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Not many people have seen The Wind Rises yet, and compared to Frozen, not that many will ever see it.

Not many people saw Spirited Away when The Wind Rises came out, either. They have seen Totoro, though. And that's all that mattered back then.

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It's like being a small art house movie the year Titanic came out:

Except that Miyazaki's bigger than an arthouse director, or Spirited Away wouldn't have won in the first place.

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The first question reminds me of all the hooplah when FUNi used fansubs for their dub recording sessions. Sure, the fansubs were not released to the public in the official release; they remained in-house. But one can't help wonder if FUNi's dub script was just taken straight from the fansubs themselves, which would certainly be pretty dodgy.

That wasn't a fansub though; that was a HorribleSubs CR rip. And as Sentai's "convert to imagesub and replicate" disc releases of CR's subs seem to indicate, home video licensors have authorized access to simulcast subtitle translations. I haven't checked any Funimation releases to see if they re-use CR subs directly, but it certainly wouldn't be out of line for them to do so.

so I assume Gen Fukunaga himself is a Christian and it's a purely business motivated venture? one does have to wonder then how he justifies releasing violent or sexual anime with a sometimes explicitly anti-Christian bent like Hellsing

That wasn't a fansub though; that was a HorribleSubs CR rip.

I don't think he was talking about the influence of watching one film on the effect of watching of another film. Frozen starts off big because most Americans tend to not give a shit about Japanese animation, while many Japanese will give a shit about American movie animations, especially from Walt Disney. Its a matter of social hierarchy.

I haven't seen FROZEN yet but if the sales mean anything Miyazaki should have ended with a blonde hair blue eye performance. Disney proves again stereotypes still make bank.

I haven't seen FROZEN yet but if the sales mean anything Miyazaki should have ended with a blonde hair blue eye performance. Disney proves again stereotypes still make bank.

so I assume Gen Fukunaga himself is a Christian and it's a purely business motivated venture? one does have to wonder then how he justifies releasing violent or sexual anime with a sometimes explicitly anti-Christian bent like Hellsing

Probably the same reason why Vic Mignogna, a staunch Christian, has his most notable role as someone who outright mocks someone for being religious in the first episode of his show - pretty pictures of presidents to put in his wallet.

It's just that they appreciate animation in general more than us, while we prefer to outsource artists.

while Japan's own film industry is fairly small.

Despite there being dedicated channels to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon cartoons, and even cartoons airing on Japanese networks such as TV Tokyo, American television cartoons go completely unnoticed.

That being said, I am unsure why people still think an anime can win an American award show.

I do not see how one could hope for an anime winning, especially movies which did not have widespread theatrical runs in America.