Then, someone figured out they could make a buck off of it and the rest is history. This is the history of anime. This is the history of film. Why Pros Suck 7. They buy a title because it's popular, and don't finish releasing it because they didn't do their homework on the business end.
Some pros think they know more than fans.
Too few of them are correct. Why Pros Suck 1. A depressing number of pros don't respect the properties that other professionals have invested so much of their blood, sweat, and tears to produce. Instead they buy the property and try to turn it into the show they wanted, not the show they bought. But no one's all bad, and without pros, anime would never exist.