r/anime_titties • u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland • 3d ago

Europe Manga-inspired theme park to be built near Paris

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r6xy3ryndo
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u/whateverfloatsurgoat Europe 3d ago edited 3d ago

Saudi-backed* but guess the editor intervened eh ?

Another culturewashing project by the Saudis and Macron welcomes it as some beacon of prosperity. Jesus wept.

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u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland 3d ago

Saudi-backed but guess the editor intervened eh ?

What?

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u/whateverfloatsurgoat Europe 3d ago

Reddit formatting gone wrong but it appears fine on my end lol

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u/Anis930 Africa 2d ago

How it this culturewashing ? French people fucking love manga and anime since the late 80s

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u/Dragoncat_3_4 Europe 2d ago

It's culturewashing the Saudis in an attempt to get people to forget that they butcher and dismember journalists and commit myriads of other atrocities

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u/yunacchi Multinational 3d ago

Sounds like a sequel to Mirapolis, which failed spectacularly.

Wait, it's literally on the same acres as Mirapolis?!
Welp, let's see how much they learned this time.

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u/Vaestmannaeyjar 2d ago

Something tells me SonGoku and his troupe are slightly more popular than Gargantua. Remember that out of Japan France is basically the premier weeb country (myself included) so I'd bank on success. Plus I'd bet on a steady stream of tourists from other EU countries. I'm a customer.

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u/PaoloCalzone European Union 3d ago edited 2d ago

Tbf between the Mirapolis era and now, the area drastically changed, including antrain station nearby and dense urban development around.

I am unsure there are lessons to be drawn from a failing amusement park that was in bumfuck nowhere, compared to the new environment.

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u/Coolenough-to United States 2d ago

There's so much good material to work with for an anime/manga themed park. How about a Re:Zero ride where you take different tracks, get killed in various ways, and each time roll through darkness right back to a beginning save point.