Comments on: “Anime is to Japan what Silicon Valley is to America.” Japan’s IP content has immense growth potential, but a “switch in mentality” is needed to sell it globally, famous fund manager suggests

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:55:18 +0000

This is exactly the same mentality that has ruined the Video Games industry for Japan and has lead to absolute failure in the long term. Sure foreign investments are great, but they must adapt to the Japanese market, not the other way around. Whenever this happens, Japan loses it’s cultural individuality to try and fit into multiple markets and become something it’s not. Naruto, Dragon Ball and various examples were not because Japanese creators were making it for a Global Audience, but they made it for their own audience that eventually became so popular it went Global.

I can warn if this does happen for Manga, Anime will no longer be popular, and everyone will either watch what little of the actual Japanese content is left, or watch older Anime and read older Manga and LN. Much like what the Video Games industry is experiencing now and is barely surviving.

By: Sum Dum Bot

Sum Dum Bot — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:26:03 +0000

finally someone in Japan gets it. most anime could benefit greatly from western influence. it’s so poorly written, so much endless exposition. “I wear a green shirt therefore my powelevel is only middle rank” And let’s also not overstate the hardcore pedophillic nature of most anime, it’s been a degenerate influence globally, responsible for the emergence of a wide array of anti-human fetishes. it’s fandoms are cringe, rude uncomfortable and tasteless (50% of anime is just the bad writing of a nerd coping with their own high school bullying)

By: juicy

juicy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:42:31 +0000

In reply to demographerist. Spoken exactly like a money grubbing idiot who knows nothing about the medium sasuga

By: Zedecks

Zedecks — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:24:25 +0000

In reply to poopfriend. How about you shit yourself?

By: Ches

Ches — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:39:06 +0000

Westernized anime? Hell no, i would stop watching immediately. Keep Japan and their peroducts pure.

By: BYAU

BYAU — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:24:59 +0000

In reply to poopfriend. Go back to your shonen slop you tourist.

By: Jj

Jj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:23:36 +0000

I disagree.The main appeal of anime, manga, and Japanese games lies precisely in their uncompromising Japanese cultural roots. Trying to “appeal to a global audience” almost always leads to censorship and self-censorship: scenes cut, characters altered, and themes softened to avoid offending Western sensitivities or foreign investors.We’ve already seen this with Netflix localizations, Western manga editions, and pressure on studios like MAPPA.Fujino says foreign capital is needed to sell overseas, but anime exploded worldwide precisely because it stayed authentically Japanese — not because it was “optimized” for foreign markets.Welcoming too many foreign investors and talent risks diluting exactly what makes it unique. Better to export the original product without interference, instead of censoring it to please everyone.

By: bigboye

bigboye — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:08:03 +0000

hell nah

By: TKD TSD TMD

TKD TSD TMD — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:37:47 +0000

In reply to poopfriend. "Waaaah, just accept the ruination of your hobby by the lowest of the low!" No.

By: demographerist

demographerist — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:28:52 +0000

Whatever private equity says to do, do the opposite

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:42:10 +0000

Sorry but fund manager should remain in his field and not offer advice on how to create a good anime.

For anime to make a lot of money, it just needs to be good. For whatever reason, anime should not change just because the production team want more audiences to watch it. People should stop using Hollywood playbook for creating media. We don’t need multiple layer of media for the modern audience. We need companies that prioritise making good anime TV series and good anime movies. Make them have good story, good visuals, good message. Make the audience wow, happy, sad, scared, etc. Anime need to wow the audience again rather than just blindly follow the Hollywood.

By: UToppaBenga

UToppaBenga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:38:26 +0000

In reply to TKD TSD TMD. I think it's time for you to log off and find something else to do than getting upset over anime worldwide popularity. You're saying nothing but buzzwords that made you upset and that's not you for the health.

By: Blu

Blu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:14:43 +0000

Self serving mindset with undertones of still trying to compromise the Japanese industry with Western influence. No one wants anime like that, look what happened to Lazarus. They are hoping they can starve of money in some way beyond even payment processors targeting it, so they have no choice in the end.

By: poopfriend

poopfriend — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:16:19 +0000

In reply to TKD TSD TMD. get over yourself

By: poopfriend

poopfriend — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:15:44 +0000

sounds about as up-to-date and intelligent as any fund manager

By: MBII

MBII — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:32:50 +0000

Shut the hell up with your “switch in mentality” nonsense. Nobody wants westernized anime. Anime is already plenty popular globally.

By: TKD TSD TMD

TKD TSD TMD — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:07:58 +0000

I would rather have no new anime ever be made again than have the medium be censored, neutered, corrupted and genericized to appeal to the lowest-common-denominator “global audience” in the way video games are infested with talentless activists making games for a non-existent “modern audience.”

Anime is already too popular as is in the wrong corners of the world. The worst thing you can wish someone regarding an artistic subculture is “may it become mainstream.”