『ドラゴンボール』はどう世界に広まっていったか

内容としてはブリストル大学のライナ・デニソン教授が『ドラゴンボール』という作品が世界に広まっていった経緯を解説している箇所で、冒頭のItは『ドラゴンボール』のことを指しています。

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『英語の読み方 リスニング篇-話し言葉を聴きこなす』(著:北村 一真/中公新書)

It came around in the 1980s and 1984 and was perfectly situated in a growing manga and media market in Japan and so was quickly adapted into animation, um, famously into Dragon Ball Z, the second part of an anime series that (1) <really took the world by storm>. So the, (2) <the manga’s been adapted> into over, I think, 21 different countries and languages now. And the, um, anime was broadcast originally in, I think, 36 different countries, so has had just this perfect international spread as part of its history and (3) <that’s led to it becoming popular around the world> but also becoming a major franchise within and outside of Japan. Um, there’s now I think about 17 different animated feature films, um, and the sales of the manga alone hit around 160 million copies.