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Anime: a phenomenon entangled in stereotypesAnime in Uzbekistan is still viewed with prejudice. For some, a love of Japanese animation serves as a marker of “teenage rebellion” and “nonconformity,” yet no one will react negatively to a love of cartoons based on comics like “Spider-Man” or judge you for going to the cinema to see the next installment of “Toy Story.” But what fundamentally distinguishes anime from the Western animation we are used to, even though both are sometimes products of commercial mass animation backed by huge corporations?Darya Zabrodina#Yuzma Yuz#People & Communities