Pirate Site Traffic Surges With Help From Manga Boom

by | May 4, 2022 | anime

New data shared by tracking company MUSO shows that the number of visits to pirate sites has increased by nearly 30% compared to last year. The publishing category is growing particularly hard, mostly driven by manga piracy. The United States continues to harbor the...

Sony Bets Big on Crunchyroll as Global Anime Audience Grows

by | Mar 2, 2022 | anime

Sony Pictures Entertainment is consolidating its anime businesses under the Crunchyroll banner to better compete in the growing streaming market for Japanese animation. From a report: The company is adding hundreds of hours of programming and dozens of titles,...

New York Anime Convention Possibly Infected With Omicron

by | Dec 3, 2021 | anime

Long-time Slashdot reader Aighearach shares a report from Reuters: President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his strategy to fight the coronavirus as the highly contagious Omicron spread across the globe with winter coming and hours after the first known U.S. case of...

Is the Comic Book Industry Dying or Thriving?

by | Oct 18, 2021 | anime

Somewhere on Yahoo, one writer asks "Is the comic book industry dying or thriving?" There was a time when comic books were sold at newsstands alongside mainstream publications, according to Forbes, but that changed in the early 1980s when periodical comics all but...