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.
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.
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.
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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.