Mr Khan said:
g-value said:
Mr Khan said:
Soleron said:
Riachu said:
I know that anime has to be done commercially. But does Sato have to put underage girls getting undressed to make successful anime?
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I think it's more a case of finding out hy are people who don't currently buy anime aren't buying it, and creating a series based on that. A 'Wii' of anime.
I agree, you shouldn't have to do that in anime to make it successful. I don't know about the Japanese market, but there are plenty of Western films and books that don't have that and are still hugely successful.
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The question of not buying anime is far more one of structure and business model then content. I love me some anime, but there's none available on satellite (outside of Shippuden on Disney XD and Fullmetal Alchemist and Kekkaishi on Adult Swim), and i'm not paying hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to acquire my favored series on DVD, hence, piracy (or something near it. I tend to stream before i'll pirate)
Funimation streams a lot of the stuff that they've licensed (and uploads most of their stuff to YouTube, too), but this model needs to get more aggressive. They need to beat the fan-subbers at their own game, primarily, provide ad-supported content and have a subbed version of the episode up 48 hours at most after the release of the Japanese episode
Similar to the problem with the mangakas and publishers crushing the scanlators, they seem to want to take the bitch way out, instead of stepping up to bat and providing what the market clearly demands: speedy ad-supported content.
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Wrong. There are fan-subbers who have the anime shows that are aired in Japan subbed in 10 hours after it's release. 48 hours is WAY too late.
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I was just being reasonable. If they *really* wanted to beat the fan-subbers, they could simultaneously launch it, given that the episode is done in production usually with more than enough time to do some subtitling (plus an official licensor could get the official script to do a more perfect translation), and could have the subbed version out quicker than possible
It's just that they're not thinking. If it's ten hours of (relatively) simple video-editing and a translation job, that can't possibly cost much.
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I agree, If not they can allow people to subscribe to a premium which always them to get the episode as soon as it does air in Japan.
The problem with manga is that scanlations of mangas I will never can get ahold of in english will be lost if we battle them too hard. Where else can I read Dragon Quest Dai No Daibouken in english apart from scanlation sites, the situation is completely different to mainstream titles such as Naruto, Bleach and One piece.
