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TiredGamer
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I noticed a decided lack of blame placed on fansubs...
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Teriyaki Terrier
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All of the blame should be placed on Fansubs and fan translations. As well as the recession. Simply put, if there weren't fansubs, Geneon would still be around and ADV flims would have completed Yotsubasa this year.
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GeneralArrow
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Why? Why does there need to be blame placed on anyone? Sure they take revenue away but blaming it on them isn't going to solve anything there are far more productive things to be doing then blaming. |
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bayoab
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This has very little to nothing to do with fansubs. This is about the Japanese market, not the american market for the most part. There are tons of other factors than piracy going on. Changing demographics, poor content (when you have 60 shows, most are going to be crap), etc are all to blame. Last edited by bayoab on Mon May 04, 2009 11:58 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Kyogissun
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...Is there some reason that we can't just say...
"The rising amount of fans that used to exist don't anymore. Anime, while a recognized hobby/culture, is no longer explosive in popularity." Sure, we have conventions, more titles getting brought overseas but... I don't see the industry sinking entirely... And so it needs restructuring, boo-****ing-hoo, things will be figured out, companies will solve their problems and in the end, anime will still be accessible. This is just another big/important person saying something we already know. Anime is not MASSIVELY popular anymore. Somebody should tell this guy to stop looking in the OLD NEWS section of teh innerwebz. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I wish the shrinking market would teach them that, but you can't teach an old Japanese new tricks.
I hear this one come up quite often, touted with "generic" or "extremely average". If the majority of shows are those or worse, why should they sell? The reason why anime was so big in 2002 and 2003 was because of how much of it was on TV at amazing times. You get home from school and bam, Tenchi and Gundam. Now if you want to watch anime on TV, the best way to get it to mos people, you have to stay up until 1:30 AM on a Saturday to get something that isn't Bleach or Naruto. Say what you will about fansubs, but poor TV showings are as much if not more to blame.
The problem with this argument that a wide portion of people who download fansubs have stated that they wouldn't buy DVDs if they couldn't get fansubs, they'd find something else to do. Sure that doesn't make them "fans", but do they care? No, because it's a meaningless title. And it might not just be fansubs, people can download DVDrips as well, thus completely negating the possibility of buying the DVDs because now they have the precious dub as well. Last edited by walw6pK4Alo on Tue May 05, 2009 12:08 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Megiddo
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It's hard though. Cause you take something like Strike Witches which is pretty much exactly what is described as just adding mecha so it would sell, and then if you compare it to something as creative as Kaiba, a quality anime in my opinion, I'm pretty dang sure the DVD sales for Kaiba don't even come close to that of Strike Witches. So if the people keep buying this stuff, more of it is going to be made, and if people don't buy actually creative stuff like Kaiba, then it will eventually fall by the wayside. |
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peachsncreamsoda
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I'd be curious to know just how much of an impact fansubbing actually had. And the whole Crunchyroll thing, I never really got. I mean yea sure, you can pay to watch it early, but if its just gonna end up being streamed for free later on... isn't that just like fansubbing anyways? That whole thing has always confused me
I think I have to agree that that goes along with the whole 70% or so of the anime that comes out is usually crap or just like everything else/same old same old. Which I think is a major part. I can definitely see how its falling and that this might have a big part in it. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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No, this is as much about the Japanese market than the American market. Nobody will deny they're a factor in the industry's current woes, but hardly 100%. But! This is an industry thread, so we all know where this discussion is going. Hell. Straight to HELL. Last edited by jsevakis on Tue May 05, 2009 12:22 am; edited 1 time in total |
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sanosuke32
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Whats your excuse for when things were selling well and fansubbing was already around? Sure fansubbing is a huge contributor, but you can't blame everything on it. There's a reason why anime fell after 2006, everything that comes out now looks like it should be illegal for underage children fanservice or just really bad ideas or ideas that have been done a million times already. There are of course exceptions, but mostly I don't care about newer animes that looks like it's for pedophiles.
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minakichan
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Wait, you mean the Japanese market isn't completely at the mercy of a small group of teenagers in an American market that barely even has an otaku niche?
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Sea Lion
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It's not just a Japanese thing. DVD sales across the map are falling because the novelty of owning a series/movie has worn off. Entertainment executives everywhere are freaking out because they can't fathom how to make money in the broadband era.
There will be fewer anime series made, but quality should rise when not every idea pitched gets its own OVA. Will bad anime still be produced? Sure, but it'll be less frequent. Plus, maybe these execs will learn to harness the power of the Internet when they listen to fans at sites like ANN and produce series based on what we clamor for on the forums. |
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Sam Murai
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To be honest, anime was never "massively popular" or even just "popular" in the general sense. Sure, there were properties like Transformers, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, but those were individual titles and not representative of the genre's success as a whole. In reality, anime is still niche, with its popularity ebbing every so often, but never penetrating the mainstream on a sizable level or with the sort of titles that were big with the fandom. As for the "bubble", I thought that was old news, since it was brought up a few years ago (happened on both sides of the Pacific). Whatever the case, I always thought that this sort of talk was overblown because there are have actually been a great deal of good shows produced within this decade. You'll always have a few duds each season and to the studios' and producers' credit, they have tried to lower the number of productions done and heed more to quality (though "otaku-baiting" has gotten in the way with some, with varying results). Also, the industry is beginning to move out of its rut (business, distribution, and economic-wise) by embracing better working relations with international companies and newer technology and practices. The turnaround hasn't been a year old, but I think the overall outlook for the industry is largely positive. Fighting fire with fire concerning fansubs and illegal distribution should also help them quite a bit and be worth the resources and effort in the long run. |
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britannicamoore
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Couldn't the the problem be we put out 306 shows but only X number did well. So later we put out less because people didn't like them?
There's so much in this. It is probably a combination of a lot of things...the lack of good shows coupled with the prices of said shows. Or the fact that even if I pick up Action-palooza 23 on DVD it's going to be released in blu-ray ten minutes later. |
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DomFortress
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You want to start something irrelevant, then go somewhere else and hop onto another band wagon along with the rest of the trouble makers. Because anime piracy due to fansubs and scanslations has nothing to do with Japanese domestic anime market. Now, back to the business at hands... The original article in Japanese did mentioned about fansub being one of the factor for the decrease in international anime DVD market:
So instead, this got my attention:
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