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Re: Update: Anime Industry Still Not Destroyed [message #336463 is a reply to message #336462] Sun, 29 January 2017 18:31 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Johnston is currently offline  David Johnston
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On 1/29/2017 3:00 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>
> I ran across one of Starcade's old rant threads, and realized that
> the thread (quoting Watanabe as Nabeshin) had included a prediction of
> the entire collapse and destruction of the industry in five years, a
> prediction taken of course as gospel by Starky...
>
> ... and the thread was ten years old. A quick search shows that not
> only is the industry not dead, but it's been growing at double-digit
> rates in the last several years, despite the utter failure of anyone in
> the industry to significantly stop piracy.
>
> Moreover, it's been a *living* industry, changing and growing,
> producing not just rehashes of the tired-old-standbys (although,
> naturally like any other industry, it hasn't at all shied away from
> milking any cash cow to death) but interesting new material or new
> approaches to old stuff.
>
> Not bad for an industry some thought, a decade or so back, was
> doomed to destruction.
>
>
>

Well "moe" became a thing. Close enough.
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