Here’s an article on CNN Money about fansubbers and studios (there is talk that it is actually a condensed version of this article on Fortune). It was mostly objective, and had some nice quotes:
True, it’s a rather, shall we say, “elite” subset of fans who’ll dress up in public as the miniskirted title character from Sailor Moon, but anime really has gone mainstream.
I am not 1337 =(.
A college dropout, CEO John Ledford started Gametronix, the predecessor to ADV, in 1991… Ledford thinks the key is simply keeping the fans happy — make sure you do that and the fans will do much of your hard work for you. “The hard-core fan base is very rabid,” he says. “They will get behind you as a company. You don’t have to spend a dollar in marketing; you just have to be friends with them.”
Haha, consider the source.
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Kabitzin – who has written 1970 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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Well, a real Beatle fan stabs a Lennon or two with a knife. So who’s the weirdo?
“The fansubbers themselves also scour the Net to make sure that despite all their hours spent translating, no copies of their work remain.”
What a shameless liar. There are even DVD ripping groups out here. But the rest is well written.
I salute the elite Sailor Bubba!
That’s what I’d call 1337. Sailor Bubba r0><
NSFW!!!!