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- 1 de Jul, 2015
There has been talk about various other industries either having crashes or are on the verge of one, i.e. when the AI bubble bursts, the US video game crash of the 1980s, and China's real estate bubble bursting when Evergrande imploded.
However, was there ever a time where the anime industry was on the verge of a total collapse or crash, either historically or the threat exists of it now? I know that there was a decline in production values when Japan's bubble economy bursted and the lost decade occurred. OVAs fell out of favor, longer series of 50+ episodes disappeared for 12 and 24 episode seasonals, and the Hentai industry seems like it's running on fumes.
But if the anime industry would be on the verge of a crash, how bad would it be in terms of economic damage to Japan and the media industry as a whole? It wouldn't reach Evergrande-levels of collapsing for sure. How would it compare to the current threat of the video game industry possibly collapsing due to numerous Live Service games failing as it becomes oversaturated, the Gacha game industry struggling in Japan because China is putting out very high-production gachas and eating into market share, Visual Novels declining in relevancy, and the big "what if" if Grand Theft Auto 6 is a financial failure or doesn't make the money that the industry thinks it will?
And say if an anime industry crash does occur, who will pick up the pieces? The Chinese and Koreans seem like probable picks since they're also trying to get into the industry. And would Western countries be interested in them or no?
However, was there ever a time where the anime industry was on the verge of a total collapse or crash, either historically or the threat exists of it now? I know that there was a decline in production values when Japan's bubble economy bursted and the lost decade occurred. OVAs fell out of favor, longer series of 50+ episodes disappeared for 12 and 24 episode seasonals, and the Hentai industry seems like it's running on fumes.
But if the anime industry would be on the verge of a crash, how bad would it be in terms of economic damage to Japan and the media industry as a whole? It wouldn't reach Evergrande-levels of collapsing for sure. How would it compare to the current threat of the video game industry possibly collapsing due to numerous Live Service games failing as it becomes oversaturated, the Gacha game industry struggling in Japan because China is putting out very high-production gachas and eating into market share, Visual Novels declining in relevancy, and the big "what if" if Grand Theft Auto 6 is a financial failure or doesn't make the money that the industry thinks it will?
And say if an anime industry crash does occur, who will pick up the pieces? The Chinese and Koreans seem like probable picks since they're also trying to get into the industry. And would Western countries be interested in them or no?
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