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10/25/10(Mon)15:00 No. 41708430 Yutaka Yamamoto, former KyoAni director, on the state of the anime industry:>Nowadays,
good animation doesn't good sales, most otakus barely even notice good
animation quality, only sakuga fags happy to see animation >For
example, Denno Coil and Birdy: Decode sale fail to live up to sakuga
fags's hype, compare to Bakemonogatari and Railgun win the Otaku market. >Your
anime is always going to end up on Youtube. We're reaching the end of
being able to sell home video. We're probably going to back to
toy-funded business models of past: give anime away, try to sell toys. >The
lack of originality and the desire for exclusivity by the fandom has
created a highly transparent industry. Mr Yamamoto affirms that the
creators and the fans are “too close.” This is the biggest reason behind
the isolation of the anime industry. The creators feel too obligated to
please their fans, and the fans naturally expect the creators of anime
to cater to them specifically, as opposed to society at large. This
negative feedback loop simply exacerbates the problem over time, and now
we have an industry that has boxed itself into a dead end.