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[168] Rising interest in anime as well as Japanese video games has led to an increase of university students in the United Kingdom wanting to get a degree in the Japanese language. [169] The word anime alongside other Japanese pop cultural terms like shonen and shojo have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. [170] Various anime and manga series have influenced Hollywood in the making of numerous famous movies and characters. [171] Hollywood itself has produced live-action adaptations of various anime series such as Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, Dragon Ball Evolution and Cowboy Bebop. However most of these adaptations have been reviewed negatively by both the critics and the audience and have become box-office flops. The main reasons for the unsuccessfulness of Hollywood's adaptions of anime being the often change of plot and characters from the original source material and the limited
capabilities a live-action movie or series can do in comparison to an animated counterpart. [172][173] One particular exception however is Alita: Battle Angel, which has become a moderate commercial success, receiving generally positive reviews from both the critics and the audience for its visual effects and following the source material. The movie grossed $404 million worldwide, making it director Robert Rodriguez's highest-grossing film. [174][175] Anime and manga alongside many other parts of Japanese pop culture have helped Japan to gain a positive worldwide image and improve its relations with other countries such as its East
Asian neighbours China and South Korea. [176][177][178][179][180] In 2015, during remarks welcoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the White House, President Barack Obama thanked Japan for its cultural contributions to the United States by saying: This visit is a celebration of the ties of friendship and family that bind our peoples. I first felt it when I was 6 years old when my mother took me to Japan.
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Visual Novels Doki Doki Literature Club! is Animesque as a parody of the kinds of Japanese works it imitates. However, it parodies the Animesque trope itself when the resident Fourth-Wall Observer notes that some of the locations don't actually look like they're in Japan, thus lampshading that it's a bad imitation of something Japanese. Web Animation Angelicate Avenue, by Alli Kat Nya. An The Annoying Orange episode is an Affectionate Parody of Pokémon: The Series. Girl-chan in Paradise, by Egoraptor. Japanoschlampen ("Japano-Sluts"), a series spoofing anime tropes and other things, by the German YouTuber Coldmirror. Homestar Runner's 20X6, featuring anime versions of the main cast, like Strong Bad as Stinkoman and Homestar as Stinkoman's sidekick 1-Up. . And
then it gets even more meta with Xeriouxly Forxe, which is a parody of
this very trope, particularly edgy anime-influenced cartoons from The '90s such as SWAT Kats.
