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The latter half of the 1980s saw more and more imports of Japanese products, as well, with part of their marketability being that they WERE from Japan. Electronic companies like Sony, and car companies like Mazda, didn't try to hide their Japanese roots; instead, they rather reveled in the fact. As [[Back to The Future]] said it, "the best stuff in the world comes from Japan," had become an accepted truth in the US, superseding the previous belief that the US produced the best products in the world. During this time, the karate craze saw a revival with [[The Karate Kid]] film series.
[[The Nineties]] saw the height of the Invasion, as interest in anything Japanese-related became hot-selling items, especially Japanese visual media. Fansubs became prominent in media black markets as a way to see "Japanimation" shows which hadn't been brought over to the US. Manga, originally published in left-to-right format in the US, emerged for the very first time, with the most prominent being [[Ranma
First, the rise of Cartoon Network and the establishment of [[Toonami]], an action-oriented animation block on TV first brought back shows like [[Thundercats]], and then rebroadcast the [[Macross]] Saga of [[Robotech]]; following, it broadcast the original run of [[Sailor Moon]], which proved successful enough to warrant the dubbing of ''more'' episodes which had never been dubbed before. The [[Pokémon]] TV series began airing on broadcast TV, as well, which attracted younger audiences. Finally, it was the broadcast of [[FUNimation]]'s newly-acquired series, [[Dragonball Z]] served as the [[Heroic Second Wind]] for Japanese animation. In the span of about two years, "Japanimation" went from being a dying fad, to the household "Anime" that is known today.
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