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"Anime is core to the game industry today.You have to have anime-quality movement in your games or you don't even have a game." Scott Haile, Sony / SEGA |
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"Japanese pop culture is American pop culture today." Evelyn Dubocq, VIZ Media |
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| "The topics in American animation used to be: Big bulky men beating up on bad guys. Now you turn on TV and you see girls. Sexy teenage girls fighting the bad guys and I think that is obviously an anime influence. More female presence is very anime." Cindy Yamauchi | ||
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"There is so much anime influenced American art like 'Kill Bill' or 'Spiderman'. People don't understand that a lot of that came from anime." Marlon Schulman |
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| "I wish more kids can see a good message like the ones that are in Miyazaki's films. Unlike in a Disney movie - a princess and a prince always get the love in the end. I would like to see kids think more." Hiromi Makepeace | ||
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| "Manga is the fastest-growing publishing category in the country right now. Publishing in general has been rather flat for the last couple of years but the shelf space allocated to manga continues to expand and it's just really cool." Mike Kiley, TOKYOPOP |
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| "We think Japan is the most amazing place. It's a tiny little country the size of Nebraska and yet it's got this amazing ability to influence the whole world." Peter Payne, jlist.com |
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"Some concepts of Star Wars are taken from Japanese samurai films and also anime. For example R2D2 is a copy of a robot called 'Analyzer' from the anime 'Starblazer'. It is so similar, it's obvious they copied it." Tatsuya Hayashi |
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