The Western Anime Industry WILL Die
It’s my belief that Crunchyroll and Funimation are heading for eventual disaster if they continue on the path they’ve been on.
It’s my belief that Crunchyroll and Funimation are heading for eventual disaster if they continue on the path they’ve been on.
If you’ve witnessed any of these themed accounts suddenly dive into political declarations, you know what I’m talking about.
Quite frankly, it’s some of the worst marketing I’ve seen on Twitter by a long shot.
We all know that Crunchyroll pays its translators a pittance to translate anime for their subtitles. The oft-cited rate is $80 per episode. A video by Canipa recently detailed the history behind this paradigm. It goes back to the late 2000s, when Crunchyroll was making its transition to legitimacy. Ken Hoinsky, and his company MX …
If you want to understand anime, you need to understand business and marketing more than you need to understand film, or literary theory, or anything like that.
When US anime companies screw up, people often talk about telling “Japan” that US companies messing up their anime and their visual novels.
I’m here to tell you why that won’t help anyone and is kind of a punk move.
Could what happened with Interspecies Reviewers have been prevented? Can it be prevented from happening to another anime?
Crunchyroll had such a distinct and significant first-mover’s advantage, and it’s basically impossible to replicate Crunchyroll’s success.
For many, it seems Twitter is not much more than a tool for repeatedly running game on themselves.
Like anime figures? Hate taxes? Let’s kill two birds with one stone.
Is there too much anime nowadays? Good question. To answer it, we’ll need to understand how the anime industry works.