Re: Anime Crisis?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hand-of-Omega) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> A few years ago, a friend of mine who's a comic book artist once told
> me that he never liked the anime look that many American artists were
> just starting to adopt...as far as he was concerned, that was all just
> a fad, he'd say. Looking at all the changes in the anime scene since
> then, I wonder if he still feels the same way now...
> 
> Many of the most popular children's shows on TV are anime, and an
> increasing number of indigenous shows are heavily influenced by anime;
> most bookstores now have respectably large manga sections; the store I
> work at now sells many anime merchandise, t-shirts, plushies, and
> soundtracks I never thought I'd see there, all of them on sale; we
> also just got in a few boxes full of Japanese snacks and drinks...
> 
> The anime Bubblegum Crisis is named for an expanding "bubble of
> trouble" in the world setting...Do you think we're heading for such an
> explosion? Is our favorite hobby flooding the market? Are we being set
> up for a backlash of Bubblegum proportions? Will the kids of the next
> generation look back on that "old-fashioned Japanese crap" that their
> parents like for some reason?
> 
> Dex,
> who'll keep watching regardless...

You should go up to that friend now and yell "IN YOUR FACE!!!!  HOW
YOU LIKE DEM APPLES, BIATCH???!!!!!!" and gloat.  At least that's what
I would do.

   -Dannymon