BuzzFeed : This Guy Is One Of The Only Non-Japanese Working In Anime

Henry Thurlow is sacrificing everything his for art.

Animator Henry Thurlow is, as far he knows, the first Americans to work at one of Tokyo's greatest anime studios. And he's paying the price.

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Like most American kids, Henry Thurlow grew up watching cartoons on television. At age 12, he first saw HBO's Spawn, and it opened up a darker world of violent animation geared toward adults. He soon discovered the anime section of his local video store and started renting series like Genocyber, Yoma, Ninja Scroll, and Demon City Shinjuku. It was the graphic torture scenes in these films that set him on a decade-long trajectory into the dark heart of the anime industry itself.

Henry Thurlow

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