richardmurray

Why is France so OBSESSED with ONE PIECE (and Anime/Manga in general)?

4:30 in france, fist of the north star and city hunter wer ebeing shown to kids in the 1980s see, this is what i mean about the usa. 
6:28 i see, so after the french government banned these cartoons, french kids who wanted to spend money on japanese animation properties bought manga instead where no bans could work...
7:25 the bande desseinne artist were foolish, they wanted to fight other artist , and chose to use the government arena instead of their paper and pens. You see this today all the time. I know people don't read poetry or enjoy calligraphy which i like to create, but I don't mind ai artists or manga style artists or artists who make adult work which is more financially profitable or desired.
8:21 ahh princess mononoke is beloved in france huh and then the publishers of bande desinee acted financially and supported manga through translation which many bande dessinee artists had spent years fighting in the government arena. 
10:25 the french government gave youth three hundred euros to spend on art. well done france

Well, one piece like anime or manga is popular in the usa, BUT two points, media in the usa, and i mean the disney's plus other big media firms worked hard to emphasize the disney /pixar/dreamworks way which has key differences in themes or styling to manga. Things like the thundercats also became the industrial buffer. From what you say, the french artistic community chose to essentially reject changing or finding a bridge between bande dessinee and manga and instead maintained themselves as a separate identity.I think also manga has never had a multiracial comic that can really be embraced by the most multiracial populace in humanity that exist in the usa. France has more than white people in it, but it is mostly a white country, the idelaisms of one piece can work, but for a manga to represent the usa it requires more than idealistic themes it requires a makeup of various peoples that to be blunt, make for more complicated storytelling in character background or world bulding background that are uncommon to manga.