Profitmon Catches The Dollars

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?

Comments

Bring me Bleach

[ericdano]

Bring me Bleach in English, and Gantz. And Yakitate. Yeah, bring me Bleach, Gantz, and Yakitate. Oh, and Initial D. Bring me Bleach, Gantz, Yakitate, and Initial D. Oh, and......nevermind. Bring me them all.

ADV is to anime as Microsoft is to OS's

[Sleeping Kirby]

Just want to put my two cents in. Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD was nothign more than a bad VHS capture. Macross was done so badly, the another company asked the Japanese animation studio for the negatives... and they agreed. Voice actors are amateurs they pick off the street with no talent, pay nothing, then throw away. They do the same with anime. Pick every anime under the sun, if it makes no immediate profit via fad, they sit on it until someone wants it. Okay... I take it back, they're not like MS. They're like MS and the RIAA combined. They do charge an arm and a leg *still* for their products. I still hate them with a passion... with good reason.
Of course, all the fanboys that have confronted me face to face that defend ADV are usually people that worked for ADV or people that have only seen 8 anime titles.