How can I get Sega of Japan to have a better relationship with Sega of America in the 90s?
Have Sega beat Nintendo in Japan—or even usually second but close and sometimes ahead like USA—so they aren’t furious & embarrassed by the Americans always doing better, OTL key problem gone. CEO didn’t care, just many major execs under him.
Having Sega do that well against Nintendo in Japan is uh, tough, of course.
Edit:
I was wondering. What would be a good POD for a alt pop-culture timeline where Anime is mainstream by 2000. (To the point where Anime Movies are regularly shown in theaters, and the "Anime Style" is more popular than pure western style animation)
Break up Disney for parts in the early 1980s as could have happened and combo it together with some studio bringing over a Japanese anime PG-13 probably comedic of some kind dubbed with movie stars instead of actual voiceover talent.
This breaks out due to novelty and funny and stars but also the huge market gap left by collapsed Disney. After success the drifting talent from broken Disney latch onto it and pitch their own anime style movies all over town. But of course using a handful of Americans and mostly Japanese or Korean hand animators because vastly cheaper.
Meanwhile Steve Jobs decides not to buy Pixar, and with thirty-five various venture capitalists and corporations passing on them is shuttered with the tech and a few people sold to a car company (as came close, OTL). This gives anime a few bonus years before computer animated movies dominate.
Anime style but computer animated probably still a going concern ATL.