How do we save anime

the market is shrinking every year

Hmm. We invent mobages so the worst anime autists are now too busy with their semi-interactive waifu to fuck with demand and anime becomes more diverse.

we don't. Anime sucks ass nowadays.

I've moved on to FGO and Granblue like most Japanese otakus.

Support what YOU like, criticize when you think quality standards aren't being met, give credit to where credit is due, support things however you can without breaking the bank, don't support something because people tell you to.
Then, and only then will it be "saved"

By buying the blue rays you fucktards. You guys pirate everything then cry when they stop making it.

We ride it down to Rock Bottom, and scratch and beat our fists against the uncaring bedrock of plastic, anime consumerism. Once all hope is lost, our voices hoarse from impotent cries to an uncaring heaven, well, then we commit mass suicide.

they should stop make moeshit and retarded anime if they want peoples to buy something.

Hey, Japan isn’t innocent here. Price fixing and limited foreign releases are fucking the western and eastern consumer in the ass.

50 USD or more for a complete set of BDs? That’s insane. The only legal way to consume even a fraction of this media is to pay for shitty releases on streaming sites.
Japan needs to expand past the Otaku and into the foreign market

Either the release of 3.0+1.0, or the release of a god-tier show that matches the influence that Evangelion made, only to be concluded with a 24 minute drunken rant by Hideaki Anno on terrible green screen, where he basically shit talks everyone in the industry and the consumers that eat shit.

This.

I simply can't meet the price point they set for anime. It's seriously ridiculous.

They make plenty of non moeshit shows. Maybe if you bought the Blu-ray to those shows it would show interest in. Non more shit anime. But since Japan is th number one buyer of anime Blu-ray and they mostly buy the moeshit that you most dispise so much, that’s what the trend of shows is going to be about

First, we need to get away from trying to make toys off of everything. And since physical media is dying, we need to find a way to monetize streaming better. Basically, Netflix exists and makes tons of money so they can afford huge movie and series deals, but practically inconsequential DVD and Blu-ray sales. Nobody is going to want to buy a subscription plan to single studios however, so we need to have a hub/studio marketplace to sell access to stream (or own) seasons of shows digitally. And if you have to, you can still do physical media sales as well.

This will not only stem the flow of pirating (a bit, and not saying its a bad thing), but it will also give studios a way to more accurately measure success beyond just physical media sales. They'll have # of streams, number of subscriptions, etc. The business side can then tailor content accordingly.

Then, we need to start being more stringent on the stories that are green lit. We don't need to greenlight a 13 episode season of something, when you can legitimately tell the bulk of the story in a 90 min arc.

After that, we need to stop playing the 'you only get the uncensored or full version' on the blu-ray card. Give everyone everything, or don't bother. You chase people away with unnecessary censorship and editing.

Once these things are done, the pressure will be on studios again to try and break the mold and create content the viewers want to see and keep watching. I think that would at least be a good first couple steps. If that doesn't work, we can start broaching the subject of tradition, tropes and cornercutting measures to reduce costs via CG (I'm looking at you Berserk)

But I have a Crunchyroll sub. Surely that helps the anime industry.

If moeshit and shit anime sell better than everything else, why would not making it help the industry grow?

Crunchyroll sub only helps crunchyroll. Buying Blu-ray go strait to the companies that produce it.

>They should stop making anime that the anime audience want
Every fucking time.

$2-$3 per year to the industry

BD sales go to the production committee, which may or may not include the studio(s) that made it. Usually not, I think.

normies have gotten to it for a long i hate anime now i exclusively read manga

Normies are actually moving onto the manga territory now. A prime example is attack on Titian and my hero academia