NFT as Anime funding mechanism

1 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-11 17:48

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2024-05-10/creative-producer-goro-taniguchi-director-junichi-yamamoto-talk-web3-anime/.210382

Looks like some anime is starting to experiment with NFT’s as a model of crowdfunding. Thoughts on this and other crowdfunding (kickstarter, patreon) methods for financing anime production without a production committee?

2 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-11 19:03

The real value of NFT is the non-fungiblity of them, so for "collectables" that are intended to hold value they make little sense, they aren't money and shouldn't be treated as a store of it. but, simply as a means of supporting a show "more directly" I think it could make some amount of sense. The entire point then would be a transfer of money from the fan to the work, but then why not just buy the blu-rays, figures etc?
but really anime studios should just open something like a patreon.

3 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-12 06:28

Anime will probably always be dependent on sponsors. It's just too expensive for an anime tv series to be funded by ordinary people.

4 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-12 06:37

Having that said NFTs can be an extra income source of income... The more source of income the better. The bigger problem is that interest in NFTs and even cryptos is kind of abating as the novelty has worn off. Crypto is not going to disappear but I don't really see how it can grow further. It's going to be around just like Virtual Reality gaming is around but didn't make the big impact that VR enthusiasts thought it was going to make. The same I think will happen with AI once the excitement has died down.

5 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-12 15:18

anime should do more collaborations with video games like fortnite

6 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-13 10:05

Los Angeles-based Web3 anime-styled brand Azuki and advertising conglomerate Dentsu debuted the first nine-minute episode of their joint anime endeavor

so LA crypto grifters and an ad firm made a marketing stunt on the popularity of anime lifestyle branding. You can find a million youtube or nicodouga short indie anime which aren't funded by NFTs or whatever, there's nothing new about this. I think it's poor journalism by ANN to even write about this when they barely mention any other indie anime. But I guess that's what you'd expect from them.

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