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Oh yeah, it's a "complete story, with a complete ending"... sort of. In that it takes its strong female lead,spoiler[ turns her into a brainless pawn of evil], has a horribly anticlimactic final battle, and an ending which ultimately says that everything that happened in the entire series was completely meaningless, because no matter how much you fight the forces of evil, spoiler[God is a dick who will just bring villains back from the dead for no apparent reason.] It spits on its characters, it spits on its own conflict, it spits on its audience for caring.

Each of those actions make them take a serious look at your market

As to the knock to the "know yourself" how do you determine what to watch and buy? You take in themes, stories, genres, artists, studios, directors.. all of those elements and more go into a decision to buy a series.

Erm in the Christian religion spoiler[God has no control over demons, or devils, or anything under the control of Lucifer as he is now just as powerful as God, 'tis the reason he rejected God's reign in heaven in the first place. It's all in Genesis. Also even though he was plotting against both hell, and heaven, there is no clear indication that Aion was killed in that final battle so he obviously had somehow survived to return with yet another plan involving Pope John-Paul.] So if that is what has put you off Chrono Crusade then perhaps you might have been just spitting in the wind.

Mohawk52 wrote:

Erm in the Christian religion spoiler[God has no control over demons, or devils, or anything under the control of Lucifer as he is now just as powerful as God, 'tis the reason he rejected God's reign in heaven in the first place. It's all in Genesis. Also even though he was plotting against both hell, and heaven, there is no clear indication that Aion was killed in that final battle so he obviously had somehow survived to return with yet another plan involving Pope John-Paul.] So if that is what has put you off Chrono Crusade then perhaps you might have been just spitting in the wind.

CRITICAL RESEARCH FAILURE.

You've clearly never read the Bible and know nothing about Christianity. The story of the fall of Satan is nowhere spelled out in the Bible, especially not in the book of Genesis (Satan is mentioned three times in the Hebrew scriptures, in Job, Chronicles, and Zechariah). And the idea that Lucifer is as powerful as God?!?!??! No, for dualism like that you'd have to go with the Manicheans.

Besides, if you know about the prophecies spoiler[of which the assassination attempt is a part], none of the stuff in Chrono Crusade is in them, so clearly it's not meant to be in our timeline (I think we would remember spoiler[downtown San Fransisco being destroyed by demons]), which makes the ending EVEN STUPIDER.

You should try reading an unabridged version. Those "Hebrew scriptures" are also known as The Old Testament.

So you're looking for factual realism? In something like Chrono Crusade? No wonder you're in a strop.

Our local companies usually use R1 sales as a means of deciding upon licenses to acquire. They also appear to listen to fan requests online, though they tend not to express any stern views on how local fans come to desire the releases they do.

Whilst this principle would certainly preferable from the perspective of a global industry, it is even harder to adhere to it in smaller countries: the comparatively higher price of obtaining most titles increases the amount one would inadvertently waste upon buying something one fails to enjoy.

The Anime has already been shown on Japanese TV. So me watching a fan sub is the same as my friend taping the latest episode of Lost and then lending me the tape. Is that wrong? And if anyone says it is, have you never borrowed a show recorded off the TV before?

So gotta make it bigger and as fan find a way to make it happen.
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In short a need for the change of the circumstances is in order and in order to do that both sides must act, the industry is trying and doing their part now we as fans have to do ours.

I remain sceptical as to whether local fans, or even local distributors, can themselves make changes in such a way as to bring the health of their industry up to the comparatively high standard of that in R1. I am afraid to say that a fan-lead campaign — wherein contributors educate and motivate others to start contributing — is far too unrealistic to be tenable, given constraints of time, money and geography. Were it plausible, it would already have been put into motion by local fan networks.

So in essence yes the industry must and is changing but we as a fandom need to change with it as we are the ones that are the unbending oak right now.

This analogy makes absolutely no sense. It's not even a remotely similar situation. Anyone who thinks they're more likely to find love by going to a prostitute is an idiot. On the other hand, you're clearly a lot more open to checking out a show if it's free where as you would be a lot less likely to buy it right off the bat. There's also no beneficiary in the prostitute scenario. Nobody benefits but you and I guess the prostitute. It would be equivalent to piracy that benefits you and the person making pirated content available. That ignores the whole point of what I'm saying though which is that in this scenario it may help the industry. There is no element analogous to the industry in your example so of course the potential justification doesn't apply.

You're right. All those pirates need to stop sucking up our tax dollars!

Except they don't actually do that. Once again, this analogy makes no sense. All you're doing is tossing out unrelated instances of people making excuses and then picking them apart. That's fine for those instances but there's no logical basis to extend it to other cases just because the excuse is similar. The validity of an justification may vary depending on what it is used to justify.

So let me ask again: Explain why is it that piracy in this scenario (not drugs, not prostitution, piracy) is not acceptable?

Surely though there are enough leeches out there to support these pirate sites on their own. Even if all the potentially justified pirates stopped pirating it's not like pirate sites would disappear so what does it matter?

And I'm betting that if that leech were to suddenly find themselves unable to download any anime at all, they would go download music, or go play a computer game, rather than rush off to the nearest DVD store to buy anime. I just don't get why some people still insist that every epiode download = lost sale.

As for myself, I've done it all: download anime and manga, buy anime and manga, and translate for fansub/scanlation groups. I don't make excuses for downloading, I do it because I can and because I want to (as long as I'm not going to be arrested for it, I'll keep doing it).

Erm in the Christian religion spoiler[God has no control over demons, or devils, or anything under the control of Lucifer as he is now just as powerful as God, 'tis the reason he rejected God's reign in heaven in the first place. It's all in Genesis. Also even though he was plotting against both hell, and heaven, there is no clear indication that Aion was killed in that final battle so he obviously had somehow survived to return with yet another plan involving Pope John-Paul.] So if that is what has put you off Chrono Crusade then perhaps you might have been just spitting in the wind.

LordRedhand wrote:

So in essence yes the industry must and is changing but we as a fandom need to change with it as we are the ones that are the unbending oak right now.

Hogwash. The industry - the Japanese but especially the North American - is only just catching up to where the fandom was two or three years ago. Which is why simulcasting is fairly new, even though I and others argued years ago that there was no reason it couldn't have been done long before. Heck, I even exclaimed two years ago that there is no reason in this day and age that releasing the English dub simultaneously with the broadcast couldn't be done, at least from a technical issue.