Anime industry hit hard by recession

Clearly I'm just not buying Gunpla fast enough. Who knew skipping on Destiny would cause this?

The last point in the article is food for thought- does enjoying drawing/making stuff mean you should pursue a job in it or just keep it as a hobby?
 
Wow. I'd heard an earlier study found that they made about $960 a month - which is still horrendous - but $800?

What a nightmare.
 
I remeraber a few years back when there was this whole debate about if fansubbing/downloading was hurting the anime industry. A few years later and we have our answer: YES, IT IS!!! Too many so-called fans just download their anime & don't actually purchase the DVD's. I think this is the onus on the fansubbers: they've basically created a whole illegal market.
 
Problem is, the people who have caused this will never care to understand the trouble. Why pay for stuff when in a day or two someone will have uploaded it for free? It's especially become a problem as now fansubs are competing with the official releases, with things like HD encodes.
 
did you guys hear, the recession is ending, due to increase in inventory, that is what caused it, a decrease in inventory, so an increase puts it to an end.
 
This show just how much respect those fansubbers and people who download anime on the internet for free really care about the people who take the time to actually create the anime for them. New laws need to take place if anime is going to survive, it's just riduculous how fast the latest episode of any anime can be subbed and spread throught the internet, with millions of people downloading it within a week, and what little can be done with it.

These people are criminals. What's so hard about spending 10 dollars for a 13 episode anime series? Show support for the people who work on these shows.
 
Fansubbing grew out of these shows not being easily available outside of Asia. Hence originally, these were the only way to see these shows. Official streams have gone a decent way to resolving this but they still don't catch everything. You'll even see fansubs for shows that do receive online streams simply because some fans somehow can't wait a few days for the official streams to be made available. The internet age has helped further society's desire for instant and free satisfaction. Weening people off of that is an uphill struggle.
 
Why aren't these big companies faster at getting their own subbed streams out than a few mooks who have no financial motive to do so are?, it just doesn't make sense, lol.
 
I'm not going to claim that fansubs have no effect at all, that would be playing devil's advocate and nothing else, but it's not the only or even the main factor behind the decline of the industry. The problem includes fansubs but also goes beyond them.

I think that's essentially resorting to a superficial scapegoat while refusing to address that a)the entire world economy is suffering right now. b)the anime industry's economic model is increasingly unsustainable and neeRAB to change for a nuraber of additional reasons.

If I recall correctly, Japanese animators have never earned a lot to begin with...and that's all putting it quite nicely, so it's not like the solution is erasing fansubs from the face of the planet, nor will such a move would result in a significant (or even proportional) increase in salaries for these people, if everything else were to remain exactly the same.
 
Legal streaming has been going on for what, a year? It's a young venture yet. And frankly, there's still a lot to prove when it comes to how successful it will ultimately be for the industry.
 
I honestly don't think anything short of shutting down video streaming sites and non-commercial file-sharing will do anything to resolve this problem. I don't think anime companies should really cater to the type of person who would use such things. They would be better off trying to appeal to mainstream consumers.
 
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