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NEWS: Viz Adds Lagrange -The Flower of Rin-ne Anime

the chief director worked on Stellvia and Nadesico, both of which were highly popular titles at the time.

Spotlesseden wrote:

if Viz get into stream anime business. CR and funimation will have problem.

I seriously doubt that since they are already in the streaming business and have been doing it for a while now.

... IF viz is serious about stream with pay monthly subscription, they can easily get most of the top titles each seasons.

viz can take back all the shounen shows like One piece, Naruto, Bleach once the deal with CR or funimation ends.

Spotlesseden wrote:

... IF viz is serious about stream with pay monthly subscription, they can easily get most of the top titles each seasons. viz can take back all the shounen shows like One piece, Naruto, Bleach once the deal with CR or funimation ends.

In which alternate history version of Japan do you have Japanese companies running roughshod over existing profitable relationships like that?

Viz's owners are better of with Funimation and Crunchyroll competing for series than they would be with having to bankroll Viz through the money losing period of trying to establish a site to take over the North American streaming market.

And despite your confidence, the strategy you propose would not necessarily kill off either of CR or Funimation.com, so the period of subsidizing Viz's takeover of the North American streaming market could stretch from two to three years into an indefinite money drain.

agila61 wrote:

Spotlesseden wrote: ... IF viz is serious about stream with pay monthly subscription, they can easily get most of the top titles each seasons. viz can take back all the shounen shows like One piece, Naruto, Bleach once the deal with CR or funimation ends. In which alternate history version of Japan do you have Japanese companies running roughshod over existing profitable relationships like that? Viz's owners are better of with Funimation and Crunchyroll competing for series than they would be with having to bankroll Viz through the money losing period of trying to establish a site to take over the North American streaming market. And despite your confidence, the strategy you propose would not necessarily kill off either of CR or Funimation.com, so the period of subsidizing Viz's takeover of the North American streaming market could stretch from two to three years into an indefinite money drain.

that's why i said, they are not doing stream. lol I don't remember who said viz is doing stream business. I never said they will be better off or make more money.

I don't have MBA in business. I don't know if they will make money of not. I don't have any data. I don't know how much it cost to stream 1 eps of naruto. I do know it doesn't cost CR that much money to stream anime or Funimation to stream them. indefinite money drain on server, bandwidth? where do you get the data?

I just said if Viz is serious, they can get all the tiles back and CR will not have many anime to stream.

that's why i said, they are not doing stream. lol I don't remember who said viz is doing stream business. I never said they will be better off or make more money.

... I just said if Viz is serious, they can get all the tiles back and CR will not have many anime to stream.

Other than a few large titles, and the occasional oddball, Viz isn't particularly interested in anime. Their main business is manga. They're concerned with profits, something streaming doesn't have a lot of yet. I don't think anyone needs to worry.