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Originally Posted by monsta666
Well that question really depends on what the anime industry wants. If they wish to expand and make more profit then turning to the US market is an easy way to make more money. The US is a major market with lots of people with a decent amount of disposable income. If they want to tap that market they need to cater some of their products to satisfy those users. In this case that means adapting the content of anime so it is suitable for a wide-stream audience. The added benefit to adapting to American viewers is that American viewers share similar tastes to European viewers so that market could be tapped as well. Now, whether the anime producers want to do that is another question. Judging by their current actions they are not very interested in expanding their works outside Japan and if that is the case then there is little reason to adapt anime to American audiences. But if they are after bigger profits then it is an idea worth considering.
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For Japanese companies to really benefit from doing any of this they'd actually have to kill the North American anime market as it's currently known though. If they specifically cater shows for a western audience, they'd have to cut out the middlemen, as in current American redistribution companies and sell the product directly.