From Cowboy Bebop to One Piece to Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix is going all-in on live-action anime adaptations. Which show could (and should) be next?
Generally speaking, the idea behind
bootleg anime merch is that it’s supposed to be a win-win, at least for the buyer and seller. The seller gets to widen their profit margin by dodging licensing fees, and the buyer gets the item they want (or a substitute copy, to be precise), at a price below what they’d pay for the official product.
So it’s hard to see how
a 45-year-old woman from Tokyo, who has a day job as an office worker, managed to
convince a 60-something man at a flea market to buy a single bootleg Evangelion poster from her for 7,900 yen (US$76), but somehow she did, and she now finds herself in trouble with the law.