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The Anime Business | show | 2025 | Official Trailer
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Justin Sevakis sits down with industry veterans from the realm of Anime licensing. | dHNfSDFUYjZIdTZNVDA
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Some people were tremendously offended.
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I take it this was the striptease early in the first episode?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, of course.
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Of course.
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These days in the English-speaking world, anime is normal.
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Fans are everywhere.
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Every mall has anime stuff.
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New releases show up regularly in theaters.
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It didn't used to be like this.
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You gotta understand anime was not around.
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It was not common.
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There was a sense that there was something different about them, but not even understanding
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what that was.
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Okay, this is coming from Japan.
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That's why it's different from what I'm seeing on Saturday mornings.
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For over 30 years, a cottage industry of publishers, organizers, writers, and other professionals
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saw the potential in anime and fought like hell to make it a thing.
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Who would want this stuff except for a few nerds?
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Everything we heard was so loud, so clear, so much of a yes.
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It's psychic wave, not psychic wave.
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This is a joke.
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You guys are a fucking joke.
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And they looked at me like, we're not distributing Saturday morning cartoons, but we're selling
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it out.
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Look at this crowd.
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This is something.
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Well, John, we know that you'll be a failure trying to sell Japanese animation because there's
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no reason for Americans to want to buy Japanese animation.
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And we couldn't let you do that when you were with us because it would be a hit to our brand
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identity.
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Now that you're Central Park Media, we really don't care if you fail.
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These are their stories in their own words.
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I look at anime the same way I look at opera.
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If a person likes opera, they're going to be open to a new opera.
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And there's a new opera, they're watching an old opera, and there's a new version of an
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old opera.
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And there's a new anime business.
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If you want more interviews with anime's founding fathers, like, subscribe, and also
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check out our supporter platform on MediaOCD.com.
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Interviewing all these people was not cheap, and we'd love to do more if there's demand.
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We'll have exclusive clips, blog entries, and more, just for the fans that can help
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chip in.
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While you're there, maybe grab a Blu-ray or a T-shirt.
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We really appreciate it.
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