Ways To “Support The Anime Industry,” Ranked
In this post, I’ll be ranking common ways to “support the anime industry” from least helpful to most helpful, from the perspective of a Western anime fan.
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Otaku Appeal Is A Marketing Advantage
In the coming years, brands that appeal to otaku will have a significant advantage over ones that don’t.
The Anime Industry CANNOT Rely On Overseas
Being reliant on revenue from overseas would put the anime industry at the mercy of other nations’ market forces.
I Don’t “Support” The Anime Industry (And Neither Should You)
I probably own well over $3000 worth of anime figures. I didn’t buy them because I wanted to “support” anyone.
Why Doesn’t Crunchyroll Pay Translators Less?
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 …
To Understand Anime, Understand Business First
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.
Why There Won’t Be Another Crunchyroll Story
Crunchyroll had such a distinct and significant first-mover’s advantage, and it’s basically impossible to replicate Crunchyroll’s success.
5 Inspirational Anime Characters
(Cross-post from Iyashikei) Characters in fiction tend to represent ideas. Writers use their characters as a manifestation of different concepts. For example, the typical “hero” in fiction is often a combination of several different traits that people tend to see as “heroic.”