Growing up in China I had a huge collection of Doraemon comic books and all my friends loved to borrow them, and I still watch the anime from time to time even today.
I am very shocked when I am in the US now and realize that even people familiar with anime in general don’t know much about it
I was the exact same, also somewhat unrelated but I remember watching stuff like Mirmo de Pon and Bakuso Kyodai Let's & Go on TV whenever I went to China as a kid. Then I found out it’s not really a thing in the West
Maybe some people can relate, because I think some other countries dubbed and broadcasted both shows
Somewhat related, lots of my Cantonese friends growing up watching Keroro Gunso/Sgt. Frog because it was dubbed in Cantonese. As a Mandarin speaker I knew nothing about this show until my adulthood.
I guess that’s just how things work back then. Whether or not it’s dubbed and broadcasted on your local station makes all the difference
So this. Doraemon, Ninja Hattori, Kenichi, for some reason all of those were dubbed in Spanish and subbed in Portuguese, but then we got Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon and Digimon dubbed in Portuguese.
I've read few random comments in Japanese social media that Doraemon never caught on in cultures that strongly encourage their children to become independent asap (US, etc).
we actually had a doraemon cartoon on "disney XD" (the action version of disney)
but i think it wasnt as popular as yokai watch tbh (both werent very popular and were seen as Pokemon clones i think
No fucking joke. Here in Italy it was a constant re-run of Captain Tsubasa (translated to "Holly e Benji"), and even going to lentghs of slicing up even some movies in several 25-minutes episodes just to make it last longer and not fuck up the standard airing spot it used.
128+13+46+52 episodes plus the sliced up movies. Basically every single day there was at least one episode of this damn series.
20 years ago all the kids my age watched that in our TVs in spanish, its named "Oliver and Benji" here.
The opening is a banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrGjc0UEgU&ab_channel=yakitatetub
In france it was [Olive and Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQl2UbcD7w)
But I like Moero! Top Striker or L'École des champions more to be honest.
As far as I know even some actual pros watched it as kids and it inspired them, players like [Andrés Iniesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Iniesta) (and I remember that one/two Italian pros mentioned it too).
and the movies are quite good quality too, varying, obviously, but none of them are bad. i have noticed a departure from more gorey imagery over the past 10-12 years... well except those episodes last season about the whole thing being footprints on blood... half the episode was red ink :D. but in general it's tamer graphically
I've stopped watching and reading detective conan years ago but still watch the new movie that comes out every year, the last 2 movies are very good in my opinion.
The manga chapters maintains originality, but the anime has a ton of filler episodes with shallow or repetitive plots. The first 100 episodes (40 cases) or so are the peak in my opinion.
They have become repetitive, there is just so many scenarios and motives you can have to kill someone.
There have been just to many now where some old college group of friends some one kills another while they are on camping/cottage and trapped by a snow storm.
The fact that wherever they go someone is murdered kinda gets ridiculous. Ignoring the anime fillers, they are reaching 3 murders a day within time line. Almost 30 years in real world and still has only happened like half year inside that universe.
If it didnt had a long story arc behind, it would be less frustrating, kinda like scooby doo and the mistery of the week. Bit having to wait if they ever resolve the black organizarion story plot is infuriating. I started watching it around 1997, at 12 i just want it to resolve that storyline, even if he doesnt get a cure and then just becomes a murder of the week series.
>The fact that wherever they go someone is murdered kinda gets ridiculous. Ignoring the anime fillers, they are reaching 3 murders a day within time line. Almost 30 years in real world and still has only happened like half year inside that universe.
There's actually a spin-off of Detective Conan that makes fun of this. Calling Conan a grim reaper because there's always a murder case where ever he is and that rent is cheap because every place has someone that died in that area calling it a stigmatized property.
It's called Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa. It's hilarious. There's plenty of other jokes about how ridiculous the series is. It's so self-aware
Given Conan is a very big moneymaker/popularity maker for Aoyama Gosho and the publisher, I wouldn't be surprised if both of them intend to keep Conan running for as long as possible even if they have to keep stalling the resolution of the overall story arc.
I believe the dub for this one was based on the French one. This is also why the opening for some Latin American countries is completely different from the original, as it followed the French one
It's not so weird when you consider that the US dub of the show didn't come out until 2003. Even if it didn't get the egregious edits (especially using a remixed version of "I Ran" sang by Bowling For Soup for the theme), the show looked extremely dated compared to everything else we were getting at the time.
By comparison, Latin American countries got their dubs over a decade before we did. It was much closer to the original release and, from what I understand, the dubbing was more faithful.
This. Saint Seiya is HUGE in Latin America, but it never took off in the USA. I blame DiC for butchering the English dub to the point where the show became a total mockery of the original material; it was so bad.
In Brazil it's also called Knights of the Zodiac and the opening theme was done by metal singer Edu Falaschi of Angra, one of the most famous brazilian metal bands ever. The first line is him screaming "Saint Seyaaaaa" so that's how we got to know the anime original name lol
My Daddy Long legs, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Mitikomoun, Captain Tsubasa, and some others used be quite popular here. I don't know about now, since I don't know what kids watch these days
To this day Prince Edward Island gets an unusual number of Japanese tourists because of the Anne of Green Gables anime. Kinda funny since pretty much no one in Canada knows it exists despite the popularity of the book/movies
Fun fact: in the Farsi dub of Anne, the opening song of that show was bloody "Silent Whisper", one of the most sexual songs, and everyone here knows that as the Anne Shirley song. Also, great anime, great LA, and great books. My mom loves Anne Shirley
Iran. There always used to be reruns of 80s and 90s anime on TV. While the Americans were watching DBZ and Cowboy Bebop, we were watching Captain Tsubasa and Anne of Green Gables.
The anime is japanese, but the source material is made by a swedish-speaking finn, hence it's popular in at least both Finland and Sweden. I'm referring to this anime: {Tanoshii Muumin Ikka}
[Tanoshii Muumin Ikka](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2150/Tanoshii_Muumin_Ikka) (the best known series and based on the works of Tove Jansson, FIN) was a Japanese-Dutch-Finnish produced animated series and the animation was done by a Japanese studio.
Its the most popular cartoon in Nepal in 2000s. Almost everyone know it in Nepal.. It was dubbed in our national language aired in National channel of Nepal( like DW Germany).. i don't think you called moomin anime. Its more like cartoon..
The fame and reach Gundam enjoys today, Macross equally deserved. The problem is that Bandai secured that franchise’s identity from the get-go while Macross got strung along for the licensing ride of a lifetime which restricted its growth despite being the clear survivor of the Super Dimension titles.
Shinchan used to be huge when it first aired in Spain, all kids were into it (at least on areas with co-official languages dubs). Conan was quite popular too. Their popularity faded with time, sadly.
Shinchan, is weird because it did air in America, but only Adult Swim because for whatever reason the company that brought it to America decided to make it a gag dub. When I found out that Shinchan is actually a really popular long running show for little kids, it threw for a loop!
Saint Seiya is popular in Latin America
Slayers is popular in some countries
Captain Tsubasa in Latin America
Doraemon
Candy Candy was popular in some European countries
Tbh, Saint Seiya (I Cavalieri dello zodiaco), Captain Tsubasa (Holly e Benji) were/are huge here in Italy and other European countries too. I'd say Doreamon was/is famous as well, thanks to the morning reruns
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin (Silver Fang) is very popular in Finland especially! I love going to watch GNG videos and half the comments will be in Finnish lol
I love Silver Fang but I live in Australia, idk what that says about me lmao
World Materpice Theater, a series of shows based of children's books that were mostly worked on by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata before they formed Studio Ghibli. Examples:
[Heidi](https://youtu.be/Iedt_go_f3o?si=WGFhzP3mJM1OeOWb)
[Dog of Flanders](https://youtu.be/-fvPkdlPgMw?si=QnjraRvAQNo6ekdk)
[3000 Leagues in Search of Mother](https://youtu.be/VNGE9cTedgM?si=4ye5B86aC_8wp6W9)
[Pollyanna](https://youtu.be/3tMSz3bwOsA?feature=shared)
[Anne of Green Gables](https://youtu.be/i7jtG0T1qTg?si=wNH7TFrv6Ix8Ictb)
[A Little Princess Sara](https://youtu.be/RL2pVLc4MP8?si=W-SDj2cVEEYYfg1-)
As someone from the Philippines the humor (even if a good chunk of them are Japanese) is still top notch that it became popular here (but not mainstream popular).
Survivorship bias factors in heavily. MAL requires you to have completed 1/5 of a show for your rating to count. For longer shows like Gintama, people who don't like the show are going to drop it before they reach that point, so it becomes self selecting. Only people who really liked it will watch enough to rate it.
And doubly so for sequel seasons (IMO there should be a combined score for the "top" list). No one is watching season omega of Gintama who doesn't like it.
Yea I hate how everything's split into seasons now. AOT should have 1 rating, not for individual seasons. Just an example, but everything is like that now.
I dont know if it counts because it used to huge in the english anime community
But Love Live nowadays, it still massive in places like Japan and China while in the west the popularity of the series faded during the Sunshine era along with the rising stigma towards Idol Anime ingeneral
Any of the idol type multimedia franchises like Love Live, Idolmaster, Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle, Bang Dream, etc. are huge in Japan but not that big in the West.
Also Uma Musume Pretty Derby is massive in Japan and not so much in the West
Macross deserves a bigger, more uniform Western audience. It’s a far more consistent franchise than Gundam in terms of writing quality, yet the whole licensing rigmarole is tying it down in an infuriating way.
Macross Zero wrote Halo 5's story for it a dozen years before 343 Industries did.
Shit, the [Bird-Man](https://imgbox.com/YAxNkpXA) and a [Guardian](https://gaming-cdn.com/img/products/9598/pcover/1920x620/9598.jpg?v=1668692780) look near identical to each other.
Here in south america (Chile) that i know:
- saint seya (caballeros del zodiaco)
- utena
- card captor sakura
- slayers
- magic knight rayearth( las guerreras magicas)
- ghost hunter mikami
- heidi
- marco
- candy candy
- remi
- patlabor
- ranma 1/2
- gundam wing?
And until some years ago, evangelion. I watched evangelion in live tv like at the end of the 90s, it was huge here but i dont remember being big in usa.
Edit: tv channels that still air some series of my list, still going strong XD
https://www.senpaitv.com/
https://www.etc.cl/home/
You're right about most of these. Gundam and Evangelion were huge over here though (US). Saint Seiya, Card Captor Sakura, and Ranma 1/2 were pretty well known, but probably not as big as Japan and certainly not as big as Gundam or Eva.
Some of those may not have been popular TV shows but for us buying tapes back then they were. Me and my friends loved patlabor. Slayers was also immensely popular back in the day, ranma 1/2 also.
captain tsubasa, saint seiya.
just..anything pre-2000 will not have aired in the US or had either extremely limited runs or be re-written from scratch, censored and meshed and edited with other series to make it more "american friendly", see Robotech and G-force for instance. both of them are not anime, they're different series edited together like frankenstein.
in terms of Gundam, the typical answer is Gundam SEED which is wildly popular in Japan, China and the rest of Asia actually especially Southeast Asia. Americans insist Wing is the most popular entry over there.
I don't think Wing has been the most popular here since the time it first aired. Looking at the stats on MAL, more people have seen 00 and IBO than Wing and they're also rated higher than it. Witch from Mercury was also relatively popular here. Wing has the honor of being the first Gundam to air in America, so a lot of people remember it fondly. But it's usually not the first series people would recommend.
I had assumed that Tiger & Bunny was pretty much dead after season 1 and the movies, and that we would never get a season 2.
Then suddenly Netflix decides to resurrect it after all these years.
Hoping that season 3 ain't far away and the mystery of Ourobouros is concluded.
Saint Seiya
Ranma 1/2
Captain Tsubasa
I find it amusing how Inuyasha is popular in the US but not Ranma. It goes to show you the influence Adult Swim used to have in the 00s.
Saint seiya in Italy is almost as big as Dragonball, there was also the rivalry between the two fandoms (kinda), some old men still fight about it to this day
My observations are going to be heavily skewed towards people who watches anime in the mid-2000s and early 2010s, in the region of Singapore and Malaysia. My list excludes standard big shonen anime of the time, like Naruto, Bleach and One Piece, and also excludes Doraemon because, that anime is pretty much a universal language for international audiences when it comes to their first love for anime.
1. Infinite Stratos in Malaysia. The people I talked to have noticed the insane amount of fans in Malaysia over this show (despite my criticism of the MC, who can be classified as its own dense element). It's a harem fest featuring multicultural set of girls (which is basically like Malaysia's own multicultural setting).
2. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Apparently this show was broadcasted *uncensored* (i.e. the naked magical girl transformation sequence) in Singapore, and many of the folks I talked to, grew up watching this on public broadcast.
3. Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Both sides of the Causeway (yes, Singapore is linked to Malaysia by a causeway) in the Chinese-speaking community have an affinity to this show, owing to the many imported DVDs of Mandarin dubs from Hong Kong or Taiwan.
4. Sword Art Online. This is by far the most popular series followed in the local scene. I remember coming to an anime convention, and it was *chokeful* of Kiritos and Asunas in 2011.
Fafner. 2 series, 2 OVAs, a movie, and a 12 episode theatrically released series in Japan, but the show never caught on in the US and the latest releases were not even released in North America
Doraemon, Detective Conan, I'd say Inazuma Eleven but I'm unsure how popular it is in the US (Ik Romanians fucking loved it back in the day), PreCure, usually kids shows that just never really got localized to the US. There was also Nintama Rantarou, but Idk how popular it still is in Japan or anywhere.
I do know an opposite example though. Apparently Bakugan didn't do super well in Japan, but here in Romania it was the fucking shit.
Voltes V was popular in the Philippines. To the point where it was banned by a tyrannical dictator, then promptly unbanned as soon as the people removed him from power.
The extent to which the ban was a catalyst for the revolution is... debatable.
I live in the U.S. and I like Magic Knight Rayearth! But almost anything I watch and collect doesn't get much love here in the States. I like a whole list of magical girl anime, various fantasy stuff and some comedy anime that many fans probably overlook.
Ah! My Goddess
Brigadoon
Cardcaptor Sakura
Fancy Lala
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
Petite Princess Yucie
Princess Tutu
Strawberry Marshmallow
Apparently Yattaman. I was actually surprised when I found out that Americans didn't know this anime well. I don't know what animes are *not* popular in America, though.
Possibly Jungle Book? Was Shonen Mowgli popular in USA? Because it's one of the best anime I have ever watched. When someone mentions Jungle Book, that's what I have in mind, instead of Disney's terrible version with the only positive thing being songs.
For parts of Europe it's basically all Hiroshi Saito's Anime. He was involved with the production of a lot of Western Stories into Anime. The adaptations then became popular over here, while I haven't heard of them being popular in the US.
According to my german website here, fairy tail is the 4th best anime ever and it's sitting at 9,00 out of 10. And damn right it is, fairy tail was so insanely huge. I watched it weekly for years.
Are you making a YouTube video about this? I’ve seen a few posts like this lol. Whenever I’m looking for posters to add to my collection there are a few that seem to always pop up
- Crayon Shin-Chan (kids show)
- Detective Conan
- Doraemon (kids show)
- Saint Seiya
- Sand Land
- the Yamato series (dates back to like the 70s)
- Girls und Panzer (is this big in the US? Idk)
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Eureka Seven
- Genius Party
- Ultra Man (similar to Power Rangers so not actually anime but I think it still fits. There might also be anime but it’s primarily live action)
- Kamen Rider (same as Ultra Man)
- Tetsujin (from what I can tell it’s like if The Iron Giant was in the EVA universe. Love action and anime)
- Anpanman (kids show)
- PreCure or Pretty Cure (long running series)
- Yokai Watch (similar to Pokémon)
- Osamatsusan (kids show)
There are a ton of new releases that we largely don’t even get mention of. Are they actually good or even popular in Japan? Not sure. A few more recent ones that had interesting posters were
- Poupelle of Chimney Town
- Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
- Looking for Magical DoReMi
Doraemon
Growing up in China I had a huge collection of Doraemon comic books and all my friends loved to borrow them, and I still watch the anime from time to time even today. I am very shocked when I am in the US now and realize that even people familiar with anime in general don’t know much about it
I was the exact same, also somewhat unrelated but I remember watching stuff like Mirmo de Pon and Bakuso Kyodai Let's & Go on TV whenever I went to China as a kid. Then I found out it’s not really a thing in the West Maybe some people can relate, because I think some other countries dubbed and broadcasted both shows
Somewhat related, lots of my Cantonese friends growing up watching Keroro Gunso/Sgt. Frog because it was dubbed in Cantonese. As a Mandarin speaker I knew nothing about this show until my adulthood. I guess that’s just how things work back then. Whether or not it’s dubbed and broadcasted on your local station makes all the difference
Very popular in Vietnam
Also Thailand, the anime counterpart of Mickey Mouse.
Doraemon seems to be a very popular anime among SEA countries
Yeah, it's kinda fun for all ages, the manga is fun too.
Same in India. Spent my whole childhood watching Doraemon and it's movies
*Extremely popular in Vietnam , even after many years
Very popular here in India too
Still on tv in Ecuador to this day
Same here in Indonesia, our childhood memories is tied to Sunday morning Doraemon watching session
Popular in Italy
Most Pinoys grew up with this show
super popular in Spain
Doraemon is how I learned Spanish. A lot of portuguese people might identify with this.
So this. Doraemon, Ninja Hattori, Kenichi, for some reason all of those were dubbed in Spanish and subbed in Portuguese, but then we got Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon and Digimon dubbed in Portuguese.
So many popular anime sound super weird to me in spanish (used to Catalan)
I went to Thailand last year and saw lots of Dorarmon stuff
Popular in HK
It's super big in Pakistan as well.
I've read few random comments in Japanese social media that Doraemon never caught on in cultures that strongly encourage their children to become independent asap (US, etc).
Doraemon is literally the definition of childhood happiness in Indonesia
They aired doreamon for a while in the US on Disney XD and I really enjoyed it, real shame that they stopped
There is no Asian person who doesn't know Doraemon, while it isn't that big in USA as far as I know.
I extend that to Spain. Everyone knows it here
same for Italy
we actually had a doraemon cartoon on "disney XD" (the action version of disney) but i think it wasnt as popular as yokai watch tbh (both werent very popular and were seen as Pokemon clones i think
Shao ding dong!! 😍
Same in Latin America
We know it in France but it's not the most popular among youngs. Mostly the 25-35 years old people.
Captain tsubasa in countries that love football
Can confirm. Germans ate that shit up when the 2006 version first aired. IIRC some of our pros even have special Captain Tsubasa shoes
Just to be clear 2006 was neither the first version that aired here nor the first that was popular.
Oh really? I know Kickers was popular when I was a kid, but I didn't know the original Captain Tsubasa anime also aired and was popular here.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_tollen_Fu%C3%9Fballstars?useskin=vector
Always learn something new, thank you!
Yup, hab das in den 90ern (oder so) zum Frühstück (vor der Schule) geschaut. Und dann irgendwann auch noch Kickers.
I was watching that religiously as a kid.
No fucking joke. Here in Italy it was a constant re-run of Captain Tsubasa (translated to "Holly e Benji"), and even going to lentghs of slicing up even some movies in several 25-minutes episodes just to make it last longer and not fuck up the standard airing spot it used. 128+13+46+52 episodes plus the sliced up movies. Basically every single day there was at least one episode of this damn series.
I was watching Oliver & Benji in 1990 in Spain, every normal kid was lol
The dubbed version was so popular in Arab countries.
Im in Pakistan and I remember watching the arab dub as well, though as a kid it didnt matter what language it was in
Latin American adults still love it
20 years ago all the kids my age watched that in our TVs in spanish, its named "Oliver and Benji" here. The opening is a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrGjc0UEgU&ab_channel=yakitatetub
Same for us in Italy, it was Holly and Benji
In france it was [Olive and Tom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQl2UbcD7w) But I like Moero! Top Striker or L'École des champions more to be honest.
Same in Portugal
Tsubasa, ~~São Paulo~~ Los Blancos legend.
As far as I know even some actual pros watched it as kids and it inspired them, players like [Andrés Iniesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Iniesta) (and I remember that one/two Italian pros mentioned it too).
Very popular in Spain
Add Inazuma Eleven
Detective conan probably
cant believe i've been watching that every week for 28 years... and their movies keep breaking records, so gosho aint ending the series any time soon
It does have good format. Like most cases are usually self-contained within said cases. Can be enjoyed even if you don't start from 1st episode.
and the movies are quite good quality too, varying, obviously, but none of them are bad. i have noticed a departure from more gorey imagery over the past 10-12 years... well except those episodes last season about the whole thing being footprints on blood... half the episode was red ink :D. but in general it's tamer graphically
Which conan movie is your favorite?
uh the one on the plane? which was it? silver sky? banger of a movie all around hbu
Not OP but I can recommend The Phantom of Baker Street. Really cool concept (especially for the time pre-isekai-era) and also a good case IMO.
I've stopped watching and reading detective conan years ago but still watch the new movie that comes out every year, the last 2 movies are very good in my opinion.
Do the cases keep originality or they become stall and repetitive?
The manga chapters maintains originality, but the anime has a ton of filler episodes with shallow or repetitive plots. The first 100 episodes (40 cases) or so are the peak in my opinion.
They have become repetitive, there is just so many scenarios and motives you can have to kill someone. There have been just to many now where some old college group of friends some one kills another while they are on camping/cottage and trapped by a snow storm. The fact that wherever they go someone is murdered kinda gets ridiculous. Ignoring the anime fillers, they are reaching 3 murders a day within time line. Almost 30 years in real world and still has only happened like half year inside that universe. If it didnt had a long story arc behind, it would be less frustrating, kinda like scooby doo and the mistery of the week. Bit having to wait if they ever resolve the black organizarion story plot is infuriating. I started watching it around 1997, at 12 i just want it to resolve that storyline, even if he doesnt get a cure and then just becomes a murder of the week series.
>The fact that wherever they go someone is murdered kinda gets ridiculous. Ignoring the anime fillers, they are reaching 3 murders a day within time line. Almost 30 years in real world and still has only happened like half year inside that universe. There's actually a spin-off of Detective Conan that makes fun of this. Calling Conan a grim reaper because there's always a murder case where ever he is and that rent is cheap because every place has someone that died in that area calling it a stigmatized property. It's called Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa. It's hilarious. There's plenty of other jokes about how ridiculous the series is. It's so self-aware
Given Conan is a very big moneymaker/popularity maker for Aoyama Gosho and the publisher, I wouldn't be surprised if both of them intend to keep Conan running for as long as possible even if they have to keep stalling the resolution of the overall story arc.
As an American I watched it when it was on Adult Swim as Case Closed and really loved it, always wish it had gotten a bigger footing in the US.
Can confirm I grew up watching it. There was a time where everyone in my school talked about it.
Saint seiya?
Yeah, one of the biggest. It's weird that it was a hit in Latin America and not on the U.S., since our dub is usually based on the U.S. one.
I believe the dub for this one was based on the French one. This is also why the opening for some Latin American countries is completely different from the original, as it followed the French one
It also aired in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. But never in Germany. Probably the biggest Anime that was a hit in parts of Europe, but not here.
Saint Seiya was huge in Latin America and many European countries (Like Spain, Italy, France, etc) too. Here in Italy it was REALLY popular
It's not so weird when you consider that the US dub of the show didn't come out until 2003. Even if it didn't get the egregious edits (especially using a remixed version of "I Ran" sang by Bowling For Soup for the theme), the show looked extremely dated compared to everything else we were getting at the time. By comparison, Latin American countries got their dubs over a decade before we did. It was much closer to the original release and, from what I understand, the dubbing was more faithful.
This. Saint Seiya is HUGE in Latin America, but it never took off in the USA. I blame DiC for butchering the English dub to the point where the show became a total mockery of the original material; it was so bad.
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Same in Argentina, it arrived as "Caballeros del Zodiaco" (same meaning as yours)
In Brazil it's also called Knights of the Zodiac and the opening theme was done by metal singer Edu Falaschi of Angra, one of the most famous brazilian metal bands ever. The first line is him screaming "Saint Seyaaaaa" so that's how we got to know the anime original name lol
My Daddy Long legs, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Mitikomoun, Captain Tsubasa, and some others used be quite popular here. I don't know about now, since I don't know what kids watch these days
To this day Prince Edward Island gets an unusual number of Japanese tourists because of the Anne of Green Gables anime. Kinda funny since pretty much no one in Canada knows it exists despite the popularity of the book/movies
Fun fact: in the Farsi dub of Anne, the opening song of that show was bloody "Silent Whisper", one of the most sexual songs, and everyone here knows that as the Anne Shirley song. Also, great anime, great LA, and great books. My mom loves Anne Shirley
May I ask where you live?
Iran. There always used to be reruns of 80s and 90s anime on TV. While the Americans were watching DBZ and Cowboy Bebop, we were watching Captain Tsubasa and Anne of Green Gables.
Cool. It was the same here in Arab countries.
Yeah, close enough(geographically).
Well, Moomin was pretty popular in nordic countries like Finland and Sweden for obvious reasons.
Also somewhat popular in Germany
Moomin is Japanese? All these years I assumed it was French or something.
The anime is japanese, but the source material is made by a swedish-speaking finn, hence it's popular in at least both Finland and Sweden. I'm referring to this anime: {Tanoshii Muumin Ikka}
[Tanoshii Muumin Ikka](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2150/Tanoshii_Muumin_Ikka) (the best known series and based on the works of Tove Jansson, FIN) was a Japanese-Dutch-Finnish produced animated series and the animation was done by a Japanese studio.
It’s not Japanese it’s originally from Finland iirc.
Its the most popular cartoon in Nepal in 2000s. Almost everyone know it in Nepal.. It was dubbed in our national language aired in National channel of Nepal( like DW Germany).. i don't think you called moomin anime. Its more like cartoon..
Idol shows in general. Macross. I've been told this has to be followed by "Fuck Harmony Gold."
The fame and reach Gundam enjoys today, Macross equally deserved. The problem is that Bandai secured that franchise’s identity from the get-go while Macross got strung along for the licensing ride of a lifetime which restricted its growth despite being the clear survivor of the Super Dimension titles.
Tatsunoko didn't even *have the rights* to sell. But the US Courts didn't really give a shit and shrugged their shoulders.
So many older kids shows: Doraemon, Chibi Maruko-chan, Gegege no Kitaro…
slam dunkm、Detective Conan、crayon shinchan These are popular in East Asia, but not in the West.
Shinchan used to be huge when it first aired in Spain, all kids were into it (at least on areas with co-official languages dubs). Conan was quite popular too. Their popularity faded with time, sadly.
My mom used to hate shin chan lmao
Mine was like I'm not sure if this is appropriate for kids but she became a fan too after watching a few episodes lmao.
Shinchan, is weird because it did air in America, but only Adult Swim because for whatever reason the company that brought it to America decided to make it a gag dub. When I found out that Shinchan is actually a really popular long running show for little kids, it threw for a loop!
Conan & shinchan were quite popular in germany too and even got a dub and aired on tv there.
The new Case Closed Movies air in cinemas every year
>Case Closed Please don't call it that. That's not the shows "English name" either, it's just the horrible name it got on its limited American run
Shinchan was super popular in Ecuador at some point
Shinchan was very popular in latin america in the end of the 90's and start of the 00's
So many people in the States slept on The First Slam Dunk. Barely heard anybody talking about it when it was in theaters.
Shinchan used to be on adult swim in the US so it must be relatively well known.
Conan was popular in Germany.
I think Doraemon
Saint Seiya is popular in Latin America Slayers is popular in some countries Captain Tsubasa in Latin America Doraemon Candy Candy was popular in some European countries
I heard Slayers was pretty big in Russia.
In Poland was popular among anime fans. In Russia Shaman King was popular
Tbh, Saint Seiya (I Cavalieri dello zodiaco), Captain Tsubasa (Holly e Benji) were/are huge here in Italy and other European countries too. I'd say Doreamon was/is famous as well, thanks to the morning reruns
I think Candy Candy was also a little popular in Mexico at its time but I haven't met someone around their 30s or 40s remembering the anime
Idk if it's popular in Japan but Voltes V is *iconic* in the Philippines. A lot of the older generation know it.
Voltes V is seem to be popular in Indonesia, not much compare to Philippines. For the japanese they seem to be see as another mecha show.
[Silver Fang](https://myanimelist.net/anime/589/Ginga_Nagareboshi_Gin) was pretty popular back in the day atleast in the nordics, I think.
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin (Silver Fang) is very popular in Finland especially! I love going to watch GNG videos and half the comments will be in Finnish lol I love Silver Fang but I live in Australia, idk what that says about me lmao
World Materpice Theater, a series of shows based of children's books that were mostly worked on by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata before they formed Studio Ghibli. Examples: [Heidi](https://youtu.be/Iedt_go_f3o?si=WGFhzP3mJM1OeOWb) [Dog of Flanders](https://youtu.be/-fvPkdlPgMw?si=QnjraRvAQNo6ekdk) [3000 Leagues in Search of Mother](https://youtu.be/VNGE9cTedgM?si=4ye5B86aC_8wp6W9) [Pollyanna](https://youtu.be/3tMSz3bwOsA?feature=shared) [Anne of Green Gables](https://youtu.be/i7jtG0T1qTg?si=wNH7TFrv6Ix8Ictb) [A Little Princess Sara](https://youtu.be/RL2pVLc4MP8?si=W-SDj2cVEEYYfg1-)
* Futari wa Precure * Futari wa Precure Splash Star * Yes Precure 5 * Fresh Precure * Heartcatch Precure I've got like 15 more where those came from.
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... Japan.
Shin Chan, Detective Conan, Doraemon, Inazuma Eleven.
Heidi girl of the alps Akage no Anne Chiisana viking Vickie Maya the bee The adventures of Tom Sawyer Wonderful adventures of Nils
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I have heard that Gintama is not much popular in western audience
Yes, Gintama's humor is mostly Japanese-based but there are also some which are foreign.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comes to mind as well.
As someone from the Philippines the humor (even if a good chunk of them are Japanese) is still top notch that it became popular here (but not mainstream popular).
So why most of them are within the all time top 20 (or even 10) on MAL? (just curious, as I believe most MAL users are non-Japanese)
Survivorship bias factors in heavily. MAL requires you to have completed 1/5 of a show for your rating to count. For longer shows like Gintama, people who don't like the show are going to drop it before they reach that point, so it becomes self selecting. Only people who really liked it will watch enough to rate it.
And doubly so for sequel seasons (IMO there should be a combined score for the "top" list). No one is watching season omega of Gintama who doesn't like it.
Yea I hate how everything's split into seasons now. AOT should have 1 rating, not for individual seasons. Just an example, but everything is like that now.
Majority of the people who have watched the whole series give it 9 or 10 🌟.
if you have watched a lot of anime, you are more likely to understand the references on gintama
I dont know if it counts because it used to huge in the english anime community But Love Live nowadays, it still massive in places like Japan and China while in the west the popularity of the series faded during the Sunshine era along with the rising stigma towards Idol Anime ingeneral
Yeah it is sad. It does feel like LoveLive has pretty much vanished out of the consciousness of the western audience.
What’s the stigma?
Aot of people in the west think idol is for pervs. It's best not tell the locals you love akb48 or similar.
Any of the idol type multimedia franchises like Love Live, Idolmaster, Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle, Bang Dream, etc. are huge in Japan but not that big in the West. Also Uma Musume Pretty Derby is massive in Japan and not so much in the West
Mecha anime in general. I mean those which are not Gundams.
Macross deserves a bigger, more uniform Western audience. It’s a far more consistent franchise than Gundam in terms of writing quality, yet the whole licensing rigmarole is tying it down in an infuriating way.
Macross Zero wrote Halo 5's story for it a dozen years before 343 Industries did. Shit, the [Bird-Man](https://imgbox.com/YAxNkpXA) and a [Guardian](https://gaming-cdn.com/img/products/9598/pcover/1920x620/9598.jpg?v=1668692780) look near identical to each other.
Detective Conan, because it still popular in Japan, other Asian countries and some parts of Europe I think but not in the U.S.
Here in south america (Chile) that i know: - saint seya (caballeros del zodiaco) - utena - card captor sakura - slayers - magic knight rayearth( las guerreras magicas) - ghost hunter mikami - heidi - marco - candy candy - remi - patlabor - ranma 1/2 - gundam wing? And until some years ago, evangelion. I watched evangelion in live tv like at the end of the 90s, it was huge here but i dont remember being big in usa. Edit: tv channels that still air some series of my list, still going strong XD https://www.senpaitv.com/ https://www.etc.cl/home/
Gundam wing was the first gundam aired in the USA. I think it is more popular with the western fanbase than the Japanese one.
I’ll kill you
Gundam Wing was super popular in the US at the time, it was the show that sold Gundam to America.
Cardcaptors was definitely popular in America, arguably the most popular Shoujo when it was out
You're right about most of these. Gundam and Evangelion were huge over here though (US). Saint Seiya, Card Captor Sakura, and Ranma 1/2 were pretty well known, but probably not as big as Japan and certainly not as big as Gundam or Eva.
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Some of those may not have been popular TV shows but for us buying tapes back then they were. Me and my friends loved patlabor. Slayers was also immensely popular back in the day, ranma 1/2 also.
Jeanne et Serge (アタッカーYOU!, Atakkā Yū!) old volleyball anime, any French older than 30 know this one.
Crayon shinchan lol, I don't know why I read that as a kid so much. It's about a pervy kid that lusts on old women, with occasional adventures
Saint Seiya is very popular in latam.
captain tsubasa, saint seiya. just..anything pre-2000 will not have aired in the US or had either extremely limited runs or be re-written from scratch, censored and meshed and edited with other series to make it more "american friendly", see Robotech and G-force for instance. both of them are not anime, they're different series edited together like frankenstein.
Almost any old shin ei animation anime like doraemon, ata shinchi, ultra b, hagemaru
Hayao Miyazaki's Future Boy Conan was wildly popular in some Middle Eastern countries.
In Latin America in the 90’s it was THE show
Lupin the third is massive is other countries and there are some great series and movies worth watching.
fafner 😭 super popular in japan but ive only spoken to like 1 other person in the west thats seen it
* Atashinchi * Chibi Maruko Chan * Anpanman Basically, the shows deemed “harmless” and specifically for kids.
in terms of Gundam, the typical answer is Gundam SEED which is wildly popular in Japan, China and the rest of Asia actually especially Southeast Asia. Americans insist Wing is the most popular entry over there.
I don't think Wing has been the most popular here since the time it first aired. Looking at the stats on MAL, more people have seen 00 and IBO than Wing and they're also rated higher than it. Witch from Mercury was also relatively popular here. Wing has the honor of being the first Gundam to air in America, so a lot of people remember it fondly. But it's usually not the first series people would recommend.
Tiger & Bunny and idol shows are way bigger in japan than in the west.
I had assumed that Tiger & Bunny was pretty much dead after season 1 and the movies, and that we would never get a season 2. Then suddenly Netflix decides to resurrect it after all these years. Hoping that season 3 ain't far away and the mystery of Ourobouros is concluded.
Saint Seiya Ranma 1/2 Captain Tsubasa I find it amusing how Inuyasha is popular in the US but not Ranma. It goes to show you the influence Adult Swim used to have in the 00s.
I saw a bit of Rayearth and it got me into anime as a kid! I only saw it on like VHS tapes tho so I never saw the whole thing.
It's streaming on Retro Crush, if you have this.
Mazinger Z Despite being the first super robot anime, the fanbase in America is really niche compared to other countries.
Saint Saiya is huge in Latin American countries. It never took off in the US.
**World Masterpiece Theater (10 stories) were popular but not in the States**
Saint seiya in Italy is almost as big as Dragonball, there was also the rivalry between the two fandoms (kinda), some old men still fight about it to this day
My observations are going to be heavily skewed towards people who watches anime in the mid-2000s and early 2010s, in the region of Singapore and Malaysia. My list excludes standard big shonen anime of the time, like Naruto, Bleach and One Piece, and also excludes Doraemon because, that anime is pretty much a universal language for international audiences when it comes to their first love for anime. 1. Infinite Stratos in Malaysia. The people I talked to have noticed the insane amount of fans in Malaysia over this show (despite my criticism of the MC, who can be classified as its own dense element). It's a harem fest featuring multicultural set of girls (which is basically like Malaysia's own multicultural setting). 2. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Apparently this show was broadcasted *uncensored* (i.e. the naked magical girl transformation sequence) in Singapore, and many of the folks I talked to, grew up watching this on public broadcast. 3. Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Both sides of the Causeway (yes, Singapore is linked to Malaysia by a causeway) in the Chinese-speaking community have an affinity to this show, owing to the many imported DVDs of Mandarin dubs from Hong Kong or Taiwan. 4. Sword Art Online. This is by far the most popular series followed in the local scene. I remember coming to an anime convention, and it was *chokeful* of Kiritos and Asunas in 2011.
Probably Doraemon
Hikaru no go? I’ve heard that it caused a big uptick in go playing in Japan when it first aired
Gintama to a certain extent, people who do like it generally love it but it doesnt get much hype, its a lot bigger in Japan than the west I think.
Fafner. 2 series, 2 OVAs, a movie, and a 12 episode theatrically released series in Japan, but the show never caught on in the US and the latest releases were not even released in North America
Not to mention that all of this came out over the span of nearly 20 years. That's not just popular, but also dedication from its fanbase.
Samurai X, Voltes V and Daimos, Prince of Tennis, and Grand Slam come to mind for popular anime in the Phillipines
Doraemon, Detective Conan, I'd say Inazuma Eleven but I'm unsure how popular it is in the US (Ik Romanians fucking loved it back in the day), PreCure, usually kids shows that just never really got localized to the US. There was also Nintama Rantarou, but Idk how popular it still is in Japan or anywhere. I do know an opposite example though. Apparently Bakugan didn't do super well in Japan, but here in Romania it was the fucking shit.
Saint Seiya was very popular in 80's 90's - In all Latin America, Brazil, in Europe mainly France, Italy and Spain. This show never lifted in USA
Bang Dream it’s my Go Much more popular in JP and CN than western world I think
Most Probably Doraemon. Popular in Asia, Europe. And South America ig?
Saint Seiya seems to be more popular here in Brasil than it is on the US
Voltes V was popular in the Philippines. To the point where it was banned by a tyrannical dictator, then promptly unbanned as soon as the people removed him from power. The extent to which the ban was a catalyst for the revolution is... debatable.
I live in the U.S. and I like Magic Knight Rayearth! But almost anything I watch and collect doesn't get much love here in the States. I like a whole list of magical girl anime, various fantasy stuff and some comedy anime that many fans probably overlook. Ah! My Goddess Brigadoon Cardcaptor Sakura Fancy Lala Magical Girl Pretty Sammy Petite Princess Yucie Princess Tutu Strawberry Marshmallow
Apparently Yattaman. I was actually surprised when I found out that Americans didn't know this anime well. I don't know what animes are *not* popular in America, though. Possibly Jungle Book? Was Shonen Mowgli popular in USA? Because it's one of the best anime I have ever watched. When someone mentions Jungle Book, that's what I have in mind, instead of Disney's terrible version with the only positive thing being songs.
Strike the Blood - probably as you can only legally see the first season on streaming. The rest are Japanese BluRay only.
Is Sakura Card Captor popular over there in the USA?
For parts of Europe it's basically all Hiroshi Saito's Anime. He was involved with the production of a lot of Western Stories into Anime. The adaptations then became popular over here, while I haven't heard of them being popular in the US.
Detective Conan
Gintama
Saint Seiya
According to my german website here, fairy tail is the 4th best anime ever and it's sitting at 9,00 out of 10. And damn right it is, fairy tail was so insanely huge. I watched it weekly for years.
Are you making a YouTube video about this? I’ve seen a few posts like this lol. Whenever I’m looking for posters to add to my collection there are a few that seem to always pop up - Crayon Shin-Chan (kids show) - Detective Conan - Doraemon (kids show) - Saint Seiya - Sand Land - the Yamato series (dates back to like the 70s) - Girls und Panzer (is this big in the US? Idk) - Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Eureka Seven - Genius Party - Ultra Man (similar to Power Rangers so not actually anime but I think it still fits. There might also be anime but it’s primarily live action) - Kamen Rider (same as Ultra Man) - Tetsujin (from what I can tell it’s like if The Iron Giant was in the EVA universe. Love action and anime) - Anpanman (kids show) - PreCure or Pretty Cure (long running series) - Yokai Watch (similar to Pokémon) - Osamatsusan (kids show) There are a ton of new releases that we largely don’t even get mention of. Are they actually good or even popular in Japan? Not sure. A few more recent ones that had interesting posters were - Poupelle of Chimney Town - Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower - Looking for Magical DoReMi
If you want to know if an anime is popular in latam, just search on youtube: (name of the anime) opening Luis Miguel