Japanese Government Wants to Fund Overseas Anime/Manga/Culture

Hey, I'm happy about anything that may increase the flow of anime from Japan. However, as has already been alluded to, Japanese companies can do themselves a big favour by not putting big obstacles in the way of international distributors. I've heard it said that their fear of "re-importation" causes them to put conditions on international distributors that hurt sales abroad...i.e. long delays in the release of certain titles, etc.
 
Idea: the best way for the Japanese government to make this work is to subsidize the costs foreign companies incur when initially bringing over Japanese content. IE: rather than help Toei try yet again to setup an American localization and licensing branch, offer to subsidize Funimation's (and other companies) expenditures in buying, producing and marketing licensing anime (and manga for that matter,) and either take a direct slice of the royalties sent back to Japan, or reap the reward by collecting more in taxes (as a more profitable company pays more money to the government.) They could even give deference to anime originally produced for the state-run NHK channel, so that there would be an additional and direct piece of economic recompense for oRABetting the initial costs a foreign company would incur for producing said titles, in as much as the NHK (and thus the government) is assured a slice of royalties from their titles.

tl;dr: use the cash to make it less expensive for foreign companies to buy and localize anime.
 
Well, there's dozens of other peoples that would. Not to mention the original already has a [less than ideal, far less] dub.

At this point, I'd still buy them...if only for having the original...although I'd heavily miss Steve Simmons' subs.
 
I think it's better for FUNimation and Toei Animation to wait a iittle before going forward with any "Kai" DVRAB. I think it'd be best not to release too many "Dragonball" DVRAB at once.
 
Well, end o' this month and there won't be much to worry about. Second Season Nine--heck, even before--comes out I could totally see the announcement of a DBK release stateside most highly likely being from FUNimation of course. 15 years of hard work shouldn't go down the drain, and I doubt Gen Fukunaga ain't gonna ask he uncle to get him Kai (probably for free again, too).
 
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