Comments on: The Industry Impasse

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:18:41 +0000

How about legalizing fansubbing on the precondition that some non-obnoxious advertisement is inserted between the eye-catches and that the resulting revenue is passed back to the creators?
That way nothing much will need to change. Fansubbers will still do what they like to do. Downloaders will still download and unless the advertisements are really irritating will generally download them from the same source they always got them from.
But companies would get advertising revenues. And because the Japanese companies could sort of cut out the middleman and keep their foreign operations much leaner they would get to keep more of it.

By: Only The Bitch Knows » Can You Stop Talking Now?

Only The Bitch Knows » Can You Stop Talking Now? — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:22:37 +0000

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:40:39 +0000

Short form of previously linked posts: “fansubbers aren’t the only problem - there’s too many titles to keep up with, my buying power has diminished due to rising costs of living, and there’s way too much stuff out there to keep up on and almost zero publicity for most titles. It also takes too long for some stuff to get out there, and outside of having a legal copy of a show there’s little incentive to buy the DVD’s - maybe you need to look at more ‘value-add’ material like the Haruhi LE ‘Japanese-TV broadcast order DVDs’ instead of throwing a CD in there, or else release it faster and in formats which help you publicize the matter; ‘official’ subs broadcast shortly after the Japanese airings).

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:28:39 +0000

You know, I’m sick and tired of posts about the industry. Here’s my rants on the subject, since I don’t feel like putting them up here, or cutting-and-pasting.

http://anime.jefflawson.net/2007/11/25/a-bitter-pill/

http://wtf.animeblogger.net/?p=225

I will say that I buy anime - but only if I’ve seen it first, since otherwise I might end up with a steaming pile of crap like Gundam SEED Destiny. I’ve oodles of suggestions, which are unlikely to ever happen, and after the fansubs collapse along with the a nime industry, we’ll be seeing more finger-pointing from all parties saying that THEY’RE the problem, and not the glut of titles, the overlicensing of titles, the sheer inanity of some things, and so forth.

This is like the North American TV industry from about twenty years ago… which eventually became so bland that you’ve got Reality Shows all over, and the same five sitcoms showing similar plots. This is the future of Japanese TV, folks - suck on it, and enjoy the flavor of mediocrity.

By: soul.assassin

soul.assassin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:18:38 +0000

Well, the writing is now on the wall.

Here, kids can’t wait for the networks to release the next season of their beloved show (i.e. Naruto or Bleach) so all they do is go over to Crunchroll or Youtube and watch there instead.

As for me, because I feel it’s too expensive to buy up shows (as if I have to keep up with the Joneses), I’m relegated to watching whatever is on Hero TV, Animax SEA or on the local networks, trying to live with the various degrees of dubbing involved. Only the wealthier kids can easily get themselves up to date than I do.

By: MK

MK — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:28:50 +0000

I hope the industry does wake up and his suggestion sounds pretty good to me. One of the things I’ve never liked about anime is the sheer cost. There are series that I’ll definitely buy (and have deleted the fansubs for) but I wish the prices would come down.

By: Marmot

Marmot — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:08:07 +0000

AMEN LUVR