Re: Post that's RE the Death of Anime

On Mar 21, 6:47 pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm going with the "Don't have a clue" theory:
Japanese studios see anime as a corporate entity, and think that Ratings
success = Import success, just on the bragging-rights basis of import
sales.  Once they sell it to us, they don't care *what* happens to it.

I'd take your argument farther. The Japanese anime industry does
not really care about the fans outside of Japan at all and just sees
us as an excuse for a quick buck. If they actually cared about us, and
I mean care as in seeing the non-Japanese fans as an important source
of revenue, they would not be hampering the American anime companies
so much with how they distribute or forcing them to buy sub-par
titles.


Tokuma assumed "Princess Mononoke" would cause the same year-long lines
around the block in US theaters that it got in Tokyo theaters, and it's
still a "mystery" to them why it didn't...

Did Tokuma really assume that Princess Mononoke would be a big
hit in the US? I'd like to see a source on this.


And yet all of US Ghibli on Disney DVD almost went down the tubes
singlehandedly because Disney A) was contractually forced to prove it as
a negotiation clause, and B) believed everything that Tokuma believed on
paper, without the benefit of cultural understanding.

This had some fruit for us Ghibli fans though.

I can understand that Japanese execs may be puzzled why we're "still"
watching UY, DBZ or asking for Doraemon (eww, like, they're so
OLD!--Grew up with those shows as kids!  Who wants them today??) or
giggle or sweatdrop over why a country still wants to watch Sailor Moon
as adults (ecchi!).
Let them.  Just so long as there's SOME cultural understanding on the
part of studio exporters that the grass is greener on the other side of
the ocean, and we're buying these shows for artistic reasons, not
participating in some charity of corporate-import reasons--
We DON'T CARE if Japanese schoolgirls like the Lucky*Star theme and the
studio wants to make it look more successful, we'd like some right of
refusal at the licensing drafts, and more ability to pick and choose
what shows *WE* want to make successful in our own country.

Derek Janssen
ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxx

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