Should Japan start to worry?

Who even gives a shit about right? Left was wanked to hell back and every breadtuber did a reaction watch.

twitter rankings

That's what all the nips use. 2chan is also pretty much filled with machu everywhere

japan doesnt care about your crunchyroll eop rankings since they lose to the whatever nth rezero adaptation

It's the only relevant metric for anime popularity next to bilibili views.

worry? Anon they should be TERRIFIED

>South Korea's gov't plans $100 million investment by 2029 for K-animation, focusing on web novel and webtoon adaptations.

Initiative aims to expand exports and lift industry revenues, targeting international co-productions and AI-assisted animation.

Timely shift towards animation reflects demand for homegrown content; AI tools and strategic partnerships to revive fan favorites.

msn.com/en-us/money/companies/korea-announces-100-million-plan-to-compete-with-japan-s-anime-industry/ar-AA1DObFY

should japan worry

Yes but not for the reason you probably think OP.
They should worry about domestic chink cartoons making it harder for them to source chink outsource labor. If the decent chink animators are all busy on their own home grown shows then they can't work on anime.

Why? Good is good. Bad is bad. It's not like Japan has a monopoly on anime/animation. In fact you can say it is good we are getting more diverse sources.

I'm all for SK developing its own animation industry but it might doomed to fail if all it does is adapt webtoon shit. Embracing AI tools doesn't inspire much confidence either.

Early webtoons had genuine soul because you could tell these were the passion projects of their creators, but nowadays it's pretty much 99% mass produced trash on the same level of isekai.

It's pretty damning to see what happened to the ToG author that he had virtually zero input into the adaptation his work, let alone any royalties. There isn't really a culture for fostering talent in that space in the same way as the early Japanese manga industry, the best that can happen is in the gacha space that is more independent but has it's own litany of problems.

Early webtoons had genuine soul

for example?

ToG author

Did he get screwed by the website?
Webtoons seems to be the Narou website of Korea.
You would think you being forced to be able to draw something would filter out more trashy people and would result in better quality than narou-kei but it seems to be even worse than naroi-kei.
I've looked on youtube for people compalining about webtoons. What I've found was some guy first complaining about the scrolling stuff but then revised his opinion (maybe because of peer pressure). And the other one was some feminist complaining about exploiting practices of that website but also complaining about muh gender roles, muh evil age gap relationships, muh female characters are infantilized.

crunchyroll.com/animeawards/judges

a bunch of spics, blacks, pajeets, arabs, whites and a few japanese people

Adi Tantimedh

What kind of name is that?

This is why you're wasting your time arguing with on Anon Babble

$100 million

Bro that's not much. Japan put their entire economy into the anime and manga industry and has decades worth of government backing. That's the only way that industry can even stay afloat. Animation is just a really poor industry world wide, maybe not "poor" but the returns are very little for the amount of effort needed.

Its the main reason why they're so over protective over it. Anime is basically a national treasure for Japan.

Korea always had potential seeing as how a lot of their older stuff was really amazing but they doomed themselves chasing the mobile market. They could have dominated the PC market if they didn't just stick to MMOs back in the 2000's and those old school MMOs had general soul put into them. I'm honestly amazed at all the sub genres they made out of them. Their comic industry also turned to shit relying on that shitty webtoon format.

They can catch lightning in a bottle and still fumble with it.

LOL no. Solo Shilling was by far the biggest webtoon ever and it was still a wet fart that will be forgotten in a month.

Uma is bigger in Japan and Rock Lady is bigger in China.

Not really. Now, I like To Be Hero X, but it's a series that is - basically - China trying to get people to take them seriously. They accomplished this by making the show roughly 80% Japanese, they're trying to be as anime as possible.
Solo Leveling really has nothing after this, the rest of the season is standard world-ending stuff and the sequel is aggressively mediocre.
Remember when God of High School was a thing? Remember how eventually everyone realized the plot was kind of dumb and incoherent?
It's like Tower of God, people moved on.
The other Korean adaptation is...what? Lookism? Apart from looking ugly, a lot of viewers found it utterly nihilistic at its core.

South Korea is the soulles version of Japan.

The other Korean adaptation is...what?

There was also Nobless a.k.a The big Korean 3.

Remember when God of High School was a thing? Remember how eventually everyone realized the plot was kind of dumb and incoherent?

It's like Tower of God, people moved on.
Are you talking about the comic or the anime adaptions.

One Piece, Naruto, Bleach

It really was the big 3

SL was the biggest series they had. By far. And it failed to achieve popularity on par with mid tier Shonen series like Dandadan.

shit is so trash that Yugioh 5D's has become the third most seen anime this season behind Gundam and Uma Musume

nah

In China, they can't freely create stories because of the CCP's surveillance. And in Korea, they can't really make anime on their own in the first place.

They need a Walt Disney

Chinese animation corps will just do what gacha corps do, relocate HQ to Singapore.

Re:Life

One is produced by A-1

The other partially produced by Aniplex

So non-Japanese works getting adapted with a large chunk consisting of aid from Japanese studios? Sure, it may look different on the surface, but that's not exactly new. We're just more aware of it nowadays because we have access to tons of thorough databases at our fingertips.

More like the big flopped 3 of gookslop

Cuckrea is irrelevant. China has already btfo everyone with the highest grossing animation movie ever made.

Relife is japanese

How did the mainland become so overtaken by soulless garbage? It wasn't like this back when the Shaw Brothers were in charge.

I thought that was Hong Kong?

Japan has a monopoly on anime and manga because it's exclusive to Japan you fucking retard

same shit 13 year old cringe edgy wet dream

diverse

What?

No. Now back to work on 50 more isekai series.

Fuck off retard gook

Solo Levelling flopped just like tower of god and god of highschool (koreans love that word). China already has the 3d animation market on lock with it’s 1000 ep long wuxiaslop and temu pixar movies like nezha. Anime is a side project at best, it’s Koreans that need to set up
It would be a classic. Anime narratives don’t measure up to western series