Anime is dying
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Uh, that's not why anime became popular.
For a second I thought you were talking about
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Talking Cellphones that fight!
That's so awesome.
The anime industry is not dying.
Some of the weaker companies are dying.
Rather than keeping them alive on life support, their closure will allow the strongest to survive.
Bandai shutting down means there's less competition for the remaining companies like Section 23 and Viz;
at this point its basically "FUNimation, and four other companies fighting over the scraps FUNimation didn't touch"
The scraps left over from FUNimation aren't enough to sustain that many companies.
Those who survive this rough patch will dominate the next era. Similar to an evolutionary die-off extinction event. If only small rodents survive, they evolve to fill in all the gaps once things get better.
Some of the weaker companies are dying.
Rather than keeping them alive on life support, their closure will allow the strongest to survive.
Bandai shutting down means there's less competition for the remaining companies like Section 23 and Viz;
at this point its basically "FUNimation, and four other companies fighting over the scraps FUNimation didn't touch"
The scraps left over from FUNimation aren't enough to sustain that many companies.
Those who survive this rough patch will dominate the next era. Similar to an evolutionary die-off extinction event. If only small rodents survive, they evolve to fill in all the gaps once things get better.
I recently bought the first half of MS Gundam, but I'm not watching it until I get the second set next month.
Yeah, we pretty much stole an anti-anime thread and turned it into a general anime thread.
Some of the older stuff is just plain brilliant. I still can't believe they made edits to Voltron on Adult Swim!
I don't think anime or manga is dying, but it's definitely not as ubiquitous as it was 6-7 years ago when I started to see comic book shops turn into anime/manga shops and you saw Archie trying to convert some of its long-running titles into Manga (Sabrina being one) to catch the wave. There was even one comic shop in my city that actually had started to phase out its ordering of "mainstream" comic books in favor of manga and anime because that's what the teens (particularly girls) were buying. That didn't last long and things balanced out by about 2008.
I personally have never been able to get into either manga or anime. I don't like the style, to begin with. And I find that - with a few notable exceptions - it really is a case of "you've seen one, you've seen them all". Of course one can easily say the same thing about western art and comics and animation, too. But try as I might (and by try I mean like spending hundreds of dollars on anime and manga over the last decade trying to find something I actually like) I've pretty much given up. Once in a while a Ghost in the Shell will come along that interests me briefly, or someone will do a neat CG thing like Final Fantasy Advent Children which probably doesn't count as anime, but nothing so far has managed to keep my interest in the long-term. (Except, oddly, some examples where animations have been erroneously categorized as anime, such as Peter Chung's Aeon Flux.)
Alex
I personally have never been able to get into either manga or anime. I don't like the style, to begin with. And I find that - with a few notable exceptions - it really is a case of "you've seen one, you've seen them all". Of course one can easily say the same thing about western art and comics and animation, too. But try as I might (and by try I mean like spending hundreds of dollars on anime and manga over the last decade trying to find something I actually like) I've pretty much given up. Once in a while a Ghost in the Shell will come along that interests me briefly, or someone will do a neat CG thing like Final Fantasy Advent Children which probably doesn't count as anime, but nothing so far has managed to keep my interest in the long-term. (Except, oddly, some examples where animations have been erroneously categorized as anime, such as Peter Chung's Aeon Flux.)
Alex
I know I've been saying in this thread that you have to go out and look for anime and manga that interest you, but you're perfectly welcome to stop if you're on your way to laying down hundreds of dollars and still not finding anything you like.
I caught the bug early, having grown up watching Americanized anime - Gatchaman (Battle of The Planets), Macross (Robotech) and Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) before I even really knew what anime was. Once those shows stopped being broadcast that would have been it for me, but while perusing Blockbuster one night a VHS of the Dirty Pair caught my eye. I've been hooked ever since I watched it, actively seeking out anime and manga I found interesting.
I have Super Dimentional Fortress Macross on DVD, I'd give anything to be able to get Gatchaman & Space Battleship Yamato.
One good technique is to find a one of the gigantic anime database websites out there, such as Anime Planet for instance. It offers an extensive database of titles, and you can make your own list of things you've seen. Once you do this you can look at the other anime other users have associated with it as recommendations. Next you need a website offering free legal streaming, so you can try before you buy. The bigger ones are Funimation.com, Crunchyroll.com, and AnimeNewsNetwork.com. Depending on where you are you might be region locked out of them though. If that doesn't work there's always the Youtube option, you can find just about any anime opening/ending theme or trailer on there to guage whether or not you may like an anime.
That's more less what I do to find things.
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The Gundamn podcast at mahq.net just did a podcast about what happened to Bandai they do a great job of highlighting the problems with the anime industry. You can find it here other episodes feature reviews of anime mostly of the sci-fi or mecha genre but sometimes they cover other topics like nuBSG or the 2009 Star Trek movie so you can listen to one of their reviews before you invest in a 50+ episode TV show.
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