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is a kind of Rosetta Stone that presented American kids with an anime that, because of the universal appeal of its toys, allowed them to decipher Japanese cartoons without cultural or linguistic prejudice.

Pokemon presented American kids with an anime that, because of the universal appeal of its toys, allowed them to decipher Japanese cartoons without cultural or linguistic prejudice. American kids had been playing with trading cards— swapping them, comparing them, and designing battles involving them—for decades. In Rosetta stone terms, the toys and games were the underlying text. The anime style that accompanied them was the “Japanizer” of the theme, allowing their diminutive consumers to absorb the very character of a distinct cultural style.

is responsible for opening up the US market to Japan by familiarizing kids with Japanese anime's aesthetic forms of emotional expressions and visual transformation.

Pokemon delivered Japan to the U.S. market in several ways. First, it familiarized kids with the aesthetic form of Japanese anime—the hairstyles, the big eyes, the stop frames, the complete visual transformation of facial expressions during emotional and dramatic peaks, and the attentiveness to minute details. (p90) In addition, the Pokemon cartoons introduced some of the more complex aspects of anime—the acceptability of the illogical and the ambiguous, the hero's sense of duty above all else, the concepts of child as hero and of unending quest, the undependability of a happy ending, and the fact that no individual episode ever satisfactorily ties up the various and addictive narrative threads.

is responsible for opening up the US market by familiarizing kids with Japanese anime's the ambiguity and illogic, the hero's sense of duty above all else, the concepts of child as hero and of unending quest, the undependability of a happy ending, and the fact that no individual episode ever satisfactorily ties up the various and addictive narrative threads.

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