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Originally Posted by ILOVEJAPAN
Well Im not 100% sure on all those questions.
However, the really mature stuff is mainly aimed at teens, and the main audience is teens, there are anime that everyone has seen, including adults.
EVERYONE has seen the famouse Doraemon, and Sazae-San. Also everyone in Japan AND america has seen at least one of Miyazaki's movies. Also everyone has seen Shin-Chan. Also, directors like Oshi Mamaruo, and Satoshi Kon are both very famouse and many people have seen there work. Also many people have seen Takahashi's works (urusei yatsura, ranma 1/2, inuyasha, etc.)
Well, the really mature stuff is aimed at adults.
Anime is enjoyed by people of all ages, from little kids to businessmen. A Ghibli movie will be certainly get a lot of attention, and "nostalgic" classics often see a resurgence (like the recent Cutey-Honey live action movie. Overall I would anime in general is enjoyed by younger people. Like ILOVEJAPAN said, there are certainly otaku, and probably a lot of the videos we enjoy are enjoyed more by otaku than by super-wide audiences (
So those were just some really classic anime, and anime directors (that im sure you know about so I should have even mentioned them)
Stuff like that is classic and almost everyone has seen them. Basicly only teens watch alot. Adults mainly watch classic stuff like what I just mentioned, they probably dont watch much else (just the stuff they grew up with)
I think anime is probably more popular then anything else on Japanese TV. Notice how anime is high-budget high-quality productions, while everything else is cheaply done. Anime is EXTREMLEY popular. It must get better ratings then everything else to get such high budgets.
I think the only other thing that adults like, besides the classics, is seinen manga. That stuff is VERY mature and usualy apeals alot more to adults then teens.
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Well, the really mature stuff is aimed at adults.
Anime is enjoyed by people of all ages, from little kids to businessmen. A Ghibli movie will be certainly get a lot of attention, and "nostalgic" classics often see a resurgence (like the recent Cutey-Honey live action movie). Overall I would say anime in general is enjoyed by younger people. Like ILOVEJAPAN said, there are certainly otaku, and probably a lot of the videos we enjoy are enjoyed more by otaku than by super-wide audiences. There are certainly very popular, long-running anime, like Doraemon and Chibi Maruko-chan and Sazae-san that are enjoyed by the whole family, but not a lot of other anime plays in prime-time. It is more expensive to produce and takes longer than the more popular variety and talk shows that fill up most of the evening hours on TV.
That's just my opinion on the matter...