"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message

> Anime appears in both film and television.

Film is not synonym with cinema. Documentaries, documents, concerts,
ballets, abstract animation, customers entering in a supermarket....you can
put tons of stuff in the format of a film.
It's not obvious the audience consider anime as a part of cinema.  I tend to
see anime more linked to comics and video games than to cinema and acting.

> Anime does seem to be targeting those two demographic groups: the otaku
and
> the children.

I can believe it is the case where you grew up.

That's certainly not like that in Japan. There are so few kids and the
otakus have their little closed networks (you'd never hear of a product if
it target only the otaku market). Who seems to go to see anime in your local
cinema ? Who do you see renting the videos ?
I have worked in companies where they considered that little manga and anime
were proper to advertize all social classes in Japan. And I have seen all
sorts of customers showing up after such campaigns.

> France thought that Jerry Lewis was a film genius. Go figure.

I just gave you an example I knew. I guess that the American anime amateurs
are not more otaku-ish and child-ish that the average population.

> My problem with the porn anime is not that it is erotica, but that it
tends
> to be poor erotica.

"Pornography"  and "erotism" are 2 different concepts as disctinct as "to
show" and "to tell and suggest" can be.
I've never seen porn anime. You mean stuff you get on internet or in special
shops ?

> There is some anime that I like, like there are some Disney films that I
> like. In both cases, some of the films are good enough to cross over into
> adult audiences.

What are  adult audiences ? At what age I enter that ?

Kuri