Sales of Anime are going down and the business is dying: what will you do about it?

The quality of anime in general is terrible.  I used to buy a lot of anime, but it was too tempting and too lucrative a market for too long, and the industry is flooded with junk.  I've pretty much stopped buying anything, because I've spent too many hours watching the crappiest crap that was every crapped out by Japan, and I'm not willing to do it anymore.  I'll catch an occassional series, now, when a close friend of mine assures me that it's good. Ghost in the Shell or Witch Hunter Robin or Samurai X... Downloads are an issue for every type of media, but Anime is suffering more than most, because holistically the quality is so low that people aren't willing to pay for it anymore.  A massive house cleaning needs to happen and a lot of lousy anime companies need to go out of business.

These are all poor choices. I watch the fansubs and then buy the dvd. But the biggest problem I see is that the DVD almost always has a poorer quality sub than the fansub. The industry needs to stop whining about the fansubs and start improving there quality. Hell, they could poll the diffrent fansubs and then give the best group a fraction of the money they pay to redo work that it already done by others. Then they could spend the extra on improving the dub, which all too often is of a trulely poor quality. Why do the companys blame the fansubbers for their own failures. All I see lately is the packaging quality and the insert quality going down. Is this the answer to shrinking sales? Make the quality worse???  I hope somebody in the industry sees this. And to let you know, Baley boxes and the foldout type boxes suck. In both of them the dvds fall out and get scratched. I who have over 900 anime dvds refuse to buy them. Quality of the sub and dub, the value of the disk (# of eps on the disks), and the quality of the packaging as the criteria for purchacing desisions. Most of the extras like, director's comentaries, production sketches, ect. are worthless. And as for polls like this all the answers are rigged infavor of the industry's bitches. I use the fansubs to find out which anime I will buy, and so do a lot of people. As for the people who voted to only watch fansubs most of them wouldn't buy the dvd even if there were no fansubs. most are younger and they have no money. They do get older and they do get money. The companys should realise that when they censor/sanatise an anime it tends to make angry the people who actualy buy thier product. And that hurts there sales much more than any fansub ever will.  

Not that I watch any anime anyway. I out-grew it back when Speed Racer was on.

I'd love to watch anime on tv, for free, But it's not going to happen today, and if nothing changes the anime industry will be gone in a decade. I love anime and I want Japan to make more so, I buy. I shop around and save my money so I can legally purchase all the anime I want. On the couple of dollars I get each week for lunch money. I don't own bootlegs "imports", I own legitimate copies. It takes a long time, thIer's less "instant gratification" but I can sleep at night. IF YOU SHOP AROUND THERE IS NO SERIES MORE THEN A YEAR OLD THAT YOU WILL PAY MORE THEN TWO DOLLARS AN EPISODE FOR BOXSETS AND 3.50 AN EPISODE FOR NEW SERIES. Rightstuf.com has sales. Buy.com has 50% off some ADV boxsets right now. Plus, the DVD version is the unedited version, with better extras, art, translations (trust me, my friend was born in Japan and when she saw the translations on some of the fansubs out there, she laughed) and picture quality. No one is being ripped off, if you can afford a computer and an internet connection you can afford anime.