"John Kerry has a 440,00 vote margarine in Pennsylvania"
reporter during 2004 Election Day coverage, NBC-TV
Nabeshin speaks about the dying anime industry. Well not quite there but, much like global warming, when the world starts to feel it, that big hole that was covered over and forgotten suddenly reappearing again, even bigger. The only thing we can do now is to slow it's rate of destruction, and hope that in the next 50 years (5 years in the case of the anime industry) that it will start to revive itself again.
Strange how 2 years ago, I vaguely remember hearing the warning signs at the Armageddon Expo industry panel with Matt Greenfield and Tiffany Grant (the death of an anime company, not global warming). :P I think a lot of us just shrugged it off and didn't really think twice about it and went on our merry ways.
Still this whole situation is really akin to the Global Warming debate, which I find both amusing and really sad. As much as we like to help fix the problem, we are still guilty of killing the planet. Still I do my utmost to buy a lot of my anime DVDs, if only to ease my guilt a bit. I don't have a lot of money, considering that I still have loans to pay off, rent and daily expenses, I still try. :)
This is me at my most honest, so don't consider this post as me preaching the eVils of fansubs. I leave that to the people who do work in the industry.
Nabeshin speaks about the dying anime industry. Well not quite there but, much like global warming, when the world starts to feel it, that big hole that was covered over and forgotten suddenly reappearing again, even bigger. The only thing we can do now is to slow it's rate of destruction, and hope that in the next 50 years (5 years in the case of the anime industry) that it will start to revive itself again.
Strange how 2 years ago, I vaguely remember hearing the warning signs at the Armageddon Expo industry panel with Matt Greenfield and Tiffany Grant (the death of an anime company, not global warming). :P I think a lot of us just shrugged it off and didn't really think twice about it and went on our merry ways.
Still this whole situation is really akin to the Global Warming debate, which I find both amusing and really sad. As much as we like to help fix the problem, we are still guilty of killing the planet. Still I do my utmost to buy a lot of my anime DVDs, if only to ease my guilt a bit. I don't have a lot of money, considering that I still have loans to pay off, rent and daily expenses, I still try. :)
This is me at my most honest, so don't consider this post as me preaching the eVils of fansubs. I leave that to the people who do work in the industry.