There were over 200 shows last year alone. The fact that maybe ten shows in the past ten years (or more) have seen any lasting success is pretty much proof that anime is not where you go if you want a bankable franchise.
This is not a market people want to be in right now, with over 25% of all studios losing money. If you want a one-off that will almost assuredly lose money? Anime is the way to go. Crunchyroll and Netflix, while they are producing some anime, the majority of their revenue is not from anime,
but from ads.
The CEO won't reveal how much is actually going back into the industry, only that there is money going back into it. That's obviously a positive, but without clear numbers, and the clear reality that more than 25% of all studios are losing money and employees, anime certainly doesn't seem like an industry you'd want to be in. Crunchyroll might be an exception, but they're largely a licensor and publisher, not a producer (Netflix is an exception here, given they actually produced Devilman Crybaby and have plans for other shows). Either way, Crunchyroll or Amazon or Netflix isn't buoying the industry nearly enough to make it profitable.
Not sure why you're ignoring manga in my post. lol
Also, there's much more than 10 anime success in the last 10 year for companies considering the sequels for many anime and the fact that many anime got funded since then, with anime production companies like Aniplex and Bandai Visual exceding in profit on it and many companies not from the industry like Kadokawa, Shueisha, Bandai Namco and publishers in general getting success funding different productions and this showing on their results as well.
reality that more than 25% of all studios are losing money and employees, anime certainly doesn't seem like an industry you'd want to be in
The companies who fund anime aren't studios for the majority of it (with some exceptions like Toei, Pierrot, Kyoani, Sunrise and some other big ones). The production studios are paid by the production committee of the anime to do that since they're a contractor for the most part with a budget going for the studio and most of it going to ads and to pay the broadcast of it. The ones funding it which are manga publishers, TV companies, Music companies, Advertisers and companies from different industries are the ones who suffer for a failure since they're the ones funding it but they wouldn't go out because it is profitable for them and the promotion seems to do well for them (which is the main reason for anime existence after all in adaptations which are the majority).
My point is, those companies will continue to fund it and while a studio loses money, it's because they're not the owner of the anime for the most part.
And many anime studios are owned by other companies. Sunrise for example is owned by Bandai Namco holdings, Sega is the owner of TMS Entertainment and you have many studios owned by companies of other industries and because of that, they have more securities.
I do agree that the condition of work in the studio needs to get better but that's another case and that's on the management of the studios to resolve this problem that exist for 40 years.
Crunchyroll might be an exception, but they're largely a licensor and publisher, not a producer
Uh, what? Crunchyroll is the western company with more presence in the committee of different anime. In fact, they're the only one that constantly appears. As a example, here's the shows that they funded and because of it, got exclusive streaming rights:
A Place Further Than The Universe
Media Factory, Madhouse, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, docomo anime store, AT-X, Kadokawa Media House, Movic, NewGin, Sony Music Communications
Citrus
Ichijinsha, Children's Playground Entertainment, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, Lantis, Klockworx, Tokyo MX, Sotsu, Happinet, AT-X, BS Fuji
How to keep a Mummy
TBS, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, Kanon, Eight-bit, Exit Tunes
Junji Ito: Collection
Yomuri TV Enterprises, Muse Communication, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, Smiral Animation, Nippon Columbia, Studio Deen, Pony Canyon Enterprises, Asahi Shimbun
Katana Maidens
Genco, Kadokawa Shoten, Square Enix, Crunchyroll, My Theatre DD, Studio Gokumi, Glovision, MBS, AT-X, Magical Kingdom Anime
Yuru Camp
FuRyu, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, AT-X, BS11, MAGES, 81 Produce, Sony Music Communications
Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles
Children's Playground Entertainment, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, Takeshobo, Flying Dog, AT-X, Avex Pictures, Cygames, Sotsu, Tokyo MX, Klockworx, Keio Agency
Magical Girl Ore
Fusion Product, Crunchyroll/Sumimoto, Bandai Namco Arts, My Theatre DD, AT-X, Klockworx, Comedia, Genco, Amazing Earth Animation
(Netflix is an exception here, given they actually produced Devilman Crybaby and have plans for other shows)
They didn't. Just like many of their series and other projects outside of anime, they just bought it after it was planned and out of pre-production. Devilman Crybaby was produced by Aniplex and Dynamic Planning who are part of the committee and credited as such in the opening of the anime and the same is true for AICO the incarnation that have it's own committee as well.[/quote]