Anime airing channels and watching anime in India

Let me start with the statement, "Anime and cartoons are different." In India, there is no one who hasn't watched anime. I mean, anime was popular and it is possible until now. If you are reading this and still don't know what "anime" is then basically, the animation shows that originated from Japan are anime. We can easily predict the popularity of anime based on shows like Shin Chan, Doraemon, Ninja Hattori, Pokémon, Kochikame, and many other legendary shows we watched as children on Hungama Channel. Many of us don't even know that all these shows were actually anime.

Kids like me from the 2000's who didn't have any option of entertainment except television, these shows helped me to deal from the stress of school and tuitions. Anime is not limited to Doraemon and Pokémon. There are ocean of anime categories from Movies to Web-Series along with various genre. I am a fan of anime too. Death-note, Naruto and Tokyo Revengers are my favorites. Lets get down on the topic of How does it feel to watch anime in India? Along side discussing on the topic of - Anime shows airing channels like Disney XD, Cartoon Network and Hungama are shifting towards shows like Motu and Patlu, Bheem and other non-worth airing cartoons?

1. Mature Content

Old uncles from our community always had the ideology of - "Cartoons are only meant for kids". If that Uncle comes across you, share anime series on his phone and tell him to watch because anime is a slap for the people who think cartoons are only meant to be watched by kids. If we keep anime and cartoons side by side and compare them (actually it isn't worth comparing yet, we're doing that). 

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• Indian Cartoons : Always have repeated storyline, Dumb characters. No innovations. Hardly put efforts to make it. No creativity - Raju from Chotta Bheem becomes Mighty Raju and new cartoon starts. Same power source ideas like - Motu eats samosa and becomes powerful Similarly, Bheem eats ladoo. 
  
  
• Anime- Awesome unique storyline, Influential characters. Shows for all age groups with vast number of genre for everyone. No target audience of particular age group.

2. Propaganda against kids

Indian censored board banned Schinchan with various chargers but forgot shows like Crime Patrol and other Hippocratic Indian shows. Why?

Our main stream media is biased towards the funding party and will do anything to manage the image of a fundraiser for their channels. They took the initiative of keeping us and the upcoming generation dumb as much as possible. Sometimes in politics and sometimes in cartoons, because if someday people become smart then no one will watch Ekta Kapoor's dumb shows like Nagin and all.  If a kid understood the concept behind solar energy and gravity, he won't watch movies of Salman Khan in future. Watching these shows is making today's kids IQ and understanding capacity very low.  

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3. Monopoly 

Our entertainment industry is very insecure of anime coming in theaters because if that comes, the market for their movies will tremendously fall (which is falling actually) and they won't let any outsider come and rule it. (Nepotism) Obviously if movies like Your Name and Spirited Away released on theaters in front of movies like student of the year 2 and Coolie No. 1 then no doubt Bollywood movies gonna loose their audience and market will be shut down that's why the strong people from entertainment industry make sure their monopoly goes in and works in market.

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How does it feel when you watch anime in India?

Well, to be honest, it doesn't feel like anything at all. The only thing we watch in anime is better than cartoons but as equal as fantastic movies with high IMBD ratings just in animation format, that's all.

Anime is far better than the Indian reality shows, but let's not make a propaganda that everyone must watch anime. The thing every anime watcher goes through is that "Instant brotherhood with other watcher" that's it. If you're reading this and you don't watch anime, it's ok to watch whatever you feel like.

What if you don't watch anime ? 

In short: It's really okay if you don't. While I write a blog I write my views and opinions from both the sides. I don't follow a propaganda that if I like anime everyone should watch it. I'll just say give it a try just like I said when I wrote a blog about K-Pop obsession. 

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