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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2050690" data-attributes="member: 151">After sitting down this weekend to watch "Great Detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple", "Gantz", "Kaze no Yojimbo", "Turn A Gundam" and "Gankutsuo"...I'm not sure I know what 'typical' anime is.I'd also hazard that a lot more Americans are familiar with Miyazaki (although not necessarily concsiously aware of it) than you might think.  I'd hazard that they're at least as famaliar with Miyazaki as someone like Wim Wenders, for example.Those didn't include marketing and non-production costs, which would have driven the loss from movies like Treasure Planet much higher, for example.  Lilo and Stitch was made in the U.S. five years after Mononoke, and didn't feature CGI effects.  Spirited Away did, but was also estimated to have a lower budget.  What that means, I'm not sure.However, some food for thought is this: much anime is done for little money domestically, and for even less in Korea.  This is becoming increasingly more true in the U.S., as well.  Paying an employee more then 12,000/year isn't necesaarily inefficiency.  By the same token, anime has formulated lots of techniques, story-telling-wise, to make their work more economical.  Long pregnant pauses aren't just thoughtful or artistic, they're cheaper, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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