A committee for an anime like Demon Slayer includes: A toy company (Bandai), a publisher (Shueisha), a streaming service (Crunchyroll/ABEMA), and a record label (Sony Music). They pool risk. The animation studio is just a hired gun.
To understand Japanese entertainment, you must abandon the Western metrics of "winning" (Emmy ratings, Billboard charts) and adopt the Japanese metric of Kankaku (emotional connection). A committee for an anime like Demon Slayer
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and Disney+ realized that to conquer the world, they needed anime. They began outbidding traditional TV stations for exclusive rights to major titles. This injected foreign capital into a previously closed system, raising animation quality but also sanitizing mature content for global censorship guidelines. They began outbidding traditional TV stations for exclusive
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As the world becomes homogenized by Netflix and Disney+, Japan remains the last major bastion of idiosyncratic entertainment. You cannot predict the next hit in Japan by looking at a chart in Los Angeles. The next wave might be a 70-year-old enka singer covering heavy metal, or a virtual fox-girl streaming a 12-hour endurance chat, or a silent, black-and-white period drama shot on film.