How popular is anime?

[scott]

Answer...

The January 18-24, 2004 issue of Video Store Magazine has published a breakdown of 2003's American home video market statistics.

Anime accounted for only 1.8% of the total home video sales in America last year.

80% of the anime sold in America in 2003 was on DVD. The remaining 20% was VHS.

There were no anime titles in the top 50 home video rentals of 2003, nor were there any anime titles in the top 25 DVD or VHS best sellers. (Video Store Magazine's charts only listed the top 50 rentals and top 25 DVD & VHS sales.)

In fact, no foreign films whatsoever broke into 2003's lists of most successful American home video releases.

I thought Spirited Away would be up there,oh well...

[BELETH the Mighty]

Nah, that's only in the rest of the world. Americans just have too much pride to go see anything that wasn't produced in the good ol' US of A. Spirited Away didn't recieve the respect it deserved because it's Japanese, and we fought them 60 years ago. This is ignoring the fact that we annihilated 300,000 of them with the atom bomb. Okay, so I went a bit too far with that. But still. Bastards.

[Sarien]

I'll bet that some of the anime downloaded (not hentai *cough*) would make the list of top Kazaa video downloads.

[DarkNightmare]

possibly. Personally, I thought Spirited Away was classic, but Princess Mononoke seems better to me. Don' know why...

I agree with Beel. People are just so stubborn it's idiotic.

[elementalspirit]

I love anime, and I hate it when I hear, from my peers, parents, and siblings, "How can you like that Japanese stuff? It's not even in English!" Well, I can read the subtitles, thank you. I think we, as a people, need to become far more open minded about what we watch and read. Just because it comes from another country doens't make it bad. I mean, seriously, how often do we see "Made in China" or "Made in Taiwan" on objects we buy?

[lorap]

i just dont like anime. its not that its japanese cuz frankly i like alot of foreign films... i just dont like animation...

[scott]

so you don't like cartoons or anything?wow...jsut wow.