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Originally Posted by Irenicus
Saying you like a Ghibli film is like saying you like a Disney film -- you can talk about it with your coworkers and nobody bats an eye (unless you're being obsessive about it). You can't do that with Madoka Magica or whatever without some social risks. People who go to watch Ghibli films in movie theaters include a very wide range of the Japanese population, some of which will never touch anime as we know it.
It's a different audience, different "phenomenon."
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To add to what you say,I doubt the majority of the ghibli audience even knows what the word "moe" is.
Ghibli doesn't care about what sells to otakus because their market is much larger than that.You don't need to look further than their next two movies currently in development to see they don't care.