Project Anime - Tokyo

Veteran CoMix Wave producer Kazuki Sunami and Japanamerica author and journalist Roland Kelts give us an inside look at this revolutionary year in Japan's anime industry. Topics include: the sudden collapse of domestic DVD sales; the rise of the "Live Events" category as a source of merchandising revenue; the current SVOD anime licensing bubble via streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll and others; the rise of foreign investment and co-productions; the challenge of wide theatrical anime releases and the resilience of the Blu-ray collectors' market; and Makoto Shinkai's hotly anticipated Toho-distributed feature film, Kimi no Na wa (Your Name), out this August.