Japanese animation is becoming more popular in the world.  Animation is called ANIME in Japan just like a nickname, but this nickname is also becoming world wide standard when fans mean Japanese animation.

Among Japanese animation works, there are some very high quality works as Hayao Miyazaki’s works, who won many prizes in the world including academy award of the USA. His works are admired not only by the Anime fans in Japan but by all of the nation of Japan.  He is a god of animation of Japan.

But….the standard anime style are still like small fan groups entertainment. There are so many new and old works of Anime, of course, Anime fans follow many of the Anime works.  The rest of the Japanese don’t know them all. Often Anime fans in Japan are regarded as strange type of people because they focus only on Anima world life like closed world, and they love drema story in the animation. So standard Japanese don’t understand why Anime fans are so enthusiastic about their dream world.

Anime fans COSPLAY style is also unfamiliar to standard people in Japan. They can’t understand why fans spend much money in the costume and display in front of people. ( COSPLAY is born by Costume Play ) 

However, more interestingly, the cosplay has become world fashion now.  Cosplay summit is held in Japan annually with many cosplay lovers from the world. They are all enjoying the Costume Play World just like Anime dream !

Many of the Japanese still don’t understand this new pop culture, while they ignore the strrange anime fans, the fans alreay became international.

Anime fans or cosplay fans are still minority in Japan. But the fans in the world are not small numbers and they don’t feel minority because they contact each other over boudary of countries. 

It’s really a global standard time.  Anime probably became the global standard for same type of people, who like to live in a dream world.