Re: Is hentai dying/dead?
you are correct in the batter. The movie industry, let alone the pron industry hasn't adapted well into this new technological age. If there was an independent animation studio releasing content via a hulu.com type site with security and ads, you'd see people making a killing again. hardly anyone wants to invest in it that train of thought though.
... You do realize that, last year, America spent more money on Porn than it did on International aid...
The Porn industry is anything but dead. And Japan spends more money a year on Hentai than their government did on their Military... Ok, that might be an exaggeration, but you need to remember that in Japan, it's different from the west.
1) In Japan, most Manga shops will also sell Hentai in the back. Most Anime shops have a section for H-Anime. You can buy that shit in japan easy and cheap over there, so people do buy them.
2) Hentai has NEVER been profitable in the west. Most shops aren't allowed to sell it, and there have only been a handful of people that have paid the phenomenal fee to import their porn from japan.
Just because we are now all getting it free, doesn't mean the hentai industry is losing out... Quite the contrary. Because, face facts, would you pay money to import the DVDs? No, you wouldn't, probably because you wouldn't know what they were like, now, people are seeing these things and going "Wow, that's hot... I should buy one of the DVD's, to throw a bit of cash their way.
Would they make more money if everyone bought hentai from them? of course, but if it wasn't for the torrents, we'd all probably just not bother... So they would still not get the money, but they also wouldn't get the people admiring their work, and wanting to buy their merchandise. I heard that the Taimanin Asagi figurine sold quite well in America.