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mdo7
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Well I kinda understand you want these dramas to go the USA. I want to see companies like Funimation, Sentai Film, and Media Blasters picking up Asian Dramas also. I would so love Funimation to pick up Martial arts drama from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan. I wish TVB (a famous company in Hong Kong) to look at the non-Asian audience, they should put their show subtitled in English on Hulu. Who knows, American audience may like it the same way as Korean drama. Seeing the Korean Wave made Korean Drama got attention in USA, and seeing many people love Kung Fu/Martial Art film, and also Crunchyroll has shown a lot of Asian drama so it's possible there could be a market for Asian drama for US audience. There are benefit for non-Asian audience that Asian drama can do like: -Any 3rd or 4th year student studying Asian foreign language like Korean, Japanese, or Chinese can use Asian drama show (without subtitle) to help sharpen their Asian foreign language skill. Beside Chinese, Japanese and Korean language is becoming the new Spanish and French class for learning foreign language. -There are people who are majoring in Asian studies, or Asian history that can use Asian drama that take place in ancient time (like the martial arts drama from HK, Taiwan, and Mainland China, Samurai drama show from Japan, and Korean historical epic from South Korea) to understand better how life in ancient Asia was like. Most of the Asian drama that take place in ancient time seem to get most of the ancient culture correct (I hope). -fans of Martial arts/Kung Fu movie may find the martial arts drama very appealing because of it's soap opera storylines, character development throughout episodes, and learning more about ancient China more from a 52+ episodes over a 90-min movie. -There are people in USA who are multicultural and would like to see TV show from another country. Asian drama could appeal those people. So you see there could be audiences that might want to watch Asian drama. They just need to experiment and see how many people want to watch it. Anime and Korean drama can do well, why not try it with Japanese and Chinese drama. It might do well in the US. |
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