I think most people here can agree that vast majority of the time companies based in the USA have tried to appease to anime fans it has either met with mixed results or low profitability and very rarely has it met with financial success. What I mean by this is that the Death Note movie sucked and did poorly at the box office, even though I liked the Ghost in the Shell movie it didn't do well at the box office. Very rarely are there instances like RWBY or Avatar in which a major investment into making something animesque does well financially and is well received.
I don't expect that trend to change anytime soon, cause the problem is that very rarely do these companies hire directors that understand the appeal of the original content. For example look at who they're hiring for the Hollywood Naruto movie… A director with barely any experience and a studio that has a history of making very mediocre films. It's probably going to be another mediocre hollywood adaption that sells poorly.
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Anyway before I get sidetracked too much there is one very clear exception to how american attempts at appealing to anime fans continue to fail: hentai.
It's no secret that hentai is very popular in north america, it actually gets searched more often than anime in the states and is one of the most searched items on porn sites to the point it's the fourth most searched item on pornhub. However even I underestimated how profitable it is in the states; apparently websites like nutaku and such are now worth nearly a hundred million dollars.. Granted that site is a Canadian website, but you get the point.
I'm getting a little bit into my own opinion here, but why that industry is getting so big in north america is due to several factors: no censorship and no mosaic censorship, companies are now exporting their products to the north america for distribution to get around censorship in their home countries, franchises like say Nekopara have done exceptionally financially well in north america.
There is something else I want to talk about though that doesn't necessarily have to do with distribution and such. There's several large video game developers now eying making porn games as well. Why? Cause projections place that by 2025 the video game porn industry will be worth probably somewhere in the ballpark of five billion dollars annual profits.
Hollywood adaption of anime franchises sell poorly.
Anime inspired shows that do well financially are few.
Companies are increasingly relying on distribution companies in north america to get past censorship in their countries.
Hentai games are proving time and time again to be massively profitable as a industry.
SOME companies in north america are potentially looking towards making hentai games because they see how profitable it is.
With how rapidly the hentai industry is growing in north america it could potentially financially outpace non-pornographic anime at some point.
Tldr;
