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Though most polled don't hate anime, the ones who do list Initial D as their 3rd most hated show. I really can't even begin to imagine why that is...
...shed some light on this, Pear?
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| Posted by: kyonpalm May 3 2011, 12:32 AM | ||
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Though most polled don't hate anime, the ones who do list Initial D as their 3rd most hated show. I really can't even begin to imagine why that is... ...shed some light on this, Pear? |
| Posted by: Dan May 3 2011, 06:07 AM | ||||
Probably: -They are jealous that Japan performance cars are MEGA-AWESOME! -(In the minds of the Chinese) Why is their "Chinese Cars"(Cherry, Lifan etc.) not featured in that show? WHY?!?!?!?!?! I hope Light Yagami is now writing the names who voted his show and initial d.  |
| Posted by: Yoshida Seiji May 3 2011, 01:55 PM | ||
I lol'd because this is very likely true. |
| Posted by: snkzato1 May 9 2011, 07:45 PM |
| because the once great show has become a joke of its former self. It's barely crawling to the finish line 5 years past the due date |
| Posted by: Tessou May 10 2011, 05:54 AM |
| That or it takes place in Japan, which China is not fond of. Just look at history. |
| Posted by: wolf4537 May 11 2011, 12:44 AM |
| Think about it, Initial D promotes illegal street racing, and China is a communist country. Kinda blends together in a way in terms of China hating it, cause watching it is like being free without having to deal with anyone stopping anyone from street racing. |
| Posted by: ThanatosYe May 12 2011, 02:43 AM |
| As a D-fan in mainland china, i believe some people dont like this anime, but i never heard somebody hate it. it's a pity that we misunderstand each other. |
| Posted by: Tessou May 12 2011, 09:24 AM |
This is after the Chinese made the live action movie. Apparently even they thought it was a shitty movie.  |
| Posted by: snkzato1 May 12 2011, 03:48 PM | ||
Well considering they are japanese products wouldn't they then hate all animes. |
| Posted by: Bumpercam May 24 2011, 04:21 AM | ||
I think i'll wait for Celestial/RED/KIX to re-run it on my cable... i always seem to miss it. I'm curious as of how bad it actually is. |
| Posted by: Tessou May 24 2011, 05:53 AM |
| It's decent as a dramatic racing movie. It's absolutely terrible as an Initial D movie. |
| Posted by: Varcion Jun 2 2011, 10:26 AM |
| Believe me, as a Chinese/Initial D fan myself, I can tell you that Chinese people's dislike of Initial D is all because of the Live-Action movie. (well, + a number of minor factors, no 5th stage, slow in coming out with manga....etc) Jay Chou basically destroyed Takumi's image to people who have yet to watch anime for themselves. Ask yourselves, would you have any interest in the anime after watching that movie? 2 facts that people might not know about the movie: -Most of the production money came from Jay Chou himself. -Despite his(Jay) horrible acting, as the world can see from the recent Hollywood flop,"Green Hornet", he actually won awards at an Asian film awards ceremony.(For best rookie actor, sry, I have no better way of translating it) |
| Posted by: kou yuuzhen Jun 2 2011, 10:20 PM | ||||
Yes I agree. Out of >1 billion people in China there's bound to be some people who dislike ID. It does not mean that most of Chinese hate the anime, and I don't think it has anything to do with the Chinese-Japanese history either. ID is just about car racing, after all.
IDK what they think of ID before the movie came out, but yeah unfortunately the movie is a very poor interpretation of the series altogether. I'm still pissed that they excluded Keisuke and made Kyouichi into a street gangster  |
| Posted by: Tee:k Jun 20 2011, 05:26 PM |
| Well, some of you say that China or Japan or whatever hates ID because of what they represents. Now this is the exact same thing as the Fast and the Furious did, and it haven't been any problems. Ofc, they ruined the Street Racing in USA, and if you get caught they will wreck your car as a message. If someone even tried to wreck or hurt my car, police or whoever, i would have knocked the dudes face so hard he couldn't recognize himself. Police in USA are so stupid it hurts -.- Sorry for the OT, but i get carried away sometimes. :\ |
| Posted by: Tsyta Jun 21 2011, 12:33 AM |
| Really racist comment incoming. Chinese hate Initial D because they cant f**king drive. |
| Posted by: cncfan Jul 30 2011, 07:01 PM |
| The Chinese have nothing to compare to ID's (other than the movie) awesomeness so the only option they have is to hate. |
| Posted by: Perry Jul 30 2011, 07:24 PM |
Funny how that site said China banned Death Note. I bought Death Notes DVDs and merchandise from a local video shop there not too long ago. I wonder who is spreading the "fear of a rising China" propaganda here?  |
| Posted by: SonicSP Jul 31 2011, 01:58 PM |
| Its just a poll thing, nothing serious. And then there was that one user who said it was mostly because of the live action movie thing. |
| Posted by: driftking18594 Aug 2 2011, 06:48 AM |
| Who knows, Chinese netizens could be the biggest trolls imaginable. |
| Posted by: admiralhonshu Nov 20 2011, 09:00 PM |
You guys make me laugh! Ho ho ho!  I'm Chinese and I love Initial D! No joke. |
| Posted by: Jesse11 Nov 28 2011, 08:28 PM |
| You guys make me laugh! Ho ho ho! I'm Chinese and I love Initial D! No joke. |
| Posted by: Banken Jan 9 2012, 03:19 AM |
| I can imagine why some people in a poor, communist country would hate it. The story of Initial D is the exact OPPOSITE if what a communist Chinese would like. It's about Japanese people who have so much money and free time that they can spend tens of thousands if dollars on the ultimate Western excess: sports cars. And not just owning them, racing them illegally, and spending more than the average annual Chinese salary on just mods and tuning.. And to make things worse, all the cars are Japanese. From a Japanese or Western perspective, a used sports car is something cool that you could buy relatively easy, whereas the average Chinese person could never afford a decent regular car, much less a gas guzzling GTR or RX7. They're a play thing for the rich. |
| Posted by: Möbius Aug 20 2012, 04:38 PM | ||
China is not a "poor, communist country", or at least not to the extent that you would imagine it to be. ( Sorry about the necrobump, I saw one of the searchbots looking at this thread and thought I would take a gander ). The fact that the cars are Japanese would only matter in a sense that the average Chinese citizen values European cars over anything else. Anything that is not European is second grade. Heck, they hold American carmakers in higher regard ( Buick is very, very popular over there ). Japanese makes have their place over there, but they only hold a mid-market appeal at most, filling in between domestic makes, and American makes. They are generally not seen as something to be bought when desiring performance, although the odd STi or Evo can be spotted here and there. |
| Posted by: elemein Aug 20 2012, 04:56 PM | ||
I thought them Chinese made most of their own cars, except for the odd rich Chinese guy that got an Audi... |
| Posted by: Möbius Aug 20 2012, 05:03 PM | ||
There are a lot of domestic cars ( and I do mean a lot ), but most people aspire to own a non-chinese car. And those people are in larger numbers than you would think.  Volvo gets a bad rep there now, ever since it is Chinese owned. |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Aug 20 2012, 06:29 PM |
Also note that Audis (and BMWs) in China are actually Chinese-made. Chinese-made cars meanwhile are.......Australian-made.  |
| Posted by: char Aug 20 2012, 07:13 PM | ||
where do you get your facts the only cars made in Australia are GM's Holden, Ford's Falcon, and Toyota"s Camry Mitsubishi/Crysler closed their factory, every thing else is imported even some Holdens made by Chevrolet in the USA |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Aug 20 2012, 07:30 PM | ||
QED is a wonderful thing. |
| Posted by: SgtXDNX Aug 21 2012, 01:38 AM | ||
You're a funny guy, considering I lived not two minute's drive from where the Toyota Aurion was made. Please, tell us more about my country's car production, I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about but you seem to be a veritable fountain of knowledge. |
| Posted by: Tessou Aug 21 2012, 05:11 AM |
Char's profile location...  Not sure if trolling or... |
| Posted by: char Aug 22 2012, 09:03 PM |
| sorry but i was just pointing out that most cars that are sold in Australia are imported, even that great Australian icon Holden Commodore, some are made in the US by Chevrolet and imported into Australia. As for Australians making Chinese cars .... well,some Australian manufacturers have their goods made in China and as far as I know only Toyota, General Motors and Ford make cars in Australia. And most small cars are imported. Anyway what cars are or are not made in Australia has nothing to do with the topic t hand |
| Posted by: superhours Sep 29 2012, 06:32 PM |
| I would personally think they chinese hate ID, because their "live" version as they so call it was received terribly and a disgrace to the show. (Not exactly sure how everybody viewed the movie...but I certainly despised it..) |
| Posted by: Hachi_roku86 Nov 19 2012, 04:52 PM |
| Rumors have been circulating that a sequel of hong kong's Initial D movie is already in the making. |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Nov 19 2012, 10:53 PM | ||
Aside from a scene where the speedometer is treated like a tach the movie was fine. You just have to treat it differently from the Anime is all. I mean heck, I liked it enough to buy it, so. |
| Posted by: Perry Nov 19 2012, 11:15 PM |
| Initial D is not hated in China. I don't know who started that rumor. It is just not as widely known as other titles like Naruto or FMA. The people who know about Initial D loves it. |
| Posted by: HyperSonic Nov 21 2012, 09:04 AM | ||
I would, in fact I did saw the live action first before hunting for the anime and manga. Well, it's just me. I know for a fact that film adoptations of novels/games/anime does not represent it 100%, I did wanted to see if the anime is shitty just like the live action. But up until now, it amazes me. |
| Posted by: theAbsolutelyRedLink Nov 21 2012, 06:20 PM | ||
------------------------------- I hope that's the case. If not, I feel that somebody is gonna have to take a trip to Beijing and school some Chinamen on the down hill! |
| Posted by: kazahana Nov 22 2012, 01:23 PM | ||
This time, with no lolicon in it!  Chinese people hate keions? What the heck is wrong with them? |
| Posted by: kyonpalm Nov 22 2012, 01:40 PM | ||
Where were the lolis in the first one? |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Nov 22 2012, 01:55 PM | ||
Dude are you on the crack?? Lolicon in the ID movie? Chinese people hate keions!? Both wrong, get out of my face! Chinese people LOVE the keions, here is proof. http://www.zshare.net/file/9v1i0n (10:35 in for delicious zu-meow) |
| Posted by: GroupA20v Nov 22 2012, 09:37 PM |
| Maybe the demographics of the pool has something to do with it. Who knows? The site might hold a virulent anti-Initial D bias. |
| Posted by: RIT_ninja Nov 23 2012, 12:07 AM | ||
Exactly, the demographics are probably extremely biased... You take a single poll from some random forum full of Chinese male otakus who probably don't even care about Initial D, then you round-up the top ten least mentioned anime and blow it out of proportion calling them "Most hated"...this is all just theory, but if you want a demographics of China, good luck with that. There are places in China where people can't even afford the electricity to watch TV let alone the money to buy TV to even watch Initial D. Statistics and polls like these need to be exposed of their flaws so we don't follow misconceptions and wrong assumptions (Slams table) *TAKE THAT* |
| Posted by: theAbsolutelyRedLink Nov 23 2012, 12:18 AM | ||
Although it's safe to say at least 40% of statistics are bullshit to begin with. |
| Posted by: shum_87 Nov 23 2012, 01:10 AM |
| there's a lot of hate against anything japanese related. have you guys seen the news a week back about chinese people beating a dog (akita inu) in protest of Japan? |
| Posted by: theAbsolutelyRedLink Nov 23 2012, 04:37 AM | ||
A point you do make, taking news out of context and relating it to this is a little. I dunno. Counterproductive, in furthering your opinion rationally. Or something. I dunno. Sandwiches! Everyone enjoys those. Or not. |
| Posted by: Vortrex Nov 23 2012, 04:46 AM |
| I love K-On!!! |
| Posted by: theAbsolutelyRedLink Nov 23 2012, 05:05 AM | ||
dunno what that is. But I like your enthusiasm! |
| Posted by: Todeshornisse Nov 23 2012, 06:20 PM | ||
That must be it. |
| Posted by: Vortrex Nov 24 2012, 10:06 AM |
Just a bit off topic:  The best AE86 in the world!!! XD |