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Throughout Asia, anime has been extremely popular for decades. Some anime exports, such as Astroboy, Star Blazers and Transformers, have come to the West in the form of television programs and have been around since the 1960s. The mass exportation of anime, however, is very much a mid-to late-80s phenomenon, marked by the apocalyptic 1988 movie "Akira...
...anime? The first animated films in Japan date from the 1910s and were strongly influenced by French animators such as Emile Cohl. But in 1963, anime was catapulted into popular Japanese consciousness when comic strip artist Tezuka Osamu released for television an animated version of his comic character, Astroboy...
...helpings of violence and the "gimmes" of commercials, the American child is more than a passive victim. Distrust of TV advertisements rises with age-and not every age watches the worst programs. For the first time since the invention of the transistor, TV is offering some attractive alternatives to Astroboy and Popeye. A generation has learned to spell with the Muppets of Sesame Street. The Electric Company has attracted an audience of millions-many of them parents who came to turn on the set and stayed to learn...
...romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe Nazi rocket techniques...
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