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NEWS: Crunchyroll's Japanese Head Steps Down

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I don't know who this Kun Gao is but I'm pretty much on your side with that. I don't enjoy those chinese production anime.

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I am baffled that no one has mentioned this before. Crunchyroll is supposedly a so called american company (says so in the article), yet they have actively promoted this chinese productions, but the only anime production with western influence they have helped produce is Shelter? Somebody might say the chinese markets produces more income than the USA, but if you add up all the minutes the three series I mentioned and compare that amount of time with the length of the Shelter video, something does not add up (translation: american company with a chinese promotion agenda, wtf!?)

Everybody wants a piece of the Chinese pie, I guess.

The rest of the world has been paying them for decades for outsourced labor. Might as well return the favor by paying for other countries' stuff now.

I imagine the situation will change should China's domestic entertainment business ships up and improves enough for Chinese audiences to be interested in their own stuff, but I have no idea if that will ever happen.

I hope this does not mean Kun Gao will push for the production of more Chinese Cartoons (bloodivores, spiritpact, cheating craft, etc.)

I suspect that (again) you did not understood what I wrote. By Chinese Cartoon I really meant chinese intellectual property. Those three series I mention (plus TO BE HERO and Hitori No Shita: The Outcast) are assigned to japanese studios for production (China has animated series since the Batman TAS, but the direction has been provided for them from outside) but the idea/web novel is chinese. The basis of my assumption is that this chinese cartoons are so boring you have not seen them (or quickly forgotten them if you saw a preview). I do not consider them to be anime or interesting, hence the name.

It is my belief that at the moment nothing really interesting is being produced by the chinese web/light novel writers, they are too "green" and the chinese government will not allow anything thought provoking/"revolutionary" to be published; the communist party believes they are the brain behind the people and know a good writer could fill the minds of young chinese with ideas they do not like or think that could be dangerous.

What makes you think this would happen more now? Says he is a co-founder if he wanted to push more Chinese stuff wouldn't he have been doing it all along?

Yes, I do know what you meant, and I am referring to entertainment companies here and there wanting to appeal to Chinese audiences because they aren't really producing much worth watching in their own country. The bit about outsourcing was a joke, the idea being that lots of other countries give money to China for manufacturing, and now the Chinese, with a lot of new money, are very willing to spend it back to these countries.

Movie studios, TV production companies, and to a lesser extent game companies want some of that revenue. For that reason, it's become an increasing priority to make works palatable to Chinese consumers (and the Chinese government)