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作者: peter236    時間: 2010-10-23 19:39     標題: Japan anime industry faces rising challenge from China

本帖最後由 peter236 於 2010-10-23 19:43 編輯

Japan anime industry faces rising challenge from China

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10223544

By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA , Associated Press

Last update: March 28, 2010 - 7:31 PM

TOKYO - Yoko Komazawa had been at the Tokyo International Anime Fair for nearly six hours
when she fell in love with a brown-and-white stuffed panda — a character in one of the fair's featured cartoons.

"It's so adorable and interesting," she said, staring into its gleaming pink eyes. "I want it."

Unfortunately, the panda wasn't for sale and Komazawa had to settle for a photo. But she walked away from
the small booth impressed by the panda's creators — from China.

"Japan is certainly an amazing anime country," said the 30-something anime fan
and collector of all things cute and cuddly. "China has some intriguing characters
though. They're different, and that definitely catches my attention."

Komazawa's enthusiasm for something new is a small victory for China's fledgling
animation industry, and could well represent a widening crack in Japan's global anime dominance. Japan may be
the birthplace of anime, but China is gunning for its future as it mounts an aggressive effort to expand the country's
creative prowess and reputation.

In November, the government's cultural arm established the China Animation Comic
Group Co. to foster a "great leap forward" in animation production, technology and
marketing. Part of the plan includes building a "China Animation Game City" in Beijing that would be a national hub.

With government subsidies, Chinese animation companies tripled their presence
at this year's Tokyo anime fair even as the overall number of exhibitors declined. The
four-day event through Sunday, one of the world's biggest anime-related trade shows and festivals, featured a "China-Japan Anime Summit" along with multiple China-themed lectures.

"China is a big market, and everybody is trying to get in," said Jimmy Tse, chief
executive of Top Art Investment Ltd., which makes the panda Komazawa craved. "And the Chinese people, they are starting to think, 'How come I'm manufacturing for someone else?' Why are we not creating anything ourselves?'"

China's growing ambitions coincide with an ominous industrywide slump in Japan.

After peaking in 2006, the number of anime minutes made for television fell 20 percent to 108,342 in 2009, according to the Association of Japanese Animations. A
survey of the group's members shows that overseas anime revenue fell 21 percent
between 2006 and 2009.

Matt Alt, a Tokyo-based author, blogger and longtime observer of Japanese pop culture, blames the industry itself for losing its edge. The world's hunger for anime accelerated around 2000, with Hollywood incorporating anime scenes into films and children clamoring for Pokemon.

Since 2006, however, a trend toward adult-oriented (and often sexually explicit) niche
titles have turned off the general audience. Moreover, the industry is losing young talent due to persistently low pay and poor working conditions, forcing Japanese animation companies to outsource much of their work.

"The Japanese anime industry basically gave China, Korea and all these countries the keys to the candyshop," Alt said. "By outsourcing so much work to them, they trained this work force of people who are now far more ambitious and far more hungry than a lot of Japanese animators are."

The man behind the Tokyo anime fair acknowledges the global anime boom has
waned. But chief producer Hitoshi Suzuki brushes off suggestions that foreign
competition poses a threat, expressing confidence that a new boom will emerge in
time.

Japanese animation is rooted in a rich 60-year history that cannot be replicated
elsewhere, he said, citing the work of AstroBoy creator and "godfather of anime"
Osamu Tezuka.

"Everyone tries to copy the surface of Japanese animation," he said. "But real
Japanese animation is different."

Different or not, the Japanese anime industry is beginning to realize that it cannot ignore China — as an emerging rival or a potentially lucrative new market. For both countries, cooperating appears to be the best option for now.

One of the most successful joint projects so far is the "Romance of Three Kingdoms," a historical animated series currently airing across China. The program, produced by
Japan's Takara Tomy and a subsidiary of China Central Television, will begin airing
soon in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

Chinese startups are also actively courting Japanese content makers for their business. A representative from the online video site joy.cn, China's version of Hulu, traveled to the Tokyo anime fair to convince Japanese companies that the Internet offered an alternative to mass media — subject to tight government restrictions — and that their copyrights would be protected in the process.

"It's a time of great change right now," said Yuji Nunokawa, chairman of the Association of Japanese Animations and a veteran anime producer. "We need to determine how we can work together to foster the contents business. We've come to a point in time where both sides need to think about how we can do this."
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-24 03:17

I watch anime not bcuz they are made from japan.

I watch Anime becuz the script have japanese culture.

I don't want to see a anime girl yell at the guy like chinese does.
作者: peter236    時間: 2010-10-24 19:22

本帖最後由 peter236 於 2010-10-24 19:23 編輯
I watch anime not bcuz they are made from japan.

I watch Anime becuz the script have japanese cultu ...
Guy 發表於 2010-10-24 03:17


The Japanese culture is perverted in general.
I watch Chinese animation because they have much better script than the Japanese anime.
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-24 19:26

I have not watched anime for a while...
but years ago, I enjoy reading comic by Mitsuru Adachi.
作者: Catpiano    時間: 2010-10-24 20:48

Wah ..  Adachi ..   good .. I still read .. but ..  so boring and same same story ..
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-24 21:19

Wah ..  Adachi ..   good .. I still read .. but ..  so boring and same same story ..
Catpiano 發表於 2010-10-25 12:48

I really like reading Adachi's comic!
I even used Tatsuya as my nickname... 諗起都覺得好笑.
作者: Lik    時間: 2010-10-24 21:30

This is China's best anime character:



with the most well-known feature being the emblem on her hat:


-Lik
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-24 22:00

This is China's best anime character:



with the most well-known feature being the emblem on her ha ...
Lik 發表於 2010-10-25 13:30

個女仔okay wor, 唔似果d 胸大過頭果d 漫畫...
個"河蟹"logo 好
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-25 01:26

The Japanese culture is perverted in general.
I watch Chinese animation because they have much bet ...
peter236 發表於 2010-10-24 19:22



perverted in general...it really depends what standards....

open mind in sex dun make you pervert
50% of animes has not sexual content ( i think you have watched too many 18+ anime)
1 out of 5 friend of mine have a fxxk buddy...that dun make them pervert.

pervert is like ugly.. where is the guideline?
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-25 01:30

個女仔okay wor, 唔似果d 胸大過頭果d 漫畫...
個"河蟹"logo 好
mcjohnjohn 發表於 2010-10-24 22:00


in jap anime
Small 胸 果d女仔 resembles young childish girl
大胸 果d女仔 resembles grown up mature-body girl
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-25 17:34

in jap anime
Small 胸 果d女仔 resembles young childish girl
大胸 果d女仔 resembles grown up matur ...
Guy 發表於 2010-10-25 17:30

乜係咁架? 真係唔知tim...
唔怪得小丸子冇胸架啦~
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-25 18:11

乜係咁架? 真係唔知tim...
唔怪得小丸子冇胸架啦~
mcjohnjohn 發表於 2010-10-25 17:34


小丸子 anime is drawn at 30/70 head to body ratio
that resembles Young children (aka toddler)
toddler dun have 胸 at all
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-25 18:31

小丸子 anime is drawn at 30/70 head to body ratio
that resembles Young children (aka toddler)
todd ...
Guy 發表於 2010-10-26 10:11

咁小丸子個阿媽係唔係熟女? 漫畫家有冇o係佢心口加Pat?
話唔定我鍾意睇安達充, 係因為佢唔會畫到d 女角暴乳吧~ 哈哈!
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-26 00:59

咁小丸子個阿媽係唔係熟女? 漫畫家有冇o係佢心口加Pat?
話唔定我鍾意睇安達充, 係因為佢唔會畫到d 女角 ...
mcjohnjohn 發表於 2010-10-25 18:31


HAHA you always pay attention to the 胸?

in many animes if 阿媽 is not important they tend to have a slag 胸.
作者: mcjohnjohn    時間: 2010-10-26 01:00

HAHA you always pay attention to the 胸?

in many animes if 阿媽 is not important they tend to hav ...
Guy 發表於 2010-10-26 16:59

你講開就講架啦~ 唔通突然轉chanel 講Pat 咩.
作者: Guy    時間: 2010-10-26 01:36

你講開就講架啦~ 唔通突然轉chanel 講Pat 咩.
mcjohnjohn 發表於 2010-10-26 01:00


轉chanel 講Pat ???did you?
Pat and breast drawn in anime are very standard in the international beauty standard

They used the golden ratio. long straight legs, big hip. etc etc/...

btw  阿媽唔係熟女...係人妻
if you saw an anime that 阿媽係熟女 i am sure that 阿媽 is very seductive and that must be 18禁



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