[Lynk Former]

I think the title of the thread is pretty much all I need...

From what I've observed, I find that most anime fans would prefer it if there was no US anime industry at all... at least not in the way it is now.

The bottom line is that people want anime released in their country but they don't care about the English dub at all. So, the solution I can see is to release anime with no dub. However, then the next problem are the subtitles... they're never going to be perfect... so then of course people prefer fan subs.

So it kind of brings us to the point where the view is that the industry in the US is redundant for anime fans themselves. Of course the people who don't consider themselves to be the cliché anime otaku love the anime industry because they can watch them on TV and such, but this isn't about them

I think maybe the solution (if people really don't want English dubs) is to get US companies to work directly with Japanese companies on their video releases so that they're able to produce more accurate subtitles... (of course for the most part they already did that) and simply act as distribution companies and treat animes as every other kind of foreign media.

Of course, I am completely aware that there still are a lot of people who wouldn't want this... we know this because Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence was released with subtitles and no English dub but an English dub was commissioned for the UK/Australia release by Madman and whatever that company in the UK is XD

I dunno, what do you guys think? It seems the anime industry outside of Japan is more for those who are stupid enough to spend money on something they can get for free (for example: me) and for people who aren't really the traditional anime otaku.