=^^=

Today was a good day. Casablanca is an awesome movie. I slept during tutorial period. Ahaha. <3

Edit: You’ve gotta read this link: http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/news/midcaps/anime_fortune_121205/index.htm?section=money_latest

Most positive article about fansubbing/scanlating and American industry leaders that I’ve ever seen. =o *praises*

Quoted:

“The hard-core fan base is very rabid,” he says. “They will get behind you as a company. You don’t have to spend a dollar in marketing; you just have to be friends with them.”
x0iTsuKi0x: What draws them in? These cartoons all have a soap opera appeal: Plots build over the course of an unusually long season (typically 52 episodes), as characters die, fall in love, do dumb things.
x0iTsuKi0x: Responding to the interest, CosmoGirl last summer began running its own manga strip on the back page of every issue. “We started hearing girls say their favorite books and favorite things to read were manga,” says Ann Shoket, the magazine’s executive editor. “The girls have drawn their own manga for us. Not just one weird girl — a lot of girls.” that’s just weird
x0iTsuKi0x: i don’t… really associate manga with people who like cosmogirl (isn’t that some fashion magazine?) then again, i’m probably bias
x0iTsuKi0x: By the second day of the three-day event, Baltimore’s convention center had sold out and the scalpers started offering up tickets. O____O
x0iTsuKi0x: most fansubbers — operating off a strict code of conduct — scour the net to make sure their versions of the show don’t show up anymore
x0iTsuKi0x: that’s not entirely true
x0iTsuKi0x: And not just trading, but competing to see who can create the best subtitled version of a particular show. lmao
x0iTsuKi0x: XDDD
x0iTsuKi0x: i was thinking…
x0iTsuKi0x: that i might use my mom’s laptop for downloading
x0iTsuKi0x: if she gives it to me
x0iTsuKi0x: but now it’ll be for robotics
x0iTsuKi0x: And if the fans are into file sharing (which they are), keep the lawyers leashed and find a way to make piracy work for you.

And yes, that’s my most commonly used screen name that I don’t normally give out online. XP

Edit 2:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/default.aspx?article=CEOstudy

Plan your careers early… sure… XP