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>Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
>'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
>That make me think the wrong thing
If you're not old enough, these are lyrics from the song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies. It was a super, SUPER mainstream song in 1998 that pretty much everyone had at least heard.

For comparison, the song was released in September of 1998. Cartoon Network started airing reruns of Sailor Moon in June of 1998 and DBZ in August of 1998 (2 weeks before the song came out), so this was before Cartoon Network had been airing shit for long enough to have had any influence.

North America 100% had a concept of what anime was before Cartoon Network. Hell, fucking Pokemania a whole year earlier.

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