[SauronOfMordor]

Japanese anime making inroads in America, already very popular for years in my house.

Japanese animation was popular back in the 60's as well. I well remember "Astro Boy", "Speed Racer", "Tobor the 8th Man", "Simba the White Lion", etc, etc

[Joe Brower]

Yes, those were the days. I remember running home from the bus stop after school in New Jersey, just in time for the 3 PM kickoff of the cartoon coming out of the TV station in Philadelphia. The played all of those. And "Gigantor" -- don't for Gigantor!

Oh, and it was "Kimba". Simba was the Simp-a in Disney's "Lion King". A few years back, some Canadian company bought the rights to the series and redid the whole thing into one big mess of redubbed eco-pansy happy-crap. I couldn't believe it.

Speed Racer was redone in 2000 or thereabouts, and was a decent modernization of the original, although as one could expect, Trixie was more feminized and Speed was a bit more wussified. Astro Boy has also been recently redone with all of today's rich production values and is fun to watch with the kids.