What do you think caused the anime slump in North America?

Viz understanRAB the importance of licensing franchises by major creators with manga and anime arms, and also has had many, many years in the business to refine their ways of keeping a finger on the pulse of anime fandom. A lot of the sorts of shows that turned into money pits just happen to be, by definition, properties Viz wouldn't go after... though it's a pity they didn't. I bet Viz could've marketed the One Piece anime into a hit.
 
What do you mean, you are being vague. Are saying the Dark knight did poorly in China and not Japan, because I know for a fact that DK did not do well in Japan.

My main point is, just because something is popular in Japan doesn't mean it will be popular here.
 
Who says the girlfriend cheating is personal?



Except they cancelled the highly rated anime, too.



Okay, why am I the one who always has to look up the ratings? I'm not going to look up the ratings for a hack dub that I don't even care about for such a minor point. But, Johnny Test and TDI don't air on Saturday morning like Blue Dragon, so your point is irrelevant.



A good TV show should make you feel emotion. If it doesn't, why bother watching?



No, she doesn't. If there's no ring on her finger she can do whatever she wants.
 
Because you have emotional involvement with a girlfriend, not a TV station!

Do you talk to a TV station , do you touch it, do you share with it? No, of course, there is no emotional involvement.

Seriously this whole comparison is kinda insane.



Which became less highly rated, because it was poorly paced. seriously it killed its own momentum and lost its audience, that's not CN fault.
 
I think one important aspect is the Japanese companies need to stop seeing international customers as walking piggy banks. It's been mentioned that now the international market is a consideration for a show making a profit and the companies have been wising up but it's still not perfect. Bandai Visuals 'We Know Everything About Fan Wants' was fairly damning and even now, having taken over BEI, the tactic of overcharged releases still hasn't completely gone away. The companies need to appreciate that customers/fans in places like Europe and America can't be expected to cough up free money to them. They have to treat us like honest valued customers, not a frankly outdated view of vile foreigners who should be happy with whatever they get.
 
No, you know what Bandai Visual's real problem was? They treated the American consumers exactly like the Japanese ones and assumed they'd be okay paying really exorbitant amounts of money for DVRAB with relatively few episodes per disc, not a lot of extra features, but fairly better mastering than the average R1 disc.

They had no idea that American licensees had gotten the local fanbase used to more episodes per disc than Japanese release, and at a much lower price point than the Japanese audience pays, and that few collectors over here had very high standarRAB for mastering.

Bandai Visual's crime wasn't racism. A lot of their stupid releases were exact parallels of releases Japanese audiences had no problem with. Their crime wasn't realizing that American licensees had built a market of anime consumers who just couldn't be treated like their American counterpart. Most American anime fans aren't willing to spend tons of money on it the way Japanese fans do.
 
I'm not saying they're racist. It's very hard to articulate what I am saying because it is honestly a case of favouring the home market and thinking of the market beyond Asia as being there to fatten up wallets. It's a matter teetering on a very thin line. Even folks involved in the industry on our side of things say they've gotten this feeling when they have to communicate with the companies in Japan.

A good company sets out different strategies for different markets and effectively capatalises on new demand. The problem Japanese studios seem to be having is they see the success their shows have had this decade and their response is 'Wow, we could be making mad stacks off of this. Let's ride this for all it's worth!'. Not a sustainable business model, nor one that invites customer support.
 
I'll tell you one thing that I think has hurt anime, at least in a TV perspective. Initially, I started watching several anime titles on Adult Swim. At first, this was great for someone who'd not been exposed to a lot of anime because five nights in a row, one could watch new episodes of whatever shows were currently airing during the Adult Swim block.

However, the problem with this kind of format is the rerun period. Back then, I can't tell you how many times Cowboy Bebop would show up, then repeat, repeat, move to a new time period, repeat, repeat, etc. A lot of shows did this, though I think CB was one of the worst ones. A long-running series like Inuyasha at least had the benefit of having more episodes to rerun through, thus wasn't quite as tedious at first.

Eventually, it got to the point to where I couldn't stand to have the channel on because of the ad nauseam reruns.

I never could understand why a more traditional TV display of anime couldn't be done. For example, every Monday at (to make up a time) 10pm, Inuyasha came on. Tuesday at 10pm would be Yu Yu Hakusho (and understand, I'm just inserting any titles, not necessarily ones that were on AS or should be in AS). Wednesday -- Bleach. Etc. So there'd be a different show Monday through Friday at 10pm and you'd get new episodes for everything each week. This would of course go through the whole block.

To me, this broadcast format would lower the weary factor from normal viewers. Frankly, I suspect that a lot of people were like me -- dead sick of seeing the same old stuff on because once you blow through how ever many episodes you have, that's it. You either get something new, or you rerun it again. Either way, you go through episode quite rapidly playing five episodes of a series a week.
 
Trust me dude, you're not the only one who felt this way

I was dead sick of seeing the same stuff over and over again too, so I decided to venture out and seek more anime
 
Indeed, They also don't over produce. Too many printings of series that should not have been. Also not overloading the licenses, which may have contributed to geneon's death, and other companies seeing some rougher times.
I only hope this is not the case with Fun.
 
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