What the three said about the people who enjoy anime-related stuff in Japan and those in the States is interesting, giving a contrast of attitude and atmosphere between the two sides of the world. Unfortunately, I have not been to conventions of either places, so I will just have to take the words for now. Nonetheless this does have some interesting reflection on how society treats this relatively “niche” interest and their communities.

The question regarding on fansub is quite a risky one to address directly to personels who are directly involved in anime, but the way it is asked is fairly well introduced, and it’s good to see that the responses are well-worded and in a good way. Fansubbing, together with the existence of Internet, does bring a lot of grey areas into scene, whether it’s an argument about the legality such thing or how much good / bad it brings to the industry and to the consumers / community. I somehow remind myself of how Haruhi swept the overseas communities back then with similar situations with the help of subs just like Madoka has last year.
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Take this from someone who played games from this genres. The only way that I stopped my addiction is to uninstall the game on my pc and play sports outside with my friends.

One think that popped in mind is why not companies in japan work with some of the good fansubs which then can help spread of having english subtitles in the series for DVD/BD.
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The otaku acceptance in society is definitely a troubling factor. This cannot be solved easily since it’s society’s mentality that categorizes anime in the wrong manner. Most of society is ignorant to these details, just like how most people generalize that “video games are bad for you”, they categorize and generalize anime. The Hentai Otaku article I wrote explains this very clearly.

It’s an unfortunate downside to being an anime fan, but it’s good to know that North Americans openly band together and not hate each other for our hobby. I think it’s because most North Americans seek acceptance and therefore join groups that can validate them, where as Japan it’s all about self-worth.

I like that the mindset that was presented over the subject fansubs. Especially since it asked one of the most important questions. Which wasn’t ‘how do we stop them’, but ‘how do we make a legitimate way to spread our work and still get paid for it’.

In other words, it brings up the most troubling issues of it being more that fansubs exist out of two things: one ‘demand’, and two, in most cases, ‘lack of service’ to watch them.

I think that KaionIrui’s pose for the question was made excellently.

I also can reciprocate the feeling that most feel about anime in general. That it’s a ‘cartoon’ and therefor for ‘children’. I was quite shocked when I first realized that anime both ‘was’ and ‘was not’ that way. No doubt the largest contributing factor to that mentality is that I can’t really think of many animated shows made in America (where I live) that aren’t produced for the younger audience. That and I can’t really think of too many animated movies developed for older audiences.

The unfortunate response given to such is usually that of one being ‘childish’ for liking such. Blegh, it’s like saying someone’s childish for enjoying PC or console ‘gaming’ even though it’s no longer as niche an activity it once was. I can imagine that in time anime might evolve along such lines, albeit it might be a lengthy amount of time :\.

Anyways, an enjoying read as always buddy! My thanks to all involved!

Take care!! XD
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