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00:00Some people were tremendously offended.

00:03I take it this was the striptease early in the first episode?

00:07Yeah.

00:08Yeah, of course.

00:09Of course.

00:10These days in the English-speaking world, anime is normal.

00:14Fans are everywhere.

00:16Every mall has anime stuff.

00:17New releases show up regularly in theaters.

00:20It didn't used to be like this.

00:21You gotta understand anime was not around.

00:23It was not common.

00:24There was a sense that there was something different about them, but not even understanding

00:28what that was.

00:29Okay, this is coming from Japan.

00:31That's why it's different from what I'm seeing on Saturday mornings.

00:35For over 30 years, a cottage industry of publishers, organizers, writers, and other professionals

00:40saw the potential in anime and fought like hell to make it a thing.

00:44Who would want this stuff except for a few nerds?

00:48Everything we heard was so loud, so clear, so much of a yes.

00:52It's psychic wave, not psychic wave.

00:54This is a joke.

00:56You guys are a fucking joke.

00:58And they looked at me like, we're not distributing Saturday morning cartoons, but we're selling

01:03it out.

01:04Look at this crowd.

01:06This is something.

01:07Well, John, we know that you'll be a failure trying to sell Japanese animation because there's

01:12no reason for Americans to want to buy Japanese animation.

01:14And we couldn't let you do that when you were with us because it would be a hit to our brand

01:19identity.

01:20Now that you're Central Park Media, we really don't care if you fail.

01:23These are their stories in their own words.

01:25I look at anime the same way I look at opera.

01:28If a person likes opera, they're going to be open to a new opera.

01:32And there's a new opera, they're watching an old opera, and there's a new version of an

01:36old opera.

01:37And there's a new anime business.

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