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Many of the top animated shows and movies each year are Japanese, and even Disney keeps losing at the global box office to films like Suzume, The First Slam Dunk, Mugen Train and The Boy and the Heron. Manga Entertainment made a good deal of money with Ninja Scroll(1993), and Fox Video’s release of My Neighbor Totoro had 450,000 tapes in circulation after just 14 months. In Brazil, the Dublagem Viva campaign has reportedly succeeded in pressuring major companies (including Sony, Hasbro and Toei) to yield to contractual protections for voice actors.

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