User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-5739199-20140507023222/@comment-24762556-20140511130750

@ the smarter anon who isn't Shawn

I normally would be considerate, and I tried to be here. Again it is the attitudes of Shawn and some other anons that gave me the "f*ck off Azure" and "UR SO STOOPED" replies that have made me less tolerating, especially when I wrote several posts explaining my reason in perfectly civil language.

@ Shawn

TYPEMOON doesn't care about international fanbase enough to check our site, hardly any Japanese companies and authors do. Why do you think One Piece and most other Shonen Jump mangas, after over 15 years of international fame, still fill their mangas with Japanese-exclusive jokes such as puns even in plot-relevant elements? Why do you think any other animes, mangas and light novels are ridden with horrible broken english that could've been solved if anyone in the production of that anime/manga/LN ever thought of using an english dictionary or hiring anyone who speaks half-decent english to check before finalizing the thing?

It's because they're content with making money off their Japanese customers, international sales are always little more than extra income for them. Animes make their major income through merchandising, and when it comes to international merchandising, how much money do you think actually goes through to the mother company, after all the exporting fees, numerous middle men, serializing and localizing their anime(dubs, etc), the lost of income due to pirating, so on and so forth?

No matter how popular the anime, the income gained from international sales of ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES COMBINED hardly ever scratch over half of what they can get within Japan itself, so why should they care about us?

Even non-Japanese companies operate under the same logic. Why do you think Marvel still throw millions and millions into making movies for a superhero named Captain AMERICA instead of trying to please the billions and bllions of Asian people overseas in order to spread their market? It's because they're making most of the money at home anyway.