Asia has defeated the USA using 'Soft Power' ???
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'soft power' continues
Korean content industry reaches record-high exports at $13.2 billion
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241119050034
Screen to reality: South Korea targets K-pop, K-drama tourism boom
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/screen-to-reality-south-
korea-targets-k-pop-k-drama-tourism-boom
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All of Us Are Dead creator on South Korea’s webtoon boom and his Netflix success
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3287776/all-u
s-are-dead-creator-south-koreas-webtoon-boom-and-his-netflix-success
Harsh Truth About The Sci-Fi Franchise is they don't trust Hollywood with it anymore and give it to Japan anime studios
'Terminator' for example
plus they have their own products with a lot of buzz, this year alone
Demon Slayer
https://www.gamesradar.com/demon-slayer-season-4-release-date-cast-tra
iler-hashira-training-arc/
Classroom of the Elite
https://www.epicdope.com/classroom-of-the-elite-season-4-officially-an
nounced/
Blue Lock
https://bluelock.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Characters
Sand Land
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-04/sand-land-the-series-
anime-reveals-march-20-premiere-cast-for-new-arc/.208285
Oshi no Ko
https://anilist.co/anime/150672/Oshi-no-Ko/
Moon Rise
https://www.forevergeek.com/moonrise-wit-studios-helms-netflixs-upcomi
ng-sci-fi-anime-series/
Kaiju No. 8
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21975436/
during any seasons they can have dozens of anime, many new Nintendo or Sony video games, South Korean tv and Japan toons filling the gap on teen and young adult pop culture as Hollywood declines.
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What was even stranger this year was watching 3 Chinese movies compete against Hollywood, its not unusual to see a foreign movie Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French etc do well in world wide sales but 3 of the China movies briefly push into the world wide Top10 box office is a bad sign for 'Culture' and entertainment.
Comicbook sales might be back, after getting their ass kicked the past 8-10 years, they took a real beating since Covid losing out to Japanese Manga
but Marvel/DC are still dead
'Bone'
an American fantasy comic book limited series written and illustrated by Jeff Smith
Created newspaper strips some of the characters who later featured in the Bone series, did voice work, worked for animation studios, 1991, Smith launched his company, Cartoon Books, in order to publish the series, in year 2022 Tuki Fight for Fire was included in the American Library Association's list of the Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List
Bone Named Among 10 Most Banned Books of 2013!
https://cbldf.org/2014/04/bone-named-among-10-most-banned-books-of-201
3/
Jeff Smith sketching Bone at the Texas Book Festival
Bone Creator Jeff Smith Talks Tuki, His Newest Graphic Novel Project
https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/06/jeff-smith-talks-tuki-2-million-bc-and
-the-wine-line-at-the-eisners/
so after spending the past years getting their ass kicked by Manga comics might be back but Marvel and DC are dead.
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how is Hollywood not doing horror supernatural tv?
Light Shop
the Metoo Weinstein Effect continues from Hollyweird
a show coming to its end
Yellowstone Season 5: Part 2 Thread - Spoilers Inside
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/movie-tv/yellowstone-season-5-part
-2-thread---spoilers-inside/116093976/
reality tv shows that just won't die
Survivor: S45 & 46
https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/survivor-s45-46.72848/
Mixed feedback some say Dune is good scifi
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/dune-prophecy.1213518/
What great ideas does Hollywood tv have...worse than American Ninja, Takeshi's Castle?
Human vs. Hamster - Max
https://sasukemaniac.proboards.com/thread/10155/human-hamster-max
Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl
https://bigballofyarn.proboards.com/thread/70930/accused-civil-lawsuit
-year-girl
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SouthKorea dramas, horror and action movies sell
more hits from Japan land
Tokyo Override a Japanese net animation series produced by Netflix, Western voice actors and Western CGI artists joining Japan studios because Hollywood fails to learn its lessons?
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The old big traditional Hollywood also at risk to losing to India Tamil Bollywood Telugu film like RRR, the Chinese movies and other indie studios
SQUID GAME Season 2 Trailer
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Are Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Star Trek All Dead?
https://old.bitchute.com/video/6kWv2FgxgLU/
SciFi4Me
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1980s South Korean concentration camp an inspiration for 'Squid Game'?
https://www.theweek.in/news/entertainment/2025/01/09/1980s-concentrati
on-camp-an-inspiration-for-squid-game.html
its not over, some shows get praise
The Curse is an American satirical black comedy thriller
The series explores "How an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show, Fliplanthropy."
https://deadline.com/2020/02/showtime-the-curse-comedy-pilot-the-safdi
e-brothers-nathan-fielder-1202862580/
meanwhile LA is on fire, homes burning to the ground
Japanese Shogun still dominates awards and people like 'The Penguin'
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‘Squid Game 2’ Becomes Netflix’s Third Most-Watched Season Ever, After ‘Squid Game 1’ and ‘Wednesday’
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/squid-game-2-views-netflix-1236274258/
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‘Squid Game 2’ Becomes Netflix’s Third Most-Watched Season Ever, After ‘Squid Game 1’ and ‘Wednesday’
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/squid-game-2-views-netflix-1236274258
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Did the tranny show up yet?
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