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Thursday, 10-Dec-2009 05:55:20 CST

History of Anime in the U.S.

Into the Pop Culture Mainstream
Many people who are discovering anime now think that there has never been as much mainstream exposure as there is now ... and would be mistaken. Sure, you can go into almost any video store and get the OVA-of-the-week and you couldn't before. You can pick up mainstream gaming and comic magazines and read about the new anime releases and you couldn't do that before, either. There's even the odd release popping up on the Science Fiction channel, too. Otherwise normal people are starting to talk about things like Tenchi Muyo and Akira ... there's even an Anime tape club advertised on television! Still, the influence over pop culture pales when you look back about a little more than 30 years. Surprised? Can you get 10% of the average people you meet (over 40) to hum a current anime theme song?