East Asians especially like anime. I think anime should be classified as a more generalized culture, just as Chinese people do not classify all exaggerated style cartoons in Europe and the United States as American culture.
In China, animation culture is generally called "二次元", which means two-dimensional world. Mobile phone animation games are called "二游" for short. In recent years, with the rise of Chinese games, Chinese anime style games have actually become more and more unique in their art style. You can see that Korean and Japanese anime and game companies find it difficult to design character modeling and map design that can rival Chinese anime games at the overall level. Chinese games have better and more mature modeling design, and their movements are more natural and smooth. In terms of narration, Chinese games abandoned the narrative style of imitating Japanese cartoons and Japanese GalGame very early. Regardless of the story background of the game, Chinese games are still telling Chinese stories with Chinese ideology. In the future, Chinese anime stories will increasingly follow their own path, just like Japanese anime gradually became independent from American animation styles in the last century.
Another example that may be slightly inappropriate in terms of narrative is that Japanese anime has been immersed in the Western style fantasy style of Brave Warrior Demon King for many years. Although the characters in the story are elves, dragons, heroes, wizards, and dwarves from Western culture, the ideology and narrative of the story are always Japanese style, which has become their unique style of work.
In China, animation culture is generally called "二次元", which means two-dimensional world. Mobile phone animation games are called "二游" for short. In recent years, with the rise of Chinese games, Chinese anime style games have actually become more and more unique in their art style. You can see that Korean and Japanese anime and game companies find it difficult to design character modeling and map design that can rival Chinese anime games at the overall level. Chinese games have better and more mature modeling design, and their movements are more natural and smooth. In terms of narration, Chinese games abandoned the narrative style of imitating Japanese cartoons and Japanese GalGame very early. Regardless of the story background of the game, Chinese games are still telling Chinese stories with Chinese ideology. In the future, Chinese anime stories will increasingly follow their own path, just like Japanese anime gradually became independent from American animation styles in the last century.
Another example that may be slightly inappropriate in terms of narrative is that Japanese anime has been immersed in the Western style fantasy style of Brave Warrior Demon King for many years. Although the characters in the story are elves, dragons, heroes, wizards, and dwarves from Western culture, the ideology and narrative of the story are always Japanese style, which has become their unique style of work.
