Yeeeees! And we have huge anime events in South America too. I'm from Brazil and there was a whole TV channel just for animes, it was paradise.
I really miss those day I would come home from school and watch Cardcaptor Sakura Growing up with anime was the best <3
I understand. It was something I looked foward at the end of the day or weekends. That was fun.
Today I barely see any anime on TV, there's more on streaming like Netflix than on actual TV here where I live. So I just watch online and buy the DVD if I reeealy like it.
Yeah I feel you. Once I moved away from Venezuela I didn't get to enjoy anime in TV anymore as I did before. The only way was to stay up late on Saturdays and watch CN's Adult Swim and they only had a few animes (like 3) at a time. So I've been using the internet for the last decade to watch em. Btw, I think it's nice that Netflix has been putting effort into having a better and bigger selection of anime. Also, the only anime DVDs I got are Hayao Miyazaki movies xD
Im so glad you posted this! I'm from Mexico and anime was just as present there. As I was reading this chapter I had the same thought as you that others might think that it was convenient that Hinata's room mate was interested in anime/manga. So again I'm glad you mentioned it :)
Yas :) Mexico is the dub house for the Latin American anime Spanish dub. Latin American international channels (like CN+Toonami) follow p much the same schedule with the exception of Puerto Rico since it follows the USA schedule. So if you were watching anime on TV in the early 2000s then you and I were watching the same shows
A question out of curiosity here, what animes you watched on TV growing up?
To me was Captain Tsubasa, Pokémon, Digimon, Saint Seya, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Tokyo Mew Mew, Kaleido Star, Card Captor Sakura and Ashita no Nadja
...and there was one that was about a future where the last human was only there because she was hibernating in a capsule and apart if the group with her the rest of the humanoid beings there where pretty much trying to eat her. (⌒▽⌒)
I watched all the ones you mentioned xept Kaleido Star. I also watched Get Backers, Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Vandread, Saber Marionette, Hamtaro, Gundam Wing, Ba Daman, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), Yugioh, and Speed Racer (Meteoro).
Note: some of those animes are not for children xD
O I also watched .hack//Legend of the Twilight and Fullmetal Panic (OG and Fumoffu)
From Bolivia here, and yeah I also remember watching pokemon, sailor moon, dragon ball, Cardcaptor sakura, and some YuGiOh. I think I would mostly watch Saturdays and Sundays. Pokemon and YuGiOh definitely had a huge presence.
Ah! There was Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Hamtaro(cuteness explosion!), Inuyasha and Yugioh. There was Fullmetal Alchemist too.
And yep, some of those are not for children, my 8 year old me definitely was not ready for the chimera daugher episode.
Yep Pokémon and Yugioh were pretty huge on TV everyone watched and had cheap figurines and cards, and Dragon Ball was definitely on their team as well.
Yassss! My brother had Piccolo and Vegeta figurines and yugioh cards. We also had a lot of pokemon cards tho tbh I didn't know how to play. I just liked the cards xD In school I remember the boys playing with their B Daman's and their Beyblades (Beyblade V-Force was pretty popular at the time. The grey hair dude was a snack)
Yeeeees! Beyblade! Everyone wanted one and the ones who had where always playing.
"The grey hair dude was a snack" Yep he was.
And here was more small cute figurines of pokemons together with the cards. And there was Megaman too with devices and chips to play batlles.
Omg Megaman!!! I don't remember the battle chips but we had Mega Man Legends 2 for Playstation 1. Old games had such good music xD
They sure had! Those musics would be playing nonstop in my head for days!
Just wanted to share with yall that Japan is quite present in South America. I grew up in Venezuela (from ages 0 to 8) and the TV would always air anime. I had about 15 different anime that would air regularly and I would watch after school. There's no one in South America that doesn't know anime. Even my parents watched anime growing up. There's even a Peruvian called Jefferson Tadea that almost won the Peru La Voz competition singing anime songs in Spanish. Furthermore, there's a large group of people of Japanese descent in South America due to a Japanese immigration that happened I think during the 1800s. The largest population of Japanese outside of Japan is in Brazil. Therefore, Hinata's roommate liking anime and knowing a little Japanese is not really something lucky and unlikely. It's actual pretty real and it accurately portrays the diversity in Brazil and South America.