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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Adds Love and Lies Anime

Now we have a soulless giant company with lots of money but no heart and understanding on how anime fans work.
That's why i would prefer that anime stayed a niche were the people involved are fans of the product they were selling. Go to more mainstream companies brings bad things for real fans most of the time.

Blankslate wrote:

I hope everyone who's paying for Anime Strike is proud of what they've accomplished. They've shown Amazon that anime fans are willing to put up with any shitty business practice that's thrown at them.

Anime Strike is basically to streaming what Aniplex of America is to physical releases. Instead of everyone banding together and saying "NO", thereby forcing the big companies to change their methods, there are always gonna be the handful of people who have to ruin it for everyone else.

Anime Strike would be way better if they didn't use those tiny closed captions subtitles that I can barely see even on my giant tv

jenthehen wrote:

Anime Strike would be way better if they didn't use those tiny closed captions subtitles that I can barely see even on my giant tv

What device are you using for viewing? Their web viewer is rather flexible, offering options to change the font size, color, and toggle the translucent background on or off.

The hyperbole is a little ridiculous. Companies don't have souls, no matter how big or small they are. Funimation got into bed with CR because their streaming service couldn't compete and CR was driving license costs too high for titles to be profitable. They didn't do it out of he kindness of their heart. They did it to make money.

Amazon is doing the same. And Sentai teamed up with them because they were their best, and really only option, to compete against what was becoming a streaming monopoly in the anime market. I love how everyone is freaking out from Sentai returning to its more normal acquisition amounts and how it could lead to Amazon becoming a monopoly, but weren't freaking out about CR potentially becoming one when they gobbling up all but two or three niche shows each season.

Streaming is going to end up like cable. If you want everything, you will have to pay more. Otherwise, you will have to settle for what you are willing to pay for, or find other means to watch it. There comes a breaking point where companies can't produce the type of quality that we expect when revenue falls too low.

And the monopoly, will happen with Amazon.
They have the money to overpay any other company, pay how much they want for the licenses and become the monopoly company of anime streaming.

jenthehen wrote:

Anime Strike would be way better if they didn't use those tiny closed captions subtitles that I can barely see even on my giant tv

What device are you using for viewing? Their web viewer is rather flexible, offering options to change the font size, color, and toggle the translucent background on or off.

I'd rather have it happen with Amazon than CR. 1 Amazon already has made plans for all physical releases while CR has not

2 CR is forcing Funi out of its sphere of competition entirely by having them remove all Japanese language tracks eventually "You'll get some exclusives to be dubbed... later... and you'll be happy with it" as CR draws it cutlass across Funimation's throat

3 We were in danger of streaming bubble to pop... than deflate thanks to Funi/CR partnership... but now it will hopefully level out because this present level of anime production needs outside money to help maintain it. I don't expect CR to go away... though been hoping it for the past five years... but I couldn't have been the only person to face palm at their crack of "Getting access to every anime show every season"; That's some Greek tragedy level of hubris there...

4 and more likely to not want to work with the people who came to prominence through illicit means..

Jonny Mendes wrote:

And the monopoly, will happen with Amazon. They have the money to overpay any other company, pay how much they want for the licenses and become the monopoly company of anime streaming.

I'd rather have it happen with Amazon than CR. 1 Amazon already has made plans for all physical releases while CR has not 2 CR is forcing Funi out of its sphere of competition entirely by having them remove all Japanese language tracks eventually "You'll get some exclusives to be dubbed... later... and you'll be happy with it" as CR draws it cutlass across Funimation's throat 3 We were in danger of streaming bubble to pop... than deflate thanks to Funi/CR partnership... but now it will hopefully level out because this present level of anime production needs outside money to help maintain it. I don't expect CR to go away... though been hoping it for the past five years... but I couldn't have been the only person to face palm at their crack of "Getting access to every anime show every season"; That's some Greek tragedy level of hubris there...

4 No one's forcing the Japanese companies to deal with Amazon. In fact, seeing they like the AoA model of keeping anime expensive, they'd be more likely to work with them... more likely to work with established entities like the people at Sentai... and more likely to not want to work with the people who came to prominence through illicit means.

In short, they're conservative, exclusive and then greedy. It's not just the money, there's some pride at work here.

And I'm loving it.

Furthermore, I have to add that it's very, very unlikely that a monopoly of any sort in the US will go unchallenged by the Japanese companies. We already saw some considerable support get thrown behind Sentai when they started out, and I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see similar steps should Funi and CR get too much control of the market. It's probably a better option than the possibility of having another Japanese company, like Kadokowa or TBS, setting up shop in the US.