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Anime in the past 4 years has exploded in popularity. Streaming services are fighting for distribution rights and spending millions on Japanese animation, including one of it's competitors, Disney. McDonald's just rebranded as it's anime counterpart, WcDoanld's. In 2024, it's cool to be into anime, but that wasn't always the case. In this video, Andy dives into the complicated rise of anime to understand how it broke out of Japan and became a global success.

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Executive Producer/Story Editor/Reporting/Host: Andy Burgess
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Time Stamps:
0:00 How Pokemon Shut Down Tokyo
0:51 America has gone crazy for Anime
2:26 The Origins of Manga
4:16 Disney's influence on the Anime
4:54 Anime style, explained
5:49 Walt Disney's impact on Osamu Tezuka
6:30 Wartime Propaganda
7:31 The Rise of Atom and Modern day Manga
9:29 The first Anime: Mighty Atom
9:54 Making Anime accessible to America
11:20 The growth of western animation
12:15 What makes Anime stories unique
13:41 I watched a bunch of Anime
15:05 Why it was harder to find in the 1980s-2010s
15:50 Studio Ghibli (& Disney)
17:54 Attending an Anime convention
20:39 The year Anime went mainstream
22:00 Anime working conditions
23:00 Why Anime Won

#anime #disney #japan