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Naruto has the big advantage of the anime being aired on free TV outside of Asia.

I don't know about the other side of the atlantic, but in Europe it's extremely rare to see anime on TV other than the small-child stuff. The same goes for movies. The only movies I've ever seen (or seen advertised) in Austrian cinemas had an age-rating of 6+ or below.

Not that I have a problem with Laura's star, the castle in the sky and similar stuff... but I'd really like to see something like the Fairy Tail, Naruto or Bleach movies or Evangelion re-build or Jin-Roh or Mononoke-hime in out cinemas sometimes :-(

But no, our cinemas still cling to the stupid notion that anime is only watched by those adults that accompany the children into the cinema. >:(