Via Anime Insider: Anime on Cable TV (October 2006)

An article with some info on anime-based cable/on-demand channels (really the anime network, though the funimation channel is mentioned).

Also, the captions on that image are painfully bad, not that it’s exclusive to this article. If this magazine didn’t have a lot of authentic info/interviews, I would have quit looking at it a long time ago. The various attempts at humor throughout the run are soul-crushing.

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Via Anime Insider: Female Audiences in the US (September 2005)

An interesting piece examining efforts by various people within the US anime/manga industry to reach female viewers, which also mentions that female viewers fairly consistently made up about 25% of the 6-11 viewership of toonami around this time (specifically, a 26% value for June 2005 is said to be “fairly consistent” by an industry source).

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