Interview with Gen Fukunaga, Part 1

January 21, 2008

We recently sat down with FUNimation founder and CEO Gen Fukunaga in his office in Flower Mound, Texas to talk about FUNimation and the anime industry. In the first part of this two-part interview, we talk about the anime market in the U.S., the impact and future of legal and illegal downloading, and timing issues for Japanese vs. U.S. releases. In Part 2, we talk about anime DVD-buying demographics and FUNimation's plans for 2008.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/11935.html

I strongly urge anyone with an interest in the current status of the anime scene globally (at least from one distro's point of view) to have a read of this. Its very interesting.

Thanks to Alex who posted it in a thread elsewhere on the web

Cheers
Jonny