>>33022951>All anime is made with the sole priority of advertising something to sellAgain, this literally isn't true of "all anime," (which is what I was taking issue with to begin with) but if we're speaking very generally, I've literally said exactly this at least three times now, even in the comment you just replied to. More than this, this is hardly unique -- literally all commercial media is made to sell something (even if what it's selling is audiences to advertisers, as in the audience commodity thesis), so why does this at all bear mentioning? All this "lurk more" faggotry made it seem as though you had some sort of deep, arcane insight into the political economy of anime, when what you were so smug about was the most obvious, banal truism about literally every bit of commercial media made today.
My original point was that there's a substantive difference between trying to sell blurays and DVDs (or even manga and light novels) and trying to sell merchandise, particularly if that merchandise is a bunch of toys and games to small children -- as in, there's a notable difference between advertising a physical copy of the media itself (where the media more or less has to stand on its own) and trying to sell toys for one of the largest multimedia franchises in the world.
