Anime brings in more than $19 billion a year. Its artists are earning barely enough to survive. Pikachu’s thunderbolt struck America in 1998 and changed the lives of a generation. The US anime craze started at the turn of the century with Sailor Moon’s middle-school magical girls out to save faraway planets; One Piece’s pirates, cyborgs, and fish … Continue reading The dark side of Japan’s anime industry
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