The digital age has been the definitive award for the dissemination of Asian images
Television series of yesteryear, such as “Mazinger Z”, “Heidi” or “Marco”, today marked many adults whose descendants enjoy an exceptional explosion of reading manga and anime, comics and oriental animated films. The triumph on the small screen of ‘Dragon Ball’, in the late 1990s, and the launch of other titles in the same vein, along with the groundbreaking arrival in the cinema of the film version of ‘Akira’, pieces that are fundamental to understand the phenomenon’s final entry into our borders, they opened the doors of perception to millions of readers and spectators, creating a fandom that doesn’t stop growing. The unstoppable avalanche of followers is emphasized by the wide range of this material in the on-demand menus, be it webcomics, series or movies. The digital age has been the definitive award for the dissemination of Asian images.
The search for artificial paradises, cultural incentives or self-identity in adolescence, fleeing from a reality that seems to interest the new generations less and less, fuels trends that grow unstoppably among today’s youth. The phenomenon of otaku, the passion for Eastern popular culture in all its facets, seems to have no ceiling. Far from losing momentum, this movement is currently undergoing another undeniable pull in the West, thanks in part to the boom in streaming entertainment and new titles with a manga appeal, such as “Tokyo Revengers” or “Haikyuu!!” . Some platforms followed by a young audience are Crunchyroll, JonuPlay, Anijapan, Yomvi, Rakuten-Viki or IQiyi… Among the audiovisual consumption habits, the cartoons descended from ‘Heidi’ and ‘Mazinger Z’ are overwhelming.
Source: La Verdad
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