NY Times on Anime

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 20, 2002 @04:16AM from the art-at-just-short-of-24-fps dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a NY Times story (you know what that means: annoying free registration required) about anime as Japanese Film's 2nd Golden Age. It covers a lot of ground, as well as a lot of really amazing films including (obviously) Miyazaki's work, but also stuff like Ranma 1/2, Perfect Blue, Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion to pick a handful of my favorites. In short, it's a good piece with its share of criticisms and commentary, but it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.

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Mainstream/Subculture by ShaniaTwain · 2002-01-20 04:27 · Score: 4, Funny

..it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.

Is it? I hate to be elitist or something, no wait, I do like to be elitist. Why can't the mainstream get its own subculture? It seems to me that OFTEN when a subculture goes mainstream it becomes BORING..

Ah well, the Counter Culture always seems to become the Over-the-counter Culture.

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