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AnimeHeretic
Joined: 10 Jul 2003
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:35 pm
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Hmm, I guess that puts some perspective on how big of a market we are compared to the mainstream.
I never would have guessed that small though
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Advent_Nebula
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:40 pm
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I put atleast $2,000 into it last year.
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:55 pm
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Pretty much what I expected.
I find one fallacy a lot of anime fans seem to fall into is that they see the large anime sections in mainstream video stores, like how, at Metro Video in Montreal, the anime section is more or less the same size as the comedy section or the action section, and they assume that means there's as big an audience for the stuff as there is for live-action comedies or action films, when I've always just assumed that all that means is that we're a big-spending niche for DVDs compared to your average non-anime fan consumer. Yes, anime fandom has grown considerably compared to what it was 6 or 7 years ago, but it's still a niche market, make no mistake about it.
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heyyu
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:45 pm
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Actually, I believe last year it was also something like 1 or 2%. So it doesn't suprise me to the size of the anime home video market as small as 1.4% (although I believe it'd be higher than 1.4% if it wasn't because of bootlegs).
Anime might seem like a large market, but I think it only seems that way because the fans tend to be more vocal and hardcore.
Also, the majority of buyers tend to be older (or at least buyers with a steady source of income). So a lot of younger anime fans, unless their parents are loaded or their babysitting job is paying them more than usual, simply don't have the income to purchase a lot of anime titles.
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vherub
Joined: 12 Nov 2003
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:57 am
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i wonder if the neilson scan ratings are in any way skewed against anime as they do not total 100% of all video sales
Without knowing the figures, I imagine anime get a large boost with the advent of dvd. i could see some stronger growth in the future, especially if clubs (like columbiahouse) continue to place a larger emphasis on anime in their catalogs.
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one3rd
Joined: 28 Jul 2003
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:11 am
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vherub wrote: | i wonder if the neilson scan ratings are in any way skewed against anime as they do not total 100% of all video sales |
Actually, with statistics, there is such a thing as a sample size that is too large. There's some method to determine the ideal sample size, but I don't remember it. It's been three years since I took statistics.
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Sword of Whedon
Joined: 17 Sep 2003
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:35 pm
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WalMart will not allow their numbers to be tracked, and probably never will.
Nothing is skewed, it's just that the industry is far smaller than most people would like to imagine it to be. It's the same with the fantasy that "everyone in Japan watches tons of anime" and "fansubs are perfectly legal because I don't live in Japan"
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Haiseikoh 1973
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:47 pm
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Sword of Whedon wrote: | WalMart will not allow their numbers to be tracked, and probably never will.
Nothing is skewed, it's just that the industry is far smaller than most people would like to imagine it to be. It's the same with the fantasy that "everyone in Japan watches tons of anime" and "fansubs are perfectly legal because I don't live in Japan" |
*laughs at the fallacy of this comment*
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