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Most of a given country's creative output is produced for the consumption of people living in that country. This is especially true when there's a language barrier involved; translation is hard work. For comedy, doubly so. Even if two countries share a language, there are other complications involved with importing a creative work. For movies and TV shows, Region Coding may necessitate a new DVD release. For Video Games, two countries may have different versions of the same console. Moral Guardians and viewers in your country may get upset about aspects of the work that are taken for granted or even welcomed in the country of origin. Some parts may need changing just to make sense. There's always the risk that the viewing public still won't get it. And this isn't even getting into dealing with international copyright law, finding a distributor, and innumerable other headaches with moving a work from one country to another. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Production companies aren't going to want to deal with all this for things that aren't likely to sell well. This is the essence of the Import Filter — imported works come with even more pre-screening than domestic works that see general release. In some sense, this is "skimming the cream" — picking out the 10% of everything that Sturgeon's Law tells us is not crud. It's more complicated than that, though. Some types of work may be aimed at a particular subculture in the importing country, and therefore the ones that end up getting imported will be the ones fit that subculture's expectations. It's not uncommon that the bulk of this work will come from a specified genre. Whether this is good or bad depends on whether you belong to that subculture, or at least whether you like the same things. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This can lead some people to declare that foreign media are better, because while they're exposed to the full spectrum of things from their own country, they only encounter imports that are both among the best works in a genre, and pre-selected to fit their tastes besides. Others who lack similar tastes may decide not to bother, or they may be turned off on imported works simply because fans like them so much. Sometimes the trope also gets inverted. This is especially the case if importing from foreign markets is cheaper than producing the stuff domestically. This usually leads to a flood of lots of crud stuff from that foreign country, while more expensive quality stuff gets a huge No Export for You simply because it is more expensive to import. (Such is the case for instance with clothing Made in China. Most foreigners see it as a sign that it is low-budget and bad clothing, while in its home market there are plenty of high-quality clothing that never seems to get exported.) Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Compare Nostalgia Filter, a similar effect applied across temporal rather than physical/cultural distance. Contrast Keep Circulating the Tapes, where a work is distributed samizdat among fans because owners won't - or can't - sell the product legally (which can include works being filtered out as unprofitable by importers). Can easily lead to a case of Germans Love David Hasselhoff or the positive version of Made in Country X. |
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This misconception is NOT helped by all the good JRPGs on that console which had to be fan-translated for lack of an official release, such as Front Mission, Bahamut Lagoon, Final Fantasy V, Star Ocean, Trials of Mana, Dragon Quest V, Live A Live, and Tales of Phantasia. For that matter, Terranigma, which missed North America but was released in Europe. | |
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In many European countries, while many manga series are translated, anime is extremely filtered, resulting in only extremely popular series being released. And quite late, too; for example, in Finland, Naruto was only broadcast looong after the manga was translated. Spain suffers from the same, but more so with manga than anime. In the Benelux countries, it gets weird. Most anime is distributed in the Netherlands, but manga is imported directly from France. The Dutch will typically block the release of any anime they consider too violent or sexualized; only 39 anime have ever been released there. But since the French have discovered a pretty big market in the Benelux countries, there's no issue with manga. Belgium then decided to be weird and started airing Flemish versions of rather obscure shonen anime. It all gets very uneven. |
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This also applies to Canadian television. While shows like Corner Gas, North of 60, The Red Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, Beachcombers, and The Raccoons all attain fanbases ranging from cult followings to genuine (if modest) popularity in English Canada, they occasionally hit it really big in the United States, with Degrassi: The Next Generation being the most famous example. Incidentally, Red Green has become a major source for PBS pledge drives in the U.S., with the actual cast of the show appearing to drum up support. Meanwhile, as with film, French Canadians actively consume their own domestic work, most notably in Quebec. | |
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Despite the games not being sold, this is why a lot of Super Mario World hackers tend to think of Japanese hacks as being interesting or better than those from elsewhere, because only the best hacks get shown on Youtube or English speaking sites. People see stuff like Brutal Mario, the VIP series and various others being played by raocow and such like and think Japanese hacks are better as a whole, without realising how many mediocre ones are just left to rot on fairly unknown websites. Doesn't help that there's no Japanese SMW Central equivalent to keep them all in one place. | |
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Todd in the Shadows has argued that this is the reason why Americans have such a high opinion of British pop music. He admits that, when it's good (like The Beatles, Ellie Goulding, or Adele), it rivals anything America has to offer. However, he also feels that, as bad as Americans think they have it with their own awful pop music, at least they never had to suffer through the Cheeky Girls, Crazy Frog, Jedward, or the slew of X-Factor runners-up (at least, those not named One Direction, Olly Murs, or Cher Lloyd, the last one being the subject of the linked video). | |
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Note that the US thinks that American RPGs entered a sort of dark age on the SNES, with awful games like Eye of the Beholder and Obitus. | |
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