then watch Avatar the last Airbender, legend of Korra, Rwby, Ben 10 classic or any other version except the new kne. Powerpuff girls. There are other shows but they arent American made. Like Code Lyoko, W.I.T.C.H., Totally Spies, Martin Meystery, three delivery,. These are just the ones that popped up in my head. Also ladybug is decent.
Chase Ramirez
It's amazing how Japan is saved by raging fanboys every time they hurt themselves due to their own incompetence. You don't see this level of babying for other first world countries.
Japan is basically the PRC, but with private companies doing the surveillance and porn is "allowed."
Grayson Russell
Cool
Elijah Martinez
Crap
Benjamin Perez
Only outrage. What a shit board.
Lincoln Mitchell
Huh? Then why does this game get huge attention from westerners? Their trailer on twitter gets 1.1M views. Or what's wrong when the customers are mainly anime fans?
Carson Bennett
>Trust me you don't want any American stories set in Japan. They're always weird orientalist shit with OH THE JAPANESE SO WACKY themes even though United States is much crazier country Japan is actually kinda like that though? They’re eccentric by the standards of a lot of countries, and a lot of the stereotypes are true. Like how people actually do wear traditional clothing out in public, there are anime styled characters everywhere and manga is much more popular than comics are over here. Japan’s wackiness is endearing because they still have a relatively harmonious society unlike the hellscape that is the US.
Carter Stewart
You’d call it a weeb show and demean it for wanting to be anime
Jordan Lee
eccentric stuff cant be mainstream. what right thing are you americans doing now? your tumblr cartoons full of yaoi/yuri junks are the "normal" standards of animation?
Christian Scott
as if those american yaoi/yuri cartoons are not weebshit. its disgusting that Yea Forumsposters generalise everything relating to japan as "weeb".
this game will be a huge counterblow to the pointless argument and preassumption.
Landon Wright
What is the definition of “weebshit” anyway? I don’t think it’s “anything with any amount of Japanese cultural elements“, that’s way too broad.
Adrian Morris
Trust us, most sane Americans are disgusted by that, too. It's just that sane Americans have no voice in the market, because we have to do shit like eat and work.
Samuel Rivera
All metropolises are so fucking boring at this point though.
Leo Wilson
zero proof and no argument. pure garbage post.
be honest and say it, you fucking hate japan and everything japanese do. you haters are uncalled for. just get out of here.
Aiden Morris
>Americans are too poor to influence books You're delusional or your country is third world, your explanation makes no sense otherwise.
>You're delusional or your country is third world It's called the minimum wage and it's getting us there. And what the fuck do books have to do with the price of tea in China?
>you fucking hate japan and everything japanese do I like that they never sided with the Soviets. That's one.
Nathaniel Garcia
>It's called the minimum wage and it's getting us there. And what the fuck do books have to do with the price of tea in China? What the hell is this schizo-ass sentence. The minimum wage is making you third world? "I like the Japanese because they weren't with the Soviets"? Were you even old enough to have existed alongside the Soviets? You're a nonsense person.
Dominic White
>The minimum wage is making you third world? Yes.
>Were you even old enough to have existed alongside the Soviets? So I can't admire the wartime strategies of Greece entering Troy, either?
Kevin Morales
Because American TV watchers don't want to learn about other cultures.
Nicholas Thomas
seems like this board doesnt. most likely the cartoon/comic industry will never change. its all about america and americans. everything japanese is weeb.
im glad though that at least an american video game company made stuff like this. many people are excited for it.
>im glad though that at least an american video game company made stuff like this. many people are excited for it. Yeah, I don't know what's with this thread. I'm excited for this game too and would like to see an American cartoon set in Japan the way the Japanese sometimes set their anime in America.
Asher Flores
Imagine being so young that you don't know about Kappa Mikey, Samurai Jack, etc. But I guess OP doesn't need to imagine it. Also this isn't/co/ fuck off back to your containment board
Landon Fisher
it's a buzzword Yea Forumstards use, there's no real definition
Jose Miller
I don't see any issues, there.
Aiden Davis
its a shame making an argument like this on Yea Forums is nearly impossible. i honestly didnt know Yea Forums was this conservative about their belief or something. from my understandings it was at most a sort of east vs west thread thats always a shitfest but has thoughtful insights.
i think one of the reasons that manga is getting popular worldwide is that they draw a lot of characters whose nationalities are different in a modern way, write stories set in diverse countries, and thats what american comics/cartoons lack.
imo this game actually made a progress. theres a bunch of weeb products out there for sure like western visual novels but ive never seen comics/cartoons like this. one could say its still weeb stuff but its, imo, much more sophisticated, acceptable, and mainstream than any stuff in the past and has something that can be called "quality".
also its modern. not some usual samurai and ninja and shit. (depicting foreign traditional stuff is much easier than doing modern foreign stuff.) so i just tried to bring it here to develop the argument in comics/cartoons but it fucking failed big time lol
>not feeling like you're able to make stories about girls without women being there to act as training wheels for you
The Depths of Cuckoldry.
Jordan Davis
>Why cant the American comic/cartoon industry have comics/shows set in Japan?
Because "cultural appropriation". Isle of Dogs got absolutely DESTROYED by critics, both American and Japanese, for daring to portray a culture that was different than the director's own.
So unless the comic/cartoon depicting Japan is made by a Japanese person, it will get raked over the coals by critics as cultural appropriation. And if you have to import a Japanese creator to make your comic/cartoon set in Japan, then what's the point? Just watch an anime or read a manga.
God I fucking hate liberals. Why do we let them dictate what art does and doesn't get made and who does and doesn't get to make it, again?
Hunter Miller
>But generally people should write about what they know, or do research if they want to write about a foreign place.
The guy who made Mega Tokyo lives in Japan but Mega Tokyo still sucks.
Alexander Kelly
oh god, please tell me there is a japanese dub. I don't want to hear the insufferable "original" voice acting.
Anthony Gomez
Right, because conservatives have never used censorship. Who is responsible for the ESRB and Comics Code again?
Caleb Wood
I did a paper on this, I thought it wasn't so much the cultural appropriation (though superficial judgements could be a part of it), but rather the matter of Orientalism. The film has a lot of Japanese stuff but it's all absurdly stereotypical, and you have sumo yakuza men and poisoned wasabi etc. Japanese viewers had issues watching it because the constant flow of text was never meant to be read, but rather observed by English audiences that don't comprehend and rather just look about in confusion, and the entire film was a very superficial take on Kurosawa flicks, with many homages but not really any particular techniques. The story itself was a mash between "film in Japan" and "film about dogs on islands". It's not very specifically rooted in the culture and it generally treats the Japanese human characters as the other? We don't really know why they hate dogs and worship cats, and I feel that was intentional.
Point is, the film feels more like "look how zany they are" rather than a full celebration.
Blake Perry
Americans are superficial and the countless number of wasabi jokes in cartoons show that they haven't really gone in depth. It would take a Japanese American or a weeb that goes so hard that he becomes authentic to really make a show like this.
Robert Sanders
This. Why would I want to live in such a repressed, conformist country?
Say what you want about America, at least you can buy guns and talk as much shit about the government as you want. For now at least.
