For fans of a certain age, it's impossible to mention childhood without talking about US/Japanese co-productions that weren't quite anime, but carried much of the medium's unmistakable flavor.

Paul Sebert explored several of these works in an article at http://hera.fyi/80sanimation.

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East Meets West: The Western/Japanese Animation Collaborations of the ‘80s

Outsourced and In Demand While anime fandom didn't truly explode in the United States until the 1990s, future fans were getting their first taste of anime

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