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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. Re:Must see anime? by nathanh · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I haven't wanted to see anime since I was 6 and Astroboy was on.

    That's your loss. Anime is a style not a target audience. Boycotting all movies presented in a particular style is incredibly stupid. Learn to distinguish the quality from the drek and you'll find entertainment everywhere, even in anime.

  2. Re:Anime is different by spectral · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, a great number of titles are targeted at "kids", which is people in college and younger. Other people (supposedly) do not have the time to watch anime.

    But the age span of 'kids' is quite different. it goes up to about age 25, where cartoons in america plateau at about what, 9 years old?

    But again, damnit.. anime is just a medium. There's nothing REQUIRING anime to be aimed mostly at college age students and younger, but the older working people here[in japan] often don't have much time to get in to a story like that, and the non-working people just seem to watch gameshows. Though my only experience is one family, from what I've read and observed, it seems to be true for a great majority.. *shrug*