To be fair, how many people on the street would recognize these characters? How many of you would have recognized these characters if there weren't a huge surge of Moomin threads in the past two years?
I live in Japan and I guarantee that virtually everyone would be able to name five characters from the franchise.
>>109726214It was broadcast on Japanese television first. It's not like it was simply outsourced.
>>109725912>>109727054>wtf is "japanese storytelling">just a buzzwordNope. There's a reason that Japanese storytelling feels vaguely distinct. The same way the west considers Beginning, Middle and End (alternatively The Hero's Journey) as the standard, the Orient has their own variation that influences their stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu 
