Why is France so full of weeaboos? Last year, about 13.6 million manga volumes were sold in France. In comparison...

Why is France so full of weeaboos? Last year, about 13.6 million manga volumes were sold in France. In comparison, in America around 2.6 million volumes were sold. France sold 5 times the volumes than America with a fifth of America's population. Now, I know France and Japan have been allies for a long time, (except in WWII), but how has this led to manga and anime becoming so popular in France?

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>first it's France
>then Mexico
>Germany
>Filipino
>Brazil
>Finland

Why do the lot of you fight the claim all the time wanting to be Japan's greatest ally like holy fuck sit down

I'm not French. If I was french I wouldn't be wondering why they were full of weebs

French culture

Animation is not stigmatized as for kids only, and the comic book culture is respected and loved. This culture means that Japanese animation and comics are more acceptable.

Don't have the social stigma, and all of a sudden it sells more.

It's a lot safer to stay at home as a weeb than get beheaded or bombed or ran over by a truck no?

Culture. Comics and mangos are not only for kids there.
Also, we like to own books and stuff, we like to read.

Full of niggers.

we traditionally consider comics/bande dessinée as a respectable artform and we produced some world class artists like moebius who had a huge influence on the japanese scene

plus a lot of people now in their 30's grew up watching anime, it was cheap in the 80's/90's and tv shows for kids bought them en masse

It's not selling in burger land cause capeshit companies are blocking it, can't have your competitor beat you down.

Comic codes fucked us up good, senpai. We're pretty much just starting to produce good comics.

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Arabs are the biggest weeaboos
France is full of arabs
Now do the maths

I don't even live in Clapistan you frog.

It's like back in the 80s where people would stay in their gun-crime riddled areas instead of visiting europe because of made-up lybian terrorists.
At least this century's terrorism is actually real

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Mexico and Japan are politically bros 4 life for a multitude of reasons

Yune ;_;

But probably most people read manga or watch anime online for free in comparison with people who buy manga or anime, so, as USA have a lot more of population probaly there are more manga fans there.

The fandom online is mostly people from USA too

France has always been Japanophiles stretching way back.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonism

>be richest nation on earth
>too much of a cheapskate to actually buy your manga
Disgusting

>America around 2.6 million
I'm disappointed burgers, you're rich, you're numerous, you have all kinds of imports, you could have all you want.

1. French people can read
2. French people have disposable income to spend on manga because they aren't paying 20 easy payments of $29 999 for gastric bypass number 3

Terrorism was very real even in the 1970-1990s, except back then it was committed mainly by domestic communists and right-wing nationalists.
>In the past 45 years, there have been more than 16,000 terror attacks in Western Europe, an average of more than 350 per year, according to the Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The peak was reached in 1979, when 1,019 attacks were perpetrated in Europe.

Fucking communists.

Amerigringos, ameriniggers and amerispics prefer to watch anime and read mangoes online.
There's probably also a small growing population of americhinks.

At least the commie terrorism died off after the USSR collapsed. The separatist wankers are still here.

1979 would more have been the ETA and IRA, no?

Yeah. And in 1980 for example, the biggest attack was in Italy (85 dead, 200+ injured). It was committed by militant neonazis.

le honhonhon animateur goes to nipponland to become le honhonhon nipponimateur so that he doesn't have to work on le spongebob. But since living and working as a nipponimateur is le fucked up shit and le animateur are dirt poor, le frogs are now begging le burger to spend le dollar on ze worthless shit or goading them to please support le anime industry, because then his le studio he works might get a job to work on ze new anime.
Please, le burgers, please. Le help!

It was mostly by chance.
In the mate 70s, somebody had to fill a hole in the programme grid for chilren during the holidays.
Pruchased Grendizer to the japanese.
It was a huge hit, then they kept buying cheap anime and some tokusatsu as well.
There was another huge boom in the late 80s with stuff like Hokuto no Ken, Maison Ikkoku, St Seiya and especially DBZ.
But do not think it was accepted back then. When I was in middle school and high school in the early 90s, I would rather have died than letting people know I was watching those stupid cartoons for children.
For more than 20 years, anime were loved by children, but hated by adults. There were several newspapers and concerned parents complaining about the yellow invasion, the low quality, the violence, the nudity, the moral decrepitude.
Some politicians like pic related took a stance againts violent stuff like DBZ while praising good quality french cartoons like Demetan (yes, really)
So, while the first anime came in the late 70s, we had to white until the mid 90s to see the first mangas translated in french.

Because we haven't that "comics are for kids" way of thinking unlike in the USA.

>in the mate 70s
>we had to white
please kill me now before it gets worse

France in general is bat shit crazy for comics and animation.

>Mexico
>BRs
>fake Mexicans
They basically exist only to worship powerlevel shit in shonen.

>muh quality
>muh nudity
Sounds like the French were just assblasted they had competition when they were guilty of the same shit.

We had something called Le club Dorothée that made anime and by extension manga popular with all the 80s kids, and now those kids are adults, and for some still watching anime or reading manga.

It's true to some extent.
But keep in mind that while french comics are not as puritan as murika's, french cartoons are.
Cartoon versions of stuff like Titeuf or Little Spirou are even more SFW than murikan cartoons.

>Titeuf
Holy shit it's been so long since I last heard of that.

>Demetan
>politician claims that it's a good quality french cartoon
>about a frog
>it's an anime about a frog
How deliciously ironic.

>When I was in middle school and high school in the early 90s, I would rather have died than letting people know I was watching those stupid cartoons for children.
really? in my middle school everyone liked dbz, even the "ghetto" kids

Well it depends who're your friends, when I was in middle school in the beginning of 2000s, I used to watch Captain Tsubasa, DBZ, Hamtaro, the mysterious cities of gold, etc every single day of my life and I told no one about that, because of the shame.

Meanwhile you could talk about Tintin, Titeuf, Spirou, Looney Tunes and shit like that without much problem, even with adults.

Aside from comic books being a big cultural thing in France, many manga are also translated into French which is a big help for them since many frogs can't into English (though I'd say translating all foreign works into French is a contributing factor to that)

I always thought that the USA had a lot more officially translated manga than us, but actually I never bothered checking.

>Germany

Didn't know that the stuff is still somehow popular in Germany after the manga bubble in the early 00s.

For a long time the industry got carried by the fujoshi scene there.

>frogs can't into English
More like the fuckers HATE to learn other languages

Frogs think french is god's language and they refuse to learn anything else, spaniards are like that too but they refuse to speak english more than they hate other languages.

It's changing a bit with the newer generations but yeah it's been like that for a long long time, I can remember my parents never caring how bad I was doing in English classes because "who gives a shit anyway".

Look at their comic culture in general

Meanwhile in North America good luck trying to find many people interested in comics who aren't just following whatever super hero related schlock Marvel, DC or one of the smaller companies is pumping out

Don't manga outsell comics though?

Not in the US but then again comic numbers are also pathetic.

burger can't read

A comic book culture that translated to roughly 50 years of exposure to anime.
The French were pioneers in dubbing and importing.

Why should they, when they can play video games and watch cartoons and anime and movies?
Although they do probably read comics and manga a lot too, it's just that they pirate it with all those pirate sites providing the content for free.

Mexico cannot get over Dragonball Z. For them, Goku and Vegeta are the shit and no one can ever ever beat them, no matter what kind of argument you have. The hard on for them is too strong and it's annoying af.

>Frogs think french is god's language
*know

TFW middle east kids were watching the same japanese stuff as french kids

lol

Beauty of natively speaking the lingua franca.

This

I'll add to that, in My country Spain the worst time for terrorism was when ETA, Basque nationalists, where in full activity during the 80s.
Bombings, murder, kidnapping... It was extremely more dangerous back then (although only for spanish, they would never dare to touch foreigns)

Reminder that France was crucial in building the Japanese animation industry with their cooperations.

What's the source of those numbers?

Turns out France isn't a completely worthless troublemaker after all.

>t. angry kraut

Because we have great editors licencing great manga, and people with taste. Also, LE GRAND GOLDORAK.
Thanks a2 récré and club do.

Who /midi les zouzous/?

Fujos are probably still the largest consumers here. At least they are the only ones who pay for their shit.

Two words :
Club dorothée

Shit was fucking rad. I remember watching it every lunch hour before going to school.

Good old times, the 80s kids had club Dorothée, 90s kids had Midi les zouzous, what does the 2000s kids watch?

we're all up to our necks in medical and student debt, you think we got the money to buy anime and manga?

People not buying shit is the biggest problem.

Why should people buy crap they don't need? We're not talking about superuseful household items that makes life easier and more convenient.

Kill yourself retard

Well, thanks to Club Dorothée, and we French are the second people after Nips for reading manga

What is that club you speak of.

>Fil français à peine masqué
A chaque fois.
youtube.com/watch?v=2k0lO1x1UCc

They have a big native animation and comic culture that isn't 99% capeshit, so I guess manga also sells better too.
I do remember being in France on holiday (Britfag) and seeing even relatively obscure stuff like Usotsuki Lily on sale there which has no English release.

There's a number of series I read English scanlations for that have official French releases but none in English

Nah, half the european terrorism between 69-85 was in Italy

An extremely popular and influencial TV show for children from the 80's and 90's that pumped an entire generation full of chinese cartoons.

>France supposedly full of weaboos
>yet I can't find a sperg weeb gf

French women are ugly anyway.

Manga and anime are so popular in France that you even have ghetto rappers making reference about it in their song (though it is mostly only about mainstream stuff like Dragon Ball/Naruto/One Piece)

How the fuck do you make Lil' Spirou SFW? It's basically puberty jokes: the comic

France appear to have a bigger boner for Fist of the North Star, Golgo 13 and oddly enough Rokudenashi Blues than stuff like OP/Naruto/Bleach. Or maybe that's only the older generation.

They seem to quite like Space Opera stuff like Cobra and Leijiverse stuff.

So Bernie is the answer

You have official translations of popular Japanese manga that have never even been fully scanlated let alone translated into English officially (you are the only country besides China that ever translated Rokudenashi Blues for example), and for modern stuff you have an opportunity to be much more up-to-date because things get picked up more quickly, it's ridiculous how long it takes for a first volume of a current series to be published in English, it's like their begging people to scanlate and never notice they eventually made an official translation

I don't know about obscure stuff but I feel like for the major stuff at least, it would be better to speak French than English

if only we got him, but instead we literally voted between a douche and a turd sandwich.

I meant the problem is that people buy NOTHING (as in don't buy shit as opposed to not buying shit products or not buying everything they watch)

The industry does run on money. So at least support the stuff you like.

Is it new year ?

>Animation is not stigmatized as for kids
>France

Yea right,, that's why René Laloux had to go to North Korea and Czechoslovakia in order to make his movies.
And why Lastman needed a kickstarter and successful comic series.

There's not really place to animation that is not for kids in France, there's some feature lenght animation that is aimed at a wider audience but you don't find any French animated series that is not targeted for kids.

Also there's a huge stigmas for "Mangas" in France. Since the late 70s/Early 80s. I think Segolène Royale wanted to ban Japanese cartoons.
Mangas & anime are more spread now, but there's still a lot of hate, especially from comic amateurs who only likes Jiro Taniguchi

Soon user, soon we'll be able to talk french again.

As someone who can frustratingly only speak English but enjoys manga, that is a rather difficult notion as it means changing what I like because most stuff I can't even support without just buying stuff in a language I can't speak...and it pisses me off, I would pay for the products, so I don't understand why English publishers can't at least try

(I am trying to learn Japanese to get around the problem but it's an extremely slow process)

Source?

Not really, my half-French cousin is learning Tagalog and already knows English and German. Though I guess English at least is a necessity since he's half-Filipino.

Really?
I'm Italian, but I keep hearing how France is the best Western country for anime and manga
And here people pretty much love it, after anime became popular with the old generation it was a dome deal, you have a full generation of 50 year olds and under that grew up watching anime and keep doing so

Then buy the stuff that's available and complain about unavailability of your favorites AND if the product delivered is subpar.

What makes you say that

I wish Italian Animation were not as lazy as they are.

They're not 2D.

>you have a full generation of 50 year olds and under that grew up watching anime and keep doing so
It doesn't work like that, I'm 29 myself and I barely know anyone at my age that know anything beside Dragon Ball Z and Naruto. Manga and especially anime are still very stigmatized and seen for kids, it's the same as any other country, you have that one popular type of retard that loves naruto and does cosplay, speaks half-japanese all the time and people thinks every other mangafag is like that.

All the arabs in France loves DBZ

They all think they're Vegeta