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	<description>Nine-Years in the Industry, Doing Business and Play with Both Sides of the Ocean</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Calling it Industry Babble 3.0 but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2009/01/05/im-not-calling-it-industry-babble-30-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!
For those who are interested, I started a new blog over at AnimeVice.com. 
I&#8217;m not gonna call it Industry Babble 3.0, but it&#8217;ll cover similar topics &#038; such.
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		<title>What&#8217;s Not Working in Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/12/03/whats-not-working-in-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/12/03/whats-not-working-in-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I talked a bit about how the business model of the Japanese anime industry needs to change.
From the general consensus I&#8217;ve heard (of course I haven&#8217;t talked to everyone in the industry, so please take this as my own personal impression), the core issue seems to be how late-night TV anime are produced in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit from JRI</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/12/02/visit-from-jri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks from The Japan Research Institute came by to our office today.
They&#8217;re a think tank / consulting company, and they formed a group to do research on the anime/manga global market.
It seems like they already did a ton of research &#038; interviews in Japan, and they are now gathering data from the US and Europe. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of Visitors Looting&#8230; j/k</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/20/lots-of-visitors-looting-jk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/20/lots-of-visitors-looting-jk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we had three visitors come by our office.
First, Robotech.com webmaster Steve came by to pick up some IKEA Billy bookshelves. We had a lot of them in our warehouse when AnimeGamers.com sold import books. But we broke them down two years ago b/c we stopped selling import manga online and they&#8217;ve been sitting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in Orange County</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/19/a-day-in-orange-county/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/19/a-day-in-orange-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Game Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the final day of meetings w/ Bushi Road.
We went to NISA &#038; had lunch w/ them.
I&#8217;ll have to go back to their office next month, since we just informed them of our dissolution and we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of co-promo with Disgaea among other things.
Next, we headed over to Atlus USA.
We&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toki-Kake Event at Anime Jungle</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/18/toki-kake-event-at-anime-jungle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/18/toki-kake-event-at-anime-jungle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of the day driving today.
We had a meeting w/ trading card game company AEG in Ontario (about 1-1/2 hours from West Los Angeles). Then we had a meeting w/ video game company Square Enix, towards West Los Angeles. 
Freelancer S@ki told me that there was a Toki-Kake (The Girl Who Leapt Thru [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Card Game Shop Tour w/ Bushi Road</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/17/card-game-shop-tour-w-bushi-lord/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/17/card-game-shop-tour-w-bushi-lord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese trading card maker Bushi Road president Kidani-san &#038; VP Kurokawa-san are in town this week.
Guests are visiting LA left and right!
But it&#8217;s all good, since it&#8217;s fun to get out of the office every once in a while. I just wish it wasn&#8217;t two weeks in a row.
Anyway, I picked them up at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting w/ Organic Along w/ UART</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/14/meeting-w-organic-along-w-uart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/14/meeting-w-organic-along-w-uart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UART president Hirai-san was in town this week, and I went to visit Organic USA&#8217;s office w/ him today.
The problem was&#8230; I haven&#8217;t gone to their office for over three years. And neither has Hirai-san.
So we both thought their office was along Wilshire (near the pho place)&#8230; and we get to the building, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working as an Artist in the Online Game Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/13/working-as-an-artist-in-the-online-game-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/13/working-as-an-artist-in-the-online-game-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Game Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Broccoli USA production assistant Krystal came by.
If you&#8217;ve read Broccoli Books &#038; Synch-Point production blogs from several years back, Krystal was our production assistant for a long time while she studied 3D animation/graphics.
After she graduated, she&#8217;s been working on various projects&#8230; and she got to work on the graphics for the Harry Potter ride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local TV Coverage&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/10/local-tv-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bro-usa.com/industry_babble/2008/11/10/local-tv-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shizuki</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received a call from KCAL 9, a local TV station in Los Angeles.
They were looking for businesses they could feature in their TV program called Best Deals.
So I had to explain to them that we no longer have a retail store, nor do we offer services that would be beneficial to consumers since [...]]]></description>
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