AnimEigo Announces Latest Episode of Ongoing Documentary Series - The Anime Business
New series features interviews with North American anime industry luminaries; Episode 2 available now on YouTube
Los Angeles, CA - Anime distributor Bandai Entertainment.
As anime has grown from modest beginnings into a multi-billion-dollar global industry, The Anime Business provides insights from many notable people that played important roles in helping to popularize the genre in North America at various stages of its evolution.
Episode 2 is available now on the official AnimEigo YouTube channel at:
https://www.YouTube.com/@AnimEigo/videos
In the latest installment, Robert Napton recalls his days at US Renditions, which was the Special Projects Division of Books Lucky Star and more.
The Anime Business Episode 1 is also now available to stream on the AnimEigo YouTube channel and features an interview with Central Park Media.
All episodes will be available in English. Japanese subtitles will also be available via a special grant from the Kleckner Foundation. Additional episodes and interviews are in production now.
AnimEigo and MediaOCD invite fans that would like to help and crowdfund future episodes of The Anime Business to donate at: https://www.MediaOCD.com/plans-pricing
The Anime Business is an ongoing series featuring a wide range of entrepreneurs and visionaries that helped to pioneer and shape the North American anime industry. It is produced and hosted by industry veteran and MediaOCD founder and AnimEigo CEO Justin Sevakis.
Sevakis was the original founder of Anime News Network in 1998, and he contributed many of the site's most popular columns for many years, in addition to co-hosting ANNCast, the #1 anime podcast worldwide, from 2009-2015. Sevakis was the first in-house video and subtitle editor at Central Park Media, a prominent 2000s era anime distributor, and worked on Macross II. He acquired anime distributor AnimEigo in 2024.
About AnimEigo:
AnimEigo is a division of MediaOCD and was founded in 1989 as one the first distributors to focus on anime and an array of acclaimed Japanese live-action films in the United States and Canada. Over the last 35 years, AnimEigo consistently broadened the market for Japanese content by cultivating audiences for new genres of film.
Renowned for high quality translations, subtitles, and dubbing, AnimEigo has released a wide variety of classic anime titles. For more information, please visit: MediaOCD.com.
