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Anime Herald’s 2020 Accountability Statement
🕑 Added 2020-08-21 02:53:04 +0000 UTC
Introduction
My fellow anime fans, good evening.
Another year has passed at Anime Herald, during which we have seen changes great and small alike affect our operations, our content, and even our very way of life, itself.
In October, we made the difficult decision to turn the lights off in our news desk for the very last time. After five years of daily updates, we found that we were unable to sustain our output any longer. The burden continued to grow, and the toll it took on our team proved to be too great, as articles piled up in the editing queue, and output began to dwindle.
Rather than continue to tilt at the windmill that was the ever-growing news pile, we made a conscious decision to change our focus. As of January 1, we have reclassified our priorities, and worked to become a fanzine for the modern age, placing emphasis on the fascinating and the informative; the exciting and the inspirational. But, more important, we wanted to do god, and vowed to pay a fair wage for our articles, effective immediately, offering $50 per published piece.
As I look back on our output, which includes outstanding articles like Tynan Brooks’ When Stars Align: A History of Queer Anime, SheepLord’s A Brief History of Denmark’s Manga Industry, and Kat Callahan’s The Boxes We Keep: A Study of Love Me For Who I Am’s (FukaBoku) Approach to Gender, I’d like to think that we’ve kept these promises and then some, bringing forth content that’s fun to read, and genuinely fascinating, while helping to make the anime fan community a brighter place through our very operations.
So, as we prepare to celebrate our tenth anniversary, I’d like to take a moment to thank you, personally, for believing in us, and for backing us. Your contribution has helped us to grow, and to become an organization that we are genuinely proud to help build up, each and every day.
- Samatha Ferreira, Anime Herald's editor in chief
What Is This?
Since we went to a crowd-funded model, we have pledged to maintain full transparency as to where your money goes. As you have placed your trust in our operations, and our ability to deliver on our promises, we have made it our goal to ensure that you are never in the dark as to what we’re doing, or how we’re doing things. This includes an annual financial report, which states exactly where the money you have entrusted us with goes, and how it’s being used.
Our Finances
Over the past year, we have taken in $1943.54, after Patreon fees and taxes. In addition, I contributed $464.12 as part of a matching campaign, and we received $300 from other sources, bringing Anime Herald’s total revenues for the 2020 fiscal year to $2,707.66.
Over the past year, we have commissioned:
- 32 Long-Form articles ($1,600)
- 15 News Articles at $20 each ($300)
- Miscellaneous operational fees ($230)
As a result, our total expenses equaled $2,130 USD for the year.
Our Output
Over the course of the 2020 fiscal year, we published 31 articles, with one more ready to publish:
- Will I Ever Want To Go To An Anime Con Again?
- Magia Record: Finding Connection at a Time When We’re All Torn Apart
- The Many Love Polygons of CLAMP’s Cardcaptor Sakura
- Why Rick and Morty Fans Should Watch Space Dandy
- Moe Anthropomorphism & Objectification, As Told by KanColle and Azur Lane
- Finding Kafka in Kaneki: Tokyo Ghoul and the Perils of Boyhood
- Eyes on Yokai: Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
- Revisiting DiC’s Sailor Moon 25 Years Later
- The Boxes We Keep: A Study of Love Me For Who I Am’s (FukaBoku) Approach to Gender
- Rated COVID-19: The Movie Miracle of “Fame-ish”
- It Takes A Village: Education and Growth in My Hero Academia and Mx0
- Your Value as a Manga Fan Is Not Measured by the Size of Your Collection
- Insight into PROMARE from Studio TRIGGER’s Wakabayashi and Koyama
- Eyes on Yokai: Urusei Yatsura
- Arifureta: My Biggest Disappointment and Guiltiest Pleasure
- Tanoshii Moomin Ikka and the Value of Loose Adaptations
- Eyes On Yokai: Natsume’s Book of Friends
- The Social Politics of Gatchaman Crowds and Hamatora
- Patlabor: The Modern Prometheus
- When Stars Align: A History of Queer Anime
- A Tale of Several (More) Cities – A Look At City Design In Western & Eastern Gaming – Part 2
- Naruto: A Behemoth In Which Positivity Pervades
- Eyes on Yokai: Gegege no Kitaro
- A Brief History of Denmark’s Manga Industry
- A Tale of Several Cities – A Look At City Design In Western & Eastern Gaming – Part 1
- Eyes On Yokai: An Introduction to Yokai in Anime
- Warui Deshou Podcast – Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Episode 2 (Co-Production)
- Warui Deshou Podcast – Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! Episode 1 (Co-Production)
- A Look Back at Shinji Mikami
- [Untitled Article by Anime Commentary]
