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Why otaku culture is booming in india

You would’ve witnessed the sudden spike in

number of Anime watchers in India, especially

during the quarantine period. One may wonder,
why these people are so obsessed with cartoons?

(Please don’t call anime as cartoon in front of a die-

hard anime fan!), what makes them to continue
watching it? I’d try to answer why, as simple as
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Anime is simply a Japanese comic adaptation, known as Manga. Anime have

been popular around the world for a while now. There are animes that are

still running that were started way back in the 90s. Manga panels have their
peculiarity, where most of them are read from right to left. There’s more

manga than anime, this is because not every manga is commercially viable to

animate. It is a really tedious job to animate a manga series, and anime fans

knows why. Each and every detail which is getting animated plays a major
role in storytelling.

The world of anime is the entire embodiment of

imagination, anything and everything which a

human brain can imagine can be a story. Live
action movies and series cannot reach the level

of attention to detail. The Japanese are really

good at drawing and imagination. All the

manga panels are hand drawn, yes you heard it
right, every single stroke was from a Japanese

artist’s pen or a brush.

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