BreakfastMan said:
CaitSeith said:
BreakfastMan said:
Zontar said:
undeadsuitor said:
Zontar said:
Alright I get it, I'm a perverted weeb.
you should really be supporting your own canadian culture instead of immigrating in foreign culture
Cultural exchange is only natural between civilised nations. They have something that's better then ours, it's only natural we'd absorb it.
If that is the case, then why are you buying anime?
I mean, I have watched a bunch of episodes of Red Green and Trailer Park Boys. Both of those seem like pretty good shows. And Pontypool was a great damn horror movie as well.
Red Green and Trailer Park Boys are up there with Corner Gas in terms of being some of the peak of Canadian television comedy. Problem is when it comes to animation we're far less impressive. Canadian animation falls into 3 categories: Stuff an American company is using one of our studios to make (MLP, Rachet and Clank), some cheap flash animation cartoon that exists to meet CRTC Canadian Content guidelines (literally any Teletoon original series) and the projects of university students made as assignments where the best ones end up in some film festival's compilation release.
Outside of comedies and music the near totality of entertainment we make is created with the intention of exportation to the US, UK or France. For example almost every science fiction television series in the US at the moment is made up here by an American company, or made by a Canadian company and sold to US distributors. Examples include Star Trek Discovery, The Expanse, Orphan Black, Killjoys and Dark Matter (in fact many are made on adjacent lots). Most broadcast prime time series will also have major scenes set in a city's down town area be filmed in Vancouver or Toronto, if they aren't entirely filmed in those cities to begin with. Examples of this are too long to even bother giving.