Why do we have a Japanese fetish?

I just bought a magazine called kakuro and noticed lots of Sudoku and
Kakuro books. Kakuro is really nothing more the cross-sums a game thats
been around for decades. Sudoku to.

It tells me rename something to be japanese and people will flock to
it.

So why not do the same for TV.

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

It's not so much an interest in Japanese as it is better quality,
particularly in animation. There's been a lot of garbage produced in the US
and passed off as good. But compare some of the better Japanese animated
shows, like InuYasha, to American shows, like Recess, and one can see the
difference. Even compare movies such as Ghost In The Shell to Lilo And
Stitch. US animation product has been sadly behind the rest of the world.
They can't even produce the quality Canada can.

Joey is a failing show and is now on hiatus. So rename it Yoshi and
people will flock.

Surface may or may not be back so rename it Godzilla-mon and Nim to
Gojira. Heck Miles rename him Ash.

Renaming failed stuff into Japanese names is marketing brilliance as
seen with Sudoku and Kakuro. So lets do it for failed TV shows.

I wonder if the reverse is true - send YuGiOh back to Japan as
George-oh.
And Pokemon as Critter Ball with Pikachu as Peek-a-boo.

I don't quite understand why we have a Japanese fetish in this country -
maybe Nintendo and Sega along with Sony have a lot to do with it. Japan
seems to be a fanastically creative and imaginative culture something
we kind of are losing - summer movies and reality shows are two good
examples.

I just wish real Japanese puzzle games came over that are not videobased
or renames of American games.

Still if Surface is to flourish the writers would heed my advice.

Captain Infinity...

You are one stunning nitwit.

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Captain Infinity