Forum - View topicINTEREST: Crunchyroll Awards Moves to Japan
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Relative to SHD and Los Nido, people should be asking "why must the CRAA move to Japan"? There is a section of Japanese creatives that feel popularity outside Japan is good and should be fostered and since the Japanese mainstream still consider things American "cool" (why English inserted in songs, etc) the CRAA being in the US where it started and involving global contributors seems like validation of that and a reason for it to continue as it was.
If the CRAA continues in that vein, just being held in Japan would bring the benefits of easier access mentioned. But is that enough to make the move and will it have a negative impact on foreign interest (or do we care)? With Cool Japan possibly being defunct, I wonder if the interest in international appeal is waning... Just so you don't get the wrong idea, I say "good riddance and good luck". |
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SHD
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As far as I'm aware CRAA was always an online thing. I don't see how it would be negatively impacted if the voting part stays online and available for all regions, simply by them moving the ceremony itself to Japan. Crunchyroll as a service was never relevant in Japan, still isn't, for obvious reasons, so it's not like they're taking CRAA to Japan because foreigners are not interested in it anymore, if that was the case they'd simply stop doing it. Again, this decision is obviously based on logistics and monetary circumstances. CRAA being about anime, the people involved are mostly physically in Japan, and this way it's way easier and cheaper to turn CRAA into an event than if they had to fly these people to somewhere else, pay for accommodation, etc. never mind covid-related restrictions in Japan and elsewhere which are impossible to predict. Sure, they could keep it in the US and do some half-baked Zoom thing nobody would give a damn about, or get American industry people as guests, but let's face it, Americans may care about US anime industry people but most of the world doesn't. What most interiational viewers want is the Japanese industry people, who are in Japan. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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So it would make sense that they intend to keep the international outreach element and make it more "native" than foreign. Which also highlights why the antitrust suits with Sony/CR/Funi didn't succeed. Sony is a Japanese company moving to consolidate control of products made in Japan, dubbing being the grey area of US legal interest. |
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Eternal Dragon Of ChaOZ
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This really should have quit after their disastrous and embarrassing 1st awards show.
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KitKat1721
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Personally wish they'd overhaul their judging/nomination system first, but who knows, maybe they will and it's not like those changes would be announced publically or anything. Curious if CR wants to try to legitimize their show even more than before by having more JPN guests present and possibly in-person acceptances.
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Guile
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That's the site I usually use to see what's popular. |
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sailorstarsun
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Wait.... Is Crunchyroll even available in Japan?
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