> Terrence Briggs wrote:
>

>>>And at this point in the discussion, we start bringing back the days of
>>>when there *was* no DVD, there *was* no Bleach on Cartoon Network,
>>>anything subtitled you found on the campus-club underground, and people
>>>considered themselves "anime experts" because they'd gone to see GitS at
>>>the college theater.
>>>It's been a trickle-down effect over the last fifteen years--But now we
>>>have anime fans who can get their Naruto or Bleach anywhere they want,
>>>and mainstream NY critics who consider themselves Anime Experts because
>>>they went to see "Metropolis" and "Tokyo Godfathers" in a theater.
>>>(And guess it's some kind of Taboo-game that they have to use the words
>>>"US", "Kiddie" and "Sandbox" somewhere in their rave reviews, kind of a
>>>code-signal.)

>

>> So... you don't think that Japanese animators are telling more
>> ambitious, mature stories than their American counterparts?

>
> No, I just don't throw my big white gaijin arms around it and horsewhip ...