Anime Industry in Decline?

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"This is causing a very big dent in sales."

Is full of bs. Were there no fansubbing and free distribution, I seriously doupt anime/manga would be as popular worldwide as it is today. Fansubbing if anything gives viewers change to sample what's worth buying and what's not.

I'll eat my mossy hat if fansubbing hasn't brought incredible (and free) advertisement for bloody many japanese products.

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overwhelmingly adult content

Cuz perversion sells, and we know those japs

Kiddies still have em monster collecting card whatever shows too~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Taco

With anime and manga having no real digital distribution model like music, I argue that fansubbing has indeed put a large dent in anime sales.

While this is probably true now to some extend, due to batshit insane weeaboos in large numbers, fansubbing in my opinion made the whole jap-phenomena big through internet.
Were there no internet, there would certainly not be fansubs, and thus the world would be "animethewhatnow?".

Sure, if you pulled the internet plug off now, I'm sure everyone would bleed money to see anything they could get.

Too late ='D

There's nowhere I can't reach.