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Since the budget cuts are the result of a lack of funding following the ban on junk food advertising (as you would have known if you had actually bothered to read the article), I'm not sure that a lack of quality is really a factor. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it. And...

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Actually.... yes, I'd say it does, more or less. Why? Some people deserve to be pigeon-holed. Nobody knows everything. I know next to nothing about Iranian cinema, so I'd have no problems with being pigeon-holed as someone ignorant about that subject. Don't see any reason why I should...

Suppose so. I think another factor is that I'm an animator myself - currently an amateur, but hoping to do things professionally - so I guess I tend to overthink the issue as it's close to my heart. When I have to wade through people telling me that everything I create sucks simply because of my...

I posted the third article because it's a great example of how subtle this prejudice can be. In this case, it's encapsulated in a single, throwaway comment: This is a badly-worded sentence and can be inteprreted two different ways. You can read it as saying that the Japanese animation imported...

http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History ... index.html http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=10519 http://www.anime-on-line.com/anime/index.htm I wouldn't say that any of these articles awere written by "loons". The authors seem perfectly sober-minded to me. But they all show, to varying...

But how many of those groups are defined by their cluelessness, as anime fans are? I've said it before: in my experience, anime fans generally know almost nothing about non-Japanese animation. That's largely why they identify themselves as anime fans, not animation fans. There you have it...

But they're the people who are indirectly responsible for this article. It was written to tick off anime fans. If anime fans weren't so easily ticked off, it wouldn't have been written. Bottom line: if anime fans don't want articles like this to be written, then they should stop being such an...

Ehhh, it's really not much worse than the kind of drivel that anime fans write: http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History ... index.html

Miyazaki has stated that he's heavily influenced by British children's books, so anything he's done would be worth a look.

Well, it's good news that AC is showing animation from outside Japan. A channel devoted to adult animation from across the world would have been much better than a channel arbitrarily focusing on cartoons from Japan. On the bad side... GI Joe? Out of all the animation available, they picked...

But then, that border was always just a pencil line scrawled in by people who didn't know all that much about the world's animation. Animators have been taking influence from foreign cartoons for decades. Why's there suddenly so much fuss about stuff like Teen Titans doing it?

Another bit of advice I can give is to check out the middle ground. Watch Kamiya's Correspondence and Small Wish, both of which are films made by Japanese-born animators now living in the UK. Decide which elements feel Japanese and which feel British; that might help put things in perspective.

Make your way through the films in the list at the bottom of this page and say that again. This is what I meant when I said that people at anime forums generally know very little about non-Japanese animation.

Ah, right. In that case, I really don't think you should leave the definition of the word "Western" to the readers' personal interpretation. Maye you should consider replacing Western animation with English-language animation, or animation on British kids' TV (which would include dubbed and...