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blurb=Pokémon anime Executive Producer Masakazu Kubo submitted a proposal to the Japanese government's Task Force on Media Content Business and Japanese Brands that suggested the struggling anime industry work directly with professional-level fansubbers in order to salvage sales. The report was published Feb. 1. }}
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Masakazu Kubo is well known to Pocket Monsters fans as the Executive producer of the series and movies. He is also the director of Shogakukan's Character Business Center. Anime is currently a large market worldwide, but according to recent statistics, Anime sales are in decline. Recently Masakazu Kubo posted his proposal to help the currently floundering animation industry. In his proposal, he praises fansubbers and suggests that ways should devised to officially make use of their abilities.
[[bp:Masakazu Kubo|Masakazu Kubo]] is known to Pokémon fans as the executive producer of the anime series and movies. He is also the director of Shogakukan's Character Business Center. Anime is currently a large market worldwide, but according to recent statistics, anime sales are in decline. Recently Masakazu Kubo offered a proposal to the Japanese government's Task Force on Media Content Business and Japanese Brands to help the currently floundering animation industry. He suggests the anime industry should work directly with professional-level fansubbers. The report was published Feb. 1.


Pokemon doesn't seem to be one of the 'affected' shows though. Pocket Monsters Movie 10 was the 'Top Grossing Anime Movie of 2007' in the Japanese box office, while the Pocket Monsters Movie 9 DVD placed 18th in total sales in Japan. The English dubbed version of Movie 10 was announced earlier this week and will air on Cartoon Network on February 24th. The movie is expected to do quite well in North America.
"About 10 fans (whose translation abilities are high compared to professionals!) are said to put animated videos with foreign-language subtitles on [[wp:YouTube|YouTube]], [[wp:BitTorrent|BitTorrent]] and other file-sharing sites," Kubo wrote. "If our country is to formally deal with YouTube and other services, it will be necessary to have some sort of approach to dealing with these individuals. Personally, I hope to resolve this by officially making use of their abilities."


Shogakukan seems to understand that there is a growing fansubbing community on the Internet and unlike the American motion picture companies, they are looking at alternatives to suing their fanbase.
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* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-04/shogakukans-masakazu-kubo-offers-proposal-on-fansubs Anime News Network]
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