Comments on: Anime business

By: top10anime

top10anime — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:00:24 +0000

what its realy? anime for busines?

By: Fat Cat Lim

Fat Cat Lim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:52:37 +0000

Internet: SERIOUS BUSINESS

By: sazae

sazae — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:04:10 +0000

Thanks and of course okay.
And I forgot the important part. In the nationwide broadcasting of late night anime, Advertising company join in 製作委員会 and also TV station mostly(I said in 2nd post). they provide part of funds. case in the local’s, local station seldom join in it, but key station isn’t involved in the business. In the prime time anime and also other shows, TV station orders the program to the film production using the sponsor’s funds, like the chart. though, even if tv station join in 製作委員会, timeslot fee is necessary.
Sorry my insistent post, heheh.

By: CMWilly

CMWilly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:44:08 +0000

>Though I’m sure there are others who have a more in-depth knowledge of the American animation industry that can give a more detailed explaination.

Big studios like Cartoon Network and Nick are unionized. So you also have to take into account of the union rates. This could be triple to four times more than what a Japanese artist is getting paid.

By: pkick

pkick — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:14:46 +0000

> slacker buddha

Heheh. Better be careful around here, or you’ll get your dot poked in.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:59:06 +0000

Really? It’d kind of be a shame. I’ve been reading this site on and off for a long time and if you go backwards, the community didn’t really pick up until NOYFB started calling people out.

Not that I’m against the channel or anything, but, you know. People need calling out, and some of it needs to be done here. Caps or no, he is more articulate than most of the readership. Knows more than most, too. Kind of ironic.

I find it delightful.

Discussion is grand.

Fun fact: I’m subscribed to the comments rss, but _not_ the posts rss. True story.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:14:27 +0000

>ANYWAY, THERE SHOULD BE AN IRC CHANNEL WHERE WE CAN DISCUSS (READ: BICKER) ABOUT THIS SHIT. (PREFERABLY EFNET)

Oh dear god please do that. This bickering is getting ridiculous. If you don’t want to install an IRC program then just chat through http://webchat.xs4all.nl or some other webchat site. Use the #anime channel or start a #canneddogs channel or something. Just please stop filling this blog with bickering shit.

By: Zepy

Zepy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:39:12 +0000

>sazae
Thanks for the input and clarification, I’ve added your info to the article if that’s okay with you.

By: sazae

sazae — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:56:13 +0000

> Zepy
addition:
My definition of ’sponsor’ was odd on my post.
In prime time anime, sponsors pay as advertisements to advertising company and TV station for broadcasting their CF. They are general companies such as toys, supermarket, car, foods, insurance, tour, electronics, building, and so on. They have no relations for dvd sales.
In late night anime, 製作委員会 pays as a timeslot’s cost to TV station for broadcasting their anime. It’s composed of only anime-releted companies such as dvd distributor, manga publisher, anime-music label, game developer, and anime production. no general companies like Toyota, Sony. They need to recover their all costs, by dvd/manga/cd/game/rights sales. In sense of Japanese, they are more enterprises than sponsors for anime.
Prime time animes have only to recover a shortage of anime-producing cost despite exploitation of TV station.
Late night animes have to recover their all costs, anime-producing, advertising, broadcasting.

The chart is similar to the report about a certain prime time show’s affair. the intermediary exploitation by TV station like your article was disclosed during the affair. And prime timeslot is priced roughly 10-100 million yen while late nightslot is priced 0.3-5 million. TV stations are taking 40 million in the chart.
as far as I can recollect, these are why I said the chart is not for a prime time anime.
thanks again.

By: slacker buddha in Tokyo

slacker buddha in Tokyo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:49:07 +0000

Om…

> “99%?” To say “ninety-nine percent” is a heartbeat away from saying that everyone in Japan needs to commit mass suicide.

To say 99% is to say 99%. Suicide does not have to be an automatic necessity. For even the existence of crap has its place in this life, and in fact is a necessity for life to continue.

> “90%;” and we’d say that the anime industry has some life left. The “talent” is there. It’s just all over the place. “Great animation” there, “great writing” here, the voice-acting populace are not “loyal dogs” but “hungry dogs.”

Even at 100% crap, life exists. For even crap is not death, but rather it is the natural basic state of existence from which greater things spring forth. Great things are made from simple crap. You cannot create greatness by destroying crap. You must create greatness from crap.

> We were all such fools when we were young. We see the pretty roses and forget that the thorns are sharp enough to go through your fingers. How cool we thought the bands were before we find out that they’re people too… Mentally messed up and bitter people at that.

But it is through suffering that we become wise and great. A common rock can never become pure steel without the pains of the smelt, hammer and forge. The greatest of men are still merely men. That does not diminish their greatness, but rather makes it an even more wondrous thing, that such greatness can grow from common men.

> The sad thing about “anime” is that, if you’re not mentally careful, the scarring effects are permanent.

Not just anime. Life itself is permanently scarring, no matter how careful you are. Those permanent scars are called memories, and are to be valued, for it is memories that make what we call man.

Om…