#or maybe just japanese media wasnt so popular and they wanted to appeal to a wider audience which isnt too bad a reason

[beneaththebloodylake]

okay, for the sake of argument imagine im a publishing company and i get the liscence to publish, lets say an american police procedural comic (works different in different countries), in the uk and to adapt it for the domestic audience not only do i change the spellings, i also change all the vocab and expressions to sound more natural.

but i dont stop here, cause its still set in america and oh, maybe that will put people off. yes, much better that its set in slough instead. so i change every mention of america to the uk and the city to slough. hamburgers are now kebabs because of course no one in the uk has any idea what a hamburger is

the pictures are still the same though except for the spellings and so are all the details of what happens. you can still see it looks like america and everyones got guns and the setting at least vaugly follows the american system and all the characters are going off american culteral assumptions

and this version or ones in other languages with the same approach are the only ones its capable to get internationally. and the international fandom (which is completely seperate from the american fandom cause they built a wall around themselves and refused to acknowledge the existence of outsiders ever again) acts as if it in universe is actually happening in slough and everyones actully british and uk circumstanes apply

completely and utterly ridiculous right? well, adding a language barrier wouldnt make it not so, and nor would it being more culturally seperate countries