I remember older animes use a lot of China/HK settings and references from 70's and 80's before moving to Western. Definitely appeasing to inceasing market share but also gotta bring in "fresh" and "new".
As a collector who happens to love the china dress (cheongsam) aesthetic, I see this as a win considering that pre 2015 there were little to no high quality figures of characters in the cheongsam or hanfu. Plenty of kimino figs though! China, and Korean animation studios were trained by being the "B" teams or outsource for Japanese studios for many years. It is only natural they would have eventually gotten really good at the craft and thus having the desire to build their own industry. Now, having said that I don't believe that China will overtake Japan in the anime industry in the near future as long as Japan maintains their incredibly high standards which will allow them to remain competitive.
Simple, figurine market and anime market in particular has been booming recently and so does the rise of more consumers and thus more competitors rushing to get a share of the cake.
Yup im suprised no mention of Korean manwha also getting their cake or novels and dramas. Ofc I dont see them manufacturing the figures, most use China, but just marketing their media
Wouldn't be the first time. In ancient history, blacksmiths from both Japan and China would make a pilgrimage to each country to learn new techniques and refine their own craftsmanship. You can see the evidence of this in the swords of both countries when comparing their older double-edged straight blades (tsurugi vs jian) in the bronze and iron-age, and again later when early single-edged Dao swords more resembled the Katana because they were more narrow and less broad than later versions, and occasionally even used the same materials like sting-ray skin, and similar twisting techniques in the handle-wraps. Bottom line: there was a lot of cross-pollination throughout the ages.
I usually buy anime figure from japanese company (GSC, Alter, Kotobukiya) but now I tend towards china(Myethos especially) because the quality are superb and more cheaper.
It's just a matter of time before someone in the industry will branch out and create their own company because they want to put their own spin -- happens all the time in tech. It's also probably easier to license Chinese games/anime as a Chinese company.
I see two main reasons: - after decades of supressing their traditional stuff they realized that centuries of culture could be their equivalent to manga or KPop as a main export to the West, thus revamping their negative image - the qipao figures are slowly fitting a niche that is dying out: the school swimsuit, they have all the pros of “skintight fitting without showing skin” appeal without none of the controversies of school uniform in a sexy context
i don't think it's accurate to say that china is using their culture as an export to the west. the examples in this video are largely japanese companies/anime using chinese dresses/themes. this suggests interest from the japanese audience, as well as perhaps reflecting the huge and rapidly growing chinese consumer market. the west has nothing to do with it. also, there is no "suppressing traditional stuff" in the way you speak of it. chinese culture is much, much wider and richer than qipaos and dumplings. that culture and those traditions are taught and celebrated in schools, museums, festivals, etc. just like anywhere else in the world.
Not the figure since they already done with the bootlegs but what they takeover is the anime and game industry itself. They have japanese as the employee with the promise of freedom of creativity and make sense working hour for better quality live that the japan industry never have.
It's really amazing every time i see photo of third party limited-premium figure from china in timeline Most of them shared in socmed is kinda lewd LOL
Will Chinese growth in the industry eventually reduce the price of figures overall? Prices of scale figures in particular seem to have risen significantly over the past decade, maybe this will make them more affordable for the average employed person.
didnt a majority of Japanese figure companies pull out on the order of JPs gov because of not only covid but its deteriorating relationship with china for a few years now which resulted in the spike in permanent price change for figures since they are products made within Japan now? Chinese brand quality still doesnt stack up to the current major brands even with popular characters from Azur Lane and such.
I could be wrong, but I don't see China as being anywhere near as edgy as Japan when it comes to content in anime. To be sure, nothing that will PO those in power or in any way upset cultural norms.
Both China and Korea, Japan have a glut of story telling, I can feel this that after 2015 story Japanese story telling drop considerably. Mostly because they cant build meaningful conflict.
look for Manhua apps. also you might already be reading some Manhua without realising it, depending on where you read your comics. and there have been quite a few popular Donghua (chinese anime) that got attention too.
Theres a lot of Chinese Manga and Anime. Anime are called "Donghua" and a few more well known ones include Linkclick, Heavens official blessing, Legend of hei ec. As for Manga theyre called "Manhua" although im not as familiar with them theyre similar to Korean Manhwa.
0:34 is it just me or has this been happening for a LONG time in this case? (give corrections if needed not into figures as much as a lot of people here might be.)
China has the speed and the will to innovate, the consumer market in china is just much bigger than japan. It won't be long china will take over japan. Too bad most of japan is still sticking with their old ways of doing things.
As a fan of art and soties as well manga and figures. I do not care if something isnt from japan. As long as I like the series I dont care about the origin of the author or country.
It was bound to happen since China has cheap labor, less regulations, and as you said the outsourcing to China awakened them to just making their own or copying it.
no it won't Japan was forced to pull out its factory from years ago because of covid and the rising tension between the ASEAN/ and other Asian nations and America. Sure there is a boom in China made products but their out put is low and the only major figures that do well is Azur Lanes and half is made in china by chinese factories while the rest is made by Japanese in Japanese factories.
China is growing rapidly and is voracious in any market, doing so with electronics, technology, and cars. Now, it's going for entertainment. Japan is at a clear disadvantage because they depend on Chinese manufacturing. China competes on three fronts, two of them unfairly: 1) China manufactures Japanese designs, creating dependency to maintain costs. 2) They copy their style and launch their own products. 3) They make illegal copies of Japanese designs and flood the international market with pirated figures. China is replacing the old world powers in various areas. In the long term, in anime figures and Japanese-style video games, Japan is going to lose. I think it is cultural appropriation from China towards Japan.
@@treebush I don’t play either game, I only know Azur Lane by the figures, but I don’t know any of the characters. I don’t know anything about Genshin other than it exists. I only buy figures from the manga I read.
@@treebush i feel like many young genshin fans arent aware of the fact that genshin is chinese. i know its chinese bc i am and i think some characters have chinese names
I remember older animes use a lot of China/HK settings and references from 70's and 80's before moving to Western. Definitely appeasing to inceasing market share but also gotta bring in "fresh" and "new".
As a collector who happens to love the china dress (cheongsam) aesthetic, I see this as a win considering that pre 2015 there were little to no high quality figures of characters in the cheongsam or hanfu. Plenty of kimino figs though!
China, and Korean animation studios were trained by being the "B" teams or outsource for Japanese studios for many years. It is only natural they would have eventually gotten really good at the craft and thus having the desire to build their own industry. Now, having said that I don't believe that China will overtake Japan in the anime industry in the near future as long as Japan maintains their incredibly high standards which will allow them to remain competitive.
Hi I have a izuku Midoriya 1/1 bust , brand new in the box , I'm trying to sell it do you know where I can find more collectors like yourself
China real power is on the budget and the number of people in mainland who hungry for japanese style entertainment
Love the produciton quality on these videos. Keep it up!
Damn, these videos are always super high quality! Shocked there’s less than 1000 views
Simple, figurine market and anime market in particular has been booming recently and so does the rise of more consumers and thus more competitors rushing to get a share of the cake.
Yup im suprised no mention of Korean manwha also getting their cake or novels and dramas. Ofc I dont see them manufacturing the figures, most use China, but just marketing their media
Wouldn't be the first time. In ancient history, blacksmiths from both Japan and China would make a pilgrimage to each country to learn new techniques and refine their own craftsmanship. You can see the evidence of this in the swords of both countries when comparing their older double-edged straight blades (tsurugi vs jian) in the bronze and iron-age, and again later when early single-edged Dao swords more resembled the Katana because they were more narrow and less broad than later versions, and occasionally even used the same materials like sting-ray skin, and similar twisting techniques in the handle-wraps. Bottom line: there was a lot of cross-pollination throughout the ages.
Love the editing in your videos! Keep it up!
Anime Figurines in Chinese dresses are so Gorgeous and Majestic to look at. 😍😏👌🏾 i love it ❤
Miku having a lot of chinese themed stuff makes sense since she does have a chinese voicebank
I usually buy anime figure from japanese company (GSC, Alter, Kotobukiya) but now I tend towards china(Myethos especially) because the quality are superb and more cheaper.
Don't think the 'takeover' will come to fruition. We still much prefer the OG when coming to appreciate this sub-culture.
Pokemon recently officially moved into China, and their figures are some of the highest quality I've seen for so cheap.
It's just a matter of time before someone in the industry will branch out and create their own company because they want to put their own spin -- happens all the time in tech. It's also probably easier to license Chinese games/anime as a Chinese company.
I see two main reasons:
- after decades of supressing their traditional stuff they realized that centuries of culture could be their equivalent to manga or KPop as a main export to the West, thus revamping their negative image
- the qipao figures are slowly fitting a niche that is dying out: the school swimsuit, they have all the pros of “skintight fitting without showing skin” appeal without none of the controversies of school uniform in a sexy context
i don't think it's accurate to say that china is using their culture as an export to the west. the examples in this video are largely japanese companies/anime using chinese dresses/themes. this suggests interest from the japanese audience, as well as perhaps reflecting the huge and rapidly growing chinese consumer market. the west has nothing to do with it. also, there is no "suppressing traditional stuff" in the way you speak of it. chinese culture is much, much wider and richer than qipaos and dumplings. that culture and those traditions are taught and celebrated in schools, museums, festivals, etc. just like anywhere else in the world.
ancient china used to be morw frequent in anime for awhile its a cycle
Not the figure since they already done with the bootlegs but what they takeover is the anime and game industry itself. They have japanese as the employee with the promise of freedom of creativity and make sense working hour for better quality live that the japan industry never have.
It's really amazing every time i see photo of third party limited-premium figure from china in timeline
Most of them shared in socmed is kinda lewd LOL
If these figurines wouldn't cost more than my graphics card, I would buy them. But they cost more than my graphics card.
Will Chinese growth in the industry eventually reduce the price of figures overall? Prices of scale figures in particular seem to have risen significantly over the past decade, maybe this will make them more affordable for the average employed person.
didnt a majority of Japanese figure companies pull out on the order of JPs gov because of not only covid but its deteriorating relationship with china for a few years now which resulted in the spike in permanent price change for figures since they are products made within Japan now? Chinese brand quality still doesnt stack up to the current major brands even with popular characters from Azur Lane and such.
I could be wrong, but I don't see China as being anywhere near as edgy as Japan when it comes to content in anime. To be sure, nothing that will PO those in power or in any way upset cultural norms.
To quote the China construction dozer, "China will grow larger."
Certainly taking over the Godzilla figure market. But tbh I think it's mostly because Bandai is slipping.
Both China and Korea, Japan have a glut of story telling, I can feel this that after 2015 story Japanese story telling drop considerably. Mostly because they cant build meaningful conflict.
Who like donghua 😮
(analog vs digital)🎉
Is there any Chinese manga or anime? Korea has manwa, I haven’t read any though.
look for Manhua apps. also you might already be reading some Manhua without realising it, depending on where you read your comics.
and there have been quite a few popular Donghua (chinese anime) that got attention too.
Theres a lot of Chinese Manga and Anime. Anime are called "Donghua" and a few more well known ones include Linkclick, Heavens official blessing, Legend of hei ec. As for Manga theyre called "Manhua" although im not as familiar with them theyre similar to Korean Manhwa.
@@MintiiLatt chinese animated shows are called donghua
@@evrnight My bad I tend to get it mixed up 😅
figures have been wearing shinese dresses for YEARS. its not new. and china mimicking Japanese art people who play genshin...dont know its chinese.
0:34 is it just me or has this been happening for a LONG time in this case? (give corrections if needed not into figures as much as a lot of people here might be.)
what figure displayed in 1:05 ?
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China has the speed and the will to innovate, the consumer market in china is just much bigger than japan. It won't be long china will take over japan. Too bad most of japan is still sticking with their old ways of doing things.
As a fan of art and soties as well manga and figures. I do not care if something isnt from japan. As long as I like the series I dont care about the origin of the author or country.
It was bound to happen since China has cheap labor, less regulations, and as you said the outsourcing to China awakened them to just making their own or copying it.
no it won't Japan was forced to pull out its factory from years ago because of covid and the rising tension between the ASEAN/ and other Asian nations and America. Sure there is a boom in China made products but their out put is low and the only major figures that do well is Azur Lanes and half is made in china by chinese factories while the rest is made by Japanese in Japanese factories.
@@treebushchina and japan not included in ASEAN tho?
China is growing rapidly and is voracious in any market, doing so with electronics, technology, and cars. Now, it's going for entertainment. Japan is at a clear disadvantage because they depend on Chinese manufacturing. China competes on three fronts, two of them unfairly: 1) China manufactures Japanese designs, creating dependency to maintain costs. 2) They copy their style and launch their own products. 3) They make illegal copies of Japanese designs and flood the international market with pirated figures. China is replacing the old world powers in various areas. In the long term, in anime figures and Japanese-style video games, Japan is going to lose. I think it is cultural appropriation from China towards Japan.
Getting really tired of everything catering to the chinese market only. Cars, video games, anime, etc. It's alienating and frankly, boring.
I don't like china voice
Oh wow, I didn’t even know Azur Lane & Genshin were Chinese.
no fucking way there are people who dont know this?
@@treebush I don’t play either game, I only know Azur Lane by the figures, but I don’t know any of the characters. I don’t know anything about Genshin other than it exists. I only buy figures from the manga I read.
@@treebush i feel like many young genshin fans arent aware of the fact that genshin is chinese. i know its chinese bc i am and i think some characters have chinese names
Worst thing to happen to the hobby in a long time.