{"id":98,"date":"2007-11-30T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2007\/11\/30\/how-to-fix-the-anime-industry\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:42:07","slug":"how-to-fix-the-anime-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2007\/11\/30\/how-to-fix-the-anime-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix the anime industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Sevakis over at Anime News Network a couple days ago posted an open letter to the anime industry<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s really good and worth a read.\u00c2\u00a0 For those who haven’t been paying attention to the anime scene, his letter does a really good job of explaining the current state of the industry and why anime distribution of questionable legality happens the way it does.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m one of those people who will buy the DVDs of a show that I’ve watched when it finally becomes available in the US, because I believe in supporting the artists who create this stuff, and that’s the easiest way to do so.\u00c2\u00a0 But as Justin points out in his letter, 90% of the good stuff never makes it to the US, ever.\u00c2\u00a0 You can look back a few posts in my blog to see a list of some of the series I’ve watched.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 Hardly any of them have DVDs or other merchandise available in the US yet. I haven’t shelled out very much money, just because there’s no one to give it to. Some of them actually did get licensed (Pretty Cure) and then the licensee never did anything with them.\u00c2\u00a0 Some actually made it to market (Ojamajo Doremi\/Magical DoReMi) but didn’t survive halfway through the first season in the US (even though there were 4 seasons of it in Japan) because of poor marketing, or (by some accounts) poor execution on dubbing\/editing of the English version.\u00c2\u00a0 My kids love Magical DoReMi, and we’ve managed to accumulate a fair bit of merchandise (doll sets, accessories, DVDs) recently for them to play with, found on clearance at local stores and on eBay.\u00c2\u00a0 And it wasn’t because of the US marketing (because they took it off the air years ago), but because we saw the fansubbed Japanese versions.<\/p>\n

There are shows that do make it and do well.\u00c2\u00a0 Digimon, Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon, and Mega Man are good examples, from which we own a good few dozen DVDs. And one mustn’t forget Naruto (although nobody in my household is a fan of that one).\u00c2\u00a0 But from the total size of the market, that’s a very small number of shows.<\/p>\n

I really hope the industry takes Justin’s letter to heart.\u00c2\u00a0 It’d make my day to be able to get this stuff from official sources, even if it cost money, although I’d personally prefer ad-supported websites \ud83d\ude09 .\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a global economy now, and thanks to the Internet, it’s a world market.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s time to give up on the region-locked licensing and just distribute globally from the get-go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Sevakis over at Anime News Network a couple days ago posted an open letter to the anime industry.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s really good and worth a read.\u00c2\u00a0 For those who haven’t been paying attention to the anime scene, his letter does a really good job of explaining the current state of the industry and why anime … <\/p>\n

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