Kung-Fu Panda Exec Says Hollywood Is At a Loss About Anime’s Successes

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1. Or maybe they can invest in new IPs and give up milking uncalled sequels. But who am I to comment? I am just an audience to the medium.

2. Did he jump in a DeLorean and travel back to the turn of the millennium or something?

3. I don’t get the appeal of much anime either; it seems so poorly written.

4. Americans think of animation as a single thing – content meant for children and families. That’s the end of it. Anime is a medium of animation, not a genre, and it is allowed to contain content of all kinds.

5. My favorite anime is King of the Hill

6. Don’t treat anime as a subgenre. Treat it as a medium of animation. And start making more animated films for all audience types, not just kids and families.

7. Hollywood can’t duplicate it, can’t profit from it, so they trash it as being for kids.