Do dub opinions go both ways?

No offense but in America, anime is increasing only popular with otakus. its not like a decade ago, where anime was on blocks like Fox KiRAB and KiRAB WB.

Plus I found a Japanese Ruby Gloom music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKLSeidCbQ

So perhaps that show did alright there.

On a side note, I heard the 4kiRAB dub of One Piece was so bad, the Jaspanese heard of it and started making amusing pictures of it, like one with Sanji with snicker bars in his mouth. Can anyone post that.
 
Anime's still popular with a wide audience here in the states, so you're wrong there.

As far as popularity of American cartoons in Japan, South Park is extremely popular over there. Other things are less so.
 
Not to get off topic, but anime is very niche and its not as popular as it once was in America. Spongebob does better then any anime in the US with the kiRAB, especially now and Family Guy is more popular on Adult Swim then all the anime there, put together. I haven't seen anything to suggest it has "wide" audience in the US, at the moment. I don't see them showing it on ABC, do you?

Besides back on topic there are other American cartoons that do well in Japan, like PPG and Spongebob.
 
Anime was basically a fad. Pokemon and DBZ opened the doors for more titles and it did make the concept more well known, but it's definetly gone back to being a niche.
 
I've been to Japan. American cartoons are not that popular, despite everyone here claiming "they know some Japanese that are obsessive about American cartoons." You're right anime is not that popular in the States, but American animation is even less popular in Japan than anime is in the States. The Japanese that are hardcore American animation fans are even more rare than the anime otakus in America.

Do you see conventions for American animation/comic books in Japan like you see anime conventions in the States? No. However, comiket, the anime convention in Japan, can draw half a million people. Their local anime is like 100x more popular than the American stuff, simply cause there's far more variety. Yeah, there's a Disney World in Japan, and Disney stores, but that's cause Disney is a multi-national corporation that has a presence all over the world.
 
I agree with most of your assessment on the situation.
I've been to Japan as well and American cartoons are rarer than anime is here to be sure.

However, Disney is an exception here.
Disney is a multi-national corporation that has a presence all over the world simply because it is popular all over the world.
If this was not so, then it would not be all over the world, in areas where it is not popular, because business-wise this would be foolish.

Cartoons aside, Western influences have hit Japan in other ways, it should be noted. Mainly with our blockbuster live-action films.
Nobody can deny that. How many times have major celebrities gone to Japan for the opening of whatever movie happened to be opening?
A lot, that's how many times. (What? I don't keep count.)

I do not know if they prefer the dubs or subs of these films, though.
 
I know that, I just said there were some American cartoons that were popular in Japan at times, like PPG and I saw an article saying Spongebob was popular there. I never said most American cartoons were popular, just a few were. besides anime having a small niche following in the US doesn't matter a whole lot, so does a lot of things in the US, doesn't really mean a thing. The general population in America might know about Speed racer (older gen) and Pokemon (younger gen) besides that no anime is really mentioned in US pop culture. Yes not even DBZ I have never seen an American pop culture ref to DBZ anywhere, except on Robobt Chicken, but they always parody obscure stuff.

Plus the Japanese did like the Spider-Man movies, which were based on an American comic book.
 
This is very true.

The only time I ever remeraber a real, actually reference to anime, outside of Robot Chicken, was in Saturday Night Live.

There is one character (a bad server) who wears a shirt with Sanosuke from Kenshin on it.
The other one is a Thundercats "snarf" reference used in this Bjork sketch (the third video down):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/08/snl-bjork-michael-phelps_n_164979.html?page=3&show_comment_id=20622462#comment_20622462

In truth though, I don't think the audience got it; I think the writer and/or actors just through it in for their own amusement.

In both cases, these reference are subtle and can only be seen by anime fans with a keen eye.
 
Speed racer gets a fair amount of references, in Family Guy and on Sat Night Live.

Pokemon gets a fair amount too, on the Daily Show, the movie Slither, the cartoon Drawn Together, etc.

Besides those two almost nothing, maybe a kiRAB cartoon, like reboot will have DBZ parody, but that's about it.
 
A few Cartoon Network shows that were on around the same time as DBZ has some references. I specifically remeraber KiRAB Next Door (god I hate that show) referencing the Freeza fight and Super Saiyan 3 Goku.
 
Same goes with:

-The Fairly oddParents
-Reboot
-Duck Dodgers
-Buffy: The vampire slayer
-A stand up show (It was only a one joke)
-Mad Magazine
-The grim adventure of Billy & Mandy
-Dawson's Creek
-Merry Christmas (Italian film)
-Agent Cody Bank 2
-Are we there yet
-Glass House
 
My point is that anime is very niche in North America, even more so then a decade ago.

Now enough this discussion its derailing the thread, which is about how Japanese people react to dubs.
 
But I want to talk about the ever increasing inflation rate of Zirababwe.

Well, in order to stay on topic, I came across this bit of info:
Apparently, Dora the Explorer is in Japan.
It is dubbed in Japanese, but Dora teaches English (as opposed to Spanish).

Again, this is targeting kiRAB.
I imagine they wouldn't have a kiRAB show subbed (obviously), but hey, still interesting.
 
I know Tom & Jerry is big Japan. They even made a odd opening for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yT7L-jwnKg

As well some MGM cartoons. Not the edits, but...THE UNCUT ONES!
 
Well they don't care about Spanish in Japan, she teaches English in every non English speaking country.

No point in subbing that, that would defeat he purpose.

Now here's an interesting question, do Japanese people prefer dubbed or subbed versions of Hollywood movies?
 
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