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Hey, Answerman! [2009-05-29]

If I was the head honcho of a major US anime company, I would do what has been and should be done more oftern: Licensed simulcast subbed anime. Why? As someone who watches both legitimately viewable and pirated dubs/fansubs, I feel it is important to contribute to the anime industry. We otaku seem to take advantage like anime is a right we can just have or a luxury we rip off of. It's a privilege because the animators spend dozens of hours a week working on something that takes months to produce.

YES~! Eureka SeveN is awesome Concur! Concur!

Also, to Answerman, I'd consider removing the flake of the week seciton of your posts since most of the discussion seems to always end up getting wasted on it, and it's usually a lot of flaming involved.

Though it has already been said, if my company were offered Sailor Moon, I'd go for it.

We'll just pretend we have the necessary resources (a bunch of good voice actors, decent distribution, and the truckloads of cash needed to bribe everyone who has a piece of the SM license).

All 5 seasons would be reissued, and just for grins, we might start with Sailorstars, as that was never released in English-speaking countries.

Also just for grins, there would be a trade-in program. Are you one of the folks who bought a bootleg? No problem! Send it to us for recycling (read: Anime Expo bootleg-burning party) and get a voucher good for $10 off your brand-spanking-new bilingual, legitimate boxset of "SAILOR MOON SAILORSTARS - the complete fifth season".

And finally, just to mess with people's minds, I'd make the licensing announcement at OMGCon.

It's fun to pretend.

But anyway, Otomo's name does have a bit of clout, but really only when it comes to Akira. Considering that his only other animated feature - Steamboy - was a massive flop, it's probably disconcerting from a business perspective.

I think Ever17, and maybe the first Higurashi game might make for a good first VN.

Taking that extremely obvious joke seriously is like someone watching that "Motherlover" sketch from SNL a few weeks back and being legitimately shocked, dismayed, upset and concerned that these two young men were going to f*ck eachothers' mothers.

Any anime fan can tell you that ROBOT CARNIVAL and AKIRA are the titles to introduce to the broad audience, and they weren't even mentioned!!

The thing is though, is that companies like Funimation and Viz are trying to get anime online, for free, as quickly as they can, so that the fans can have a legal alternative to fansubs. The fans response? Complain about loading times, video quality, inability to save the show to their hard drive, lack of soft subs, and so on, and then they just continue to download their fansubs anyway.
It makes me feel for those companies, because they make an honest effort to give people what they want, while at the same protecting their businesses, and these so-called-fans just crap all over it.

my first major order of business as a US anime company would be license Garden of the Sinners, Kure-nai, and To Aru Majutsu no Index. They will make some money. From there, to license Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito (yami-bou), Ryofuko-chan, and Koharu Biyori.

Ctimene's Lover wrote:

If I was the head honcho of a major US anime company, I would do what has been and should be done more oftern: Licensed simulcast subbed anime. Why? As someone who watches both legitimately viewable and pirated dubs/fansubs, I feel it is important to contribute to the anime industry. We otaku seem to take advantage like anime is a right we can just have or a luxury we rip off of. It's a privilege because the animators spend dozens of hours a week working on something that takes months to produce.

The thing is though, is that companies like Funimation and Viz are trying to get anime online, for free, as quickly as they can, so that the fans can have a legal alternative to fansubs. The fans response? Complain about loading times, video quality, inability to save the show to their hard drive, lack of soft subs, and so on, and then they just continue to download their fansubs anyway.

It makes me feel for those companies, because they make an honest effort to give people what they want, while at the same protecting their businesses, and these so-called-fans just crap all over it.