termyt wrote:Bandai, through their new Honnemaise line, has also stopped dubbing some titles. Worse still, the subtitled series are running at a cost premium well above the industry standard prices for dubbed anime. (Galaxy Angel Rune, for example, is sub-only and running at about $1 per episode minute).
MasterDias wrote:That's still Bandai Visual USA who's pulling that kind of thing. It's not the same entity as Bandai Entertainment(Gundam, Haruhi, CBebop). Although, I don't think Bandai Ent. is doing all that well either.
While doing both languages simultaneously would add to initial costs, launching a series simultaneously (or nearly so) in Japan and in the U.S. would cut out the rationale for fansubbers
termyt wrote:Releasing the Japanese and English language versions at the same time is an excellent idea, though. It could improve US TV contracts while at the same time reducing bootlegs. The other side is anime will be more US TV friendly. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on PoV, but there would be no complaints about bad editing later, at least.
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Finally I think most people who do download fansubs also buy the animes when they're licensed. I do that whenever i can, which isn't that often because of the price. I don't think fansubs are as big a contributing factor as the american distributors like to make it seem, however, we can do our bit by buying anime as it is licensed in our country.
MasterDias wrote:Guys, they can't really help the prices. There's licensing and dubbing costs to take into account, and they aren't exactly cheap. I doubt that removing extras would significantly affect it very much.
And realize that shows like Family Guy and Lost sell incredibly more than pretty much any anime. They can afford to price these shows cheap because they have already made oodles of money. Anime sales would have to skyrocket towards that amount, before they could seriously start lowering retail prices. And I don't see that happening, like ever.
I think there is probably a substantial amount that do buy what they have seen on fansubs. But, I think there is also a substantial amount who don't, or don't buy titles they liked enough to watch, but didn't like enough to buy.
Rocketshipper wrote:I was wondering if anyone here has seen the editorial on ANN called "An open Letter to the Industry"? Its all about this very problem and what the anime industry (mainly the japanese industry) could do about it. Here's the link. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/2007-11-25
Doctor Ice wrote:Pirated and illegal downloads will never be stopped. The government can't afford to spend millions of dollars on bootleggers. Plus, the pirated dvds are true bargains ... 50 episodes for like 20 bucks haha. It's wrong, but hey, I can't afford to spend 2000 dollars on entire dbz seriesl, when I can spend like 90 bucks for good quality, good subs bootlegs.
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