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Tales Of The Industry - Less Fanboying Is More

There's a chunk of anime fandom that doesn't pay for anything they watch--many casual anime fans would fall into this group too. It may very well be that ANN members here--many of whom actually buy DVDs/BDs, from what I gather--would be considered the minority in anime fandom. But we should probably not include those download-happy types when discussing sales. If we stick strictly to those who do actually buy BD/DVDs, then we can surmise that anime-buying fandom is significant and notable but obviously the average anime title would still never move even close to the same number of units as a DVD/BD of an average mediocre-selling American movie.

@mdo7:

#2 is directly related to #1; namely, in that the sort of people most likely to pay the high prices needed to get a series made tend to be otaku. If you ever want to have an influence on what's made, stop whining and start buying!

Part of me wants to help the anime industry. But at the same time, the other part of me don't want to support a industry that pay "slave wages" to animators that put a lot of hard work and effort into making these wonderful animation. So this is a big moral dilemma.

Joe Carpenter wrote:

Justin, you have to share more stories of your time at CPM, this is fascinating, fascinating stuff.

Not to worry. That well runs deep. This column is basically going to be like Stand Alone Complex: there will be stand-alone eps from other contributors, and ones that will eventually come together into something that might resemble a cohesive autobiography of my time in the business.