History GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / WebAnimation

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' was initially popular in Japan, with a dub that included veteran voice actors like Megumi Hayashibara and a manga adaptation. Volumes 4 and 5 reportedly had an [[AmericansHateTingle entirely different reception]] with Japanese fans[[note]]Those seasons are still a bit of a BrokenBase among Western fans, but Japan's reception of them was flat-out negative[[/note]], though with later volumes it appears to have picked back up, to the point of having [[Anime/RWBYIceQueendom an actual anime series]] produced.

* Taiwanese {{Edutainment}} show ''[=BabyBus=]'' is well-known in Taiwan, but it's huge in Japan. Physical media releases of the show, as well as merchandise such as stuffed animals, exist in the country, the videos often appear as recommended on videos of popular Japanese children's franchises, and it appears in the magazine ''Baby Book'' alongside ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' and ''Series/InaiInaiBaa''.

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} grew for itself an unusually large fanbase outside Japan compared to other V-tuber groups thanks to clips of several members' streams being translated by fans into English and other languages which subsequently went viral. Within the group, several individual members are also noted to have specific foreign fanbases:

* {{Edutainment}} kids channel ''Chu'' ''Chu'' ''TV'', based in India, has its largest viewership [[https://www.afaqs.com/news/story/51268_ChuChu-TV-Like-a-diamond-in-the-Sky in the United States, followed by the Philippines, Vietnam and the United Kingdom]].

* {{Edutainment}} kids channel ''Chu'' ''Chu'' ''TV'', based in India, has its largest viewership [[https://www.afaqs.com/news/story/51268_ChuChu-TV-Like-a-diamond-in-the-Sky in the United States, followed by the Philippinrd, Vietnam and the United Kingdom]].

* WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} is actually pretty popular in Japan. Sometimes Japanese netizens would make misleading links to animutations such as Suzukisan and Hyakugojyuuichi in a similar fashion to JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}ing. In Japan, Hyakkugojyuuichi is considered a classic flash animation much like it is in the west, perhaps even more remembered.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' was initially popular in Japan, with a dub that included veteran voice actors like Megumi Hayashibara and a manga adaptation. This stopped after Volume 4, as it reportedly had an [[AmericansHateTingle entirely different reception]] with Japanese fans.

** At the time of her debut, Coco Kiryu was the only member of Hololive to be a native English speaker, and she made an effort to reach out to the Western fanbase with things like the Reddit Shitpost Review. Naturally, this made her ''incredibly'' popular with English-speaking viewers, and quite a few new fans were drawn in by her streams - not to mention the memes spawned from them, such as the infamous "Good morning, motherfuckers!" clip. The very fact that Hololive now has an official English-language branch is often credited in part to her.