Knights of the Zodiac around here is like you guys talk about Comboy Bebop there, you had to see the smile on this guy face who lived in the slums(but he had a nice house) showing me his Knights of the Zodiac DVD collection, it was his pride to have the original collection.
Pokémon was huge too(Games, cards, toys, tv ratings), I got paid by a friend to train the pokémons he would use on the official Pokémon League, with gyms and Elite four and all. Today it's still like this, and I'm going back to college and I'll be playing X and Y there.
Wow. Im not surprised. Kinda makes me happy though, with new series of Zodiac and Sailor Moon in the wings. It could be with the success of Univision and many Spanish language stuff - anime finds a second back door to the US Market. I seen stranger things happen.