![]() ![]() It's even worse for casual or new fans, who have no real investment in the industry to encourage them to put up with all of this disorganisation. ![]() Fans can't afford to spend hours each week trying to piece together the puzzle of working out which site has the show they want to see for their region (if anyone has it at all) and which language options are available where. Fans can't afford new computers just to have something which works to stream through a certain badly-written website. ![]() Fans can't afford to subscribe to half a dozen different platforms to watch half a dozen different shows. As a fan, I don't want to watch some random shounen anime on my platform of choice, so I have to follow the shows I want to watch to the platforms where they end up even if it destroys my viewing experience, as it can easily do when a service is poorly run (Animax UK, I'm talking about you). The best sites will get the most customers and the anime industry will get feedback on what works best, without all of the lies, exaggerations and excuses. The customers can pick which site they find easiest to use, and everyone has legal access to as much anime as possible. If Crunchyroll think a completely free service on a delay is worth more to fans on a budget while Viewster think fans deserve day-and-date with adverts, fine. If HIDIVE think they are best positioned for providing a unified streaming-and-physical service to the US and English-majority regions, let them. If Netflix wants to push this stupid enforced 'box set' marathon model, let them do so. The ideal anime streaming market would have sites like Crunchyroll, Netflix, Amazon, Funimation and HIDIVE all streaming every show, worldwide, with subtitles in multiple languages. In my mind, there's a simple explanation. Manga Entertainment's Jerome accidentally hit the nail on the head in one of his characteristic Twitter rants recently when he said, "Isn't that weird? Usually consumers see monopolisation as a bad thing,īut anime fans r screaming out for 1 source for everything." Even though their support team is friendly and responsive, by now we've all gone through this many times before with overly ambitious new site launches in legal streaming and it's never fun. In addition, the billing/trial system is poorly described and confusing. To draw attention to their homegrown service they have stopped allowing other anime sites to show their content, which means that none of their shows can be viewed on half my devices and there are no apps whatsoever since the new site is still in beta. Screw Netflix.Īmazon's anime push is nothing new for this season, but Sentai's relaunch is actively frustrating. Netflix are also sitting on the sidelines, singlehandedly justifying piracy for many viewers by withholding all international access for anything they touch and treating the anime community like a mindless cash cow. The main culprits are Amazon Prime, who have grabbed some high quality titles once again, and Sentai's new venture HIDIVE. It's not a strong season to begin with - the majority of titles are 'ok' rather than 'unmissable' - but it's the first where Crunchyroll's dominance in the UK has started to show major cracks. Crunchyroll nearly completely wiped out when it came to licensing high quality titles this season if I wasn't already subscribed for a year I'd have seriously considered taking a break if they hadn't snagged Jigoku Shoujo. ![]()
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