China’s official media CCTV started to broadcast the first season of The Japanese animation “Work Cells”, which sparked hot debate among Chinese netizens. (Photo source: Weibo screenshot)
From February 13, China’s official media CCTV started to broadcast the first season of Japanese anime “Work Cells”, and the news sparked a lively discussion on the Chinese internet. According to Japanese media, this is the first Time CCTV has shown a Japanese animation after a 14-year absence, which may represent an improvement in Sino-Japanese relations.
The Japanese newspaper “Oriental Newsline” reported that “Work Cell” is the work of Japanese manga artist Xi Shimizu, and was adapted into an animation in 2018. The manga, which depicts the story of “guarding the human body” through “anthropomorphized” red and white blood cells and various viruses, was also well received in Japan.
Working Cells has been gaining attention on the Chinese web since several years ago, and in 2019 won the prestigious “White Magnolia Award” for best screenplay in the Chinese Film and Television industry.
The Oriental Newsline reports that in the 1980s, Japanese animated works, including “Iron-armed Astro Boy” and “Smart Ichabod”, were popular on Chinese TV stations and even became a key topic of conversation among Chinese children at the time. However, since the voices of “strengthening the domestic animation industry” in China have gradually increased, coupled with the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations, Japanese animation works have gradually disappeared from Chinese TV. Since 2007, CCTV has gradually stopped showing Japanese animation and switched to Chinese domestic animation works such as “Xi Yang and Big Big Wolf”.
According to the report, this time “Working Cells” was broadcast in China because of the Covid-19 outbreak, which made the world pay more attention to health and disease, and the work can let children learn about immunization, disease prevention and other knowledge, which has some educational significance. At the same time, some Chinese media insiders say it is a gesture by the Chinese Communist authorities to show that they value Japan.
On the Chinese Internet, while some Chinese netizens called the broadcast of “Working Cells” on CCTV “goodwill between China and Japan,” others disagreed, leaving messages questioning, “Why should CCTV broadcast Japanese cartoons, are domestic cartoons not as good as Japanese ones, and why should we watch Japanese ones when there are so many domestic classics? Why watch Japanese?” The “Japanese animated films are not only animated, but also recently introduced many movies. Feels like it wants to pull a wave of good feelings, but I do not know appreciate not appreciate”, “record, CCTV began to completely anti”, “suggest shelling big pants it”, “really is the enemy within the “, “Hu Xijin has always been a pro-Japanese element”.
There are other netizens who kindly write that they have not seen Japanese animation works on TV for a long time, or are nostalgic about which Japanese animation works they have watched in the past, or affirm that Japanese animation is better than domestic animation, messages include “Attack of the Giants” is the strongest animation ever, especially the fourth season, the ideas it wants to express have surpassed other literary works “, “we really are not the rival of the order and waste otaku in a sense”, some netizens questioned other messages “domestic animation also cheer output Japan to form a hedge on”.
Another netizen analysis stressed, “Sino-Japanese relations is just a trigger. The root cause or the general background is that the years of radio and television began to prohibit in prime-time broadcast of foreign animation (commonly known as foreign restrictions), not simply for Japan. So far, the ban has not been lifted. If it is not because of the new crown rampant, two in the whole population for medical and health care knowledge attached to the unprecedented background is still not the same subject matter of domestic animation to bear the burden, as much as you can believe that this Japanese comic absolutely impossible to introduce.
The self-proclaimed “a passion only to reveal the truth about Japan, the anti-Japanese blow” blogger “Japan silly things” on March 1 at 7:29 a.m. posted that “the world through the ‘Japanese media The mouth of the ‘Japanese anime’ and ‘Sino-Japanese relations’ forcibly pulled up, CCTV test water temperature must be pulled Sino-Japanese relations. The Japanese media we call ‘Japanese Chinese media’, the editor-in-chief of the Oriental New Paper is the famous “Summer Camp in the contest” author Sun Yunxiao’s daughter Sun Ran, formerly a reporter for the China News Agency in Japan, is now the vice president of Japan Media Corporation, its ‘Oriental New Paper’ Editor-in-Chief.”
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