With the rise of the new cold war and attacks on Socialist China, Weeb Revolution is embracing Dengist theory more than ever. It will be a process to transition from anime to videos about donghua, but within five years the channel could very well be on Bilibili with Mandarin subtitles and guest appearances with Xi Jinping to talk about his favorite cartoons. I genuinely believe within this decade donghua will become a much larger industry than the Japanese anime industry and have a much larger audience at least at home. There is maybe a handful of people even discussing Chinese animation on YouTube right now, so I’d like to share the best ones with as many people as possible.
The first Donghua Video on the channel isn’t aiming to be anything more than just a review. However the next donghua video has the WIP title “If American Kids saw this movie they wouldn’t hate China” as I believe a lot of the people salivating for war with China simply know nothing about China other than stereotypes picked up from Kung Fu Panda. Or generally the history of how Hollywood has depicted Asian people.
In the meantime I’ll leave everyone here with perhaps the best communist Donghua available to watch right now called Year Hare. I personally need to finish this show still but there is no other comedy with this much historical understanding of the PRC
i can’t believe year hare made it past youtube censors
I’d like to add, I’m only beginning this dive into Donghua, so I have much more to learn. Interesting tidbit of history that I’ll have to do more research into but there seems to have been a period where the Gang of Four basically killed the entire animation industry as the old guard of animators died out with no generation to replace their talent. I’m glad China’s Animation industry seems to be recovering. Despite my hopes animation is still a very tough job, and not to dissimilar from the Japanese anime industry there are problems with outsourcing, unlivable wages, and overwork. I’m going to trust China to resolve these contradictions more than I would the anime industry to sort this problem out, but damn wish animators wouldn’t always draw the short end.
