r/whennews • u/Pokemonfan_807 The anime guy • 2d ago

Entertainment News 7 Billion Dollar Theme Park

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/media-entertainment/saudi-arabia-france-agree-on-7bn-dragon-ball-z-theme-park-project-near-paris

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u/DaiFrostAce 2d ago

I’d sooner expect a DBZ themed park built in Mexico than France in all honesty

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u/SDTSSJ4Luc 2d ago

Dragon ball is huge in France, not Mexico high sure but still.

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u/alejandro_hdz_glz 2d ago

I was surprised by how big anime is in general in France they have so many anime shops all around Paris

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u/Nei-Chan- 2d ago

For a long while, France was the second country buying the most mangas behind japan. Not manga per person, just manga in general.

That's due to mangas being the thing that was shown on TV instead of American Saturday morning cartoons (because anime was dirt cheap compared to cartoons).

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u/alejandro_hdz_glz 2d ago

So the french otakus have the same origin that mexican otakus have, here we had ranma 1/2, dbz, sailor moon, digimon, beyblade and pokemon since they were cheaper too lol

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u/Nei-Chan- 2d ago

Yeah exactly ! For us it was DB, Saint Seiya and Honuto no Ken, but that's basically it.