AHC: Soviet Anime

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It would look something like this!
 
You're not going to get Anime with a Soviet Japan, the thing you have to really realize is that Japanese Anime (and Manga) was heavily influenced by American animation as a result of Japan's position.

Now, to get Soviet Anime, you need to the USSR to either be more willing to adopt Western/Capitalist styles or have it survive, with them eventually doing what America and France have done with creating indigenous Anime-style shows.
 
You're not going to get Anime with a Soviet Japan, the thing you have to really realize is that Japanese Anime (and Manga) was heavily influenced by American animation as a result of Japan's position.

Now, to get Soviet Anime, you need to the USSR to either be more willing to adopt Western/Capitalist styles or have it survive, with them eventually doing what America and France have done with creating indigenous Anime-style shows.

With a surviving USSR, it always comes down to one man: Kosygin. Have him become the Soviet premier and he'll enact a lot of reforms, including adopting Capitalist styles of management. Anime could follow as well, with Soviet authors making their own work.
 

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But I have a feeling we're asking and answering different questions. You seem to want a quick and simple answer, an imitation, while I'm trying to make such a style come about naturally.
An imitation is exactly what I am looking for. Why do the Soviets need to re-invent the wheel if someone else already did it?

Soviets had Disney-inspired animation styles, so how can we get a Japanese-inspired animation style?
I was watching the Russian version of Winnie the Pooh and wondering why Russian culture never developed anything worthy of sparking a subculture of Russophiles in the West obsessed with Russian animation and pop culture. Compared to, say, the United States and Japan, Russia's entertainment exports seem pretty bare bones - Their only major contribution to video gaming, for example, is still Tetris. If they'd put more effort into it, they could have done some awesome things.
Interestingly enough, I was told that Cheburashka has a cult-following in Japan.
I didn't find it extraordinarily terrible, although I watched it mostly for the novelty of the setting. The faux-documentary parts broke up the flow a bit though.
I never watched it but after it was mentioned here, I decided to find the trailer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVIDZmWmQ4
Now I want to watch it – and I don’t even like anime! EDIT: And I now I can! Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09qgc2J0B4&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Another thought: Rather than it being introduced directly from Japan or a similar style developing independently, Korean culture has made great waves in much of Asia the past decade and a half and there was a large Korean population in the USSR. Get a less crazy government in North Korea that is a bit more open and remains more prosperous than the south and perhaps manhwa aenimeisyeon (As referenced in the original post) becomes all the rage with Soviet youth and Korean-influenced studios, sometimes partnering with established counterparts in Pyongyang, begin churning out imitations in cities like Almaty, Khabarovsk, and of course Moscow. As Vladivostok was closed to foreigners, Khabarovsk becomes the center for economic and cultural interchange with China and North Korea, and because of this soon becomes the capital of Soviet animation, despite the displeasure of more artistic animators like Yuriy Norshteyn.

While the painstakingly produced artistic shorts of Norshteyn and his contemporaries remain the face of Russian animation in the west, aenimei, as it's devotees and it's Soviet practitioners call it is avidly consumed by Soviet youth, partly thanks to the use of manhua style imagery by another Koryo-saram artist, rocker Viktor Tsoi. Due to the strong symbiosis with North Korean producers it has also become a common captive import there and been distributed into China, the other Eastern Bloc states, and even Finland where it has gained an underground cult following.
Interesting ideas. I see few potential problems though:

1) Did Koreans adopt the anime-esce cartoon style in 1960s-1980s? Or is it a more recent development?
2) I don’t know of any Soviet animation studios in the far-east. But if you have a more open and Soviet-friendly Korea with greater cultural excanage, perhaps some Korean-inspired animators/directors can get jobs in big animation studios like Soyuzmultfilm.
It would look something like this!
Already mentioned. Youtube link provided in this post.
 
The USSR did have a lot of animation. Some of it is pretty good, but since it's not all that popular there aren't that many subs available.
 
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