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v1cious
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Wow at the flake. Someone watches FOX News.
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ljaesch
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Something about the flake this week just doesn't ring true me. After I read it, I felt as if the writer was trying too hard to write a letter that would be considered "flake-worthy," and that the writing style used in the letter isn't the individual's usual writing style.
But maybe that is just me...
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poonk
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RedTail
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Brian, I'm usually with you on most of your opinions, but I can't get behind you on buying every seriously botched release just because you like the show. Yeah, you can bitch all you want on the internet and that may or may not get something accomplished, but these companies are in this business for profit, and if they're coming out ahead at the end of the day, they're not gonna care about a bunch of angry rants. Vote with your wallet first, people... Then feel free to tell them why you didn't buy their product.
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Mikeski
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Well, the last "seriously botched release" I got was the Toradora/Persona stuff from NIS America. The "angry rants" got a repressing of the discs, and free replacements delivered to anyone who asked. And some of those arrived scratched due to inadequate packaging, and people who complained about that are now getting third copies shipped in safer packaging. The replacement discs don't have the encoding problems of the originals. I don't think many companies are willing to seriously honk off their customers in this economy. Re: outgrowing anime... I did outgrow anime several years ago. In my mid-20s I had to be "an adult," and mostly put aside anime and cartoons and such. Now that I'm in my mid-30s and have a bit more perspective about what "adulthood" is, watching Card Captor Sakura for the 3rd time is just fine. |
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bglassbrook
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That all depends on two points: (1) You subscribe to the theory that corporations are running the government, and thus supporting the corporations is supporting the government. Leaving you with a pseudo-socialized entertainment medium. (2) More simply, you are spending the money not to purchase a product, but for the common welfare. In this case maintaining the anime industry. So technically it does work, even without letting the practical considerations of how much capitalism tends to leak into the actual implementations of communist states much play.
Treason! Heresy! Come now Brian, is thinking like this the real reason The Click died? 
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Imperial_Commander
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Well here's my lone thought about this week's Flake:
Obvious troll is obvious :/ |
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Ranma824
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"Those" shows to the emailer are "Top tier" shows to other people. Questions based on opinion are pointless. |
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GWOtaku
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Yeah, just to echo the defense of Crunchyroll and to add one more thing, the fact that they get such a significant percentage of titles in a given season along with some other quality titles has, it seems, indeed been helping their traffic as we recently learned. I think it's also important to remember that they and streaming are still young; in January 2011 that'll be two solid years of legal streaming going on in a big way. I mean, yeah, a "big" show like Star Driver they seem to have trouble getting, and for whatever reason some fantastic titles like Kimi ni Todoke have fallen through the cracks. But what matters right now more than anything is success and growth, to prove to the corporate overlords in Japan that (a) streaming is worth doing and (b) Crunchyroll is worth doing business with.
Also, hey. They've had Naruto. They got Bleach. They have Gundam back on the service now. They got the cool-looking Time Jam. Skip Beat still hasn't been licensed but has been available there for a long time. Etc. They make the effort to have something for everyone, which is why I went from an interested user to a proud subscriber some time ago. |
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gingi789
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I don't know what the problem with Crunchyroll's selection of shows was. They had more than Anime Network and Funimation.....my only question is who's going to distribute the shows the licensed? I liked a few last season (Occult Academy, Asobi ni Ikuyo, etc), and I know that Crunchyroll isn't a distributor, so who gets to release those on DVD?
I haven't noticed a big drop in quality in the DVD transfers....which series are these happening with? (i got a copy of the Toradora DVD's and they work fine). Is it the Funimation thinpack releases? |
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Ian K
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^^
On an ANNCast a while ago, Justin and Zac noted that no shows that streamed on Crunchyroll were getting picked up for DVD distribution, and described them as 'damaged goods'. That has officially changed. Blassreiter, Tower of Druaga, and Strike Witches all originally premiered on Crunchyroll before FUNi picked them up, as well as Sora no Otoshimono. In addition, Ginatama has fianlly been picked up by neo-ADV and SoRaNoWoTo by Nozomi. So if a show has an audience, and the Japanese don't ask too much money for it, there's a good chance it'll get licensed for DVD. Of course, if the DVD distributors think a show is going to do well ahead of time, they'll try to license it first and simulcast it themselves. |
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RedTail
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Those were basically glitched discs though. When you're talking about crap like removing entire scenes and replacing 'em with stills, removing music, dubtitles, terrible dubs, missing japanese language tracks, or if the masters they got were just THAT bad, that's an entirely different matter... Those are all things that aren't just simple authoring issues and would take a lot more time and money to correct. To make matters worse, companies often times try to hide these things until after the release date. Bandai is probably the worst offender of them all... |
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Mohawk52
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JaQiLinOtaku
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Haha, Reborn! is the only long running shounen series I regularly follow & is my all-time favourite manga so I'm just a biased fangirl. 
But honestly no matter how undeniably great One Piece is, no aesthetically minded person like myself (i.e a self-confessed bishie lover/fujoshi  KIRABOSHI!) could possibly compare the two side by side & say that One Piece is more appealing, based on the art alone.
If you're not gonna buy the official releases due to them being 'crappy', that's fine, but only if you actually tell them that's the reason. Otherwise the companies aren't gonna know why they failed and what they can do to improve for next time. However I can see where the gungho 'I'm gonna buy it anyway because I love it so damn much' attitude can easily win out, as I still own all the crappy Viz volumes of Reborn! ...because I love it so damn much. xDD
Funny, I saw FMP! (and some other shows he was in) before FMA (original anime) but for some reason Vic has always been Edward to me, even though I wasn't a diehard FMA fan & had a only seen the first 25 or so eps.
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YotaruVegeta
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The flake HAS to be a high school student, because only a high school student would call someone who wants to pay for a product a "liberal communist" ??? So if you are, say, a conservative capitalist, you don't want to pay for anything besides James Cameron's Avatar!? Why don't you just get a free copy of Avatar, too, while you're busy getting anime scans and rips?
I wish Flakes actually realized that we talk about them. |
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First impressions stick I guess 
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