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Must-See Films at L.A. Anime Festival

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tom-and-jerry dept.

May Kasahara writes "The first annual Los Angeles Anime Festival is being held May 2-15. Among other films screening at the festival are Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns (making its US debut), Memories, and all nine episodes of The Animatrix. However, the film I really want to see is the trippy-looking Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space. More information, including a full schedule of events, is available here."

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  1. Will someone show Kodocha? by axolotl_farmer · · Score: 5, Informative

    The list of anime to be shown makes envious...why are there never any anime festivals here in Sweden...

    Is Kodocha ever shown at anime festivals. This is the funniest shoujo anime I've seen. There a a bunch of torrents over at Animesuki.

    Enjoy!

  2. Sacrifice Woods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a bit of info about a film that will be appearing at the festival, Sacrifice Woods.

  3. Re:Anime?? by bm_luethke · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, I'll give my experience.

    I work at a US national lab in High Permformance Computing - plenty of geeks. In the older crowd (30+ to 35+) not really that relevant. Most know nothing about it or think "cartoon == kids" 30- tends to like cartoons in general.

    The current group I am in I am the next to youngest (28) and am obsesed with it. The youngest has (24 I think) has never weighed in. The others (29, early 30's, 40's) think it is sorta wierd but have never really watched any (other than the wierd stuff I have explicitly showed them - though to be fair they don't watch much of anything, either tv or movies).

    As far as students go. The first year - one against (again in the 30's), three indiferent. They thought some stories good, some bad. Treated it as any other movie.

    Next year, one indifferent, one obsessed, one generally liked it.

    the last group I never polled about it.

    So, I would say it definatly has a large enough crowd to justify being on slashdot, that it is not just "Taco like Anime". Though it is not universal. It is almost a correlation of 1 of likes anime and likes video games. That, in and of it self, lends me to think it is valid.

    Now the decision for animefu as the anime widget is more of a question...

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    ------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it