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