Anime's Woodstock

Forty-three years ago today, cartoons morphed from entertainment into lifestyle.

Even if you aren’t an anime fan, the medium’s transformation from Japanese subculture into a pillar of global youth culture is hard to ignore. Sony paid over a billion dollars to acquire the anime streaming service Crunchyroll in 2021. Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron broke box-office records in America last December, and just recently took the An…