ITT: anime that are/were only popular in the West

Starting with the prime example

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Only popular in Italy
A greek loli goddess that used to traffic cocaine

Only popular in Finland and somewhat Hungary

Bear dog rallies ninja, runaways, and other hot blooded dogs to take on demon bear terrorizing forest.

>anime that's only popular int he west
Given the Japs' shit taste, I take it this is a list of objectively good anime, then.

Ginga was a thing in Sweden, Norway and Denmark as well.

Apparently no-one in Japan remembers Lain, whereas in the western anime circles, as we know, it is ubiquitous and considered essential.

Lain didn't actually sell that badly in Japan (IIRC it sold maybe 3k or so at least), but yeah, it's more famous in the West than in Japan.

Also, one example I can think of is Haibane Renmei. It sold decently in Japan, but now it's more or less forgotten there, unlike in the West where it's still considered to be a masterpiece.

Also, pretty much anything by Satoshi Kon. Westerners loved his work but it seems he wasn't that popular in Japan at all. I couldn't even find Japanese box office figures for his films.

Sailor Moon.

Not sure how popular the anime is, but for a while Sup Forums was pretty much the only place that cared about the Watamote manga. The mangaka even came and thanked us herself when the adaptation was announced.

>The mangaka even came and thanked us herself when the adaptation was announced.
I never really cared for Watamote, so I guess I didn't hear of this. Source?

i had this on vhs tape and it was all in finnish

t.swede/finn and dont speak a drop of finnish

>t.swede/finn
Do you mean a Swede in in Finland or the other way around?

Im not sure what u call someone who lives in sweden and is half-finnish, is it also fennoswede?

The joke about Lain was that it was supposed to be "too deep" for western audiences and made with "core japanese" themes that would only resonate with nippon.

Then it turned out that both audiences kind of viewed the same way, but the Japanese were a bit more desensitized to its particular development of the story, whereas westerners viewed as utterly unique and interesting-- if a bit confusing.

If I remember right didn't you guys send dick pics to the mangaka?

Sailor Moon was pretty big in flip land

sailor moon, pokemon and whatever else was also popular in Sweden, it even got translated
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Does this count? It feels like it was made for western audiences.

It only got a second season because of Cartoon Network, so I'd say so.

>NHK
More like only popular in Sup Forums

Fennoswede isn't really a proper term. Finlandssvenskar are native finns whose first language is swedish.
Sverigefinnar were/are a language based immigrant minority so you just have finnish heritage, or at most you're a borderline case based on your finnish parent.

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Well my mother is fullblown Finnish and my father is Swedish, I live in Haparanda municipality and some Swedes wouldnt even consider this part of Sweden Swedish at all, atleast so i've heard

I feel like this was popular nowhere. I actually kinda enjoyed it.

It's even mentioned in the first english volume
>The many comments and d*ck pics we got following the publication of volume 1 in Japan live on in our hearts to this very day!

Tornedalen is a special case. The finnish community is so old that finns around there aren't considered to be immigrants and as such sweden finns.

wasn't logh dead, buried in old LDs, until the west revived it, and they released the dvds?

If I remember correctly, there were actually ads that mentioned us loving it.
>Popular on the American 2chan!
or something along those lines.

It was a thing in latin america thanks to locomotion channel. for me, its my favorite harem anime, maybe because of how it was blended with all that post-apocalytic theme. and im not even into harem

That's fucking hilarious if it's true.

Here's the tweet if anyone's interested:
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>4ch
KAWAII

Nozaki-kun seems like it would only be popular over here because it's pretty devoid of cliches, but I've heard otherwise.

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I'm not so sure, Paras got a lot of art for a while.

Lucky Star is incredibly popular

>not posting the superior doujin

It was in Germany.

Literally never see it talked about anymore

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normalfag tier meme

it's unironically pretty shitty slice of life

now drake and josh...

Tfw you will never have Reuntals eyes

How big is Heidi in Japan? There are some channels in spicland that still broadcast it and iirc it got a cgi new series recently

They got a spot-on Jerry for that

Didn't CN also partially finance GITS:SAC 2nd Gig?

My nigga, Saber Marionette was my shit back in the day, always loved Lima and Cereza.

Dotto! Koni-chan was very popular in latin america only because the dub.

I heard someone claim this was in fact Sup Forums and not Sup Forums, but I don't know for sure.

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I want Reddit to leave.
was drake and josh ever popular in japan?