In the harsh world of anime business, apparently a DVD only sells as well as the amount of scantily-clad females an artist can squeeze on to the cover. Whether or not said anime series is actually worth buying couldn’t be any less irrelevant. Money talks.
I’ll say at the start of this blog that I’m not the most knowledgeable anime fan around. I like what I like, but I don’t have an exhaustive knowledge of series, directors, studios, voice actors, and the industry as a whole. Nor am I the sort of person who has to watch things as soon [...]
One thing that’s caught my attention lately is how, in terms of genre and target audience, categorising an anime or manga series is surprisingly complicated. Many titles are marketed along the lines of age and gender of the target audience or readership: namely shounen (young, male), shoujo (young, female), seinen (older, male) and josei (older, [...]
Having just reviewed the Trinity Blood series, the creativity, or lack of it, in the anime industry - something I often think about, and which my thoughts have been trying to give shape to in the back of my mind recently - seems like an appropriate subject for this article.
It struck me, when the point [...]
I read The Anime Almanac’s recent essay with a great interest. Effectively titled “Greg Ayres and the Fight Against Fansubs”, it presents an industry-biased perspective on the massive proliferation of anime fansubs, via the enthusiasm of Greg Ayres, a “hardcore otaku” turned professional English dub actor. Basically, this colourful-looking chap travels to conventions dotted all [...]
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