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Answerman - Will Anime Ever Come To My Country (Legally)?

For English subbed, sometimes anime DVD releases from Singapore or South Korea have English subs, so I prefer them especially if they're cheaper.

ravager wrote:

For English subbed, sometimes anime DVD releases from Singapore or South Korea have English subs, so I prefer them especially if they're cheaper.

I've heard rumors that the quality of English translations is quite poor on Singapore or HongKong anime releases. Can you tell if that's true for these Singapore and S-Korea ones?

If there are properly licensed DVDs with English subs to be had there, I'd love to know about them. I import all my anime from USA/Australia/Japan/UK anyway, and having a few more sources would be great.

I would love to see what ISIS would think of Shimoneta.

Hellsoldier wrote:

Iran's current regime is a Human Rights Tragedy. The Anime aspect, horrible and opressive as it is, is just a small part of the horror. And by now, only Iran's youth can save it.

I could be wrong, but I remember reading in another forum a comment that said that a certain paul mccartney song inspired many during the revolt that ousted egypt's president.

If I were an Iranian hoping to inspire a revolution, I would translate to farsi and distribute Attack on Titan, since we are talking about that kind of odds; if there is a revolution, it wont be pretty and body count will be very high, but it beats living your whole life in a cage.

*gone again*

I don't know if this wiki page is accurate regarding the programming of IRIB Pooya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIB_Pooya

Just happen to find this.

I don't know if this wiki page is accurate regarding the programming of IRIB Pooya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIB_Pooya

Just happen to find this.

KCT 's lineup is garbage, no wonder NK has such a bad meth problem, I know not to go there.

I was born in Vietnam, and I was luckly moved to the USA, I always said that I wished we never moved but after this question, I then realize how lucky I was to move here. If I stayed in Vietnam I probably wouldn't even know what anime is. But i hope one day all country can have freedom and rights like the USA because makes me feel sad when other. People who were born in country similar like mine don't have the rights like the USA.

It has always been my assumption that the more a company keeps their properties out of other regions (regionally or intentionally) the more money they lose. Once people get in the habit of downloading something illegally it will be difficult to break that culture without offering an intense amount of incentives.

In the age of the internet it makes little sense for companies to not extend their licenses internationally whenever they can.

Yup, it's still illegal because it's not where do you take "in" but you where do you take "from": original author is not making a yen from you, and I am quite sure he and his company would be glad taking more money from overseas.

What is the anime and manga situation in Russia right now, and would it be possible for Iranians to legally import Japanese manga and/or anime from Russia? I think Russia is still trading with Iran despite the sanctions, right?

TBT "Islamic morals" should be corrected to "Sharia Law", since not all Islamic countires make it the law of the land. i.e. Indonesia is the country with the biggest muslim population but they have access to anime.

Quite frankly, unless a youthquake shakes Iran's very foundations, nothing will ever change. Women are property, gays, lesbians and bisexuals get the death penalty for homosexual activity, there's a strict dress code, sex outside of marriage is forbidden, and there's an intolerance to everything non-Muslim, specially polytheist. And atheists are also put to death. Among other cancers in a Sharia society. Plus, Japan is an ally of the West.

mangamuscle wrote:

TBT "Islamic morals" should be corrected to "Sharia Law", since not all Islamic countires make it the law of the land. i.e. Indonesia is the country with the biggest muslim population but they have access to anime.

Yeah, that was something in the back of my head: Indonesia is also a predominantly Islamic country but is very open, both in the media and in its culture. The restrictiveness and conservatism really is because of the government, not the religion.

Hellsoldier wrote:

Quite frankly, unless a youthquake shakes Iran's very foundations, nothing will ever change. Women are property, gays, lesbians and bisexuals get the death penalty for homosexual activity, there's a strict dress code, sex outside of marriage is forbidden, and there's an intolerance to everything non-Muslim, specially polytheist. And atheists are also put to death. Among other cancers in a Sharia society. Plus, Japan is an ally of the West.

Considering one of the first languages "Rock the Casbah" was translated to was Arabic and it became an underground hit there, I think there's a significant amount of frustration among the rank and file.

^
Hmm, I wonder if Tor would work in such an environment.....

I've only bought anime and Japanese live action movies from SG, but no problem with their subs. Don't know about HK, sorry.