If you're from some part of East or Southeast Asia other than Japan, like China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, or the Philippines- you are beholden more to Japanese media (another country from your continent) or American and European media (from totally different continents).
Why do I ask? I was just reading a couple hours earlier about Kindred of the East: Killing Streets, so this could be yet another case of Hivemind.
In Singapore there's a mix of Taiwanese and Korean/ Japanese influences - mostly gameshows from the former, and TV drama series from the latter. But there are also influences from everywhere.
Mainland China frowns deeply on Japanese content, making the local otaku culture underground and an even more shameful thing to be, but they have no qualms about Korean media or Hong Kong media, each one respectively sucking japanese and american media. The Taiwanese can't get enough of Japanese Korean and American shit, but Filipino is not even mentionned
Hong Kong is.. special. One could say they have their own culture now and can sustain their own media needs, but they fill the gaps with American/ UK international media/ culture and sometimes chinese media. They're not big on Japan or Korea. The Philippines again, are considered like everything non-chinese, non korean and non japanese as shit-tier asia. Then again, Hong Kong is small as fuck.
From what I've seen in the Indonesia, the people like Chinese/ Japanese/ Korean stuff. South American sitcoms or Telenovela and US media is becoming rarer on local broadcast. They speak little English there, and look nothing like gooks.
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