Anime isn't very cross-compatible in terms of both the things its fans care about and community overlap with fans of regular movies/TV. Though I don't really have a good means to support my assertion other than that most Anime torrent or information sites are separate from normal TV/Movie sites, and the reverse holds true as well - IE normal TV/Movie sites rarely have good information on anime. So there's definitely a schism.
I think the fact that normal TV/Movie sites lack information on Anime led to the schism more than anything. The same things the Anime community has developed could be equally applicable to normal TV, especially in the age of DVRs and streaming: Anime fans were watching things asynchronously long before anyone else
