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Josh7289
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Stop trying to play down a serious problem. |
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CorneredAngel
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When, as an anime company, you're planning to sell a hundred thousand units of a DVD (just to pick a number), and lose ten thousand to fansubs, that's annoying, but not deadly. When you'll be lucky to move ten thousand, and then only move five, or less, you have a big problem. Oh, and the monthly payment on the lease for your office is due tomorrow. For some anime, there *is* no viable U.S. market, and no attempt to imagine otherwise will get anywhere. |
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Yoda117
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Let me get this out of the way first... your troll-fu is weak. /snags some popcorn for the ensuing fansub/anti-fansub debate //I'm sure everyone will behave in an civilized manner and won't make it personal 
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luhead
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All I meant was, obviously there is a way for licensing companies to be profitable. Maybe if more people ran their businesses the way Funimation does, we wouldn't hear "the sky is falling!" every five minutes. If niche titles can't turn a profit, stop licensing them.
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Tyrenol
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Apparently, he's not great enough. "Smores & Hotdogs," huh? I know of a few campfire stories myself. There's one about a few otaku-turned-backstabbers, stuffed animals from Excel Saga, and the bet that "we can't buy just one." And then there's one that's based on "The Little Engine That Could;" said engine is "Bandai Namco Holdings," its daughter companies $unrise and Bandai Visual USA, the idea that "these big engines could do better when they pretend to be small," and the trainwrecks that always happen to them. Finally, there's my favorite: The Wizard of ANN, about the guy who uses websites and some connections to pretend that he's big and scary. The best part for me was where his machinery stopped working for him, where he said that "haters of the Evangelion movies are just in denial," and he loses all credibility. 
No, I believe that the real problem is that the vocal hardliner otaku-tachi don't like anime that end up under Funimation for one reason or another. They can't dig it if it's not the "lowest common denominator." Unfortunately: That type of otaku doesn't represent the paying mainstream anime fandom. Yeah. Who do you take orders from? A guy who's paying? Or the guy who's not paying? |
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Yoda117
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ahhh yes, where would we be without otaku-based drama.
We're also forgetting the little ditties about the million dollar displays and the parable of "you'll buy whatever junk we license, you have no choice" Good times... good times  .
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tygerchickchibi
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I'd like to be part of the good times. All the way.
I'd like to hear more shenanigans, though. =P |
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Yoda117
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Late night panels
Industry panels Those are your best places to witness the best moments of any con (albeit usually for different reasons). That said, I can only take so much of a con any more... in the evenings I'm usually at a bar hanging with friends or going out somewhere interesting. Even an otaku like me needs to decompress sometimes
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britannicamoore
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amen to that. I don't quite get how the comment was "trolling" as it made a very good point. Even though this isn't for this year, they'll probably win it again, as Geneon is dead and ADV can't get their titles out on time. |
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