I was asking my wife rhetorically really because of the theme music on many of the modern ones I have been watching. Now she brought up a good point which is that maybe its part of the localization. Do primarily to my eyes getting worse I now watched them dubbed (although dubbs are much better now than in the 90’s). Now previously I don’t think they really changed the music but now im not 100% sure. Anyone actually watch the japanese broadcasts and know if they localize to that degree? If not does anyone know if hip hop became popular in japan or korea or such?
Hip hop has influenced Japanese culture to some degree. Samurai Champloo (released in 2004) is the most hip hop influenced anime I can think of, with Shing02 (born in 1975) being the Japanese rapper I’m most familiar with.
Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike (1999) had a hip hop influenced style.
Whether or not rap is “more popular” now can probably be answered by doing some research. https://www.billboard.com/charts/japan-hot-100/
Creepy nuts is a Japanese duo if you’re talking about Mashle/Dan Da Dan.
Rap was extremely popular in Asian countries, especially Japan and South Korea, in the early 2000s. I don’t know if it has remained as popular as back then though.
The first time I went to Japan was during this period and a lot of the bars were specifically hiring black men to stand outside and get people to come in.
American music gets around a lot so generally music genres that are popular in the US will spread all over to some degree. I think country is kind of the exception there.
A character in S2 of Squid Games considered himself a badass rapper.
I don’t listen to pop music much but hip hop has been popular in Korea for a long time now. Same with neighboring East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. I guess they’re just not nearly as popular overseas but they’re mainstream enough locally you’ll hear it wherever you go.
edit: Other than music, hip hop dance and fashion was pretty popular too at least when I was in high school.
you know I think I have seen it more often with ones out of korea or maybe china as I think the one im watching now is chinese and I think another one was the tower of the gods or something which I think is korean.
Talking about Korea specifically, the hip-hop scene has been growing in popularity for a while now. I first became aware of Korean hip-hop in the late 2000’s with Epik High. In modern Kpop, one or more members specializing in rap is pretty standard with many songs featuring a rap segment.
I assume you are talking about Tower of God, a series that is adapting a Korean manhwa. Fittingly, several of the OPs and EDs are performed by a Kpop group called Stray Kids. The group has 3 rap-focused members that even perform as a trio under the name 3RACHA.
