Why are Japanese fans so fascinated with what anime fans in the West (or any country outside of Japan) think about anime or its culture?
For those of you who understand a little Japanese and have scoured the Japanese web, you may have stumbled upon one of the following sites or something similar:
http://japancool.sblo.jp/ (Via the dated links at the top.)
http://animeng.blog5.fc2.com/
http://asnyaro.blog129.fc2.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YV4PNVpJCg (From Niconico Douga.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYRAe87L_DI
(Or do a Google search with the kanji "海外の反応".)
What they all seem to do is translate comments of English-speaking users from various sites/forums on the net (Animesuki being one of them), and basically comment on our comments.
I just find it interesting that they would take the time to do something like this, especially since the majority of their topics focus on anime culture. Sad that there aren't many resources that lets the English-speaking world know what the Japanese think of our stuff.
