I love how there is a whole genre of Chinese laws that basically only target rich assholes and annoying youtubers
If Japan had made this exact same law, Redditors would be celebrating it
The donghua industry has only really gotten going in the last couple of years wrt 2D animation and given the quality of works that are out already, it seems inevitable that they will surpass the Japanese industry within the next decade. Hopefully as donghua becomes more mainstream like anime is right now, it'll help to bridge the cultural divide between China and the West.
I have a bit of a problem with your way of talking about it. We've seen other countries try to make anime before, and it has often bad results. Anime is very much the result of Japanese culture and history, so another country can't just make it. I've read a fair amount of Manhwa and a lot of Manga, and,although they share some traits, it's obvious which is which. Neither is going to beat the other. It's a bit like saying anime overtook cartoons. Cartoons have suffered a lot due to poor management and the overt commercialization of them, but they didn't die out or get replaced with anime. It also feels very colonialist to me to say that one cultural export needs to dominate another. I'm excited to se where donghua goes from here, but I don't want it to replace anime or cartoons. Sorry if I'm getting too emotional here, but animation from many cultures have been a big deal to me, and I don;t like them getting turned into some sort of race to domination.
Ah I see. Sorry if my wording came across like I wanted one to beat the other. That very much is not the case. The "surpass the Japanese industry" remark was purely meant to be illustrative of how big I think the Chinese animation industry will become. Not trying to make some competition out of it or dunk on anime, just saying that given the amount of manpower/resources being put into it, I think donghua will become as mainstream as anime is right now and I think that will be good.
Alright. Yeah, I would be excited to see another animation style come into the main stream.
While I've seen a few donghua with very distinctly Chinese art/animation styles (e.g. Fog Hill of Five Elements), the majority don't diverge all that much from styles that exist in other animated works made outside of China and I don't really see that changing in the future. For the most part, the more prominent "Chinese" features of donghua besides the language are in the non-visual aspects of the work which is what makes a lot of them feel rather refreshing to me as someone who has watched a ton of anime over the years. I'm also hopeful that with the enormous amount of resources being put into this, stuff like R&D, more funding towards original content, and decent wages will have positive effects on the animation industry as a whole.
I'd love to see Jake Paul try to pull some bullshit in North Eastern China and just get punched in the face by a passer by.
It’s hard for me to process the reality of such laws bc it makes too much sense lol
I have some kind of Stockholm’s syndrome haha
China does a good thing, redditors get big mad. Set your watch to it!
There's at least one restaurant in the US with a scale too: the Heart Attack Grill, where you eat for free if you weight more than 350lb (160kg), and where all the food is specifically designed to be bad for your health. Their "Quadruple Bypass Burger" meal apparently has 10000 calories.
I'm no health icon, quite opposite. I eat a lot of bad stuff and it shows but that restaurant sounds fucking disgusting.
There is a massive difference between passive bad habits and active terrible choices.
Turning Vegas into the next Centralia, PA rather than paying for a busline.
I guess the thread isn't all bad. Somebody pointed out we've made it illegal for people to take food out of dumpsters, which basically makes food waste inevitable. I mean obviously it's worse that we have citizens so starved they resort to searching through garbage, but you get the idea.
Meanwhile, in freedom land we are bombarded with advertisments trying to convince us to over eat empty calories.
If it makes you feel better, bullshit food advertising is also a thing in China.
this sushi buffet near me charges you for wasting food and.. i dont really care. its good and cheap. technically a sin tax but you can easily offset it by just eating smaller portions at a time
That's literally the solution. If you want a lot of food, just order a second helping.
Well I found this video of a hotdog-eating champion challenging a bear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo
It's very funny to me that they have an American and a Japanese flag in the background of this competition.
The announcer said Alaska.
Unless you know a dark secret that would make the competition a farce...
Making food waste illegal is a positive policy change? Cmon dude that’s ridiculous
Beyond parody. "Making bad things illegal is good? Cmon man that's ridiculous"
I saw that earlier today. It seemed like most of the comments at the time were surprisingly reasonable?
