| According to the official website, the number of visitors to the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) 2012 on the first public day was 31,391, a 38% drop from the previous TAF 2010. (TAF 2011 was canceled due to the earthquake.) The number of domestic exhibitors also decreased 32% while the foreign exhibitors increased 50%. Chinese companies made up one-fourth of the exhibitors this year. Major Japanese publishers have been boycotting TAF to express their objections to the Tokyo government's anime & manga regulation ordinance. Anime Contents Expo (ACE) 2012, the effective counter convention to TAF 2012, will be held from March 31st. The anime producers will advertise most of their new titles at ACE 2012 rather than at TAF 2012. List of the anime titles to be displayed at ACE 2012 Sources: TAF press release, Nikkei Newspaper |
dtshykMar 24, 2012 6:52 PM
Anime Contents Expo (ACE) 2012, the effective counter convention to TAF 2012, will be held from March 31st i bet this is where the 32% of missing visitors on TAF will go |
| That's a huge drop, is next year's TAF already dated? |
| I think it is most likely due to the bad economy or lingering effects of the 2011 tsunami |
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Astra118 said: I think it is most likely due to the bad economy or lingering effects of the 2011 tsunami Definitely not, the anime industry is on the rise again after years of decrease, the main cause is, as j0x pointed out, a company and customer boycott. |
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| Big Tyrant heads this event, I wouldn't even go myself until they chose a new chair anyone would do unless they are from the BPO. |
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Good for the people hitting em where it hurts. In the pocketbook. |
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| Not sure I can really say I feel sorry for them. |
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| "dont mess with our anime" is the message i guess?? |
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| The companies that are boycotting are most likely the cause. If I recall correctly, the boycotting companies are some of the huge ones that own the big time anime titles so no one is gonna go to a con that doesn't have their favorite animes. |
| good i hope it keeps dropping |
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| ACE is a cooler acronym anyways :P |
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| if only could go |
| Censorship is bullshit, why the hell would you be looking for it if you weren't "perverted" anyways? |
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GodlyKyon said: Censorship is bullshit, why the hell would you be looking for it if you weren't "perverted" anyways? This, Queen's blade would suck without all that ecchi. |
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| I may not be one of most anime and manga lovers out there who do not have the luxury of attending to a TAF event even just once in my lifetime, but seeing the situation, I'd definitely say that Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara is really trying to kill the anime and manga industries, with all the censorship crap he has imposed. That, and his string of recent controversies will surely be his demise, once the Japanese otaku community decides to unleash hell upon him... It's not too late for him to do the right thing, or he'll be remembered as the industry's greatest nemesis, long after his sorry corpse has been cremated (read: mutilated by haters). As we all know, censorship is the greatest enemy of creative imagination. |
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| Well, they brought it upon themselves. At least the boycott's having some effect. |
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