A world without anime?! - Page 2

Manos The Hands of Fate · 06-01-2004, 07:29 PM

eh... I'd survive. I don't think I'd personally have a real problem with it.

Magic E-Mail Chicken · 06-02-2004, 01:24 PM

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Considering this is unrealistic since greedy American corporations want money and at the moment Japan's products are a major source of money, they won't do this.

I know that this wouldnt happen, thats why this is a "WHAT IF" thread, duh.

Aerozord · 06-02-2004, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Otaku Son

Okay, first, you really need to properly label your threads. America is not the whole GD world.

Considering this is unrealistic since greedy American corporations want money and at the moment Japan's products are a major source of money, they won't do this. Also, this would mean all we'd have for consoles would be the X-Box, and the only games we could play would be Halo, Half-Life, Star Wars games, and...that's about it. But, this would be a monopoly, which is against government policy.

Or for the bootleggers, well, that means free anime for all. Since America would no longer have distribution rights to anything from Japan, you could download it all you want, and no one would give a care about legality issues.

ok one the first note you would be suprised how many games are made in the use. Metriod Prime for example, Tetris is Russian. We would still have computer games.

As for bootleg it would still be illegal. You see copyrights are policed by interpol so the whole planet is affected by these patents

Otaku Son · 06-02-2004, 11:36 PM

Then explain eBay.

Aerozord · 06-03-2004, 09:48 AM

e-bay is an online auction site where anyone can privately sell and purchace items. There its explained

06-03-2004, 02:53 PM

Wow Aerozord, that got me in stitches...*cough*sarcasm*cough*

And if it really is illegal everywhere then the Ebay people would have to pull the auction and track down the guy. Someone tried to sell a tank from Russia on Ebay but got caught.

GatoFiero · 06-03-2004, 04:45 PM

If the U.S. stopped importing "anime, manga, videogames, ect..." from Japan then I would probably be happy and sad at the same time. Happy that I could start getting free anime and manga from the bootleggers. Sad because the anime companies wouldn't be getting as much cash. It would also suck to have to go through other sources to import and translate Japanese videogames.

In the end, I would probably end up moving to Canada or Japan.

06-04-2004, 05:32 AM

A world without anime would not be a world. It would be an inanimate sphere of dirt inhabited by sacks of flesh which apparently represent human beings orbiting a giant, celestial fusion reactor commonly refered to by these sacks of flesh as a sun.

Dilandau · 06-10-2004, 07:18 PM

well...first of all, did hell freeze over? Second, I'm moving the canada, eff that. What would make 'em stop importing to us anyway? We'd really have to piss 'em off to stop a section of their exports. Well...anyway, I'd have a lot more money (:

Funka Genocide · 06-10-2004, 07:30 PM

A world without anime would be inhabited by a very different me. My entire life is what it is based partly on anime, if there were no anime, I would have had no reason to be interested in Japanese culture, and thusly would not be living in Japan. A very personal impact would be felt, restructuring time-space in order to facilitate the incredible difference in my existence. As such a thing would probably be a highly energetic process, most likely leading to horrendous natural phenomena, like black holes and such, being created locally on the surface of this planet, the world would be destroyed. So without anime, everbody dies. End of story muchachos.

06-01-2004, 07:29 PM	#11
Manos The Hands of Fate tom servo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: over there Posts: 58	eh... I'd survive. I don't think I'd personally have a real problem with it. __________________ "That squares my breasts!" -Crow (MST3K)

06-03-2004, 09:48 AM	#15
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	e-bay is an online auction site where anyone can privately sell and purchace items. There its explained __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

06-02-2004, 11:36 PM	#14
Otaku Son Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,488	Then explain eBay.

06-03-2004, 02:53 PM	#16
BMHadoken Guest Posts: n/a	Wow Aerozord, that got me in stitches...coughsarcasmcough And if it really is illegal everywhere then the Ebay people would have to pull the auction and track down the guy. Someone tried to sell a tank from Russia on Ebay but got caught.

06-04-2004, 05:32 AM	#18
Tenjin Matsukaru Guest Posts: n/a	A world without anime would not be a world. It would be an inanimate sphere of dirt inhabited by sacks of flesh which apparently represent human beings orbiting a giant, celestial fusion reactor commonly refered to by these sacks of flesh as a sun.

06-10-2004, 07:18 PM	#19
Dilandau lord and master Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: SC Posts: 7	well...first of all, did hell freeze over? Second, I'm moving the canada, eff that. What would make 'em stop importing to us anyway? We'd really have to piss 'em off to stop a section of their exports. Well...anyway, I'd have a lot more money (:

06-10-2004, 07:30 PM	#20
Funka Genocide Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 4,566	A world without anime would be inhabited by a very different me. My entire life is what it is based partly on anime, if there were no anime, I would have had no reason to be interested in Japanese culture, and thusly would not be living in Japan. A very personal impact would be felt, restructuring time-space in order to facilitate the incredible difference in my existence. As such a thing would probably be a highly energetic process, most likely leading to horrendous natural phenomena, like black holes and such, being created locally on the surface of this planet, the world would be destroyed. So without anime, everbody dies. End of story muchachos.