At 3/8/14 11:07 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote:
It's in the first page but I never really did join, I just pop in from time to time for a conversation about certain series. With that said, seeing how much anime series the Western world are familar with compared to Asians in general, I felt that the fandom in the U.S. are underexposed.
I would've thought that the Internet would've closed the gap by now for American fans, though I guess that there are some series in Japan that would never catch on in the West, or in the case for Macross, have an old dubbing company (Harmony Gold) hog the rights to it, and the producers in Japan weren't going to deal with them. Also, the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 80's pretty much delayed any sort of introduction to anime in America (besides Astro Boy, Speed Racer and maybe Robotech) compared to Latin America and Europe, though that maybe just a big guess on my part.
It also didn't help that American dubs were godawful and the blantant altering made by Carl Macek pretty much gave the Japanese second thoughts about it at the time. (To be fair to Macek, he basically had to work from scratch and had to make do with this whitewashing and egregious censorship issues.)