I am sure piracy is having a big impact

I am sure piracy is having a big impact on the industry. But the internet has changed the way the world needs to market content for all industries. I have watched almost every anime series since around 2000. In that time I have seen a lot of good series come and go. But there is three shows that have been showing since almost the beginning... Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. These shows have gone on so long, that more than half of the episodes are not based on the manga. Isn't time for a new show?

Just what we need--more unnecessarily lurid news about anime

"Late-night anime" may be more naughty than daytime stuff, but it's really NOT porn. That has been around since home video opened up, and the market is actually shrinking a bit due to Japan's high video prices (few want to pay up to ~$80 for one half-hour episode). No thanks for giving the impression that that's what it is. Sales in general are shrinking not because of "porn" or the internet, but because the economic bubble burst is still affecting Japan today, so fewer luxury items are sold.

manga

this is manga what can you do its so pop in japan and the world

The other half

Japan has a huge anime industry but they also have a huge porn industry which has a reputation for being a little crazy. I would really like to hear more from the porn industries side of things. Do they concider anime to be part of the porn industry or is it still the Aime industry. I wonder if there is more creative freedom in anime porn then general anime. I feel a little like there is another half to this story that we have yet to hear.

Fansubbing

Anime that are subtitled by overseas fans aren't piracy. There are a number of canadian and american subbers/dubbers that look at popular fansubs, see they have a fanbase and do a dub/sub and make a lot of dvd sales. If a non japanese watches a sub it might make them inclined to buy merchandise and wall scrolls from japan letting the Japanese tap into an overseas market hungry for all of the stuff they would normally expect to sell domestically. They get free advertising, isn't that GOOD?

This is what happened to the Comics Industry in the 1990's.

In the 1990's, the North American comics industry resorted to basically pandering to fans to try to drum up sales; this was a disaster. The infamous issues where you had to have been reading for 10 years to know what was going on; compare to how Sgt. Frog's *specific* Gundam jokes are hard to translate. The industry is collapsing due to pandering to a hardcore fanbase, instead of trying to expand into new demographics. the internet is profitable, but only if the audience is big.

I blame Shonen Jump

I am sure piracy is having a big impact on the industry. But the internet has changed the way the world needs to market content for all industries. I have watched almost every anime series since around 2000. In that time I have seen a lot of good series come and go. But there is three shows that have been showing since almost the beginning... Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. These shows have gone on so long, that more than half of the episodes are not based on the manga. Isn't time for a new show?

This report mis-interprets the term "late-night anime."

"Late-night anime" doesn't refer to anime porn, it refers to the special-interest otaku shows that air on late hours where advertising rates are weak. It can have some saucy elements, but it's not porn. Porn can't be aired on TV obviously, but "late-night anime" specifically refers to a show's TV time slot. Late-night anime is stuff like Clannad, Saki, Strike Witches, etc/