[Ghoulish Delight]

Is it comdemned forever? I don't know. But I think that is exactly the gap the needs to be bridged, and it's a wide gap. It may very well have been their own doing, but it's there none-the-less.

A perfect illustration of the difficulty they face is the Curse of the Black Pearl. Do you remember how much flack they got for that? Why? Because it was PG-13 and had the Disney name. Unheard of! Scandalous! By steadfastly adhering to the "family" image, it seems they've dug themselves a massive hole. It's such a battle to do anything with the Disney name on it in America that isn't for "families" (which, these days, means dumbed down for kids).

Back to Japan for a moment, I don't know if it's manga we have to thank for cartoons not being purely a children's domain, or the other way around. No, not everything Disney there is cartoony and cutesy, nor is everything that's animated cute. However, even in many of the most serious of animes, you'll see elemnts of "kawaii". And I would use the word cute. But, cute does not equate to childish in Japan, so it's not a big deal. So there's no issue going back and forth across that line, because there is no line.