LOL my initial post didn't come across like I intended it to. Don't worry I'm not going copy and paste your posts and string them together to write a paper. But it is very facinating to start this conversation take a step back and critically anylse it. Reading your posts is just getting me more excited to start researching and writing this paper. So many different facets. When I have time I'll tell you guys about the house of popular culture and maybe start to fit aspects of anime culture into that frame. Although before I finish this post how do you think the anime subculture has effected the mainstream culture. There's a certain awkward give and take between the two. On one end i'd say that in some respects that anime has certain nerdy taboo quality that many makes many people feel prejudiced against it. Yet at the same time a huge anime influence can be seen throughout mainstream culture. Such examples would be anime inspired sequences are seen in major motion pictures (i.e. matrix) and there are numerous non-japanse animated series that have aped the artstyle for their own (Totally Spies, Teen Titans, Code Lyoko, Avatar etc.). Manga are also becomming greatly more prevalent and widespread then before. Curious to hear what you guys think.