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NEWS: ICv2: North American Anime DVDs Were Down 20%+ in 2007

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Fansubs... the part which discusses the responsibility for anime of free download/stream from end. The idiot of demon, so the shank?

shank of the evening, the main or best part of the evening: "Don't leave yet—it's just the shank of the evening."

Anime dvd sales were down, but aren't dvd sales generally going down? You can't count piracy out for anime sales dropping but, the same is true for regular tv/movies anyway. I was under the impression that the dvd had peaked and been dropping for sometime now.

Zac wrote:

Quote: Fansubs... the part which discusses the responsibility for anime of free download/stream from end. The idiot of demon, so the shank?

Shank? For kicks I checked the dictionary and the only definition I could get besides anything long(handle, bone, leg, etc) or hitting a golf ball wrong was:

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shank of the evening, the main or best part of the evening: "Don't leave yet—it's just the shank of the evening."

Vortextk wrote:

Anime dvd sales were down, but aren't dvd sales generally going down? You can't count piracy out for anime sales dropping but, the same is true for regular tv/movies anyway. I was under the impression that the dvd had peaked and been dropping for sometime now.

DVD sales are down overall, but anime DVD sales fell earlier and harder. 2007 was the first year since the format was introduced in 1997 that overall DVDs sales were down, and they were only down less than 5%.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-01-07-dvd-sales-slippage_N.htm

However, anime DVD sales was already dropping year-to-year well before 2007, and the anime DVDs' 2007 drop alone is over 20%. From 2003 to 2007, the four-year drop is at least 40%.

There's a big difference between less than 5% and more than 20%. There's also a big difference with three years of slowly plateauing overall sales followed by small one-year drop, and four years of anime sales drops adding up to over 40%.

calimike wrote:

You part blame for free download/stream anime from fansubs... end of discuss. Devil fool you, isn't he?

I was trying to decipher this message so I ran it through Babelfish, first into Japanese and then back into English, hoping to glean some meaning.

I got this:

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Fansubs... the part which discusses the responsibility for anime of free download/stream from end. The idiot of demon, so the shank?

An average of 33 volumes of manga are being released weekly in North America.

Okay, so we need new figures indexed to remove the influence of Geneon on DVDs and Naruto on manga?

Some of you folks are really grasping at straws to somehow discredit or disprove these numbers, and frankly I'm not really even sure why in the world you'd be so dedicated to doing that in the first place.

The dvd sales are down because over the years we went from a $20.00 dvd to almost a $30.00 dvd which only has 4 to 6 episodes on it. Buying a complete box set is cheaper, when and if the box set comes out.

Why in the world would anyone want to do that?

Oh wait, we all know why they would want to do that.

As great as the sales were last year, imagine the bump they'll get this year with the live-action film.

testorschoice wrote:

As great as the sales were last year, imagine the bump they'll get this year with the live-action film.

*snerk* *pounds on the desk laughing*

Easily 2008's most grossly overachieving prediction ever.

Shadowrun20XX wrote:

(Off topic)Our Suncoast stores here in Vegas,are just now closing down.I would buy a lot of anime from there.The familiars are disappearing.

Our suncoast closed years ago. I didn't buy from them because they were so marked up in price.