So, why look at Anime?
Material presented at MCAD's 2001 "Girls and Mobilesuits" Anime Seminar. All images are properties of their respective artist, publisher, or distributor, and used for academic purposes only.
It's big.
- In 1992, the manga industry's total revenue was 539 billion yen.
And that's just the comic books.
- By 1993, the domestic manga market had three times the revenue of the
domestic film industry.
- And apparently several dips in manga circulation figures have been
attributed to the rise of computer games
... yes, which tend to be
"anime"-style.
(Statistics from Dr. Sharon Kinsella's Adult Manga: Culture &
Power in Contemporary Japanese Society,
University of Hawai'i
Press, 2000.)
And, I would argue, the popularity means there is a resonance
with the people....
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