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Anime is dying because there is a huge decline in sales and i am really concerned if anyone else likes anime here share your opinions on this subject but there is 1 major reason why this is happening piracy
if you think about it piracy is the reason anime is starting to decline because at the push of a link you can watch a lot of anime correct but this is illegal and so what if anime is expensive piracy also has a thing in this as well because less people are buying their products that companies are starting to bump up the money of the anime to try and keep their budgets up

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anime will never die!

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anime is created by money so if people stop buying there product it certainly will die

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Some fans would still buy physical copies of the episodes (or character songs if there are any). I know that when Hetalia: The Beautiful World was selling in CDs on the Funimation site, you could get free merchandise with the purchase. Other companies could do the like.

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I don't think anime will die out anytime soon.
Piracy and Copyright Infringement affect all sorts of media, even with the general TV Shows, movies and even books/private information. Unlike a lot of other sorts of types of media, Anime has quite a large audience worldwide and many people still buy physical copies such as DVD's and such.

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Theres a stupid site that calls anime lovers WEEABOOS! It's called ROBLOX. The users are immature 5 year olds

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so what if anime is expensive piracy also has a thing in this as well because less people are buying their products that companies are starting to bump up the money of the anime to try and keep their budgets up

You have this backwards. High prices drive piracy... and the best way to combat piracy is to LOWER prices. You will always have a few hardcore people who will ALWAYS buy legal copies. And you will always have a few hardcore people who will ALWAYS download illegally.

It's the people in the middle that make the difference... they're the ones who will buy legal copies where it's both affordable and easy for them to do so, but will resort to piracy when getting a legal copy is made too expensive or difficult.

This is why music piracy is actually on the decline, because now instead of having to go to a shop and buy a CD for some ridiculously inflated price, you can now buy the tracks you want for a reasonable price and download it straight to your music player of choice. It is actually EASIER to buy a legal copy of your favourite music, than it is to pirate it, thanks to music services provided by iTunes and Google.

Piracy of films and TV shows will decline as stream-on-demand services become more widespread and more affordable (and would also decline if new release DVDs weren't so overpriced). The more accessible the latest films and TV shows are to watch through legitimate means, the less reason there is for people to pirate them.

Piracy of games will decline once companies stop charging ridiculously inflated prices for digital distributions (which are often priced at twice the price of a DVD copy.) Good Old Games has the right approach - their prices are fair and affordable, they don't load their games with DRM software that cripples your computer, and you can download the game you bought from their site. As a result, many people buy games from GOG that they would otherwise be required to obtain illegally.

Seriously, increasing the price of your product is a TERRIBLE means of anti-piracy, because it actually makes your product less affordable to the people who would buy it if they could. The average fan of *insert type of media* would much prefer a legal copy... if only they could afford to buy it. Anime suffers from the problem of both being very expensive to purchase, and in some cases very difficult to obtain outside of Japan, both of which encourage piracy because it prevents the average casual fan from being able to get a legal copy easily at a price they can afford.

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I don't believe anime is dying. The companies make money off of merchandise other than DVDs aswell.

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oh no! I'm dying...ahhhhhh

anime is pretty famous, so I don't think it will die

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Anime won't die. Let's face it, it's too big and too widespread to die off anytime soon. And anime sales is so low because it's impossible to obtain outside of Japan without piracy. Even here, we only have the dubbed version - incomplete, ridiculously expansive and hard to find.

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