Forum - View topicNEWS: Japan Spent 94 Billion Yen on Anime DVDs in 2006
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Deltakiral
 Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Well with three new systems launching (360 was nearly in 2006) I'm not surprised the Video game industry saw an increase. Have you seen the pictures of people still trying to DS lites? It's insane, I heard that if you want to know what the birth rate of Japan is look at the number of DS lite sales for that particular month.
Otherwise I had no idea that anime made up such a large portion of the DVD sales over in Japan. I'd have to imagine that for the US market it doesn't even surpass 5%. |
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fighterholic
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That should tell you that anime is an important part of their economy. Notice I said an and not the. Rental sales going up probably means people are being smart about spending so much, since those otaku over either work mediocre jobs or they're computer geeks.
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dokool
Posts: 83 Location: Tokyo, Japan |
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Yeah, and those 94 billion yen got them about 7 DVDs, each with 2 episodes, and no english sub, dub, or extras
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fighterholic
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Ehh, these days they've been trying to convert to 3 episodes a DVD, I have some myself, and at times including some extras. Why would they need to put English subs on there? It's their own language. |
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Clodus
 Posts: 497 Location: Kansas |
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thats interesting, im curius as what the % in U.S for anime dvd sales. well the more % in japan the better which will mostlikely lead to even more anime productions
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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I get the two episode bit, but why would JAPANESE people want English subs, perhaps they want Japanese subs.
I doubt we'll ever know any of the american market shares for anime seeing as how protective anime companies are. It's good to know that people in Japan are still supporting the companies that bring them anime. |
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CCSYueh
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Why do I want French, Portugese or Italian subtitles on mine? (Charmed in French. Sure....) I don't even want the Spanish, but I can see it makes sense for where I live.
And a few have apparently experimented with the idea of it. I know at CD Japan they have a section for stuff with English subtitles. Mostly movies it looks like, though. |
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