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re: #201 Dr Lizardo

Anime was pretty limited in the USA, as you noted, until the arrival of Akira; that particular film was a game-changer. It still took another 15 years or so before anime was embraced as a part of American pop culture.

True, Akira was one of those major moments in the anime culture in the US as it was an anime film released in theaters that wasn’t a kids film, showing that you could find a mature crowd willing to watch something that US distributors saw as a “cartoon.” What’s hilarious is that both Lucas and Spielberg passed on distributing it in the US because it was “unmarketable.”