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Trump makes anime real for good this time. Donald Trump’s latest attempt to appeal to millennials has many wondering if making Dr. Seuss more about celebrities would be such a good idea. In this issue, the magazine has decided to go even further and bring anime fans on this journey. National Geographic’s Jon Goldman and Kimo Rodriguez have put their considerable experience into a two-part story for the magazine in which the two explain the customs and tendencies of anime fans to the uninitiated, from how attractive it is to look like two male characters and how they’re (literally) missing chunks of their brain. The story could certainly appeal to Donald Trump’s unpopularity among today’s teenagers and twentysomethings, who would presumably be much more interested in paying attention to this subculture, arguably the most mainstream one of them all. It’s being published today, however, in honor of the 125th anniversary of Dr. Seuss. “I think it was one of the reasons that Dr. Seuss appealed to younger audiences,” says Guatieri, “because he wrote a lot about things that were both very relatable, and he was also very attuned to certain themes that were universal.” Even though his work was obviously targeted toward the age group of his times, he also “captured the world in which you were living in—in particular the kind of pop culture that was happening in the middle of the 20th century, and the very different world that we live in today,” explains Guatieri. “And I think to some extent, in particular the manga generation, there’s a lot that they can relate to.”
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