Toon Zone Talkback - Fate Of Japanese Animation Industry In Doubt

Fansubs of stuff you can't get in your own country I can understand. When the show has a perfectly acceptable release in your country and you watch a pirated copy of that over buying your own copy and supporting a niche area of the market...yes, that's crossing the line in my book.
 
I wonder how much animation studios currently exist in Japan? I wonder if the current econonic context will force a consolidation/mergers of Japanese animated studios?
 
well this is a gathered from the Story and the Post that i have scanned over.
well I blame it on the people downloading anime from the net. why can't just go to thier local dvd outlet like FYE or boarders or a suncoast or bestbuy &
Just Buy the DVD of their favoite amine series. Because that way the coustmer wins along with the store and japan as well..
 
SounRAB like we need another Pokemon.

If a series is available on DVD, and you want it, you should buy the DVD. That's pretty clear cut. Fan Subbing/Piracy of shows that are already released in respective countries is definitly theft. I have already voiced my general aversion to subtitles, but I think I could deal with it if it meant putting a stop to that.
 
Okay, since there are so many posts this is relevant to, I'll copy the massive message I just sent to someone who I won't name, and because it was originally directed towarRAB them, some of it may not be relevant to everyone, but I'd rather just put it in one post than have to write everything again, in multiple posts. So here it is:

As for fansubbers, I don't think they deserve this great amount of respect. No matter what reasons there are for it, no matter how hard they work, no matter how big of fans they are or how much they help other fans, the fact is that fansubs are one of the big reasons the anime industry is doing so bad, and as long as they continue, the industry will continue to do worse. If they are such big fans, they should realize that if they continue to illegally distribute this content, Japanese anime companies won't have the incentive or means to continue to produce the quality anime that they presumably love. But they obviously love making subtitles, since they continue to do so despite the risk of getting caught. So what should they do instead? GET A JOB DOING IT! Make official subs for Crunchyroll or the Japanese companies or whoever makes the subs for that, or make them for an American company. They get to do what they love without any risk of getting in trouble for it, they get to help the industry instead of hurting it, and they get PAID for doing what they love.

As for Crunchyroll, yes they were hurting the industry just as much as fansubbers. Yes they were stealing from the fansubbers themselves (not that I find that to be any worse than fansubbing itself). Yes they did start a business from being as much of thieves as fansubbers. Yes they did ultimately manage to succeed. But now they only help the industry, providing it with a new source of money, the most direct source of American fans' money, while fansubbers continue to only hurt it. It may seem right to say "they started bad, I won't accept them now", but the fact is I know that the anime industry is getting money from me every month, and they're not getting that money from you.

So no matter what sense of justice you believe in, the fact remains that fansubs hurt the industry and Crunchyroll now helps it, so if more people stick to the former and less try the latter, the gloomy state of the anime industry will continue to get worse, and the anime that is produced in the future will be of lesser quantity and quality. I don't want that, and I don't think any other anime fan does, which is why I give money to Crunchyroll, and try to convince others to do the same. Long live anime.
 
You know, the thing that scares me most is that I'll be going off to university in a couple of years to learn to animate. I don't want that to be me.
 
Japanese animators are horribly underpaid. If Canada's animation industry is similar to America's, the pay should be pretty good.

Plus there's plenty of studios around. You're in Vancouver. That's Canada's Hollywood!
 
Yes but I'm afraid of a few other things. Of my class of twenty or so three other people also wanted to be in animation. Two of which wanted to go to the same school. I've devoted every elective to this(and thanks to the school system that means I pick every class I have except english next year, which I was going to take anyway and switch to writing next year) and I'm still fearful, all things considered it's going to be expensive and time consuming just for the opprotunity to maybe get a job at a studio while competing against lots of other hopefuls.


To imagine my situation imagine sperm cells newly made. You have to survive long enough to get the opportunity to fertilize and then race against a whole lot of equally hopeful and skilled people in a contest as Dependant on luck as it is on skill. I really want to make at least one animated series and to make that work that's years of grueling practice, learning, study on things like anatomy(one person spent a year learning how to do eyes) and physics(buildings have to explode realistically and people need to fight mid air without looking ridiculous), not to mention the dozens of other things I could go into. Making good animation is like fighting a troll with a toothpick(cookie for the reference).
 
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