Not everyone is pleased by the rapid expansion of anime – not least because, acco💃rding to some studi🌺o bosses, Hollywood sees it as a cheap way to create content.

Speaking at a recent Machi Asobi event (via , translated by ), CoMixWave Films founder Noritaka Kawaguchi (who helped produce several of Makoto S🌞hinkai's films) and the studio's overseas business leader Mie Onishi sat down in conversation to discuss anime's far-reaching growth into the west.

After namechecking the likes of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Scott Pilgrim, Kawaguchi groused, "There are a little too many works to check out. I have to watch Japanese anime and I also have to read [Shonen] Jump🦩.“

Onishi replied, "That’s right… That’s why it’s not a good idea to animate everything. Anime is just one method, not a genre. In fact, what I hate these days is📖 that when I talk to people in Hollywood, they ask me, ‘Can’t you make this as an anime?’ What lies behind this is something like, ‘It’s cheap if it’s an anime,’ which really pisses me off."

Onishi then went on to mock a r🃏equest from a Hollywood executive, saying, "It would cost 20 bꦏillion yen to make a live-action movie, so can’t you make it an anime?'"

The proliferation of anime has increased in recent yea♒rs. Previously, Studio Ghibli and the works of Your Name director Makoto Shi𒁏nkai stood (mostly) alone from the medium, but a concerted effort has been made to translate anime's popularity into Western properties.

Chief among them is Star Wars, with its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus show S🃏tar Wars Visions. A Lord of the Rings movie – 2024's War of the Rohirrim – also tried to capitalize on the increased attention anime has been getting in recent years with the likes of Solo Lev𓂃eling, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer breaking more into the mainstream.

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