It’s the end of the year, which means anime bloggers everywhere will be posting their “year in review” articles. While trolling the interwebs, I found an article that’s different than the usual “Best Of” fare. Chris Beveridge over at Mania.com wrote a few points on what the industry actually got right in 2k8

From the article:

Distribution of Releases – Just about every company tried to change things up in one way or another this year. There’s a greater emphasis from all of them, aided by the fact that the Japanese now seem to get it, to provide more digital distribution options. And the companies are taking advantage of that. With Viz Media essentially being a Japanese company, they’ve got their shows out through multiple services, some TV deals as well as their DVD releases. Most of them are shows they’re able to cross-promote with their manga as well. FUNimation does some good cross-promotion with Del Rey for their titles and they’re pushing a lot of digital options as well. FUNimation’s aggressive with their on demand channel as well as pushing through on iTunes, Xbox Live and a YouTube channel. There are so many different digital options it’s almost overwhelming for some with no central place to really figure out what’s available.

It’s a short, but sweet article that succinctly sums up some of the more important industry events of the year. You can read it all at:
Top 5 Things Anime Companies did right in 2008

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