How Anime Took Over America
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The last paragraph is particularly interesting and heartening as someone who very interested in individualistic artistic expression over corporate aesthetic cooptation (while acknowledging cinematic art cannot always be neatly categorized as on or the other).
I was heartened and intrigued by the last paragraph (excerpted):
> Above all, though, anime may be saved by its sheer madness.[…] Anime is the realm of the underdog and the weirdo, whose fantastically bizarre imaginations have created a medium defined by its difficulty. And if there’s one thing Hollywood doesn’t seem up for right now, it’s a challenge.