California based newspaper, Daily Trojan writes: This year’s Oscar nominees for best animated film include Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango and some French flick about a cat. Japanese anime films, however, have been absent since 2005’s nomination for Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle. Meanwhile, Spirited Away remains the only Japanese film to have won the award since its creation in 2001.
I could not stand these crappy animes (for one reason or another)
1. Hokuto no Ken (no story, just violence without meaning)
2. Saiyuki (just a crap anime)
3. Basilisk (another crappy anime with poor story)
4. Mew Mew power (my little sister would always watch this and it would always piss me off)
One of the things that draws me to anime is the original stories, which are few and far between in Hollywood these days. While Oscar Noms are usually the best of the best and mostly original I don't see why they can't include more anime.
I suppose the argument would be that the film has to have been seen in a certain number of theaters in the US, which would be more of a distribution and translation issue rather than just an outright shun of anime.