Ryan Lambie Nov 14, 2017
Released in 1999, Pokemon: The First Movie was a global hit, but its meaning changed radically on its journey from Japan to the Us...
What's the all-time highest-grossing anime movie at the American box-office? Hayao Miyazaki's acclaimed Spirited Away? Nope. Unsettling cyberpunk masterpiece Ghost In The Shell? Not even close. Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal Akira? It didn't even crack the top 20.
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As you've probably gathered from the headline above, Japan's most financially successful animated export was Pokemon: The First Movie, released in 1999 to a huge opening weekend. Yet unlike Spirited Away, Ghost In The Shell, Akira or most of the other cross-over anime success stories from the far east, the Pokemon movie was hardly met with critical acclaim; most writers dismissed it as forgettable nonsense aimed at selling merchandise to the under-10s.
Released in 1999, Pokemon: The First Movie was a global hit, but its meaning changed radically on its journey from Japan to the Us...
What's the all-time highest-grossing anime movie at the American box-office? Hayao Miyazaki's acclaimed Spirited Away? Nope. Unsettling cyberpunk masterpiece Ghost In The Shell? Not even close. Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal Akira? It didn't even crack the top 20.
See related Star Wars: Rogue One review Star Wars: Rogue One - what did you think?
As you've probably gathered from the headline above, Japan's most financially successful animated export was Pokemon: The First Movie, released in 1999 to a huge opening weekend. Yet unlike Spirited Away, Ghost In The Shell, Akira or most of the other cross-over anime success stories from the far east, the Pokemon movie was hardly met with critical acclaim; most writers dismissed it as forgettable nonsense aimed at selling merchandise to the under-10s.
- 2/6/2017
- Den of Geek
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