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2012 was an impressive year for anime movies. A shining example of this is Mamoru Hosoda’s original work The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, which made an impressive 4.2 billion yen in box office revenue and was a huge success for Hosoda’s newly formed brand. The two other front runners for the year were One Piece Film Z and Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo which, despite still being in theaters, have both broken through 5 billion yen and are still climbing. Other successful anime movies for the year include Strike Witches: The Movie, Toshokan Senso, Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A’s, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie, and others. Whether large or small scale, many anime movies enjoyed great success in 2012.
Even overseas, many original movies stood out in theaters in 2012. Movies like A Letter to Momo, Gusko Budori no Denki, Nijiiro Hotaru, Asura, and Berserk were screened in countries around the world. More importantly though, there films brought the feeling of the abundance of Japanese anime to viewers worldwide.
On a technical level, 2012 also saw the rise of full CG animations. These films included Dragon Age: Crusade of the Blood Mages, .hack: To the Other Side of the World, Starship Troopers: Invasion, and 009 RE:CYBORG, which was especially popular due to its fusion of full CG animation with the visual style of cel animation. However, due to the scope of such films still being small, it remains a challenge to the domestic market of full CG anime. Even still, CG anime companies are beginning to make waves in other countries, such as Polygon Pictures in Malaysia and Digital Frontier in Malaysia and Taiwan. The network of CG anime companies in Asia continues to expand. Many are curiously waiting to see where this new trend will take the industry.
Source:
http://animeanime.jp/article/2013/01/06/12590.html (Japanese)