Daily Archives: April 17, 2022

Todays most popular Japanese animated TV show in the US is anime. anime is a different kind of art style compared to the US where we have 3D animation and 2D but our drawing style is completely different to Japans. I think the reason why anime started booming in America was for their art style/drawing, but mostly the plot of each anime. most US shows don’t have the same plot or is even intriguing enough compared to Japans which is why it is very popular, such as demons, hunting, super powers, romance. I think it had gotten more popular in the US most recently because most people don’t like how dumb and clingy some shows here in the US can be, and some don’t prefer the 3D animation most productions are trying to use for the next generation.

In the popular adult swim cartoon Rick and Morty, Rick drives up to a McDonald’s and orders some of their Szechaun sauce and states that it was a “promotion for the Disney movie Mulan”. This moment became so viral that McDonald’s actually brought back their Szechaun sauce that they had discontinued for a limited time. If product placement is done properly, it almost becomes imperceptible. If done poorly, like in Transformers 4 (2014), it felt as though the entire movie was a long commercial for all the brands and completely funded by ad money.