American anime industry

The chair of AX says the attendees of Anime Expo is averaging about 20 percent annual growth,
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/07/apop.DTL

but Ask John mentioned "The contemporary American anime industry is in dire straights. Evidence suggests that many of America's anime distributors are struggling financially."
http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1123

What's this all about?

>>they haven't been able to do this with MIYAZAKI movies
Well Disney recently with the new Miyazaki stuff like Spirited Away they did do much extensive publicity and promotion.

But let me tell u when the first Miyazaki film came out, Princess Monoke. Disney did ZERO to the promo. Heck I didn't even know it was coming to Vancouver until a month after it was over. And don't tell me that Disney couldn't afford it. If they could risk promoting crappy films like Herbie Fully Loaded, Im sure they can risk trying to extensively promote an Anime film.

>>and 3d, anyway; if any given pixar flick, the ones people say are so wonderful
I think thats the US Anime Industry's main competitor; the 3D animation industries. The wonders of 3D animations (thanks to Pixar) was already ahead of the game long before anime was introduced mainstream.

And between a good Pixar film and a Miyazaki film, I think the public will always pick Pixar anytime. Unless anime goes 3D but then I always tend to find anime never works in 3D.

>>it's just that those soccer moms are more concerned with HARD WORK TEAMWORK JUSTICE morals being taught.
Hehe thats a bit contradictory though. Naruto, OP and bleach don't promote hard work, teamwork and justice morals? I must be seeing those series in a whole diff perspective then.