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Re:Japanese Anime Studios Feel Pressure From Unhappy Artists... by nandemo on Monday November 23, 2009 @07:29AM (#957249)
>and ending with the industry's hypernarrow demographic targeting.

Do you mean outside Japan? In Japan I'd say the target age range is pretty wide

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Re:Japanese Anime Studios Feel Pressure From Unhappy Artists... by JCThoughtscream on Monday November 23, 2009 @11:05PM (#958695)
Not just outside Japan. The biggest, most heavily committed releases of the last few seasons have been targeted at the otaku demographic, sometimes blatant to the point of parody.
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