Otaku Review

TV Tokyo has announced plans to form a new department that will focus on overseas sales of their anime properties. The department is currently titled the ‘Anime Department’ (and who says corporate doesn’t know how to be creative?) and will consolidate the three current anime departments which currently handle operations, production and business.

So what does this mean to you? Well, TV Tokyo has produced quite a few important anime titles in Japan which include fan favorites such as Naruto, Evangelion, Bleach and many others. The fact that they are actively exploring the potential for overseas sales seems to indicate to me that they are looking for new avenues of distribution. This doesn’t mean that you should be looking for their titles to appear on any new television stations in the near future but after the success of Crunchyroll, it wouldn’t be shocking to see more titles appear on the popular streaming site or even others like it before the end of the year.

Of course what would really be cool would be to see them jump into the localization game and start marketing their titles themselves to region 1 audiences but yeah… let’s not hold our breath on that one.