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glennmagusharvey

I hear that that show is good.

I have yet to check it out, of course.

Anyhow I wasn't really looking for an answer, as much as just idly wondering "what if anime were Polish instead of Japanese".

lrdgck

That said there's V411 HALL-A if Venezuelan "anime games" count.

what is it with you guys and anime-girlies-that-are-not-from-anime

Anyways:

VA-11 Hall-A's developers come from Venezuela.[20] As such, according to Ortiz, their visions of a dystopian bar scene are based on their own experiences of living in a third world country, leading them to create a cast of characters that, in the middle of a "depressing society", try to go on with their lives and be as happy as they can with what they already have.[20]

"what if anime were Polish Venezuelan instead of Japanese", seems like?

So, I was about to try something different, like cowboy movies and nominate Glenn - but that's probably getting too far from, like, a topic for the book thread.

Stormtroper

what is it with you guys and anime-girlies-that-are-not-from-anime

Cute things are cute.
But for a more serious answer, I never got that idea, although I'd like it if that were the case.
Sometimes I wonder if animu (and animu-style stuff) is less popular here than it is in the rest of Latin America.

"depressing society"

Speaking of that, did I miss something in the international scene that puts us in the spotlight? I've been reading oddly often unprompted, tangentially-relevant comments in about how it sucks here. Weird that it happens now that things have been looking up for a while and not, say, six years ago when things were truly awful.

lrdgck

did I miss something in the international scene that puts us in the spotlight?

From what I can gather, nah. But since you guys have election season, I might be speaking more of it, and so may international media. Perhaps it's this, perhaps it's that thing when you see something once and then you begin to notice it everywhere.