[Diskussion] Do you have a lot of anime/manga fans in germany? (and editors and licensings companies?)

[uoi]

Hi there, i was curious about if there were a lot of fans in Germany.

I live into a neightboor country, and here there are a lot of japanese animation and manga fans and japan related content such as music. We even have a TV station which broadcast clips directly from japanese artists:p. And there are especially a lot of publishers for manga content. It has even been said that we are the 2nd best selling countries for manga right after japan!

So, i would like to ask how it is for you...do you have a lot of manga and animation published there? Do you have a lot of anime/manga related conventions?

 

[Sciency]

There are several companies which publish anime and manga here, but not that many. It seems to me like people just start to realize the market potential of manga/anime, so things are just getting started. We do have a lot of fan-subbing crews, though. Lots of sites providing subtitles for anime not yet licenced here. That could be a problem for publishers, since lots of people (including me) prefer japanese dub with subtitles. Localizations almost always sound horrible, with just a few exceptions.

Some TV channels showed anime on a regular basis since at least 1999, but in almost all cases kids shows. More serious stuff was shown by some music channels at late night.

Conventions? Yeah, I think there are several people meeting for cosplay parties in germany. There are also some related events like ComicCon or the book fair in Leipzig.