Sandbox / Animeland Wick Check

Animeland is a fairly unused trope that seems to suffer of ZCE and a few misuses.

Correct usage of the trope: A media's portrayal of Japan as a country is based entirely on classic Japanese media tropes, such as sexualized schoolgirls, giant mechs and Kaiju being a common sight.

Wicks: 50/50

Valid examples (18/50)

• Ami Yamato: Debunked in "Japan Misconceptions". Ami explains to viewers who get their cultural knowledge of Japan from anime that not everyone there is always cosplaying and eating sushi, and that "there are definitely no giant robots" - as she walks past a gigantic Gundam in the background.
• Apricot Cookie(s)!: Everyone's some kind of parody: the girls are all magical girls, the boys play card games, Monsters of the Week are running around everywhere, and there are some offhand mentions of girls wanting to settle down with Troubled, but Cute boys or Ordinary High School Students.
• The Book of Mormon: The two missionaries assigned to Japan have this view of the country.
  Elder 1: Japan, land of soy sauce!
  Elder 2: And Mothra!
• Charli XCX: The video for "SuperLove", in which she and some friends go to some kind of techno dance club in Tokyo with robots and yakuza bikers.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: The Empire of the Rising Sun has ninjas, samurai, Humongous Mecha, psionic schoolgirls wearing Sailor Fuku who were created by illegal government research, an Amazon Brigade of troops wearing flying Powered Armor, Transforming Mecha in four different flavors, and Wave-Motion Gun-equipped defense towers and mobile artillery, among other things.
• Characters.Command And Conquer Red Alert Series Factions And Characters: (under the tropes for the Empire of the Rising Sun) Their military units include psychic Magical Girls in Sailor Fuku and Humongous Mecha. Their superweapon is a psychic explosion, and the engineer is a salaryman. The Emperor's video briefings help tick any other boxes in the Big Book Of Japanese Clichés: his son wears a kind of samurai armour, he's seen practising sword forms, contemplating a bonsai tree, practising calligraphy, taking tea a lot, mentions a revival of Bushido, tells you to slice through the enemy "like the blade of a katana" and finally declares you "Supreme Shogun".
• Destroy All Humans! 2: Takoshima is inhabited by schoolgirls, salarymen, ninjas and a giant monster. The only problem with the entry is that it's a slash entry for both Animeland and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• DuckTales (2017) S3 E6 "Astro B.O.Y.D.!": Averted. Japan is depicted quite realistically, mech battles and robot rampages aside (even then, those are not considered normal).
• Characters.Homestuck Pre Scratch Trolls: (under the tropes for Damara) Parodied. She comes from an exaggerated Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Japan, with every required prop of Animeland: Dragon Ladies, horribly Google-translated Japanese speech, likewise horribly mangled English speech, and unspeakable lewdness. What is the place called? Alterniasia.
• Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: Megatropolis, the area where Shinryu is located is a mishmash of various Japanese and anime stereotypes including but not limited to cute mascots, salarymen, robots, huge corporate buildings, ninjas masquerading as common people, enemies having "strong work ethic", and the Shinryu Academy area even imitating the style of a Visual Novel. The BGM there is named "Osaka Konnichiwa" and sounds similar to Vaporwave, itself based on certain Japanese stereotypes.
• Joueur du Grenier: At the start of the Valentine's Day episode, we get a scene in an "ordinary Japanese town". Which includes a tentacle monster assaulting a girl behind a tree, a Pokémon trainer (Fred) ordering a potato to make a "puree" attack, Godzilla burning a building, Son Goku teleporting away, and a Japanese schoolgirl (Sorina-chan) sitting under sakura trees and playing a Dating Sim.
• Lucky Star: Patty, being an Occidental Otaku, essentially views Japan as this due to all the anime and manga she's consumed. The other otaku characters do very little to discourage this.
• Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan: There are Humongous Mecha, Kaiju, werewolves, ghosts, occasional world-ending catastrophes and more concentrated in a small part of Tokyo. Of course, that doesn't mean the rest of the world is perfectly normal. Again, only issue is that this is a dual example presented as Animeland / World of Weirdness
• Polandball: Japan is frequently either a Cat Girl with pink nekomimi and tail, or is into tentacle rape. Or, when drawn by Japanese artists such as icisimousa, is just plain perverted.
• Pole no Daibouken: Stage 5 is set in a version of Japan that invokes this trope: the setting is modern Japan, but the streets are populated with ninja, there are panties in windows you can steal, etc.
• Characters.Red Alert 3 Paradox: (under the tropes for the Empire of the Rising Sun) Their military units include psychic magical girls in Sailor Fuku and Humongous Mecha. Their superweapon is a psychic explosion, and the engineer is a salaryman.
• TheSimpsons.Tropes A To B: The Simpsons are attacked by Kaiju on the plane back home in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo".
• Warframe.Tropes A To D: Everything about the Tenno is taken from stereotypical anime depictions of Ninja and samurai: the way they sit, their swords, their motions, their name, their very designs... The anime influence is most shown in Styanax's trailer, which is a short anime.

Misuse (2/50)

• The Hangover: When a naked, angry Asian man jumps out of the trunk of the car, Alan instantly tries to calm him down by saying that he hates Godzilla too. While associating Asian people with Godzilla, this is not an actual example
  • If you pay attention to Chow's face, it can become a funny moment: he leaves because he's just so confused by the Godzilla line.
• The Simpsons S 24 E 21 The Saga Of Carl: Bart and Lisa watch a show, "Ki-Ya Karate Monsters", that is clearly intended as a parody of the genre (even moreso than that anime parody from the season 12 episode "HOMR") Anime parodies are NOT what this trope is about

ZCE (28/50)

• America (The Book): Japan, according to this book.
• Arcade Gamer Fubuki: Just the trope name with nothing afterwards, great
• Cars 2: Japan is depicted in this manner, more or less an extended version of the way it was shown in the Tokyo Mater short.
• Characters.Command And Conquer: The general description of the Red Alert subseries potholes the trope under "Japan"
• Eagleland.Anime And Manga: Lucky Star has Patricia Martin, who is ostensibly an American gaijin otaku. She may represent America a bit better than most, because she speaks fluent Japanese, having learned the entirety of the language from watching anime... However, she's also depicted as being a bit air-headed and somewhat under-educated in true Japanese culture outside of Animeland. Patty's quite clearly modeled on the stereotypical Japanophile, so this isn't that far from Truth in Television. Patty is somewhat an Affectionate Parody of Western Otaku as her characterization isn't mean-spirited in any way and she's portrayed for the most part as a harmless eccentric. She doesn't do anything stereotypically American such as threaten to sue or pack heat or any of the things more commonly associated with Eagleland, though her physical appearance is a Phenotype Stereotype (blue eyes, big boobs, blonde).
• Fantasy Blitzkrieg: Asahi Was already commented out
• Characters.Fantasy Blitzkrieg: Trope name with no description
• Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer's Folly: Jigoku, the Japanese Sector of Hell, plays this trope extremely straight. Funnily enough, the creators are huge Tokusatsu fans.
• Horizon Chase: (under Wutai) Both China and Japan, with the latter having also a bit of an Animeland slant.
• Kindred of the East: (under Hollywood Atlas) The game generally portrays "The Middle Kingdom" (actually an old epithet for China, used here to refer to the entirety of East Asia) as a combination of Animeland, Far East, Land of Dragons, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo... basically the place has more in common with a John Woo movie than the real world. Whether this is artistic license or artistic insensitivity is a subject of debate.
• League of Anime Wrestling: While never acknowledged in-universe, the world of LAW is definitely this. It's even in the title. ZCE and also linking to the page it's already on
• Lexx: (under Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever) [...] Lyekka in Lyekka Vs Japan, the latter of which is an Affectionate Parody of both the western perception of Japanese crazyness as well as Godzilla.
• Characters.Lucky Star: (under Patricia Martin's tropes, on Foreign Exchange Student) She's an American exchange student and otaku who came to Japan to learn Japanese culture. However, most of what she knows about Japan is based on manga and anime, which doesn't always match the reality.
• Mefhor Canon Bloc: The Tengoku. All that's missing are fantasy creatures walking the city streets. Sakahara and The Tennou will take care of that.
• Megatokyo: One of the best examples is Page 760. Just look at all the things Largo walks by!
• Nicktoons: (describing Kappa Mikey) In this Fish out of Water Work Com, an American teenager gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to move to Animeland and star in the flagging Sentai show, LilyMu.
• Nicktoons Tales: The place where anime characters live is practically named after the trope.
• Characters.Polandball Asian Nations: (under the tropes for Japan) His main ethnic stereotype.
• QuirkyWork.Western Animation: Kappa Mikey. Helps that the premise is about a Western Animation character living in AnimeLand.
• Quiz Nanairo DREAMS: Actually "Anime Island", as this game sport a policy of "Each girl a colour, each girl a (Japanese girl) stereotype".
• Laconic.Ronin: Potholed under "modern Japan"
• Seizansha How Do I Survive High School With Voices In My Head: Yume City is essentially one Also the page has only three examples and all are missing the period at the end. Quality page!
• The Simpsons S10 E23 "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": The show's take on Japan, which is one reason the actual country does not air the episode (the main reason being that the Emperor is shown, which is a social faux pas in Japan unless for educational purposes).
• Characters.Survival Of The Fittest Mini Supers: (Under the tropes for Sayuna Lewis) Parodied when she describes her time in Japan as "mythical weeb land" despite being half-Japanese.
• Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo: In more of a parodic Sense.
• Twisted Metal: (under Humongous Mecha) Tower Tooth in Head-On, conveniently hiding in the streets of Tokyo as an ice cream shop.
• Undertale.Tropes A: Undyne thinks the surface world is this, due to Alphys telling her anime is human history. The player can tell her the truth at the end of the date with Alphys, much to her dismay.
• Vapor: A Steampunk RP:Where to begin, just minus the tentacles. Was already commented out

Other (2/50)

• Hetalia Hetaween 2013: Australia's research on Japan and the Japanese people involves watching Naruto. Feels a bit like a stretch
• The Simpsons S25 E10 "Married to the Blob": (under Gargle Blaster) The cobra rice wine Homer and Mr. Nakamura drink is potent enough to make them both hallucinate Springfield as a wacky Animeland. Potholed under a different trope: however, other examples on the page give more context on the scene