This does tend to happen with changing markets. As a market rapidly expands, studios crumble away and new ones swoop in to replace them.

Anime boomed in the 90s, and then it lulled for a while. When the Covid-19 Pandemic shut down the world, anime interest spiked, but due to literal health reasons studios had to delay or cancel content. This has negative effects for years later, with some studios never being able to recover. Some lost very important people, and that can lower the quality of the studio’s works, which can lead to complaints, less viewership, lower employee morale, and ultimately studio closure.

As an interesting note: Cost of Living in most of Japan isn’t all that bad, actually. According to (source), the United States is ranked 9 and Japan is 76. The cost of living in Japan is about half the cost of living in the USA, meaning the minimum amount of pay a person should expect to live is less in Japan. Now, this is of course an average. So someplace like Tokyo is going to be more expensive than Fukuoka, just as literally any city in California will be highway robbery compared to any city in a state like Oklahoma. But for the purposes of this conversation, the low pay isn’t really the big problem. Japanese culture makes up the difference for low pay and generally Japanese workers will stay with low paying jobs, as much as I might wish that aspect of their culture was different.

The biggest problem is the physical health toll due to overly long work hours, leading to sleeping under their desks in their office most days of a month to be considered normal and expected.

They aren’t a graphics programmer that yaps into a mic on YouTube?

I had this one on my rear window for a while, but after a few years the California sun cooked it and it blew away in the wind. I bought it on Etsy, but it is not longer for sale. Maybe something similar for any anime you really like can pop up in your search results soon.

Thats some really unfortunate heavy restrictions on your number plate. I don’t know how youre going to get anything anime related with only 2 letters and 2 numbers outside of what I mentioned.

Honestly, it might be better to get whatever they issue you and then just get a window decal for whatever anime you like instead for the rear window.

If you like Asuka’s Unit 02, what about EU-02, for Evangelion Unit 02? Or EV-02, since you have an EV?

There is also the Macross Plus designations YF-19 and VF-11.

I don’t know if you can use pattern XXX-##, but if you can then that opens up EVA-00, EVA-01, or EVA-02 from Neon Genesis Evangelion. This also opens up ARX-08 as the Arbalest from Full Metal Panic! and ATM-09 from Armored Trooper VOTOMS.

There is also the MS-12 Mobile Weapon Gigan from Gundam Unicorn. RX-78 is most likely to be taken, nbut you can check it as the eponymous Gundam featured on the cover art of the original Mobile Suit Gundam (well, specifically RX-78-2, but lopping off the 2 isnt a huge issue). Chars Gundam at one point is the RX-93.

You could get a little cheeky for Re:Zero and go with RE-00.

AV-98 is the designation of the Ingram mech from Patlabor.

Outside of mecha designations, its going to be pretty hard to get a reference with such little character and number count.

I get what they are saying, but I do wish Japan and Japanese businesses would learn that Japanese IP law does not apply to anyone outside of Japan.

Japan’s IP laws are much broader and the judgements more strictly favor big business, whereas believe it or not, other countries like the US have it figured out slightly better. At least in the US there is actually a chance for the legal system to work correctly and not favor big business. In Japan, its all but automatically won in favor of the business.

The result of mixing the classic art style and traditional anime medium with modern computer assisted art.

I never expected this to make a come back

Is it as jarring as watching Evangelion Rebuild 2.0 and then immediately watching Evangelion Rebuild 3.0?

I discovered Goblin Slayer got a second season, so I have watched 5 episodes of it.

I like it so far, though I am not fond of it showing more of his face this time. If the show always showed his face I wouldn’t really have a problem with it, but by this point if they do it now, its weird. Hopefully they keep the helmet on.

Also glad the show doesn’t get so detailed as its first episode. It isn’t a bad thing, and it has its place, but I think having that first episode set up the show enough that it doesn’t need to do it again, and so far it hasn’t.

In my opinion? Yes. But I feel the same about most mainstream anime. Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Jujitsu Kaisen, etc.

I don’t know if that’s the case, this is only what I read in the article. It’s certainly possible politicians are fighting among themselves, it happens all the time. Though I am doubtful they would fight about anime, that seems very unlikely.

While SB20 was originally passed with bipartisan support to fight AI-generated child exploitation, its vague and sweeping language is now the primary cause for concern. The bill’s author, Republican Sen. Pete Flores, stated that his intent was to send a “clear message” to child predators.

Seems the intention was good but they used language that was overly broad and they clearly did not know enough about anime to be able to use the proper wording when writing the law.

Netflix Jail means we set sail.

By “anyone can die,” do you mean “lots of randoms die,” or “any of the main cast of characters can unexpectedly die before the show ends?”

Its because Anno thought it looked cool and because advancing the plot required it.

I dont see how a minor touch-up is considered a restoration. Must just be a marketing term.

I mean, I like Perfect Blue so this is all good to me, just not a fan of the wording.

Restoration? What happened? Was the original damaged?

Yeah, I explained in another reply before when I first saw it, my frontend was cutting off the watermark and this was grouped with other posts that are official. It was a mistake. I discovered the watermark after viewing the full image.