what do you think anime can do to be huge again

I know. I'm hoping for a comeback for the Japanese wave too. It seems to have been taken over by the Korean wave in my university. It's quite sad. I'm in a Japanese Club and it's really hard to recruit people into our club now. And I saw the Korean Club just left a pen and paper on their recruitment booth and they still had more people joining their club then ours.

There's a new anime called Redline (go find the trailer in youtube) it is considered a masterpiece in some way (because every action frame to frame is hand drawn) And it's mostly action base. If we anime fans join together to support good quality anime then maybe the goldenage might come back. But the main problem is most otakus in Japan like those moe blob girls, ecchi, hentai How the heck are we going to compete with them? I mean Japan cares more about their customers in their own country (Anyway most people will only care about thier own country)

Anime nowadays suffer from 2 things: distribution and censorship. The first one is obvious, only anime that is famous enough get exported which also happens to Japanese games. The problem that this brings is that even if its a hit in Japan, it doesn't necessarily will be one in other cultures, and the opposite is also true. And while there are companies that buy the rights on anime they think will be liked, they are often changed to "fit" the culture they are being shown at, which brings up censorship. Some of those changes to fit the cultures are often censoring whole scenes, which damages the storyline. When that doesn't happen they change the core of the anime itself to make it "child friendly", as some companies see the anime as for children since its drawn. A really good example of this would be one piece. 4kids translated one piece and censored a lot of stuff, cutting important storyline pieces, or changing characters to fit that standard. It's enough to say that they made it impossible to enjoy either by kids and adults. Also some anime depend on cultural, political or social references, so exporting them is impossible. That leaves the black market and downloading, but since not many people can understand Japanese, you are left only with fansubs. These, besides the point that it's often criticized, also depend on popularity and often are centered on specific genres, or even specific series. In other words, in order to make anime huge again, the world would need to change how it looks at it. As long as they think is only for children most of it won't be distributed or if those that are will be heavily censored.

I don't really see this is happening in my area. I prefer anime rather than American Cartoon. Among these anime, the one I like most is 'One Piece'. The reason that I prefer anime much more is the connotation which always makes me feel so touch. American Cartoon put a lot of content in becoming a hero; which I think is lack of meaning.

I would certainly hope it would come back. I only follow Bleach anymore since Naruto feels childish [not to mention the now terribly overpowered characters and amount of twists and turns in it; makes it boring after a while] and One Piece is simply too long to get into now. It does look like a lot of them are losing their uniqueness, it's like they're trying too hard to be like other animes/mangas. Several of them look at paranormal things to somehow fit into Bleach, others try to capture the 'action' in Naruto, Dragonball and Sailor Moon yet fail horribly. Perhaps if they went back to making anime/manga that's actually interesting and not angels vs. demons, demons vs. demons, ect. and all that is cliched in some way. Hell, I'd like for once to see the main character 'good guy' turn bad and mess people up in some way. The whole 'goody two shoes' main character plan gets old after a while.