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 | | Anime is often an explicitly commercial art form; producers and marketers aim for very specific audiences, with focused categories for (Click link for more info and facts about shōnen) shōnen (boys) and (Click link for more info and facts about shōjo) shōjo (girls) genres, as well as for teenagers and adults. |
 | | Anime studios have since perfected techniques to draw as little new animation as possible, using scrolling or repeating backgrounds, still shots of characters sliding across the screen, and dialogue which involves only animating the mouths while the rest of the screen remains absolutely still, a technique not wholly unfamiliar to Western animation. |
 | | Anime series are also sometimes edited by (A film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development) Western distributors to remove what they feel local audiences would consider to be objectionable content. |
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