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Originally Posted by noodle
Why is everyone talking like the Anime/Manga industry is about to go bankrupt any minute now? Where the hell are the sources that say it's in that kind of trouble! And for all those geniuses that list a couple of companies that went bankrupt, then maybe you should go back to Economics 101, or whatever it is they teach you in school! A company going bankrupt does NOT necessarily indicate that the INDUSTRY is going down the drain! Most of the time, it's because the business is dumb!
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-01/n-america-2007-anime-market-pegged-at-us$2.8-billion
I didn't feel like sifting through Google too much, but one of these links offers some great data (and bar graphs!) on the drastic decline of the anime market as far as DVD sales go over the past few years (averaging around 40-50 %). If you want to do any digging yourself, you can.
You say that it's just poor decisions by certain companies, but you're acting as if any of these commanies have as much pull as an oligopolistic market. IMO, the market is filled with starving artists more than anything.
And you shouldn't tell anyone to go back to Econ 101 if you're going to treat "industry" and "market" as synonymous.