There was a time when anime in America lived in the cultural shadows, tucked between late night Cartoon Network slots and dusty DVD shelves at Suncoast stores inside suburban malls. Back then, showing up to Comic Con dressed as Naruto Uzumaki or Edward Elric still felt like a coded signal exchanged between outsiders. Yet somewhere between convention hallways filled with increasingly elaborate cosplay and streaming algorithms learning the power o…
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