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Why Anime?
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Susan J. Napier
Late last summer, I went to Baltimore, Maryland, to attend something called Otakon. Otakon (subtitled as Convention of Otaku [mania] Generation) is the largest anime (animation) convention on the East Coast and possibly the largest one in America, at least that year. Perhaps as many as 17,000 American anime fans converged on this large old city, taking over the entire convention headquarters, an enormous building on historic Baltimore Harbor. On my way into the convention center the first day, my jaw dropped as I drew close to it; even though it was early in the morning an ...
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