An event or moment · 1998 · Global fandom
The anime import boom
Japanese animation and comics reach a large Western audience through dedicated channels, and a transnational fandom forms around them.
Fandom stops being national and starts being organised around translation, release schedules and convention circuits. The parasocial bond acquires logistics, which is how you can tell it is real.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Where it sits
1950 1950-1999 · 1998 1999
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievableAnime as imported mass attachment: American television carried Japanese animation from the 1960s, and a later wave - Voltron, the Ninja Turtles, Dragon Ball - made the form available to people who never read the original in translation. The conduit crossed languages without asking permissionAnime in the United States (Wikipedia). ↗
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