Re: NTUSA December cover disk

In article <memo.20071127233214.2768C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Peter
Boulter <starhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Chika(miyuki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) added

> <snip>
> > > >Reading through that, not many. It's far too familiar a storyline.
> > > >Chances are that I'd spend most of the time spotting bits that
> > > >I'veseen in other anime and manga series over the years.
> > > >
> > > And they wonder why the anime industry is in trouble....
> > 
> > The thing I see in anime generally is that it seems to be going down
> > the same route as animation in the US, where it is all effect and no
> > cause, where an easy buck is better than chancing success or failure.
> > The days of the garage anime and the big experiment is long over and
> > big business is firmly in control with balance sheets being more
> > im****tant than storyboards. If anything really original and unique
> > makes it through, it's usually a fluke.
> > 
> > A real shame, is that.

> A shame indeed.  But there have been a few good series recently. The
> question is, will anyone license them?

That's a different problem, yet related. Just as the companies producing
anime are often afraid to produce anything ground-breaking, so the folk
licensing anime are less likely to risk their money on a title that might
not make it. Again, the balance sheet increasingly rules.

-- 
 //\  // Chika <miyuki><at><crashnet><org><uk>
//  \//  "Word to the wise guy; be nice or be dog food!"

.... You say that America is bigger than everywhere else. Including
tantrums?