Friday, August 12, 2005

Anime with "ZING"


Animated visitors expected for 'Anime-zing': "Anime has become a worldwide phenomenon. The anime market earns close to $1 billion annually, not even counting revenue from action figures, toys and video games based on anime characters and franchises.
One of the last places anime hasn't hit it big is in the United States. Though anime is catching on here, too, a new exhibit opening Saturday at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, 'Anime-zing: The World of Japanese Animation,' hopes to help it along.
'Hopefully, this will open people eyes as to what's out there and get people into it,' says Diana Dretske, collections coordinator and curator of 'Anime-zing.'"

That's right friends....$1 Billion dollars a year!!! And growing!!!
That'll put some "zing" in your stride...

Mark Alderwood
The Anime Times