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, posted Tue 29 Oct 20:32:
News from Natsume Maya's anime and manga webpage
"An interesting Asahi.com article about anime:
Citing Animage magazine in the article, it's reported that despite the declining birthrate in Japan, there is now the greatest amount of new TV anime ever, causing an "anime bubble".
There are increased anime broadcasts from satellite. The station Animax has over one million subscribers. Animax started out broadcasting re-runs, but commenced broadcasting new works last year as the number of subscribers increased.
Apart from terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, now there are also internet broadband broadcasts, such as that of Gundam Seed.
Animation is attracting attention because apart from returns from the initial broadcast of the anime, the overseas market is expanding (in part due to the popularity of Pokemon in the US in the second half of the 90s) and the license value of anime abroad has increased.
Some anime are broadcast on a pay-per-view basis nowadays and according to Sky Perfect TV, there are a large number of anime under negotiation for broadcast on a per-per-view basis. Further, there are sales from related goods including DVDs etc. The number of investors has therefore increased, attracted to anime as a potential investment in the depressed Japanese economy.
Trading companies such as Mitsubishi are also investing. One of Mitsubishi's wholly owned subsidiaries has interests in works such as Beyblade 2002, Yu-Gi-Oh, Hamtaro and Hikaru no Go, which are popular not only in Japan but also overseas.
However, some are concerned that the increased output may have exceeded the industry's capacity, which may lead to decreased quality. In April 2000 there were 20 new works. Now there are 34 works being broadcast."
from: http://www.asahi.com/culture/tv/K2002102901294.html
Oh, and I'm at 1500 posts! Go me ^^
[this message was edited by Holiday on Tue 29 Oct 21:04] |
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