I was reading an article on The Wall Street Journal when a link to this story caught my eye: Apparently, the anime industry is on the decline, making it harder and more competitive for animators.
Was anime the fad of the ‘00s, something we will look back on in laugh? I doubt it, but I do think the popularity will subside into reality as we are now experiencing. With bad economic and monetary policies making it harder on the middle-class, people are doubling thinking if they really want to buy that anime DVD.
I don’t agree with the government (Japan’s or any other) funding schools for anime animators. The field is shrinking for a reason, they don’t need as many folks anymore. You will educate a huge amount of people for a shirking industry.
More and more I am wondering if the old medium of TV is dying and producers of anime should look at putting forth more efforts in the Internet realm. What that looks like is vague to me, but that’s where I think the future is headed. I mean, I don’t even have cable-TV, but I’m watching anime every night via YouTube.
The point made in the video is very apparent: Foreign (to Japan) animation studios are borrowing elements of Japanese anime. This will, I feel, ignite extreme competition for all animation. Japanese anime studios will have to really push themselves to remain on top.
Moving forward with OmiPan
As of late, I haven’t been sure what I want to do with OmiPan. It has degraded into a link-farm, devoid of original content. I was spending a good chunk of my day writing link posts opposed to studying and moving forward with my hobbies with my free time. I’m sure my readers (7 as of 11/20/09) don’t really appreciate it as well. In a attempt to pump or originality into OmiPan, I have decided that I will stop my link-posts and put forth more original content. I’m not very knowledgeable on most of the things I’m interested in, but you can’t get better by not moving forward. This might get a little rocky in the coming weeks and possibly months, but I’m sure I will find my grove and stick to it.
Thanks to all those who choose to stick it out by subscribing and following this blog.
I’m aware that, for some reason or another, OmiPan has come into disrepair. The comment box is in the wrong area, and my old theme as reverted back to the default. I’ll be spending my Saturday hopefully getting things back on track.
There is a strong penchant in human nature which impels people who feel strongly about something—a good cause, say—to group their forces and use the power of government to fasten their panacea on those they’ve been unable to persuade. The Constitution is a prime example of the limitations placed upon governmental power so that people with a cause to advance must resort to education, persuasion, and example only.
– Edmund OpitzPreventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
– Dwight D. EisenhowerThe United States is not Christian in any formal sense, its churches are not full on Sundays and its citizens transgress the precepts freely. But it is Christian in the sense of absorption. The basic teachings of Christianity are in its bloodstream. The central doctrine of our political system—the inviolability of the individual—is the doctrine inherited from 1900 years of Christian insistence upon the immortality of the soul.
– AnonymousRhett and Link love local commercials. They’ve been on a crusade this year, traveling the country making local businesses free commercials. This week, Rhett and Link travel to a Florida zoo, capturing “nature’s call”.
You can nominate a local business you at I Love Local Commercials. I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
Top RSS Picks: 11/18/09
Just a note, I’m considering dumping “Top RSS Picks” and “Top Tweet Links”, it just takes too much of my time. I’m going to be looking into alternative ways to share the tweets and RSS posts I care about, but until then, on with the news!
Canon EOS 7D is good enough for filmmakers, relive the Star Wars trench run on your iPhone, a lady gets an unbelievable tan, Adobe pre-release of Flash Player out, frees CPU on Macs, Twilight just got that much more creeper, United Nations say kids contribute to climate change, girl gets freaked out by “the claw”, the next version of OS X might already be in the works, sportsmanship at it’s best, Google OS is most likely not coming out in ’09, but a sneak peak is.
Top Tweet Links: 11/17/09
TUAW says no way to rumor on big Apple discounts, what the final shuttle missions will be all about, gold and silver surge, LRO captures pictures of Apollo 11 landing site, Dr. Hovind requests letters, O’Reilly says “I don’t care about the Constitution.” (big surprise), Iranian student criticizes the supreme leader, to his face, rumor has it that Google Chrome OS will be here soon, and the Spirit rover just can’t free herself.
Probably one of my most favorite SBEmails. Of course, I say that about every Homestar Runner cartoon. In this e-mail, Strong Bad basically explains why he’s not suited for little baby-type children. Parodying children’s programming, namely the freaky stuff you can watch on PBS and Nick Jr, this cartoon gives one of my favorite characters, Homsar, plenty of lime light (whatever that is).
Top RSS Posts: 11/17/09
TSA changes policy thanks to Campaign For Liberty member, watch Japan live, Gazans brace for bleak Winter and plead for end to Israeli blockade, the police are trained to lie, Edo period folks climb on Japanese stores, it just got a lot harder for the RIAA and MPAA to sue pirates thanks to new tech, stimulus working in imaginary Arizona district, Darth Sidious pictured in womb, the Lord’s Prayer explained, Adobe Flash 10.1 beta sounds pretty awesome, Google Sites look great, Google translate gets better, Verizon pimp slaps AT&T, and Alexander eats a raw chicken breast, expects 20-bucks.
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