I don't understand this whole Anime craze.  I didn't even know it was japanese cartoons until like a year ago
same its odd if you ask me
Last year some students wanted me to sponsor a Bronie club.  I was like a Bro what?
Yeah I think thats a group that like That pony show
That's right!  They were My Little Pony watchers.  These were teenagers!  The show is a Hasbro show from the US so I guess not anime?
Do you know anything else about Anime?
or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of Orientalism.
The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has since continued to increase steadily. The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka and spread internationally in the late twentieth century, developing a large domestic and international audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. It is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences.
these memories:
I didn't understand what polio was. I just knew it took him longer to get to the bus stop than me ... Sometimes I think kids know more than anybody. I rode a train once to Santa Barbara with this kid and it almost seemed like he lived a life somewhere before he was born and he brought what he knew with him into this world and so ... it's what you don't know that's usually more interesting. Things you wonder about, things you have yet to make