I started learning everything I could about Japan and taught myself Japanese. As far as she's concerned, the culture gap is a chimera. You can find shows for your kids, your teenagers, your adults. In fact, most anime converts say American cartoons are simply childish compared to the fare from Japan. They have adult plot lines and real characters.
Characters can even die in anime.
Imagine that in an American cartoon. Talk like that makes businessmen take notice. The fan boys didn't know the first thing about marketing videos. He's leveraged that knowledge into market position. Today, O'Donnell's Central Park Media is one of three companies that have virtually sewn up the business of buying Japanese animation videos, repackaging them and selling them to American fans and rental video chains.