This isn't some new thing, just because there happen to be a couple of popular anime series on CN or whatever. It's simply that it's more accessible now than (especially in the age of youtube) than it was back in the VHS days where you might have 3-5 anime shows on TV and the tapes were $29 for two episodes. If no companies brough anime to the states, it'd be something else with the dork stigma attached to it, maybe like the Bible or something.

Anime's negative rap comes from Japanophiles who go out of their way to purposely handjob anything Japanese simply because it's Japanese, large men who are far too into fanservice series and their associated merchandise, catear-wearing chicks who use yaoi to satisfy their socially undernourished sexual desires, and whatever other recurring clumps of people who take a form of media too seriously.

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Knyte wrote: How about the impact, that Disney is now domestically releasing Anime movies such as Spirited Away, and the new one they are showing trailers for, with the fish girl? Speaking of Disney releasing anime... I fucking bought the deluxe version of Totoro a few years ago and they had changed all the voice actors! So that makes me think, what if all the Studio Ghibli movies I've seen since then had shitty voice actors too? It kind of sucks.

Totoro got a redub because Disney didn't originally have the rights. I think Fox had it? I know it wasn't Disney, though. I still have the mailaway Totoro plushie from that original release, heh.

Similar thing happened with Akira as far as redub, but I don't know if the rights changed hands with that, or they just wanted something halfway coherent.

^ yeah, that's the dubbing company's name, apparently.

Fox did the distribution, the dubbing was done by some branch of Troma.