I suppose in a way...they are both the same thing.
I Mean the japanese artists sing the songs for the anime.
And i remember i watched an anime and loved the song, decided to check out the artist, check out the rest of their songs but i didn't really like the rest of their songs, and wasn't really interested in the rest of the songs.
Others i've found through this forum or very few other anime's.
It could be because anime in certain countries is shown on tv as childrens programs which we watched when we were younger, and they don't show japanese music video's on music tv shows like MTV, kiss, box ect. So this might be a guildline into what people will want to see and have been shown by the media.
I do, i reaaaally do know what you are talking about, i've had my own experiance with it but upon a massive scale of lets say...a classroom full of people.
At my collage they do a "oriental language" enrichment lesson where its both japanese and chinese languages being taught, but its only the basics.
And i do admit...i did show off a little because i did self teach myself with 5 years worth of japanese through Books, music, tv shows ect.
And about ...4 people of about 20 were there purley for the language and not for "anime".
We also had to do a presentation on a country and what it is in that country that we liked.
all of them were to do with a certain anime show or manga book.
Until i decided to go all out and produce a "Japanese music and how it influences" and i think i opened up a lot of people's minds about listening to japanese music from those who don't do music for an anime.
I did a little music video as well so they could see and hear some of the mainstream and lesser artists.
I was quite proud but yet still a bit dissapointed to try and have a conversation with them about the japanese culture and food and all it was was just anime talk...
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