The american anime industry is it near the end?

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Postby Sukunai » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:24 pm

The dvd releasers need to get 21st century and that means 10 years ago no longer works. No argument means much. Reality rules.

If they want to make a buck, they have about a week's grace before fan subbing arrives it seems if the show is worth even having. If they released it as a subbed product the day it aired, fan subbers likely wouldn't spend the effort. I'd buy subbed anime if I could. I can rarely find ANY form of anime product though in local retail.
Of course I'm ok with downloading fansubbed anime.

And hey, we're all human, you wouldn't watch a movie as a rental if you didn't have to. Come to think of it, you don't. Hollywood is having the same trouble anime releasers are having. If people DON'T have to pay they likely won't.
The internet doesn't care about rules and laws. Sucks, get over it the internet is not going anywhere.

Ever look at the anime, and look at the content, and ponder, "what's the chances of this getting on tv in a timeslot that actually matters?".

Not likely in too many cases. I've seen what passes for acceptible on North American tv. Remember, the US is the land of "thou shalt not let adm marry steve". And as anime is knee deep in homosexuality, it's a barrier. Anime is knee deep in young people with no clothes on, and that too "bothers" the non anime public.

Violence, no problem, just look at our games. But let a girl take off her top and flash her boobs, and the game just scored massive free publicity. Gore though, and blood, not as much an issue.

And while you can find anime in stores, it's stocked like its a freak. It's put in a section as if it's not run of the mill stock.
And they stock it in most cases as if it doesn't matter if they have all the discs of a series. That's like a bookstore stocking random books in a series and not caring if the interested reader ever gets a book 3 in a set of 6.

The unimaginative methodology is not helping them. Nor is the fact that it's a product from a foreign culture that views a lot of issues through different eyes.
We the anime fan, are simply not the normal individual of our society.

For instance I personally DON'T care if in an anime the girl is a lesbian. I don't care it the boy in an anime is into boys. I don't care if the anime personality walks around naked or half dressed. Hell panty shots are just panty shots, and it's not shocking in an anime any more so than in a movie or tv show.

I'm a parent, and NO damnit, I have not been concerned if my 13 year old son sees yuri content or nudity. And I wouldn't care if he was 8 or 9 either. Then again, my son wasn't raised in a home where sex is some weird taboo with a ton of religious baggage.

But that baggage of society bugs society when they see it in our anime. "Oh my god how could they put that in a children's show?". Get real fool.
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.
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