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Profitmon Catches The Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-want-to-catch-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The mainstream press has finally discovered the cash in anime. Fortune's Daniel Roth profiles ADV, the largest anime distributor in the U.S.. He uses it as a way to talk about how the anime and manga business has, in what's become a rarity in showbiz, managed to find a way to do 'more than not alienate its customers: It has found ways to keep them buying and buying.' The article also details the madness of the anime superfans--the Otaku--and the likely Neon Genesis Evangelion live-action flick that Weta's Richard Taylor is pushing for." Good Content + Bittorrent = Profit?

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  1. Re:Anime by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah unfortunately a lot of that anime has the terms "DragonBall" or "-mon" in it. :-/

  2. Re:Anime by Shimdaddy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well this makes sense, because anime isn't necessarily one big genre. Often anime movies and shows have similar themes / plot devices / etc., but when you get down to it Bubblegum Crisis is really pretty different from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'm not too much of an anime geek, but I watch anime occaisionally. I think it should be phrased "Anime gains acceptance as a medium" rather than "Anime gains acceptance as a genre."

  3. Re:The money? by Microlith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like to call you the anti-fan.

    The money is from the fact that a lot of morons will pay $24.95 for a DVD with three or four episodes on it.
    Yeah, because that's near full MSRP. I buy online at dvdpacific.com where I can get them for $16 to $19 per disc. That's the price to pay if you want to support what you enjoy. And it's probably the best price the world over, considering the Japanese pay 5x that for TWO episodes.

    Thanks, but I'll take a fansub instead.
    You may think you're only spitting on the US licensor, but you're also spitting on the creator as well.

    It's available earlier
    You can do that when you ignore both the law and paying the creator for their time and effort.

    the translation is rarely better (although rife with typos and other silliness)
    Fixed that for you.

    and I don't have to rip it to avoid the stupid non-skippable intro animations on anime DVDs, especially those from ADV films.
    What non-skippable intros? I hit the menu button during the FBI logo on all of my DVDs and it jumps right to the menu. Every anime company does that (even ADV.)

    I have been one of those morons on occasion
    There we go. Only morons support that which they like. Everyone else screws them over.