What Countries Are Searching for Anime?

Just used Google's new Real-Time Insights Finder to look at the search term "anime". Here's interest in that search term, by country:

[http://www.otakunovideo.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/anime_searches_by_region.jpg|487x353px|anime_searches_by_region]Note that the United States, Britain, and Australia aren't even in the list. (Japan isn't listed, because Japanese otaku would search using Japanese characters.)

Search by city, and a few American cities show up, but are still dwarfed by Pacific and South American cities.

[http://www.otakunovideo.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/anime_searches_by_city.jpg|484x346px|anime_searches_by_city]

This tells me that America is far from the largest potential overseas market for anime. Now, the average American surely has more spending money than the average Chilean, so that's a factor. But as countries like Chile, Peru, and the Philippines rise in economic power, and American fans buy fewer and fewer discs of anime, I can see Japan looking elsewhere for money and increasingly ignoring America.

Maybe.