http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/01/16/general/online-streaming-keeps-anime-afloat/
Soon, we will all have to be streamfags. The only source of shows will be some over-compressed artifacted '1080p' stream from CR or Netflix. What do?
>>136262121
>I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan,”
Holy shit, NO. Fuck you. God damnit normalfags ruin everything. How can normalfags even be surprised when mass shootings happen?
>>136262121
Just boycot all the netflix and any streaming hub bullshit around
Thanks to those platforms many fags have dumb ideias about digging graves of shows that have been over years ago and now it's just an excuse to milk the fuck up every single penny
It is too bad for Japan milking with Toei's dead horses and random shows for no reason (FMP3, Saber Marionette J) being dug up when the storylines are finished and there is no more story to continue
With that imagine about a good anime show that has a perfetly tied up finished story and now for the sake of more money and profit they will dig up dead corpses
fuck those tactics for ruining legit good shows
>>136262121
There will still be TV dumps.
>>136262121
>“I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan,”
>>136262652
You are just as retarded as the person who wrote that.
>>136262483
Going the way of Hollywood.
>This sucks! I don't want an easy legal way to watch my Chinese cartoons!
>muh torrents with custom shaders and fan subs
Neckbeards.
>>136262652
fuck off to reddit or tumblr namefag
>>136262909
>A-anime belongs to me!!
What.
>>136262121
Dumbass, they don't care about the western money and never will, it's just a bonus and the reason why anime still follow 100% japanese trends, and thanks fuck for that.
That also mean I feel absolutely no obligation to pay for it if they don't care though.
>>136262800
torrent > streamshit
Fuckk off
Once again another article with a blatant lie in its headline. Streaming isn't keeping the industry afloat. The industry is still overwhelmingly supported by TV, with movies, merchandising, and even overseas licensing making up the bulk of the remainder. The numbers for 2015 still haven't been summarized but I don't expect streaming to have suddenly increased its revenue by 1000% to overtake everything else.
>>136262980
>I love anime!
>better steal content and not support the industry!
That's you.
the animu on netflix is nothing but shows I watched 10 years ago
and it's dub-only garbage to boot
>>136262344
>normies
Kill yourself.
>>136262909
>>136262980
He is baiting. Don't bother.
>>136263024
This is bait as well.
>>136262991
>that oversea loss since 2009
What happened? Too much crap LNs?
>>136263112
The collapse of ADV and Bandai.
>>136263085
>someone has an opinion that differs from me.
>I-it's just b-bait!
>>136263150
This is bait as well.
>>136263148
Damn
>>136262121
>wanting Japan to produce anime that isn't anime
WHAT
THE
FUCK
If you think that way, watch American cartoons, you fuckshit.
>>136262962
Even on /a/, you have thousands of faggots who whine about fanservice, haremshit, moeshit, LN adaptations, etc. I imagine these types of people are even louder on other sites. Do you actually want these people to have a real influence on the anime industry? Because that's what's going to happen if overseas profits became high enough for Japan to start caring about international market.
>>136262800
>using "neckbeards" as an insult
>>136263024
who said that i love anime retard?
>>136263216
Kill yourself you retarded shitposter.
>>136263112
>muh LNs
Oh look a retard. It was a huge confluence of a couple major distributors going under and the rise of CrunchyRoll to legitimacy. January 2009 is when they acquired the rights to distribute Naruto Shippuden on their site. And it has remained their most popular title for 7 years now.
streaming will eventually match blu-ray quality
I don't know how long that will take tho
>>136263261
He's right though, anon. Denying the truth and telling people to kill themselves just because you're afraid of it won't solve anything.
>>136263235
This is an internet forum dipshit, not a secret club.
>>136263345
The only way that would work is if literally everyone has 400Mbps connections and unlimited data caps
>>136263395
Stop baiting you retarded fag.
>>136262344
What do you mean by "soon"
Where have you been for the last 4 years?
>>136262991
It's pretty much click bait.
>>136263394
He is using a tripcode for no reason. He should kill himself.
>>136263345
Not gonna happen in our lifetimes, or probably ever so long as Telecom companies remain as shitty as they are. The bitrate on BD sources is simply too much to fit through a broadband pipe. Not even HD TV channels can handle it.
The limitations in the network are what hold back the quality of streams and TV broadcasts. And fixing those limitations is prohibitively expensive.
Read manga.
>>136263433
naw, with faster computers, comes more complex decoding software, and better compression
>>136263345
Too expensive.
>>136263688
We are slowly loosing the battle though. Eventually we are going to need a new, fast-paced web forum to use.
>>136263688
Its getting worse and worse though.
>>136262991
Soooo buyfags were right the whole time?
>>136263752
I really don't care, I didn't expect to browse /a/ forever really, the day it's unusable for me for different reasons it's the day I'll stop coming here.
>>136263673
Still, there is going to be some drop in quality, however small. HEVC and whatever AOM is cooking up are steps in the right direction, but there's a reason digital versions of movie files as presented at movie theaters are hundreds of gigabytes in size. There will always be purists where the "good enough" that is delivered by streaming services just isn't good enough. Hell, Netflix and its ilk are that "good enough" right now. I personally want better, but I can accept that my viewpoint is different from the vast majority of other media consumers.
Plus I'm a cheap asshole who doesn't want to pay for shit
>>136263788
>>136263752
>>136263821
So fight back, faggots.
>Japanese-burger news
And as if that wasn't bad enough.
>home of Debito Arudou
Kill yourself OP.
>>136263848
>Hell, Netflix and its ilk are that "good enough" right now
Not really.
They are not megavideo/old youtube trash, of course.
>>136263927
That's why I put "good enough" in quotes. For the average consumer, they are good enough. For people like you and me, they aren't good enough.
>>136263821
Yeah, I find myself using /a/ less and less these days, and I've forced myself to stop using other boards before (which believe me, was like chopping off a limb). The main problem is that an alternative hasn't come up yet and I have no idea what it will be, no one does really.
>>136263898
There's no sense in fighting a losing battle.
>>136263805
Yes, obviously. Buying shit helps the industry. If you want to help studios as an ordinary western fan, the hierarchy of purchasing goes like this:
imported Japanese BDs > imported Japanese merch > localized BDs > localized merch > power gap > CR subscription
Most of the money studios make is from TV anime deals, which unless you are a multi millionaire is outside your price range to contribute to.
>>136263688
>saying that while there is a nurutu thread up
>>136263216
>Do you actually want these people to have a real influence on the anime industry?
Yes.
>>136263979
The average consumer doesn't concerns us then, if something they are probably going to hold back streaming services because they are "good" now in comparison to past experiences for them, thus never meeting our quota to acquire of them if it continues like this.
>>136263024
How does buying crunchyroll subscriptions give the anime staff money? Answer me.
>>136264169
>they're still shitposted to hell and back.
No, they aren't. Its really fucking sad that they aren't spammed to the ground.
>>136264009
I'd really tie anything that's imported.
>>136262121
Silver Spoon season 2 fucking when Netlfix.
>>136263848
>Hell, Netflix and its ilk are that "good enough" right now
Not even. I'm by no means a purist, but I don't consider Netflix worth paying for as is.
>>136264234
Stop replying to bait.
>>136263024
If you arent buying the BDs, you arent supporting the industry.
>>136264245
If you actually knew anything about /a/ and its history, you'd realize how retarded your post is.
Just saying.
>>136264039
>muh nurutu boogieman
It's nowhere near as cancerous as SnK and TG. Those are the real tumblr generals.
>>136262991
>2014
I'm curious what the numbers look like two years later.
>>136264245
Naruto is still anime/manga, I don't really care about the show or the manga continuation, but considering it's going to be active for quite awhile and anything WSJ has been popular here, I really find quite amusing that /a/ shunned down the title for some years prior the "ending".
>>136264249
Well you'd be wrong. Studios make more money from BDs than any other secondary source of profit. Because that has the fewest hands in the pot, they mostly just split that with the main distributor. Because home video sales are one of the very few things "reserved" for the studio to make money on. They do get a cut of the character licensing royalties but not much compared to the IP owner. They do get a cut of various merch sales (so long as its stuff based off their anime production) but again they have to split it with too many people to get much out of it.
The reason secondary profit sources are important is because the largest sum of money they get paid gets dumped into production and only manages to cover production if they spread it very thin. If they are banking on high sales they might go over budget on purpose and make the thing at a loss hoping to more than make it back in sales. This doesn't always bear out, and that's when you hear about studios going bankrupt.
>>136264039
SnK
OPM
Hero Academia
All worse.
>>136264196
Enjoy your LGBT propaganda tumblrshit.
>>136264463
>Hero Academia
Are you just saying this in anticipation for the anime and the shipping storm it'll bring?
>>136264396
I'm still trying to find the releases for them. Like I said, given the kinds of shows that were produced throughout 2014 and 2015 I doubt things have changed very much.
>>136264542
No, he's saying it because he's an autistic shitposter who's been at it for months.
>>136264433
/a/ shunned it because it attracts the worst type of people to the board.
Post quality started declining the moment it was allowed on /a/ again.
>>136264529
Inevitability.
Like why westerns and unironic GATE tier patriotism such as Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot stopped being made by Americans.
>>136264433
Narutards are possibly the worst anime fanbase in existence. They've been terrible for nigh on a decade. It's not a coincidence that /a/ lost its sense of humor and became far more insular not long after narutardism spread all over North America.
>>136264542
That and the fanbase is rabid.
If Western Influences means more shows like Stand Alone Complex, WataMote, etc. get made. Ten I'm all up for it. Regardless of what /a/ thinks.
>>136264629
Why not One Piece?
>>136264463
At least SnK fags are keeping it in 1 thread. OPM is /v/ incarnate, though.
>>136264724
I'm implicitly including that.
Bleach was allowed because of Kubo asspulls.
>>136264724
Because Naruto and SNK posters are tumblr posters who pretty much only watch that anime. These people actually sneer at One Piece and think it's stupid because of it's goofy art and no boys to ship.
And Oda can actually write a more fun story.
Good.
>>136264710
I enjoy Hero Academia, but the threads on here are fucking trash. It's the exact same shit you see in Naruto threads.
so a little off topic but where do i even buy imported BDs? cause i usually buy the localized ones but only because i dont know where to buy the imported BDs
>>136264860
amiami, amazon.jp,
Go to the buyfag thread guide
>>136264860
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wPgUiUBP2aXaQ9N0YKNaML7-EAUgC0iQ3FvooNOJ_pM/pub#id.hlrd0sgt0l4a
>>136264860
Go to the buyfag thread and take a look through the guide.
>>136263688
>/v/
>SJWS
>not muh gg, reddit scum
The delusional levels are high.
>>136264462
Sorry for not specifying my point, but as a western fan sometimes it's difficult to acquire full BD series than single merchandise from different titles, I'm not saying you make them more (I honestly don't care that much about that, I honestly can't spend that much on Japanese imports in the first place) but instead you end up consuming merchandise more than BD titles from my experience.
>>136263029
>dub-only
You can switch languages on some of them
>>136265076
some of them are even sub-only
>>136265040
The whole point of importing BDs is to make the studios money. If you don't care about making them money they why import? Just by locally, it's far cheaper.
>>136263345
>eventually
Yeah, I'm sure everyone will be able to stream 20MB per second next year.
how does but local dvds benefit the industry more than a CR subscription again? isnt it kind of the same system except CR subscriptions are cheaper?
>>136265263
I actually watch anime BDs that I import, I started buying them for the extras though, the supporting part is really not my main objective.
>>136264463
This.
>>136265398
Nice bait.
>>136265398
buying*
>>136265501
not baiting. i want to know why so i can explain why you shouldnt get a CR subscription to my friend
>>136265568
If you aren't baiting, then you need to lurk more.
Tell your "friend" that he's a fucking retard.
>>136265568
If he doesn't know better, why do you have to complicate things for him?
>>136262652
To be honest most of my favorite anime had either a kinda western style to some degree or were just untypical like Pingpong and stuff. So it could be nice but nice things barely ever happen so I guess it will just turn into some American action shit or stuff like that. The stream shit annoys me more though, CR's quality is already bad as shit.
>>136265568
Unfriendly reminder that you have to be at least 18 years old to post on 4chan. Kill yourself, newfag.
>Yoshitaka Anno
>>136265612
anon how do you expect me to get people to stop streaming if i cant back up my reasons
>>136265398
The discs cost more and the studios still get a big enough cut even factoring in the licensing company's share that it's more profitable than the pennies they see from each CR subscription. CR can only make substantial support for the industry through sheer numbers. However, if they personally make enough money this way, they could then turn around and then invest that money into anime production if they wanted. Basically taking the money they kept from the industry for themselves, then joining a funding consortium to pay for anime production.
So far they've shown zero inclination to do this though.
>>136265727
i turned 20 today anon
I don't understand why people are so afraid of more streaming content... How does that affect your enjoyment? You all are way overreacting, even if there are a few more western-aimed shows, it isn't going to affect the vast majority of content which is adapted from already existing manga/LNs. And fuck off with the SJW boogeyman, they've barely affected the video game industry even with all the internet activism, anime creators have a huge culture and language gap, nothing will happen. The current business model isn't sustainable in the long term, the industry needs to diversify and tap into other markets like China, the US, and Europe to grow. Now if Universal Studios or MGM or Disney start buying anime producers, then we will be in deep shit.
>written by Roland Kelts
Nice, I'm glad he's still writing about the industry, pic related was a very good read.
>>136265754
Tell your friend to get his eyes checked because crunchyroll streams look bad.
How do threads like this remain to be a cringefest?
>>136263903
>muh hurr Japan Times meme
You actually ever read the thing? (This is rhetorical since this is 4chan.) Do you know who Roland Kelts is? (Also rhetorical.)
Fuck off. (Literal, not rhetorical.)
>>136264009
What the article is pointing out is that anime is part of the larger overall trend to streaming for multiple reasons - reminder that Netflix was originally a DVD distribution subscription service. Because of convenience and the spread of better broadband, people are buying less physical media. The "supporting our company on disc sales" model is archaic and will be as dead as selling VHS tapes in 10 years. Even fans won't buy them because the current generation will be used to getting the content as an on-demand stream.
>>136266234
>Now if Universal Studios or MGM or Disney start buying anime producers, then we will be in deep shit
Are you stupid? Hollywood already produces anime.
>>136267098
Streaming doesn't get you printed versions of the endcards.
>>136267111
>>136266234
Here's an example.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcjqSFXBg2cGQg5r0YooMiA
>“I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan"
Just smother LNs in the crib and I don't care what you do, Japan.
>>136262652
THAT's your problem with the post?
>>136262689
Hey, come on, at least Japan is not shitting out things like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivqhlpUCnZY
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSh1HW5kblw
you cannot say it's going the way of hollywood
>>136267354
>the starving games
>>136266234
>the industry needs to diversify and tap into other markets
China already has its own animation industry. So does the US and Europe.
The reason anime fits a niche and has a huge fanbase is because it is distinctly Japanese. Japan has tried countless times to produce Western-appealing content in the 2000s and in the early 2010s. They have all ended in failure, because Western fans don't buy into it because it is too similar to cartoons/animation already available in their countries, streaming services don't provide really good money compared to the previous model, and the Japanese model is still the largest producer of profits for the Japanese industry and the Japanese fans HATE it.
>>136266234
>And fuck off with the SJW boogeyman, they've barely affected the video game industry even with all the internet activism
Ignoring the fact that this is wrong, the main problem is that they'll turn every new show into a political issue and try to influence the market economy. Sites like ANN and all those Twitter/Tumblr activists will try to control the decisions of studios by boycotting shows that don't align with their politics, viral marketing for shows that do, Japan will have to listen since now it affects their coverage and bottom line, and you'll have to pick a side. Americans and their culture war shit up everything.
Jesus fucking christ, just buy the cheap over priced merch. If don't speak jap, don't buy BD, buy a $40 Keychain, or pick up the source material. But don't think a studio who bought the rights to dub and reproduce are saving anime. It's dead jim.
>I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan,”
So, Japanese people should shy away from making anime that follow their own norm and cater to their own people?
Just how fucking ignorant and self-centered are these "hurrrr anime is ded cuz of moeshit pandering durrr" faggots?
>>136262121
What a fucking retard. Nobody used Netflix for Sidonia because they wanted to. They used it because they HAD to because Netflix bought exclusivity for it.
Using a service for exclusive media doesn't mean I like that service, it just makes me a realist.
>>136266234
>they've barely affected the video game industry
>there will be no official release of Dead or Alive Extreme 3 in NA and EU
>game producers are being forced to explain white male characters in games and female characters are getting more ugly in newer games
It's like 1950s prudes are becoming the ruling class again, stopping the Free Love movement of the 1960/70s.
I'd not like to see creativity killed in the name of Political Correctness, thanks.
>>136262121
>“I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan,”
That's pretty fucking racist. Japanese people shouldn't enjoy Japanese things? Disgusting racist.
>>136267870
This
>>136267806
>>136267875
What's even more weird is that the one that said that line is a Japanese.
>>136262121
>2016
>being a torrentfag
>>136267806
This, because of shit like this western anime community is dead since Naruto.
>>136267875
Hypocrisy and prejudice are staples of the SJW way of life
>>136268434
I know this is bait, but why do some people really think this way? The difference in quality is obvious. There are absoltely no good reasons to stream.
>>136268502
and you can blame that on Dragonball Z and shonen fans
>>136268700
Because people are "lazy." To some people, clicking your mouse a few more times is too much effort, for whatever reason.
>>136268700
As a torrent,gif and animatorfag. I say other wise
CR encode which is the fucking same as HS are 90% better than TV Raws.
Stream = Torrent unless we talking about BDs.
>>136268700
Considering the amount of downloads torrents still get, I'd say that most people that aren't newfags still torrent.
The deletions of comments in this thread is pretty fucking intolerable.
It's already a meta thread of people bitching about their fears. Delete the whole thing or leave it alone.
>>136267821
>there will be no official release of Dead or Alive Extreme 3 in NA and EU
No KoeiTemco are cowards at heart,they did not want to release the game same with Capcom because of mainstream money attention they wanted instead doing things what they wanted to do.
tl;dr
it's not SJW's,it's corporate stupidity 101
>>136268700
Normalfags of the newer generation often believe this anti-piracy bullshit. They think they'll go to jail if they download a Chinese cartoon or they just don't know how to download in the first place.
This is no joke. I barely know people in RL who understand how torrents work.
>>136268957
In three different instances, they intimated that it was because of cultural differences (meaning libtard whining scum that are worse than 1950s puritan Republicans). In one of them, they really said it point blank.
>>136263024
They don't give a fuck that you watch for free the anime "X" they produced.
The thing they care the most is you liking X, advertise X for free by talking about it on the internet, and you buying merchandise of X's characters. And of course, they will expect you to come back and do it again for the season 2. This is what they care about the most.
>>136268907
Didn't know that. Guess that makes sense.
>>136262121
Sounds like the only 'anime' company being kept afloat by streaming is the one that made Sidonia aka purveyors of 3DCGPD.
Sidonia is good despite its animation style, but I still don't like it.
>>136269100
I want to believe it's just them advertising the game and when they release it in NA, they get more attention and thus more people in NA buying it.
>>136268749
More or less. Shonen, as the name say, is for kids, if you're not one then I blame these people who think Naruto, DBZ and the likes are the best.
>>136269084
A lot of people I've known think that torrents have viruses.
>>136269248
still it's going to get localized regardless
I am going to get DOAX3 imported despite all of this mess.
>>136269100
They deleted it after the controversial outrage.I don't wanna grasps my straws about this but I still believe they will release NA version not EU version somewhat in the future until we fix this whole mess completely with localization.
>>136269838
That's why because normalfags are stupid cretins
>>136266234
> they've barely affected the video game industry
Kill yourself retard
My gov is trying to pass new laws to cut financial support to any sexist game.
>>136269838
Someone asked to for an episode once so I linked him the torrent file but he was too fucking stupid to use it. Later I explained that he needs a programm for torrent files but neither did he understand that nor was he able to find any torrent program later. You would think a person just googles when they load a file they can't open but nope.
>>136267111
>>136267212
I guess i am wrong about that. I was more referring to a complete takeover, like when Disney bought Pixar and Lucasfilm and drastically changed those companies' direction
>>136267642
Do you know any Chinese people? Anime/manga is huge there. Date a Live was literally massive. Their domestic industry is very derivative and chinks know the difference. Plus they fucking love gunpla (so do pinoys). I can't find the article but there was one about assclass's production costs being paid for by overseas licensing. As for the US, anime fills a special niche, and it IS popular and continues to grow. Why do cons post bigger and bigger numbers year after year? Why are companies like Funimation and Crunchyroll doing well? Why are Netflix and Hulu aggressively pursuing anime for their streaming services? Why is manga the only section of print publishing that is experiencing growth? Why is Barnes and Noble carrying gunpla in their brick and mortar stores? Why do movies like madoka 3, AoT live action, all naruto movies, kizu, and more get (limited) theatrical releases? Why are so many VNs getting official releases? Why did Toonami come back? Why does Chicago (where I live) have a gunpla group that has build nights every Saturday at different hobby shops that all carry the latest kits, a group called AnimeChicago that has monthly anime and manga discussions, a new store called nakama toys that sells only weeb shit? I could go on, but the answer is that anime is getting bigger here and you bet your ass big companies smell the dollar signs.
>>136267678
>>136267821
I'll admit I don't follow vidya very much, but it seems like mainstream AAA titles haven't changed much, violent edgy games sell. That sucks about DOA. Still not convinced that it will carry over to anime, maybe a bit but video games have a gigantic cultural presence many orders of magnitude higher than anime that anime will never reach.
1/2
>>136270156
>>136269838
>>136270329
This is the kind of ignorance that isn't excusable, usually I always call out people in real life for it.
>>136270362
>I could go on, but the answer is that anime is getting bigger here and you bet your ass big companies smell the dollar signs.
And that's the point. Other markets already have their own things producing things that have Western/Chinese values.
But the main consumer of Japanese anime like Japanese anime because they are JAPANESE anime.
If the Chinese, Americans, Europeans wanted Chinese and Western values on their cartoons, they wouldn't buy Japanese works.
I don't get why using netflix is a bad thing
Saves HD space, and I can watch an episode or two to get a taste of the show.
That being said a lot of the shows are bad.
>>136269873
Koei Tecmo outright told people to import the game on their FB page if they want to play it, I don't think it's getting localized.
>>136262121
>online-streaming-keeps-anime-afloat/
Not even close to, why is this shit still up?
>>136270362
2/2
>>136267678
As for ANN, I wouldn't worry about them becoming the anime version of Kotaku/Polygon. The people who read that site like the same stuff /a/ does and they write glowing reviews for CGDCT and harems all the time. Plus, they are literally the bitch of Funimation/Crunchyroll/Discotech/Viz/Vertical/etc, many of the licensing companies do major advertising through them. They wouldn't do anything to hurt business.
>>136270590
We're on the same page, I don't mean to come off combative but sometimes it feels like people here live in an /a/ bubble and don't pay attention to larger trends in the fandom. International anime fans like it PRECISELY because it is Japanese, I don't think the vast majority of the fandom wants change. Even "manime" people love shounen to death, and shounen is very Japanese. Women love fujo-bait stuff like Free, Haikyuu, and Kuroko no Basket. Every time there is a thread about streaming getting bigger /a/ likes to stay in denial and feel threatened by other people when in reality the users of /a/ are not that much different from anime fans in general, you have a huge variety of tastes here.
>>136270362
>Do you know any Chinese people?
Here's the rub. It's definitely true that overseas markets play a factor in money. That much is true, but the problem isn't so much that it happens, but that the growth of foreign sales is going to change the structure of the industry to eliminate a lot of the Japaneseness that goes into these shows. That the Anime Industry is going to go the way of Hollywood.
There's nothing inherently wrong with there being varied anime content or even varied influences on anime work. But there's a fear in some that foreign sales are going to do the same thing to anime that foreign sales (specifically China and India) did to Hollywood.
If you're not familiar with the problem with Holly wood and foreign sales, it is this: Multinational entertainment corporations seek to maximize profits by appealing to diverse demographics across the WORLD with single releases. A big reason why Transformers movies do so well is because they are so stupid and devoid of meaningful writing that foreign audiences aren't missing anything in translation and giant explosions and VFX wizardry is all that matters to them. Further, studies show that known series perform better than new titles because of familiarity. This means that less and less Hollywood is really bothering to put out new or fresh content in favor of sequels and that these sequels are increasingly catered towards dumbing down for international pallatability. As a result, some national identity is lost.
Now, not all Hollywood movies were good to begin with, and the same goes for anime, but if the market operated the same way, there's a fear of loss of some of that japaneseness and possibly of "generalized" writing. That's not necessarily my own conclusion of what will happen, but I'm very aware of why some people complain.
>>136270758
>I don't think it's getting localized.
In the near future,it's a possible while english localization get it's shit together
>>136262121
This is a good thing. We'll see a lot more experimental anime. A lot more of the GOOD STUFF we used to see in the heyday of the 80s and 90s, especially as far as OVAs were concerned. Smaller studios will be able to make what they want, not what fucking moefag Otaku want. We will see less watered down shit that serves as BD ads. The hell is wrong with all of you?
>>136262121
Good
Streaming is the future. Cable is dead
>>136263212
You mean "Anime that isn't the same tired moeshit/haremshit". Stuff that we used to see more often in the good old days.
>>136271332
>actually believing this
>>136271332
Why would anyone ever prefer robotech?
Seriously. It's just Macross but with shit taken out of it.
>>136270893
>Plus, they are literally the bitch of Funimation/Crunchyroll/Discotech/Viz/Vertical/etc, many of the licensing companies do major advertising through them. They wouldn't do anything to hurt business.
ANN reviews give plenty of flack on some of those companies' titles, and they still do business with them.
>>136271407
People who don't know better. Or from what I've seen, absolutely hate the greater focus on J music craziness.
>>136271332
Because you know nothing about the industry that led to the production of OVAs in the first place. Pro-tip: it was the historical version of the domestic (read japanese, not international) BD market that spurred OVA sales. Since it's obvious you don't know what an OVA is they're those animations that were released on VHS and Laserdisk exclusively back in the day, and the production companies relied on sales for it to work.
>>136271394
And another retarded nostalgiafag who probably didn't even live during that era.
>>136270893
> International anime fans like it PRECISELY because it is Japanese
Yet most entry level and popular anime have similarities to Western entertainment, hence why they're easily accessible to casuals. These people are deluded into thinking they like Japanese culture.
>>136264723
This is what ended up happening to Madoka.
>>136262442
>I hope this pushes anime creators to make more content that doesn’t have to follow the norm in Japan
But that's literally the only positive side to this. No more floods of highschool settings, battle harems and generic shonen selfinsert wish fulfillment fantasy shit every single fucking season.
Idolshit-the-nation doesn't like creative premises all that much, Japanese otaku are what's forcing anime as a medium down the moeshit spiral as they're the only demographic with any leverage on the industry.
>>136264723
'western influences' wouldn't be that though. Western influences would be the retarded shit we see in /co/
The only reason why anime is called anime is because there is a distinct difference in themes and style between them and what you'd call a cartoon.
If western influence seriously gets into anime, it won't even be anime anymore. It will just be shitty cartoons.
At least manga is still untouched.
>>136271659
You must be literally retarded.
Even when good anime comes out, it's because Japan has complete freedom of themes and of creative choice.
If Western influence really permeated anime, every season would be a collection of cookie-cutter bottom-tier cartoons like you'd see on nowadays cartoon network.
>people think that having western influence anime we'll have more "manime"
We'd have shit like Adventure Time or Steven Universe.
>there are people on /a/ that probably enjoy that shit
>>136271659
> highschool settings, battle harems and generic shonen selfinsert wish fulfillment fantasy shit
That's exactly the sort of shit that kids in the West like. Hell, self-insert wish fulfillment is what makes Hollywood go round. Have you SEEN the recent Fast and the Furiouses?
>>136271520
29, bro. Going on 30.
>>136269307
I like my shonen,I just wanna good fights and a good motivated storyline to keep me interested
>>136271659
Go back to MAL/ANN
>>136270694
>saves hd space
That's a lie, you're still downloading the file the only thing stream does is delete the file once its done.
>>136271860
I'm glad you had to defend yourself by stating your age rather than, you know, actually addressing the relevant point of you not understanding how entertainment worked back then or now. Because your age has actually nothing to do with it, and it was just a Zinger so that you'd respond by taking the low-hanging fruit instead of actually saying something substantive.
I love these threads because /a/ always seems so relatively well-adjusted(RELATIVELY) up until you bring up the topic of alternative sources of revenue for an industry dependent on a small group of people buying expensive shit.
As far as it goes, all I can see "international influence" doing is basically Japan adapting series that are more palatable to international audiences since that's what Netflix tends to aim for.
Which as far it goes just tends to be action series with adult protagonists(see recent normalfag darling One Punch Man), more of which is hardly the worse thing in the world when every season we have to decide which of a half dozen LNs is adapting the same plot better.
>>136271995
Yea
And you can do that for each episode
So instead of having the entire series on your HD, you'll only have a fraction of that at any given time.
You still have HD space
>>136272083
But logically that's retarded. You couldn't watch your shows offline.
>>136272111
>all of it is just battle shit
Gross
>>136271345
I would have never thought that there are still so many young people watching so much tv.
I stopped around 2002 and most others I knew don't watch more than one or two shows a week.
>you are your own stream provider
>>136272115
That's only a problem if you have no internet.
What you're saying is pointless, that's how memory works.
By simply having a website open, you temporarily cached it into you memory.
By streaming a video on netflix, you temporarily cached it into your memory.
By downloading the series, you've put it into your memory as well.
You are arguing a non-issue for anyone who had the internet access to download the series in the first place.
>>136272153
Sports.
>>136271769
>every season would be a collection of cookie-cutter bottom-tier cartoons
It pretty much is without western influence. I'm not saying the average taste of the western fanbases is gonna improve what's produced. Opening the market to a broader range of tastes is bound to make it more diverse, probably not better, but more diverse.
>>136272079
>posting image of shit anime that appeals to western audience
>having taste this shit
>>>/v/
Please leave us.
>>136272391
>Caring
A lot of people liked Space Dandy.
Fuck off
>>136271217
Yeah, but if Hollywood starts milking anime it's going to be by making shitty, watered down movie adaptations of already established names like the upcoming Ghost in the Shell film or the perpetually stalled out Akira. Same thing with Gojira 2014 (although that wasn't 100% irredeemably, just not great). Those films are easy money for them. You can see the western response to anime in cartoons like Avatar, SU, and Adventure Time where the industry responded by making their own creations rather than trying to work with the Japanese (which is both cheaper and easier). I think the difference between anime being influenced and, say, Hollywood is scope. Anime is not mainstream in the sense that TV dramas are. I'd be really interested to see the view data from Netflix or Hulu though.
>>136271409
It's a reviewer's job to review shows good or bad, but I can't see ANN leading a campaign against a show being localized. Like look at the comment thread for this article about some Tokyo commission looking to see if Yosuga no Sora violates some ordinance, incest defenders jumping out of the woodwork left and right. Hardly a hub of SJWs. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1059503&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
>>136271524
Series with the biggest popular exposure/profits (educated guesses)
>Pokemon
>DBZ
>Yugioh
>Naruto
>Sailor Moon
>One Piece
>SnK
>Bleach
>Fairy Tail
>Gundam
>various shojo (clamp, etc)
Only ones that are similar to western entertainment is maybe SnK (haven't seen/read it, but it was also massively huge in Japan) and Gundam. Stuff like Bebop and KLK are not as popular among the uber casuals. If anything western companies will target the shounen audience with original material.
>>136271814
>implying western audience is ever considered in the equation compared to otaku with an overly large hobby budget.
muh torrents are better
they might be,but you all use shit players and bloated torrent clients to download.
>>136272671
Like mpc and qbittorrent, amirite?
Fuck off.
>>136272671
MPC-HC and deluge
Eat shit fagtron.
Inb4 you're so hip you're using something nobody has ever heard of.
Precure is listed as Glitter Force under Netflix Original.
>>136262121
Loved Heaven's Lost Property
>>136272814
No one cares about a show for little girls.
>>136269084
Despite the retarded people, normalfags just don't care about for whatever they consume enough. Regarding to anime, they watch just for the sake of doing so and to shit on it, so the feedback coming from them is always "the worst outcome".
Why bother with technishit of something you don't value?
>>136272803
>>136272781
>being this mad cause you use bloat
>>136272591
No one reads the ann forums though. Look at how many shit reviewers they have.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2016/winter/pandora-in-the-crimson-shell-ghost-urn/.97359
>>136262121
>there are people on the internet who legitimately think that 10 YEARS CR subscription gives more money to anime studios than buyfagging something they love
>>136272887
>flash still needed to watch CR
>2016
>>136273002
Who in their right mind would buy all that useless junk?
>>136273002
s3 never
>>136273144
someone that pays for CR
>>136265800
Happy birthday anon, I don't really have a present for you, but I can give you a life advice and that would be to kill yourself.
>>136272348
This is the same argument people made when movies started getting bigger budgets, this is the same argument people used when videogames were getting to be mainstream, and again this is the argument you're using to say it's a good thing for anime to go mainstream.
Going mainstream won't do SHIT for variety. What will happen, like it has already happened with any other kind of media to go mainstream, will be a complete death of creativity, where everyone is afraid of doing anything that goes even slightly outside of the lines, where nothing will have any direction, but will try to please all audiences at once, and where nothing will have any substance because it's constantly trying to cater to the lowest common denominator.
"Widening the audience" is NEVER a good thing in NO FIELD WHATSOEVER.
The only reason why a person gets into a hobby is because that hobby caters to their interests. If the hobby is watered down and made to cater to ANYONE BUT THEM, it's ruined.
hey gurl you wanna anime and chill
>>136273216
But next seasons lineup is pretty amazing. I would wait a bit.
>>136273199
But I don't pay for CR Anon.
>>136273283
That wasn't even sort of funny.
>>136273002
>buying shit for the sake of it
>>136273377
Low quality posting is a bannable offense.
>>136272905
>Hope Chapman
>Nick Creamer
>Lynzee Loveridge
Were these people named by Tomino?
>>136273401
we're on /co/
>>136273002
Even buying a single volume of manga probably gives more money to the author than subscribing to CR for an entire lifetime does.
>>136273002
But here's the thing, anon: one can pay for a CR sub and not look like a degenerate turboweeb. It makes it easy to discretely hide powerlevel. If you've got your own apartment/house/whatever you can't be a buyfag and have guests over at all unless they're also turboweebs (or worse, one of those idiots who proudly proclaims themselves to be an otaku after seeing 2 shows).
Bottom line is there needs to be more ways of supporting the industry that aren't weapons of mass destruction against one's social life.
>>136272905
>book reviewers are pretentious, full of themselves, and write shitty reviews
>movie reviewers are pretentious, full of themselves, and write shitty reviews
>anime reviewers are pretentious, full of themselves, and write shitty reviews
Nothing to see here
That said Masamune Shirowe was kidnapped by lizard people and replaced with a double during the 1995 Kobe earthquake, I didn't check out that show but I wouldn't really expect it to be good.
>>136273451
If faggots are accepted why wouldn't someone who watches Keyshit and Texhnolyze be?
>>136273451
You're talking like the only kind of merchandise in existence is dakimakuras.
Manga volumes, keychains, booklets, they're all things that have no negative connotations and still support the author.
CR doesn't do anything to support the industry. Nothing.
You might as well just send a letter of thanks to the author. It will make them earn precisely as much money as your CR subscription made them get, with the difference that at least they will feel good about it.
>>136273451
If you really want to support the industry, you can always just donate a bit of money every couple of months to a random anime studio of your choice? You'd probably support the anime industry more by donating one random studio ten bucks than you would by having a year long CR subscription.
>>136273409
About two seconds to type B in the name field and press the down arrow.
>>136273549
Lizard people goal must be the opposite of the jews one because, dayum those legs.
>>136273221
But there's still good movies being made outside of Hollywood. And there's still good video games outside of Call of Duty and FIFA. Your hobby not being muh sekrit club anymore doesn't make it inherently shit as a whole.
I'm trying not to be nostalgic or a hipster, but I can't stop feeling like anime used to be better in the 90s and early 00s. None of your arguments are gonna stop me from blaming the ridiculously narrow target audience. Somewhat like inbreeding.
>>136272248
I never use streamings but this is kinda true.
Maybe I would watch them IF they had actual HD quality for once and no unblockable ad shit and are free of course.
Saving series makes little sense for me since I never rewatch anything anyway.
>>136273221
Well, we've seen how the last few years have panned out.
>Anime has catered almost entirely to Otaku bullshit rather than the creators' whims and the freedom to execute them.
>>136273451
You don't have to display BDs, LNs, manga and tons of other merch. They can sit in wardrobes, book shelves and shit, out of sight.
Or you can not care too much what others will think of you and let them know you like anime but not act like a degenerate turbo weeb.
Fuck, I took most of my travel documents to Japan in a Nate clear file and when the customs guy saw it while doing a bag search he said "ah, bishoujo" and that was it.
Basically, if you aren't an obnoxious faggot you are allowed to enjoy things and people don't really care.
>>136271659
No, fuck you. I want watch shit that caters to Japanese otaku, not fucking normies. If i wanted to watch stuff that's designed for a audiences outside of Japan, I'd just watch shit like cartoon network.
>>136272596
>Reading comprehension
I didn't say Westerners were. I refuted someone else saying that power fantasy shit would be less in anime with Western influences by pointing out that power fantasy shit is status quo in the Hollywood industry, and is precisely what appeals to mainstream Western fandoms.
>>136272591
The point is that if studios become increasingly dependent upon streaming revenue from foreign markets, there will be a bigger incentive to "generalize" most produced content, which is not inherently bad but if it turns out LIKE Hollywood, will be very bad. You may want to reread the post. I'm not equating Hollywood with anime nor indicating a relationship between the two at all. I'm talking about market incentives as they have worked in the past.
>>136273719
Yes, this drives me nuts. Would really like to see a financial high in the industry again so studios would be willing to take risks and and spend more than beer money on art and animation.
>>136263216
>Even on /a/, you have thousands of faggots who whine about fanservice, haremshit, moeshit, LN adaptations, etc.
The fuck are you talking about, it's normalfags that make this trash popular.
>>136273807
The best anime's the stuff that's appealed to a wider audience than a bunch of smelly NEET pedos who wish they were still in high school.
You want to be part of THAT crowd? Pic related.
>>136273570
Supporting CR allows them to expand, promote themselves, and bring in more subscribers, ultimately supporting the industry more than if you privately donate or import BDs. It's inefficient to rely on individuals supporting and promoting how to support on their own, which is of course why the business exists.
>>136273719
You do realize that the creators are often times otaku themselves otherwise they wouldn't become anime/manga writers in the first place. If you mean editors and CEO's then you are right, they hate creators trying to create risky shows.
I'd argue most animators wouldn't be able to work in the conditions they do if they didn't like drawing cute girls and panty shots.
>>136274192
Even then, they've largely grown out of the high school fantasy phase. Gainax was founded by some pretty hardcore Otaku, yet their best stuff barely touched on that shit.
>>136273719
That's hardly a last few years thing ad some would probably argue that things are actually getting better. We've had shit being made before this board even existed.
>>136273670
Firstly, the 90s and the aughts (especially the aughts) were full of garbage anime just like now. They were also part of that same period where merch and home video sales were a studio's main sources of income. That had been going on since the 80s.
Further, in terms of gaming, there exists indie developers, in terms of movies, there exist indie movies and smaller production companies, and in terms of animation there exist indie animations, but those things existing does not change the fact that the major industry producers appeal to audiences to the detriment of the "art." If anything, indie films existing proves that appealing to niches rather than mass appeal leads to greater artistry. Most smaller productions aren't aiming to be for everyone, but rather those who appreciate the genre or the higher brow audience.
>>136274235
This so much. Self-referential work is ok and sometimes even great in small doses but when it's the meat and potatoes it's abominable.
>>136274002
But normalfags are the most vocal ones about how otaku stuff is "killing the industry" and "taking away precious space that could be filled with 'good' shows".
Hopefully Japan will never listen to those people. Thanks for being so xenophobic, Nipponland.
>>136273670
All this sekrit club shit is what happens when anons turn their hobby into an identity, and it's intolerable.
If the last few seasons are "follow the norm in Japan" and this one is what happens when they don't have to, then I'm glad streaming means they don't have to. This season is great.
>>136274380
I never understood what's wrong with people who turn a simple hobby into an identity anyway.
I mean I watch anime and play tons of games for more than 20 years and I watch a ton of anime each year but I just love it as pure enjoyment during my free time or timekiller - it's fun, there is nothing more to it. No deeper meaning or philosophy or some shit.
>>136274002
Normalfags don't watch niche anime. Otaku do.
>>136274235
Gunbuster, Daicon IV, Otaku no Video, Evangelion, TTGL, Hanamaru, Appleseed are all very much otaku works. Just because it doesn't have a highschool dork with a harem doesn't mean its not otaku shit.
By the way most of you talk, you'd think the only thing that appeals to otaku is highschool harem shit and that for the past decade and a half, only highschool harem shit is the only stuff made. This could not be further from the truth.
>>136273292
>implying summer and fall 2016 season won't become GOAT
Despite the pain and suffering 2016 looking to be pretty special man
>>136271639
It's more to do with a certain space cowboy, though.
>>136267642
Panty and Stocking was very popular.
>>136274163
Of course CR as a company supports the industry more than a solitary buyfag does, but by directly giving money to companies and/or buyfagging, you as an individual are supporting the industry a lot more than you would if you were giving money to a middleman like CR.
A single subscriber to CR isn't going to allow them to maintain and expand their business any more than a single donation from a gaijin would allow the anime studios to stay in business.
>>136274626
It sold like 2000 volumes.
>>136274380
Right, so we should just let normalfags take control of anime remove all otaku pandering, remove all heavy Japanese references and change everything so its either over the top action or bland unoffensive romance.
Just because some people have a hobby they really enjoy and you don't doesn't mean that you should take it away from them. The whole secret club exist to keep people who aren't interested out. Its like football fans inviting their gfs to the bar, all they do is whine and ruin the game because they don't like it and want it to focus on there needs. Why anyone wants people who hate there hobby to have any hand its direction confuses me.
>>136274547
Do you honestly think LN shit is "niche"? It's usually made to get a piece of the pie of an already well selling book. Usually sold well to retard teens (though not always) who are not usually all otaku. It's young adult fiction like twilight and hunger games.
>>136274586
