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Answerman - Is The Anime Glut And The American TV Glut The Same Thing?

that's when you realize that the world does not revolve around you and other people find something interesting.

FX Networks president John Landgraf, who is incredibly well-respected in the business, gave a speech that freaked everybody out. We have achieved "peak television," he said, and this is too much content. Critics can't review them, viewers can't find them, and not that many of them are actually good.

1. lack translated lyrics/singalong songs. Adding translated songs will make people care for the opening/ending instead of skipping it. It can also improve sales of said songs on iTunes.

2. lack translated credits. Again, people might start caring who directs their favorite shows if they translate to english the credits in the opening/ending sequence.

3. lack translated hardcoded text. during the episode, it is common to see walls of text for a split second, it would be quite easy to trasnslate them for people to pause and read.

5. lack aggressive advertisement. Since their audience is now worldwide, maybe coca cola and similar would have paid a fortune in advertising in last season Hinouto, umaru-chan, to name one.

6. Late dubbing. One year or two is too much time for dubbing a series, if they know a show is going to be huge (i.e. AoT) they should invest in dubbing it asap.

This was yet another interesting and informative article.
Thank you, Justin.

I do not watch TV, and have not had cable or satellite service for at least a decade, but I was still curious about how all of those shows and networks managed to survive. So the part of the article that was about US TV was actually more interesting to me than the part about anime.
But both were well worth reading.

There is something that I am still curious about with the anime.
I cannot really grasp the implication of 200 shows per year, especially since not all shows are the same length.
I think that I could understand it better if I knew how many episodes per week are being made.

It's a lack of variety. Having hundreds of anime a year would only be overwhelming if they were all distinct, but they aren't. Pick some panty fanservice shows to watch, pick some idol anime, pick some adaptations of whatever's popular. I don't know. As it stands, though, we are actually in a drought of original works.

I highly doubt this due to people being incredibly picky few people want to listen to a song in language they don't understand

and fewer want to listen to something that may sound awful in their native tounge.....unless it's deliberately turned into something else....cough Rock The Dragon cough

I think this is something for the hardest of the hardcore of anime fans especially if they become attached to a show or if they want to avoid watching another show done by a director or animator they didn't care for.

No one likes walls of text.

Aggressive advertisement of almost any sort is generally frowned upon by some people.

You can never know if an anime dub is going to be a hit or a miss that's always been the risk behind licensing a series.

Though I would, in all honesty, feel pretty skeevy watching at least the Cartoon Network shows off-screen, since I haven't been able to find a legal way to watch them online. :/

but because we have a generation that grew up on The Office and The Simpsons, we now have a comedy-impaired generation that believes Comedy is about the right to act like snarky immature responsibility-avoiding manchildren, and still have a job and family.)

Anyway, there's too many books being produced for people to reasonably read them all too, but that's not seen as a problem. Nobody should be expected to view all the fiction. Humanity is massive. Just enjoy whatever you'd like.

67(this season) + 69(Summer/spring leftovers and longrunners) = 135 episodes per week.

Rederoin wrote:

67(this season) + 69(Summer/spring leftovers and longrunners) = 135 episodes per week.

Thank you.
That really is a lot of anime.

I doubt that anybody would be interested in everything that is on, but with that much to choose from every day it could get difficult to watch everything that you wanted to.