I remember hearing that that part of The Lion King that people sometimes claim has the stars spelling out "SEX", aCtUaLLy had the stars spelling out "SEK", because that scene had supposedly been outsourced to SEK Studio — and the stars were SEK's way of sneaking in some credits for themselves, since they wouldn't get credited otherwise. Now the evidence of this story actually being true are basically nonexistent, just rumors, but it's still a fun story if nothing else, right?

But honestly just give me more animation from every country in general, though. I used to say that I wanted to watch at least one animation from every country — really, I still kinda do, but it's just not easy to actually do this, right? It's easiest to get into animation from the Core Anglosphere and Japan, obviously; and it's decently easy to get into animation from Europe, the FSU, China and Korea if you know where to look; and I've found it considerably more difficult to get into animation from everywhere else, but part of that might just be that I'm just not trying hard enough, right?

This desire to see animation in all countries flourish really also goes hand in hand with my own interests in fanime / (budget) independent animation, as well as my interests in fandubbing and fansubbing, and my fantasies about Norway sort of reevaluating its relationship to animation from Seppoland and Japan and going through a whole sort of renaissance of local animation that cuts into these countries' soft power. Because basically nothing about anime that makes it so appealing for so many people is actually specific to Japan in any meaningful way, it's really just historical happenstance.

Oh, and another side note about animation in the DPRK specifically: the anime tracker website Anilist used to have a section for DPRK animation, but they got rid of it for some reason! Honestly I am STILL a bit ticked off about that, because that was one of the best resources I knew of for learning about and exploring that country's animation, and by Jove do they have animation in the DPRK, I can tell you that much!