Japanese Anime

Everyone has heard about Pokemon right? I'm sure you knew about the impact it has on Japan and other countries, including the United States. Well Pokemon is one of many anime from Japan. However, over time, the Japanese Anime Economy has been falling. The Japanese Anime Investment Group was created in 2008 in order to increase the economic factors of Japanese Anime. Lately, it's been just the same vendors and the same customers, and there is not as much economic profit. They want more people to come to conventions and invest in their profits.

With Japanese Anime, it has only been the same group who have been buying comic books in order to relieve their burning addiction/obsession. They have been given the title "Otaku". Shonen Jump, the most profitable anime company, sells millions of their copies each week to these otaku. The otaku hold anime conventions and spend their hard-earned dollars on anime, comics, DVDs, games, and action figures. Even though that this used to be a fad, it has actually started becoming an economic power in Japan, with these otaku spending $2.5 billion a year on anime. That much money could feed a small country for a long time.

This "anime-frenzy" traveled to the United States in 2000, where children were buying and trading Pokemon cards. Ten years ago, even I was doing that. My parents would give me some money, and I would buy a pack of Pokemon cards like they were solid gold. Now I know that they were just a piece of paper, but it was a wonderful memory. People do not only like anime in Japan, but it's also popular in the United States. I think this is a good way to have global unity, by sharing interests across nations.

Sources

http://www.japaneseanimeinvestmentgroup.com/
http://www.yoursdaily.com/money/japanese_anime_fans_gain_economic_power
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/717948.stm