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Forum - View topicQuestions about legal anime etc.
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AshLikeSnow01
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Hello, I've been following anime for a long time. Since escaflowne actually. And like, I've watched from fansubs. Good old Youtube with terrible quality and 6 parts per episode. Than stage6 before it was closed due to financial problems. And Veoh until they started cracking down on anime. Legal anime back than had terrible dubs + various other problems. Only way to really get anime was fansubs.
And recently I was on sankakucomplex, and they had an article about how funimation was now doing a simu-cast of Fractale. I WAS SHOCKED to find out their actually legal sub'd anime being distributed now. And from the funimation website i linked to this website. Which shockingly appears to have links to legal anime stream? I've been here several times but always though this was just a database site with synopsis and rankings but without any actual links? I'm still useing my fansub sites, but I'm pretty curious to how much is available now legally? And the history of the whole thing? For example, can I watch Level E and etc. sub'd legally now and with the same weekly release rate thing? I was actually going to ask this on the funimation website. but it was very difficult to navigate and i gave up. |
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EmbraceMe
 Posts: 2021 Location: Growing old and jaded. |
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Well, the best thing for you to do, is to follow this site. It provides very accurate information, and lists a lot of information about new animes, sequels, etc. All this information can be found on the homepage.
As for the new legal streams this season: Crunchyroll's Winter 2011 Simulcasts: - Level E - Cardfight Vanguard - Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka? - Dragon Crisis! - Houro Musuko (Wandering Son) - Saint Seya: The Lost Canvas (Episodes 14 and 15) - Gosick - Rio - Rainbow Gate! - Mitsudomoe Season 2 - Beelzebub FUNImation's Simulcasts: - Freezing - Fractale TheAnimeNetwork's simulcasts: - Infinite Stratos Yumekui Merry has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks but they did release information on how it'll be released. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 8016 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Welcome to like, 2008. Looks like you have a few years of catching up to do since it's 2011 now. Happy legal streaming to you.
As for a little help with the Funimation website this is their video section. All their available streaming stuff is located on the right of the page in the box with the slidebar under the "Watch Free Episodes" heading. There's quite a bit actually, pretty much the majority of their catalog can be sampled or watched in it's entirety via their website. |
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vashfanatic
 Posts: 3519 Location: Back stateside |
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Also, click up on that "video" tab at the top of your page. Happy viewing!
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Hypeathon
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First of all welcome to the forums. Second of all, welcome to the WORLD OF LEGAL INTERNET ANIME STREAMIIIIIING!
Third of all, as far as what's available and what isn't, it's hard to describe. One thing is for sure, since 2008/09, there have been simulcasts of most of the latest shows available from Japan. It's not everything like Magical Girl Madoka isn't available this current anime season. But mostly everything else is. I can't confidently say where the exact thought of legal streaming came from. But my guess is somewhere along the line, companies and industry representatives thought of finding an additional way to earn money other than DVD sales and they figured that providing a streaming service would qualify. A bit of revenue could be earned from 30-second commercial ads during episodes of whatever show they stream, it could hopefully convert people to watch less fansubs and more legal streams, and as a bonus for say Funimation, they could possibly get some viewers to want to buy their DVDs. Then Crunchyroll, Sentai Filmworks, Funimation, and even ANN have tried to make partnerships with Japanese companies (which I assume is a several month procress of basically requesting permission to stream their shows outside of Japan) to simulcast whatever shows they own. Now it's winter 2011 and most shows this season are simulcasted, the big 3, One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto: Shippuden are all simulcasted (they're also available on Viz Anime), BOTH FMA shows are available fully on Funimation, take your pick. Though not everything is available legally, like say certain shows that a company licensed before aren't available streamed right now like G Gundam or Zoids. |
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Kruszer
Posts: 8016 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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A shame too, since it's currently the best of the season in my humble opinion. |
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Hypeathon
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@ Kruszer:
To be honest, I'm not even bothering to watch that show or most other shows this season as much as I am liking the idea of simulcasting. And it's not as if I don't hear good things from fans on the internet about that show (one of my friends is actually hooked on that show), but I always hear good things about other shows before that I watched and went "...eh." Besides, I personally feel as if I've outgrown the magical girl concept as a whole, regardless of how it good the plot seems to get later on. If I was 4-5 years younger, like roughly the same age as the main characters in the show, then I would care a lot more, like how I felt about Cardcaptors when I watched it on TV at age 10-11 (again, I was a kid, it was on TV, and I never heard of a fansub or Geneon until like 2007/8). But yeah. Beelzebub is the show I'm honestly mosty entertained with, which is saying something since I'm not even bothering to watch much this season. But I'm getting off to a bit of a tangent. |
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AshLikeSnow01
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Ah, Thanks everybody for the responces. Read it was very... uhhh... informative?
ANYWAY, I Learned alot. tyvm |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7594 Location: Wales |
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I think I have to say it's more like "welcome to the Noughties" (if not the 90s) - even ignoring subtitled VHS tapes, subtitled options have been common on DVD since long before "good old youtube" appeared on the scene in 2005. "Back then" fansubs were most certainly not the "only way to really get anime". For example, this hybrid Escaflowne DVD from 2000.
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Kruszer
Posts: 8016 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Madoka Magika is actually the show to watch if you don't like the genre, because I usually hate it and I love this. It's like the anti-magical girl show; dark and depressing with a mature storyline despite it's featuring of school girls and cutesy character designs. It puts a neat spin on the genre and throws out a lot of the genre conventions. On top of that it's got a lot of talented people working on it. |
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Paploo
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Yup, and if you do include subtitled vhses [and laserdiscs], we go waayyy back to Animeigo and US Renditions's initial releases from 1990-ish. Official/Authorized/Legal Subtitled anime's been a pretty standard thing for 20+ years. FYI- Animenewsnetwork streams legally as well, so any of the titles you can watch here are A-ok to watch. Also, if you do want to get dvd's, the vast majority of dvd's are bilingual, and some are even subonly. If you do want to watch anime on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/funimation Funimation actually has an official channel too. |
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wandering-dreamer
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This is a website I point I lot of my friends toostreamsuki because it's pretty up to date about every last episode of anime that is streaming somewhere on the internet (well, US based English speaking internet anyway). Hope that helps!
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Sanosuke_Inara
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AshLikeSnow01
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Yes I'm aware, I watched escaflowne subtitled on CD. I was talking about readily available online for the most part. anime CD's were not exactly easy to get at all in early 2000 late 1990. They weren't exactly stocked in your local barnes and noble. With the resources of a 10 year old, i would say youtube would be the most accessible. |
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