I find updated anime lists on this site tedious and silly, no matter how simple people try to make it, so don't bother to look at it. I think I may start a manga list, however.
Also, if you know manwha (meaning webtoon not the book version) and manhua well - if you know manwha/hua at all - please suggest by the bounds. PM or just post right here.
Hey Tomday, where are you? Why are you not active on MAL lately. Look I'm not active too, but I logged in once in a while. Dude, is everything OK? That's not like of you to be inactive.
And Tomday, I mentioned to you a Q-anon backed GOP congressional that attack K-pop a few weeks ago on Twitter before his tweet got deleted, This same guy attacked DBZ and anime. He called it "anime porn", as reported by ANN:
Beside the PM, I'm going to embed these video for you to watch:
Tomday, there's going to be a lot of backlash toward K-pop like I mentioned in one of my PM i just sent to you. This happened to me on Quora back in mid-July:
Okay? And that article says absolutely nothing about Korean stuff compared to Japanese stuff. It only talks of exports of Korean comics TO Japan relative to the percentage of Korean comic exports that go to other regions. It doesn't say anything about their products surpassing those of Japan in any way.
That article did not say that webtoon's exports had surpassed manga's exports. It said that, in Korea, they are exporting more of their comics to Japan than they are importing manga from Japan. Still interesting, I guess.
you said: that makes more sense tbh. i don't have much knowledge on donjag adaptions in korea so that's what i had assumed.
Well, now you know. Do me favor: go watch Along with the gods film series. South Korea can do a good fantasy film.
i can say this because i have been in the fanbase and have seen idol after idol display their abilities and yes, i do believe they don't have much talent. outside idols as a whole, i don't even believe koreans can act that well in general.
Well if K-pop don't have talent, then they wouldn't be as famous and big in the west like they are now. Even Japanese idols can't compete with their Korean counterpart:
Even Taiwanese musicians went to South Korea to get K-pop idol training because they know K-pop idols outdo them on many scale.
i don't even believe koreans can act that well in general. but that's another subject for another time.
If they can't act, then critics in the US wouldn't have praise the Korean. You think bad acting from Korea just suddenly get all praises overseas.
i don't want the idols' name alone to pull in views, which is how the US uses celebrities in their animation movies.
Well sadly, that's how you can get people (including anime fans) to watch K-animation, a K-pop idol's name alone is enough to draw a lot of people. How do you think Hollywood films do so well in China, they pandered to them:
Hell, I even seen US and international celebrities pandering to K-pop fans online by showing their love of K-pop on Twitter. So yes, if you want K-pop/K-drama fanbase to branch out to K-anime/aeni, then Korean animation industry will have to pander to K-pop fans just like Hollywood did for China. Speaking of Hollywood, they also been pandering to K-pop fanbases for quite a while like for example, Star Wars with EXO. After BTS's documentary movie did so well in the US:
I won't be surprised if Hollywood decided to pander to South Korea and K-pop fanbases around the world in the same manner it did to China.
So if you want K-pop/K-drama fans to watch aeni/K-anime, you have to pander to those fanbases and that's why K-pop idols lending their voice to K-animation is the key for K-anime/aeni.
outside of asia? i just thought it was outside of china, not the continent.
I should clarified: I meant outside of Asia amongst animation (and anime) fans, and amongst fans of Chinese film and TV drama via fansubs (like the one I linked in previous message). Yes, it's true that Chinese animation hasn't been licensed/exported to US. But that doesn't mean they're finding it's way into the internet and getting fansubs.
Remember fansubs is how anime got a growing fandom, the same will happen for Chinese animation. Hell, even Korean animation got fansubs too. Take Elsword, before Nexon uploaded the full episodes on Youtube, there were fansubbers that uploaded episodes:
Fansubbed Elsword episode 1:
This was uploaded last year before Nexon Korea uploaded the official episode 11 month ago. So if fansubs can help anime, then the same will applied to Korean and Chinese animation. Korean animation has a bigger chance because of the presence of K-pop and K-drama.
even if the internet doesn't care in the first place, it could write articles on the aeni adaptations being watched by many people in asia, and do a cover on it to bring some exposure.
that's what i feel the #1 thing aeni/donhua is missing, exposure. it would really help the industry.
I don't know how Chinese animation can get more exposure. But Korean animation can get way enough exposure if a famous K-pop idol lend their voice to that animation. If the K-anime happens to be a sequel or a tie-in to a famous K-drama, that alone can get enough attention from K-pop/K-drama fanbase.
Sorry for the delay, I was enjoying myself this Thanksgiving. Perhaps I could address some of your responses.
you said: i believe korea purposefully didn't live action any donjag (shounen) webtoon not because it doesn't have lots of fans (because it does) but because it would look awful.
I don't think it's because of that. The reason Shonen or high fantasy webtoon don't get live-action adaptation is not because of it would look awful, K-drama budget can't handle something like that. Mainland China can do live-action fantasy shonen TV drama because they have a bigger budget then South Korea's TV production. South Korea can pull it off but as a film, Take Along with the Gods film series:
South Korea can adapt any fantasy stuff into live-action, but you have to do it in film and not TV dramas. Speaking of Along with the Gods, that 2 film is based on a webtoon. And I also put my bet this will work well as a Aeni/K-anime adaptation.
I just got a report Along with the gods will also get a TV drama adaptation. So maybe it's not crazy if any Korean animation studio would want to adapt it into a K-anime.
to me, idols have 0 talent in acting and singing.
Hey whoa, whoa. Don't say that. There are K-pop idols out there that have real talent out there. Yes, there are K-pop idol that can act really well. So if there are K-pop that can act on TV drama, then there maybe a chance to have K-pop idols being trained in voice acting. Having a K-pop idols (even a big name idol) that can do voice-acting for Korean animation could help K-anime a lot on a global scale.
i know that voice acting has been said to be a problem in aeni, but with wara store i believe that as long as there is a good director it can happen with ease. although dramatic voice acting is a dime a dozen in anime. as long as the idols have talent in voice acting, i don't think i would make much a tantrum as i do now just thinking about them.
As I said, Chinese animation gaining a lot of attention outside of Asia. So that will motivate South Korea to increase production on Korean animation.
and since korea is known even by casual watchers that they have a relationship with the US, it wouldn't be foreign to them to hear of an original korean production and check that out as well.
Don't forget anytime K-pop idols promote any items, that items get a lot of attention from K-pop fanbases. So if you have K-pop idols lending their voice on aeni, that can help K-anime to get a wider audiences. Also it's very likely K-drama could have aeni/K-anime sequel or spin-off tie-in. So that can create a cross-appeal for K-drama and K-pop fan to get into K-anime.
as for webtoon, that's a bit of a bumpy subject to talk about since naver fired the US line head of content, as i'm sure you probably know as well. besides that news, the website suffered from too much US stories instead of korean for years and it's in a very bad place now.
I wasn't aware of that.
so if any webtoon adaptations are announced, they could be stories that US fans don't know about since barely any new ones have been translated, and the ones they are interested in are american. they could be confused on why US stories are not getting adapted. it's good that tom is gone though, that's a good move on naver's part. so maybe line needs to strengthen their korean content next year before announcing any aeni adaptations.
Hm, I can understand. For any aeni adaptation of webtoon, they'll have to relied to K-pop idols and good marketing in order to make it work. That's why I'm glad we have Netflix and Youtube for. Also I put my bet that Korean companies may try reaching out to Crunchyroll to get their content on there.
yes it does help! i didn't know those things before. it does seem like a really good idea on your proposal.
If you want aeni/K-anime to get a lot of attention in the US, it has to be treated like a big K-drama. In other word, K-anime has to create a buzz on the internet. Remember what happened when Netflix announce they picked up Evangelion:
Evangelion is not even mainstream in the US like on the same level as Naruto, Dragonball Z, or Pokemon. Yet the news of Netflix getting Evangelion caused a big buzz on the internet.
That's how I want K-anime to be treated in the US, on the same level as Evangelion. That's why I'm hoping KBS World and Korean animation could pay attention to how people reacted to Evangelion get a Netlfix rescue. That's what I want to see for K-anime.
you said: i can see that SK really is behind on the "anime" type appeal when compared to china. they're probably more focused on the more marketable industry that is k-drama right now.
I've been seeing a lot of Chinese TV dramas on both Viki and Netflix. So as I said, it's not only animation they're churning out but also TV dramas too. And the Chinese animation industry and TV drama industry could team up and maybe collaborate like for example, Ice Fantasy:
China may try to remake some of their TV drama into C-anime. I could see Ice Fantasy getting a C-anime remake if you watch this scene:
A lot of these stuff done in live-action, they could benefit from a animation remake. It's not only Ice Fantasy, I could see Legend of Fuyao getting a animation remake in Mainland China. Any fantasy-based Chinese TV drama based on Chinese novel or Chinese comic could get a animation remake.
So that could motivate South Korea to take animation more seriously. If China can produce a lot of animation and TV dramas, then so can South Korea.
that's probably a good idea to use k-idols to promote aeni. k-idols have already been used to promote webtoon, as i'm sure you know about bigbang's webtoon on tapas. i just don't want any takeover, because the kpop industry works very differently from webtoon, as it is more of a business that focuses on quality marrying with quantity. kpop is more on quantity before quality. one of the biggest reasons why webtoon is popular is because of the very diverse and excellent writing that are published by the official sites.
Well there are K-pop idols that can act, and do musical. But I would love to see a K-pop idol that can do voice-acting like maybe on the same level as Seiyus in Japan. I know singing idols in Japan that have become voice actors/actresses in Japan and I know seiyus that also serve as singing idols like Nana Mizuki. If a K-pop idol can have a talent for voice acting. That alone can help aeni/K-anime find audiences amongst K-pop fanbases and probably get new fan in anime fandom.
i'm thinking that maybe them or other korean animation studios like DR movie could have a chance to adapt a webtoon, and with the right marketing it could be on the race that china and japan are currently in. there are plenty of korean animation studios to choose from i believe.
As I said above, what China is doing will motivate South Korea to do the same. South Korea has major advantage:
-Chinese animation hasn't gotten any major license outside of China or in the west yet. So South Korea could do that.
-K-pop and K-drama has big advantage in the west given that they're popular. Webtoon too, so that can help aeni/K-anime.
-Since Chinese government control the censorship on everything including animation. That give South Korea more advantage, South Korean government will relax censorship in order for aeni/K-anime to compete with Chinese and Japanese animation.
it is a good idea to have an aeni channel as a sub brand of CN. in addition it could also attract koreans to look at a channel that has their on native people's content on it since they have a lot of patriotic pride. and i do agree that it should be marketed to asia first before the west/US, seeing asia has more people and you really need a strong hold on it before you want to go further than that.
As I said, Tooniverse need to create a 2nd channel for aeni/K-anime with more mature content. Also about showcasing K-anime in East and Southeast Asia. Well are you familiar with Oh!K (Wikipedia information)? Oh!K show K-dramas from MBC in East and Southeast Asia, but maybe with MBC and Turner Broadcasting Asia's help, maybe Oh! K can create a dedicated block of K-anime. Same thing for KBS World, if KBS and MBC can help K-anime on their worldwide channel, that could help aeni/K-anime to expand their international audiences.
Yes, I think Oh! K and KBS World should do the same for Aeni/K-anime. They should create a 1 or 2 hour block for aeni/K-anime to not only showcase but to see how Korean animation fare well with non-Korean and non-Asian audiences. If it does well, then aeni/K-anime has big potential to become big in the US and around the world.
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Florida Congressional Candidate Warns of Internet 'Anime Porn' Like 'Dragon Ball Z'
Here's his (deleted) tweet attacking K-pop:
US Politician Calls Out BTS, “Big Time Socialists”, Again, Puts K-Pop “On Notice”
KW Miller Says K-Pop Is “Foreign Propaganda” & Calls BTS “Big Time Socialists”
This is something every K-pop fans should worried about.
Tomday, there's going to be a lot of backlash toward K-pop like I mentioned in one of my PM i just sent to you. This happened to me on Quora back in mid-July:
Source: My Quora post
This same guy attacked Blackpink calling them " a sex slave to communist men":
Yes this really happened on Quora with another K-pop fans on Quora.
So now you understand my fear of K-pop facing a political and racist backlash.
Eh, whatever.
Doujin actually.
OrangeMaru (YD)] Hidden Quest + OrangeMaru Special 08
that makes more sense tbh. i don't have much knowledge on donjag adaptions in korea so that's what i had assumed.
Well, now you know. Do me favor: go watch Along with the gods film series. South Korea can do a good fantasy film.
Well if K-pop don't have talent, then they wouldn't be as famous and big in the west like they are now. Even Japanese idols can't compete with their Korean counterpart:
Why Japanese idol trainees lag behind Koreans
Even Taiwanese musicians went to South Korea to get K-pop idol training because they know K-pop idols outdo them on many scale.
If they can't act, then critics in the US wouldn't have praise the Korean. You think bad acting from Korea just suddenly get all praises overseas.
Well sadly, that's how you can get people (including anime fans) to watch K-animation, a K-pop idol's name alone is enough to draw a lot of people. How do you think Hollywood films do so well in China, they pandered to them:
Hell, I even seen US and international celebrities pandering to K-pop fans online by showing their love of K-pop on Twitter. So yes, if you want K-pop/K-drama fanbase to branch out to K-anime/aeni, then Korean animation industry will have to pander to K-pop fans just like Hollywood did for China. Speaking of Hollywood, they also been pandering to K-pop fanbases for quite a while like for example, Star Wars with EXO. After BTS's documentary movie did so well in the US:
I won't be surprised if Hollywood decided to pander to South Korea and K-pop fanbases around the world in the same manner it did to China.
So if you want K-pop/K-drama fans to watch aeni/K-anime, you have to pander to those fanbases and that's why K-pop idols lending their voice to K-animation is the key for K-anime/aeni.
I should clarified: I meant outside of Asia amongst animation (and anime) fans, and amongst fans of Chinese film and TV drama via fansubs (like the one I linked in previous message). Yes, it's true that Chinese animation hasn't been licensed/exported to US. But that doesn't mean they're finding it's way into the internet and getting fansubs.
Remember fansubs is how anime got a growing fandom, the same will happen for Chinese animation. Hell, even Korean animation got fansubs too. Take Elsword, before Nexon uploaded the full episodes on Youtube, there were fansubbers that uploaded episodes:
Fansubbed Elsword episode 1:
This was uploaded last year before Nexon Korea uploaded the official episode 11 month ago. So if fansubs can help anime, then the same will applied to Korean and Chinese animation. Korean animation has a bigger chance because of the presence of K-pop and K-drama.
that's what i feel the #1 thing aeni/donhua is missing, exposure. it would really help the industry.
I don't know how Chinese animation can get more exposure. But Korean animation can get way enough exposure if a famous K-pop idol lend their voice to that animation. If the K-anime happens to be a sequel or a tie-in to a famous K-drama, that alone can get enough attention from K-pop/K-drama fanbase.
Sorry for the delay, I was enjoying myself this Thanksgiving. Perhaps I could address some of your responses.
i believe korea purposefully didn't live action any donjag (shounen) webtoon not because it doesn't have lots of fans (because it does) but because it would look awful.
I don't think it's because of that. The reason Shonen or high fantasy webtoon don't get live-action adaptation is not because of it would look awful, K-drama budget can't handle something like that. Mainland China can do live-action fantasy shonen TV drama because they have a bigger budget then South Korea's TV production. South Korea can pull it off but as a film, Take Along with the Gods film series:
South Korea can adapt any fantasy stuff into live-action, but you have to do it in film and not TV dramas. Speaking of Along with the Gods, that 2 film is based on a webtoon. And I also put my bet this will work well as a Aeni/K-anime adaptation.
I just got a report Along with the gods will also get a TV drama adaptation. So maybe it's not crazy if any Korean animation studio would want to adapt it into a K-anime.
Hey whoa, whoa. Don't say that. There are K-pop idols out there that have real talent out there. Yes, there are K-pop idol that can act really well. So if there are K-pop that can act on TV drama, then there maybe a chance to have K-pop idols being trained in voice acting. Having a K-pop idols (even a big name idol) that can do voice-acting for Korean animation could help K-anime a lot on a global scale.
As I said, Chinese animation gaining a lot of attention outside of Asia. So that will motivate South Korea to increase production on Korean animation.
Don't forget anytime K-pop idols promote any items, that items get a lot of attention from K-pop fanbases. So if you have K-pop idols lending their voice on aeni, that can help K-anime to get a wider audiences. Also it's very likely K-drama could have aeni/K-anime sequel or spin-off tie-in. So that can create a cross-appeal for K-drama and K-pop fan to get into K-anime.
I wasn't aware of that.
Hm, I can understand. For any aeni adaptation of webtoon, they'll have to relied to K-pop idols and good marketing in order to make it work. That's why I'm glad we have Netflix and Youtube for. Also I put my bet that Korean companies may try reaching out to Crunchyroll to get their content on there.
If you want aeni/K-anime to get a lot of attention in the US, it has to be treated like a big K-drama. In other word, K-anime has to create a buzz on the internet. Remember what happened when Netflix announce they picked up Evangelion:
This caused a big buzz on the internet:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Netflix Adding Every Episode & Movie in 2019
Hollywood Reporter article
Evangelion is not even mainstream in the US like on the same level as Naruto, Dragonball Z, or Pokemon. Yet the news of Netflix getting Evangelion caused a big buzz on the internet.
That's how I want K-anime to be treated in the US, on the same level as Evangelion. That's why I'm hoping KBS World and Korean animation could pay attention to how people reacted to Evangelion get a Netlfix rescue. That's what I want to see for K-anime.
i can see that SK really is behind on the "anime" type appeal when compared to china. they're probably more focused on the more marketable industry that is k-drama right now.
Mainland China has also been making a lot of TV drama too like for example: Legend of Fuyao, The Eternal Love 2, The Fox's Summer, etc....
I've been seeing a lot of Chinese TV dramas on both Viki and Netflix. So as I said, it's not only animation they're churning out but also TV dramas too. And the Chinese animation industry and TV drama industry could team up and maybe collaborate like for example, Ice Fantasy:
China may try to remake some of their TV drama into C-anime. I could see Ice Fantasy getting a C-anime remake if you watch this scene:
A lot of these stuff done in live-action, they could benefit from a animation remake. It's not only Ice Fantasy, I could see Legend of Fuyao getting a animation remake in Mainland China. Any fantasy-based Chinese TV drama based on Chinese novel or Chinese comic could get a animation remake.
So that could motivate South Korea to take animation more seriously. If China can produce a lot of animation and TV dramas, then so can South Korea.
Well there are K-pop idols that can act, and do musical. But I would love to see a K-pop idol that can do voice-acting like maybe on the same level as Seiyus in Japan. I know singing idols in Japan that have become voice actors/actresses in Japan and I know seiyus that also serve as singing idols like Nana Mizuki. If a K-pop idol can have a talent for voice acting. That alone can help aeni/K-anime find audiences amongst K-pop fanbases and probably get new fan in anime fandom.
As I said above, what China is doing will motivate South Korea to do the same. South Korea has major advantage:
-Chinese animation hasn't gotten any major license outside of China or in the west yet. So South Korea could do that.
-K-pop and K-drama has big advantage in the west given that they're popular. Webtoon too, so that can help aeni/K-anime.
-Since Chinese government control the censorship on everything including animation. That give South Korea more advantage, South Korean government will relax censorship in order for aeni/K-anime to compete with Chinese and Japanese animation.
As I said, Tooniverse need to create a 2nd channel for aeni/K-anime with more mature content. Also about showcasing K-anime in East and Southeast Asia. Well are you familiar with Oh!K (Wikipedia information)? Oh!K show K-dramas from MBC in East and Southeast Asia, but maybe with MBC and Turner Broadcasting Asia's help, maybe Oh! K can create a dedicated block of K-anime. Same thing for KBS World, if KBS and MBC can help K-anime on their worldwide channel, that could help aeni/K-anime to expand their international audiences.
Tom, do you remember when Mnet America broadcasted Japanese anime few years ago:
Yes, I think Oh! K and KBS World should do the same for Aeni/K-anime. They should create a 1 or 2 hour block for aeni/K-anime to not only showcase but to see how Korean animation fare well with non-Korean and non-Asian audiences. If it does well, then aeni/K-anime has big potential to become big in the US and around the world.
I hope these help.