When did anime become a widespread phenomenon in your country?
When did anime become a widespread phenomenon in your country?
Dragonball
Karabonball
70s and 80s with Mazinga, Lupin and some others
this
Boules du dragon Z
It didn't
Weebs get skinned alive here
I remember seeing VHS cassettes of this show in the 90s but anime only became widespread around mid 2000s
it never did and probably never will
same
my old man watched Speed Racer in the 60s
it didn't, really
Rozen Maiden
This
I was going to post it
Like the south over here
I think it started in the 1970s
Why was Rozen Maiden huge there? Back in the day it was normal to see rm pics with russian text
1905
It never did
>little kid playing with comfy dolls
It was escapism: the anime back in the days for me...
Lots of anime were escapism-friendly
Although maybe the retarded loner kid who suddenly gets awesome friends may be a little bit more escapism friendly than the rest of anime