Anime distributor AnimEigo and parent company MediaOCD have released the latest episode of The Anime Business on YouTube. The new installment of the ongoing documentary series about pioneers of the Western anime industry features an in-depth interview with John Sirabella, co-founder of Media Blasters, an important distributor of anime in North America during the 90s and 2000s.
John Sirabella’s unlikely journey into the industry began after he discovered anime in the late 80s at a Creation Star Trek convention, where a fellow vendor passed him VHS copies of Project A-ko, Bubblegum Crisis and Ranma ½. Although he was primarily interested in software design and computer games, Sirabella saw a...
