Animated videos (Westerners call them cartoons.) are usually made from Manga (Japanese comics), Games and Visual novels.
A sub culture of Cosplayers, fans dressing up in their favorite anime/manga characters started many years ago after being inspired by American cosplayers. Yep, cosplay started in the US. Japanese just pushed it into overdrive.
2020 saw the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Japanese: 鬼滅の刃, Hepburn: Kimetsu no Yaiba, lit. "Blade of Demon Destruction"[4])
Despite the pandemic the move is the highest grossing anime of all time.
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