Making an Anime Studio

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Originally posted by kakomu
Second, i believe that many of the companies that release anime have been in it for a while and thus have a lot of money to dip in to.

And before someone says 'well, they weren't always into it' . . . anime wasn't as big when most of these companies started out. It was much cheaper to license stuff then than it is now. So someone like ADV could afford to fund themselves since noone would give them a loan for 'anime'.