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Beatdigga
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What we're seeing in other words, is less anime being released solely because it's anime, and more for other reasons, which leads to market consolidation.
I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Manga's continued market growth (in direct correspondence with the shrinking of the American comic book audience) is only a good thing though. |
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Pepperidge
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I thought these were the most important points that need emphasizing. I really hope that FUNimation's upcoming experiment with releasing Aquarion straight-to-boxset will be a successful one. I also hope the speculation that Sony is planning to release all of Blood+ in one complete boxset after its television run is also true. Releases like these could break a lot of ground in the current market. |
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quartears
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finally they release the information.
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minakichan
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......Who invited Alfred Kahn to do what? *runs away*
FINALLY FIGURES please THANK YOU. What's the harm in releasing them? I really don't understand. Hundreds to thousands of DVDs/books a year? Sheesh. No one reads half of it, I'm pretty sure, yet really great series are still left on the other side of the Pacific. |
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KabaKabaFruit
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So what exactly went down at that panel between FUNimation, 4Kids, and ANN? I would love to hear what Al Kahn had to say.
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Mecorx
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If prices are lowered to fit the demand of consumers then it is likely that the quality of content will further decline.
Which is why I say: License less, Fansub more! |
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GATSU
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minaki: No need to run away. Al Kahn-bashing is never out of style.
No, bastardizations of Japanese culture are over. Japan's been around for centuries more than your company, though.
That must be why they still have drama and anime adaptations, as well as revenue from cell phone streaming of it.
I'm sorry that they don't broadcast more crap kiddie toy commercials you can exploit.
Yeah, Mind Game and Tokikake were total wastes of time. 
Who cares? I don't watch these titles, because they help the bottom line of faceless corporations. I watch them to be entertained. |
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minakichan
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...Did he really say that? GATSU, I can't even tell if you're kidding or not. That, I believe, is the saddest part.
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KabaKabaFruit
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All right here. |
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nebbo
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Thanks for the link, it was a good read. I'll just get on the Al Kahn-bashing bandwagon. Why does he provide negative PR for his company? I'm guessing the head of a company called 4Kids wouldn't know any better. |
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Dargonxtc
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Well at least manga seems to be doing alright.
Well at least anime is really popular.
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Paploo
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I'm kind of hoping that stuff like Aquarion, if it does well, will help make season sets more viable for more obscure shows. It all depends though.... either way, we'll probably continue seeing more kinds of releases [complete series sets like Aquarion, subonly dvd's like MB's Yuri Fan line, anime aired on TV boxsets like Prince of Tennis and One Piece, simultaneous or almost simultaneous releases for coproductions like Kite Liberator and StraightJacket(which'll likely hit when the 2nd or 3rd ep hits in Japan, with said eps on it's first disc), retailer focus on stuff on TV and high quality theatrical releases (sales of which by companies like Sony, Funimation and Manga have the benefit of helping more theatrical anime get made), stuff made pretty much just for the domestic market like Robotech Shadow Chronicles, or continuations of stuff that was hits here though less so in Japan like Karas etc etc etc] Anyhoo, regarding domestic comics- there's actually been a massive growth in sales for many companies. Graphic novels are big business. While superhero comics are doing more or less the same [albeit with much better Bookstore sales on trade paperbacks and digest collections], stuff from smaller publishers has been on the rise, as well as a massive growth for literary comics like those of Fantagraphics and Drawn and Quarterly, leading many prose publishers to start graphic novel lines of their own [one of the best selling graphic novels of last year was Fun Home, quite a bits away from both manga and superhero comics]. Anyhoo, it's part of why we've seen an increase in domestic manga style comics, and an increase in Graphic Novels in general..... companies are really gettting into bookstores who previously would of just made it by in comic shops, overlooked by those retailers. Longtime small pubs like Oni Press and Slave Labor now publish most of their books directly to b+w graphic novels, which shows just how much of an impact Manga is having on domestic comics, in helping them make inroads in bookstores, and influencing the format they're released in. I would of thought DC/Marvel sales would be down given increase competition from Manga and the exponential growth of non-superhero/non-manga style GN's, but the fact is, right now everything's doing pretty well, and keeping growing, as more crossover occurs between the audiences of graphic novels, as well as more general readers getting into them [just look at the success of Scholastic's Graphix line for younger readers, or First Second, or the Flight anthology, or big selling literary books like Persepolis from major prose publishers]. Though it's mostly due to Shojo Manga really getting bookstores into graphic novels as a profitable category, with stuff like TP's early titles like Sailor Moon. In the future, things'll stop expanding as quickly [but continue growing in a smaller way], but should keep at a level sustainable for a lot of publishers [and those who don't, well, they'll just drop out, but that's nothing new to comics]. Most bookstores now offer far more diverse content then most comic shops do, and are actually selling stuff, so it's pretty exciting. |
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reanimator
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Uh huh...yeah...then who's going to put food on the production staff's table? I don't remember fansub paying a dime on anime production. |
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Ojamajo LimePie
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Kahn doesn't need "crap kiddie toy commercial" shows; he can take good anime and turn it into crap! (One Piece, Ojamajo Doremi, etc.) 
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Sarkozy
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What does that have to do with anime and manga? NOTHING. |
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