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.
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.
In the coming years, brands that appeal to otaku will have a significant advantage over ones that don’t.
What the Uma Musume creators and the owners of the horses need to understand is that fans reciprocate when brands support them.
The Vtuber revolution is clearly here to stay. It’s fun, creative, and will no doubt make a lot of people a lot of money over time.
Being reliant on revenue from overseas would put the anime industry at the mercy of other nations’ market forces.
An effective mascot character becomes the best brand ambassador a company could ask for by becoming a household name in and of themselves.
I probably own well over $3000 worth of anime figures. I didn’t buy them because I wanted to “support” anyone.
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.