Anyone who follows anime knows that it takes a year after airing in Japan before being officially released in North America, and even longer in Europe. However, times are changing, anime is spreading, and anime production companies are taking notice of non-Japanese markets. Until just last year, the only way that non-Japanese anime fans could get their anime fix (legally) was to wait until someone licensed the anime and released it in their country, and many anime series never make it out of Japan. This of course frustrated many fans, but a few companies seem to be looking to fix that problem. Read more »