Anime is the Champagne of Japan
Ersatz "anime" abounds. It's time to make "Japanese Anime" a protected designation.
It wasn’t so long ago that anime was the equivalent of a four-letter word in Japan. In the Seventies, parent-teacher associations and other advocate groups railed against the medium for corrupting children. In the Eighties, society disparaged adults who consumed anime as otaku. It’s a nerd badge of hono…
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