Over on Anime News Network, you can find Rob Pereyda: 11 Startup Founders I’ve Met Who Are Shaking Up the Anime Industry. This is the culmination of getting to know some incredible startup founders in and around the anime space, Read more…
I’ve been going to AX since the year 2000 back when it was at the Disneyland Hotel and a Sephiroth cosplayer briefly was walking around with an impaled Mickey on his scythe (what a sight!). With AX24 expected to break Read more…
This past week, I attended Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, my first time going since 2010. Catching up with my old licensees from my Capcom days as well as helping my current clients navigate the world of anime licensing made Read more…
Today, we announced a partnership with Inspired Productions, the studio of shonen manga and webtoon author Brandon Chen. Brandon is someone I’ve gotten to know over the years and really see make his mark in the manga and webtoon space Read more…
Today, we announced that we’re partnering two incredible consultants: Miles Atherton and Tony Abreu. Miles is the former CMO of Anime Limited and Marketing Director at Crunchyroll, and will serve as our Senior Marketing Consultant while also continuing his role Read more…
Anime Is Far From Niche But why doesn’t the business community take it seriously? Anime has the engagement, cultural impact, and financial reach to make it a true powerhouse of a category, but likely due to a lack of understanding Read more…
A couple of months ago, I started working full time as an anime consultant. It’s simultaneously gone by in the blink of an eye, yet it’s also felt like it’s been much longer. Taking the moment in, I thought I’d Read more…
It’s been an exciting year of growth for anime in 2023, with the media declaring anime more popular than ever and how anime has gone from niche to mainstream. But if this year has been about true growth of anime Read more…
When I was first learning Japanese, I often got tripped up with how we used the word mae (前). It means “before” in two very different senses: Let’s drop mae into a simple diagram to see where it appears to Read more…
When Bandai Namco recruited me in 2011, I had experience with Japanese content from both Capcom and Crunchyroll. I was in the US for Capcom and primarily in Japan for Crunchyroll, but I had never worked in Japan for a Read more…
