[ SECRET POST #368 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #368 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- First comment is: Name That Fandom!!

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #053.
Secrets Not Posted: [1] [2] broken links, 0 not!secrets, [1] not!fandom, [1] personal attack.
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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

Yes, but anime is also a lot more in demand. Prices should be going significantly down, because there's a much large market for it.

And 2 episodes vs 4 episodes isn't great. Obviously it's not that black and white, and you do have a point, but it's also not an EPIC AMAZING CHANGE. Although it is sinking somewhat, because of many things (Including fan subs), the prices aren't as cheap as a lot of things. Things are getting better (although with recent developments that may change) but they still aren't as cheap as say, American cartoons.

I also think some of it comes from the fact that few other fandoms are so encompassing. If you're a CSI fan you have 1-3 box sets a year to buy, not the 10 or so an anime fan might want. Which is just kinda one of those "Life's tough, huh." things. But that's a different tangents.

But yes. Fansubbing does have an effect. People in the companies, way up, have come right out and said this, it's not some guessing on our part.

[lady-mercury.livejournal.com]

Saying that anime show drop below 15 dollars, roughly speaking, means that no one is really going to make a profit. Not the stores, not the distributors, not the Japanese companies, and not the American companies that forked out the thousands to license the product.

You simply can't compare a domestic product to an imported product. Its not how the system works. Even an economics class can tell you that. Especially if the product is from a country where its cost of labor is almost on par with the country that's purchasing it.

Anime fans can wait a year and shell out the 65 - 130 dollars for the boxset of their 26 episode show.

Fans of television have to shell out that much for each SEASON. Depending on how many episodes. Either way, its expensive.

Companies have been saying this since the days of Napster.

Its been eleven years and the industry hasn't exploded yet.

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

A box set of a TV show season and a box set of an anime is like...almost the exact same thing. Most anime box sets I know go seasonal (If there are seasons, plural, and not just one like most anime. Naruto, for example, has a box set per season)

Cartoons are, on a whole, cheaper to make then say, a movie that cost many millions of dollars. Both have their creations fees of different kinds, the DVD sales help supplement. Anime isn't some special snowflake of costing shitloads to get to us. Yes, anime has to pay for importing, etc. I saw War of the Worlds on sale for $10, and I bet it cost WAY more to get made then any anime out there. Of course it's not excatly the same, but compariosn can be made. (And I still say, the fact that you can buy two seasons worth of Justice League for $35 ish...yeah. That shows had HUGE production cost.)

And I'd also like ton point out some anime DO get that low (Big O, Gundam Z). So that sorta blows the whole "They can't get that low." argument out of the water.