{"id":17599,"date":"2009-08-20T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17599"},"modified":"2009-08-20T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:40:56","slug":"anime-otaku-are-keeping-blu-ray-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-otaku-are-keeping-blu-ray-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Otaku Are Keeping Blu-ray Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GfK Marketing Services Japan reports that more than 50% of the money Japanese consumers spent to purchase Blu-ray discs during the first half of 2009 went to anime discs. Furthermore, continuing a trend that started last year, anime continues to be Japan&#8217;s best selling media category on Blu-ray. However, Blu-ray sales have not compensated for losses in DVD sales. During the first half of 2009 Japanese DVD sales declined by 15%, and revenue generated from DVD sales fell by 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-08-20\/anime-makes-up-50-percent+of-bd-sales-in-japan-in-2009-1st-half\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GfK Marketing Services Japan reports that more than 50% of the money Japanese consumers spent to purchase Blu-ray discs during the first half of 2009 went to anime discs. Furthermore, continuing a trend that started last year, anime continues to be Japan&#8217;s best selling media category on Blu-ray. However, Blu-ray sales have not compensated for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17600,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions\/17600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}