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I am in tears. Taking Tourabu has hit me where it matters. I'm gonna leave work and drive to the closest overpass/bridge. Goodbye, weebos.

CR needs a competitor with deeper pockets. I would prefer it be someone like Hidive, which has better subtitles than either CR or Amazon, and matches or exceeds most of their features. However, they just don't have the money to compete with them for licenses right now, and honestly, no one will ever be able to compete with Amazon's financial muscles as long as they stay in the market. At least Amazon is allowing the license market to stay competitive, and ensuring that Funimation won't walk away with nearly every show each season.

Peebs wrote:

I am in tears. Taking Tourabu has hit me where it matters. I'm gonna leave work and drive to the closest overpass/bridge. Goodbye, weebos.

It doesn't say "Exclusive" (yet........) so I am still holding out hope beyond hope that CR is able to get it. Otherwise, I don't think I'm watching anything other the backlog on CR this season. *smfh*

dragonrider_cody wrote:

CR needs a competitor with deeper pockets. I would prefer it be someone like Hidive, which has better subtitles than either CR or Amazon, and matches or exceeds most of their features. However, they just don't have the money to compete with them for licenses right now, and honestly, no one will ever be able to compete with Amazon's financial muscles as long as they stay in the market. At least Amazon is allowing the license market to stay competitive, and ensuring that Funimation won't walk away with nearly every show each season.

You keep talking "monopoly" but when did Funi get "every show in the season" though? Sure they got some of the bigger stuff most of the time (Tokyo Ghoul, AoT, MHA, etc.) but Sentai still managed to get some decent to good shows during some of those seasons, and they were also in competition with AoA and Crunchy (before the partnership) as well.

There's always been a relatively healthy amount of competition in the licensing game until Amazon started Big Manning it like Deebo from Friday.

So far, Aniplex hasn't released any titles that streamed exclusively on one service. That could change, but it seems unlikely and it goes against their stated goal of having as much exposure for a show as possible when it comes to streaming. Of course, they have new leadership, so they might try something new.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

So far, Aniplex hasn't released any titles that streamed exclusively on one service. That could change, but it seems unlikely and it goes against their stated goal of having as much exposure for a show as possible when it comes to streaming. Of course, they have new leadership, so they might try something new.

Saekano b was Amazon-only, but that was also a NoitaminA series, so it fell under the umbrella of the Amazon/Fuji deal. Otherwise you're right, Aniplex is more likely to spread their shows across multiple platforms. But I think the OP is also right to speculate about Saekano and ReCreators too, when you look at Aniplex's recent tendency to hoard all of their own titles for AoA to release (or not release, as the case may be). Especially in Saekano's case where it's an Aniplex title to the bone (right down to being animated by A-1) and AoA already has season 1, it'd be shocking if someone else besides AoA ended up with season 2.

Same with how they purchased Audible and got into e-books in the first place was to completely kill Nook. They just throw money at things until the competition folds or gets considerably down-sized.

WingKing wrote:

dragonrider_cody wrote: So far, Aniplex hasn't released any titles that streamed exclusively on one service. That could change, but it seems unlikely and it goes against their stated goal of having as much exposure for a show as possible when it comes to streaming. Of course, they have new leadership, so they might try something new. Saekano b was Amazon-only, but that was also a NoitaminA series, so it fell under the umbrella of the Amazon/Fuji deal. Otherwise you're right, Aniplex is more likely to spread their shows across multiple platforms. But I think the OP is also right to speculate about Saekano and ReCreators too, when you look at Aniplex's recent tendency to hoard all of their own titles for AoA to release (or not release, as the case may be). Especially in Saekano's case where it's an Aniplex title to the bone (right down to being animated by A-1) and AoA already has season 1, it'd be shocking if someone else besides AoA ended up with season 2.

That may be true, but so far AoA has refused to license or release any titles that have exclusive streaming deals. So unless they have changed their business plans, the chances of them licensing season two are relatively slim. And if AoA would license Saekano, only not to release it on home video, there would be little difference anyway. But as I said, they just had a change in leadership, so anything is possible.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

WingKing wrote: dragonrider_cody wrote: So far, Aniplex hasn't released any titles that streamed exclusively on one service. That could change, but it seems unlikely and it goes against their stated goal of having as much exposure for a show as possible when it comes to streaming. Of course, they have new leadership, so they might try something new. Saekano b was Amazon-only, but that was also a NoitaminA series, so it fell under the umbrella of the Amazon/Fuji deal. Otherwise you're right, Aniplex is more likely to spread their shows across multiple platforms. But I think the OP is also right to speculate about Saekano and ReCreators too, when you look at Aniplex's recent tendency to hoard all of their own titles for AoA to release (or not release, as the case may be). Especially in Saekano's case where it's an Aniplex title to the bone (right down to being animated by A-1) and AoA already has season 1, it'd be shocking if someone else besides AoA ended up with season 2. That may be true, but so far AoA has refused to license or release any titles that have exclusive streaming deals. So unless they have changed their business plans, the chances of them licensing season two are relatively slim. And if AoA would license Saekano, only not to release it on home video, there would be little difference anyway. But as I said, they just had a change in leadership, so anything is possible.

yeah, But how many anime did Funimation went on to license despite having exclusive streaming deals?

leelee85 wrote:

dragonrider_cody wrote: WingKing wrote: dragonrider_cody wrote: So far, Aniplex hasn't released any titles that streamed exclusively on one service. That could change, but it seems unlikely and it goes against their stated goal of having as much exposure for a show as possible when it comes to streaming. Of course, they have new leadership, so they might try something new. Saekano b was Amazon-only, but that was also a NoitaminA series, so it fell under the umbrella of the Amazon/Fuji deal. Otherwise you're right, Aniplex is more likely to spread their shows across multiple platforms. But I think the OP is also right to speculate about Saekano and ReCreators too, when you look at Aniplex's recent tendency to hoard all of their own titles for AoA to release (or not release, as the case may be). Especially in Saekano's case where it's an Aniplex title to the bone (right down to being animated by A-1) and AoA already has season 1, it'd be shocking if someone else besides AoA ended up with season 2. That may be true, but so far AoA has refused to license or release any titles that have exclusive streaming deals. So unless they have changed their business plans, the chances of them licensing season two are relatively slim. And if AoA would license Saekano, only not to release it on home video, there would be little difference anyway. But as I said, they just had a change in leadership, so anything is possible. yeah, But how many anime did Funimation went on to license despite having exclusive streaming deals?

We were talking about Aniplex, so what does Funimation have to do with anything?

You could count Kabaneri, but wasn't that technically a CR license that they are dubbing and distributing for them?

No, they aren't going to flop, because Amazon did pay truckloads of money for streaming rights. If other companies would've paid more money (CR, Funimation), then you bet they would've had these instead, but they didn't pay more money, end of story.