Why is Japanese pop culture all the rage in France? • FRANCE 24 English 

I mean French people in general are very open to different forms of culture and art. And yes they are very respectful about it too.

weaboos are now ouiaboos.

@@simulationkoyo You haven't being exposed to americans I guess. lol

@@lieutenantpepper2734 at least they don't over-exaggerate emotions to the point of being insincere and touting sarcasm.

I believe the point of the video is that this culture has grown to be mainstream in France instead of fringe culture.

恐らく、FRANCE24は国内市場が小さいために外国市場向けのエンタメを売り出すしかなかった日本の隣国と一緒くたにしているのかも。

そうですね、日本の文化は別に国家戦略でも無ければ宣伝して海外に広まった訳ではなく自然発生的に広まって行きました。

Perhaps it is one of those hoaxes spread by anti-Japanese factions. They are spreading all sorts of disinformation to discredit Japan through social media.

its only China that blatantly copy anime manga culture to prove themself as a developed country, Japan on the other hand as the founder of anime manga culture doesn't really care about soft power strategy. Its only after internet came into existence they care now

本当にそう。 なんなら漫画家やアニメーターへの待遇は劣悪。クリエイターのおかげで経済効果が生まれているのに、やりたいなら勝手にどうぞって感じで野放し状態。

Little do Westerners know how much Asia has stolen Japanese pop culture. For example, they stole Japanese manga and changed the names of the characters and authors to Korean or Chinese. There are countless such examples. They also stole hundreds of Japanese pop songs, erasing all traces of Japan and having their own singers sing them. They are now shocked to learn that the culture they loved as children is actually Japanese. What I expect from Westerners is to position Japan and Asia separately. Japanese pop culture is Japanese and has nothing to do with "Asia."

Japan Expo Parisの日本に便乗してきた奴らとかね…。

i remember in 2000s foreigners protested because it was difficult to get japanese popculture product (manga, anime etc) because japanese did not sell oversea.

i bet it’s chinese copy writer

Why are you blaming Koreans? Koreans do not think that Japan exports culture for the sake of its national brand or national image. As you said Japanese culture was created for Japanese people and has become famous around the world. On the contrary many Japanese claim that the Korean government exports Korean kpop and dramas for the sake of Korea's image. no. Korean products were also produced for Koreans and then naturally became famous around the world. Culture is something that is difficult to create successfully for a purpose. What you said is no different from how some things like kpop became famous in the world.

the bussy

Search Japonisme too

Japanese has fascination from many countries, England for example, they love Spanish names etc, German Gothic, hell even russian culture, not to mention USA.

More than 100 years ago, there was time when Japanese art was boomed in France. History repeats itself.

France and almost all of western world uses 🍴 to eat food that was invented by Asians in the east. Another thing westerners(especially the cultureless English people) needs to stop is using the term *western clothes* lol it's *modern clothes* besides those English have no right claiming pizza and french food as theirs. Also when a white person does yoga and taichie don't say "oh he's doing an eastern exercise" 😂😂

haha. right. that is why French people can easily understand Japanese subculture that was influenced by French things. probably French people can see something French-ish in Japanese subculture.

for us japan is like French of Asia

In fact, when I think about Japan's copyright policy, it's close to the opposite. It's a pity that people are now starting to benefit from the great Japanese culture. As a Korean, I've been happy thanks to Japanese culture ever since I was a child.

​@@NaYoungSeung Japanese companies are very risk-averse about exporting overseas, they struggle to grasp the overseas market, thus Japan is one of the least export-oriented countries in the world. Exports make up less than 20% of Japan's GDP. In South Korea and Germany it's almost 50%.

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love 🇨🇦 from 🇯🇵

Like the LA one?

Kah-wah-eeeeeeee It's almost like pronouncing Hawaii but with a "K" and slightly more stress between syllables.

Recent in us, in France mangas and anime came in 80's

​@@nicolaspetit6718not recent a lot of Hollywood movies got inspiration from anime from the 80s &90s like the ghost in the shell and gibli movies etc, etc.

@@nicolaspetit6718 Godzilla was in the US in the 60s.

Godzilla is originated from Japanese TOHO cinema

The Magnificent Seven (1960 & 2016) was based on The Seven Samurai(1954).

Yoku Yoku! Ado did pretty good I think in France.

日本の音楽はフランスで受けると思うよ。特に1970年代から1990年代の日本の音楽。だけど、きめつのLisaの歌がフランス人にどう聴こえているのかって疑問だよ俺はね。

Anisongs are somewhat popular because of anime

Japan is the #2 music market in the world, and Kpop's 2nd biggest market. Major Kpop group perform in stadiums to fulfill the demand.

@@outwest1014 ​​​​なぜいつもKpopを出してくるのかな？ランキング不正してまで人気を得たいKpopよりも、フランスの音楽の方がよっぽどいい。

For English speakers: Goldorak = Grendizer Albator, le corsair de l'espace = Space Pirate Captain Harlock Astro, le petit robot = Astro Boy Yamato = Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato .. and so many more, in France, they were devouring tons of anime. French people were way ahead of others when it comes to loving anime/manga/etc. And let's not forget Les Mystèrieuses Cités D'Or / The Mysterious Cities of Gold, a France-Japan co-production. I'm not even French and I knew French people were weebs way before those terms were invented.

Yeah the French are pretty much the best at art and design along with Italy I'd say. They had the best artists, chefs, fashion designers, jewelry designers, architects etc. You can just feel it everywhere you go in Paris.

so far you just told anime's available on Netflix. you are the one who's missing out on a lot of anime's. hahaha. if you have not seen samurai champloo, especially code geass then you are missing a lot!

As a Japanese person, I would like to thank France for the fact that Hayao Miyazaki discovered Moebius and was impressed by him.

I’d say watch black lagoon, initial D, darker than black

Would you believe sci-fi conventions existed back in the 1930s

@@dorreyeet1529 what did they even dress up as back then?

we don't think like that. especially kpop is not big in here.

한국인인데 그렇게 생각 안하는데요? 애초에 K-시리즈는 여성공략임

니 말이 틀린 건 아닌데 한국 컨텐츠로 돈벌이 하는건 좀 이중적이지 않나.

​@@nsequation1206Korea has no creativity like Japan

thaks for recommanding XG. They are fire! ♥

Band-Maid is better.

Xg is not really jpop marketed though. Most fans are kpop fans no? Arent they under a kpop company? I mean they are half kpop company half jpop company yeah...The jpop that deserves recognition personally i would recommend ado, ano, atarashii gakko, perfume, babymetal etc. Band-maid , babymetal and one ok rock are awesome !!!

BABYMETALは10年以上も世界中で活躍しているので、よろしくね😊

@@user-kv6cy7ve5k Actually, XG is not categorized under K-pop or J-pop, but only XPOP from Japan. XGALX is managed and labeled by its parent company, AVEX, a Japanese corporation. Even Simon, their producer, stated in their documentary that they are not a K-pop group. I recommend watching the XG documentary for more information. All XG members were born in Japan. Unlike K-pop artists, XG performs J-pop songs in their concerts.

Goldorak isn’t mazinger z, it’s Grendizer.

Well, Mazinger Z is an anime I watched when I was about 8 years old. However, I recently found out that the final episode of this anime recorded high viewership in France. In my time, there were a lot of anime I couldn't follow, and Mazinger Z was one of them. That work was too complicated for me as a child. Gundam and Evangelion, which came afterwards, were also beyond my understanding. But France loves a part of Japanese culture. I think that in order to answer this, Japanese people also need to understand a part of French culture. Your love of a part of Japanese subculture is an inquisitiveness like mathematics or physics. It's a characteristic that other countries don't have. In a word, France loves Japanese subculture more than any other country on earth.Grendizer ok thankyou for telling.

In France?

My favorite TV show as a Japanese was Bots Master.

Anime is one of Japan's soft powers, just like K-pop in South Korea

​@@qwertyboo P0rn power 🤭

Lady oscar

French Fate servants

Jean (Nadia Gainax)

Lupin Ⅲ, Jean Pierre Polnareff(JOJO), Erica Fontiane(Sakura wars3), Serena(Pokemon), etc...

Sanji from One Piece

yup

chinese comic/cartoon use anime/manga art style from Japan so of course people will think it is from Japan

They are Oui-aboo’s

Americans also call Japanese people by the derogatory term weeaboo. It's indeed a country of discrimination.

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Korean isn't mainstream and neither is Japan but Dragon ball z and pokemon were mainstream

@@phylicia595 Don't know about you, but it's pretty mainstream in my country. 🤣

We don't really mind that kind of things in France. We always had dark animated shows or films alongside japanese ones. Mind you in France, things like South Park, Deadpool or Fifty shade are rated 12 years and + (while in america they are rated R). In our animation we don't think animation equal kid. In fact Many shows even made for kids would shock many americans and they sound really tone down in their english dubbing. When I was a kid South Park was rated even lower as 10+. Most shonen anime with ecchi or fight scenes are rated 10+. If I also remember correctly, Attack on titan was rated 16+ on tv (it was France 4, a national free tv channel). Other example, Kid Paddle is very well knwon bande dessiné (comics) for kids everyone as a kid has atleast read one tome and enjoyed it, but the art in it is almost g/re and disturbing. The kid show Titeuf also feature fan servicy women characters, the comics is even a tiny bit explicit, yet everyone has read it and liked it as a kid. Maybe we are just weird in france Idk lol

Inspired is more like it

it was called Goldorak when it was first localized in France in 1978

@cyborgZeta What’s your point??

China focus on the bigger picture like Belt and Road initiative.

@@pleiadesstarr9913 well so far it's a money trap for China and the other countries

@@Minifutzi_o.O China destroyed their own education system over the course of many civil wars and revolutions. That's why they send their children abroad to attend elite universities. That's why the average Chinese have been poorer than the Japanese ever since the Qing dynasty. All that poverty led to all that rudeness and bad manners. That's why all these Chinatown formed world-wide because of the corruption of the Qing dynasty. Even today Chinese still prefer living abroad.

huh? what do you mean?

Lucky us!

correction : 20 years in advance

That the name of the character she is cosplaying

It was not after the pandemic. France was the first country that understood and appreciated the Japanese anime and manga passionately way before South Korea did.

Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are in a difficult position both economically and in terms of military security, so I think we have no choice but to cooperate as a single federation. What do you think?

most people are welcome towards Japanese but they can’t distinguish us

엄청난 지식에 놀랍네. 그거 아는 사람 거의 없을걸?😀😀😀😀😀😀

​@@airpig9182If so, please don't set up a stall at Japan Expo, but go to Korea Expo. Why do you always pretend to be Japan? It's a very sneaky tactic.

pourquoi tu mens comme ça ?

​@@ulrikwhein It's not a lie, it's a fact. I can see your identity by looking at your profile picture. You can't think and judge objectively on this matter.

@@jamielannister3721 By my profile picture ? Are your for real now ? I'm french, grew up in France, Anime and manga was only seen as nerdy in the late 90". Since the early 2000 Anime and manga are really mainstream, I'm 24 and since around 2010 you could easily access to it by just going in the grocery stores, for a fact, many teenagers where going there to sit and read comics and manga when they had free hole time in their school planning. And since mid 2010" the shelves have been even larger and are their own shopping alley. Anime was broadcasted in free national tv channel (TF1, France Ô, France 3, France 4, M6, Gulli, Canal J, MCM, Directstar) the most basics channel that everyoine had access to back then. In my middle school we had manga in the libraries (+ the fact that our head mistress was a freaking weeb and many teachers were also manga readers). You were ostracized for acting weird or being weird not for liking anime and manga. Even our art teacher said nothing to those who were drawing anime style. Many of my classmates were anime/manga enjoyers, talking about it during break time or by what they were posting on facebook. We were casually talking about BL and Vampire knight at freaking 13 during break times. Gothic people were the ones who were ostracized back then not anime fans. And I freaking grew up in the countryside, mind you most french people don't even know our region exist. The only ones who have a thing against it are 50+ old people and tighten up people. And even for them you have a lot of nerd who are fan of Goldorak or Albator (Captain Harlock) or Candy or Nicky Larson (City hunter). Anime and manga have been mainstream in our contry for 20 years now, why do you think we are the second most manga consumer after Japan ? We had the biggest japanese convention in Europe for a decade, compare to other countries we have tons of manga publisher tons of them who are not even translated in english or any langages other than japanese. The only european broadcasting for anime were french (ADN and Wakanim) until one of them was bought few years ago by crunchyroll who use now the platform wakanim.

@@jamielannister3721 To add : In 2021 our country created a Pass culture for 15-18 yo teenagers to be able to buy anything art/culture related (music, art, books, cinema -concert ticket, museum ticket, instruments, etc). And do you know what most teens did ? Most of them used these 300 euro gifted from the state to buy manga.

​@@ulrikwhein Hey bro, you don't know the truth about it. Pass culture was mostly allowed to be consumed only by French companies, French music, French movies, French plays, French games, and French museums. However, books and e-books were allowed to purchase products from other countries. As you know, there is no French culture that teenagers would like. Teenagers had no other choice but to buy comic books. And the most important reason was that 2021 was the COVID-19 era. All sports, museums, theatres, cinemas and venues have been suspended. In France, the pass culture policy is evaluated as a failure. You should study harder than watching animation.

Japanese dramas don't even watch Japanese people Because all the excellent story writers in Japan will be mangaka, not screenwriters.

@@Unknown0human Don't get me wrong, anime is cool, but the anime bootlicking and the anime stickers on everyone's car is making me go crazy.

@@beanbon666 found wrong person 🙄

@@Unknown0human you foud The right person

Is "Lady Oscar" also Orientalism? "Anime Three Musketeers" too?

Not at all.

The Chinese are quick to claim origin when Japan is valued. Same as Koreans😂

Lol. Japan has much superior culture than China.

@@jinkim23does china even have any?

@@kanra2689 yes. A very bad one.

What does that have to do with anime?

Ok...

As if you don’t have your favourite characters from Hollywood or American cartoons.

@@blazingfire_0712 nope I don’t have for me that just actors and none of them are my fav they are humans as me or you and all of them have role . So I can’t say for example iron man is my favorite becouse he isn’t real … so change clothes dosent make you a real hero …

@@saywhat2053 People do the same thing during Halloween though.

​@@saywhat2053people wear the outfits of the character they idolize because they want to impersonate that character, people wear like iron man because they want to feel heroic, cosplaying is like trying to symbolize the character you love, same thing when flying a plane or paragliding, pilots or the paragliders feels like they're one with the skies or they're open along with birds, connecting to nature, it's human instinct to want or feel like you're one that something that looks cool for you