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CR85747
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The English name of the AJA makes it sound like they're representing the drawings rather than the companies.
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skaterballer
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Maybe this industry would thrive even more if we didn't try to make a shortening of the word 'animation' mean something more specific than 'animation'. Same with 'manga'.
I am so tired of going into video stores and seeing an 'anime' sign and then nothing but Japanese media underneath it. I am so tired of going into book stores and seeing a 'manga' sign and then seeing nothing but Japanese media underneath it. People don't want to check Japanese non-live-action media out because we try so hard to divide it from the rest of media. It's from Japan. Let that simply be the reason you give when one asks why a particular movie or comic looks different. The essence of telling stories visually without using real people is so free. It's so...undivided. Everything's connected. Line to line, panel to panel, stop-motion picture to stop-motion picture. Ripping the broadness out of 'animation' 's little word brother, 'anime', and 'cartoon' 's foreign word twin, 'manga' (although, I think 'manga' can refer to more things than just what 'cartoon' can refer to), rips the essence out of these words, and in turn gives people a quick way to do onto media what we do onto each other: divide. As the leader of Brilliant Dynamite Neon would say, "that ain't beautiful". |
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Jose Cruz
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You are making a completely invalid comparison of two completely different measures. I don't know what "net worth" in the way it was estimated means as well. But if you want a comparison the Canadian animation industry, which is very large as it produces a substantial fraction of all English language animation, is about 250 million dollars in size. The anime industry (measured by the same criteria) is about 10 times that size. The anime industry is perhaps around 50% of the world's animation for TV market share, it's about 2/3 of all the stuff but it's made for lower production costs than American or Canadian animation. If you want a global entertainment industry number, well a British consulting firm estimated it was about 180 billion dollars in 2013, a data published in the economist, more than half of that was TV, movies, music and videogames were the other half. The anime industry is about 2.5 billion, or 1.5% of the world's entertainment industry. I don't think they counted novel sales though (which are about 30-35 billion dollars) or comic book sales (Japan's manga sales are ca. 5 billion dollars, American comic book sales are 0.4 billion, I guess around 1 billion for the rest of the world. In terms of share of comic book market, manga has about 85% share of the world's comic book market: Japan alone is 75% of the world's comic book market and manga is about 40% of the rest of the world's comic sales. |
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