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NEWS: ADV Files 3rd-Party Claim in Funimation's Lawsuit

people anime is niche no matter how much you want it to be mainstream or want your parents/friends to accept you for watching it is still a niche product.

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Oh, you're just another stuck-up weeaboo, I nearly thought you made have had an opinion that mattered.

angelmcazares wrote:

I support companies like Aniplex USA because they want to charge more for anime to sustain the industry.

I'm not sure how charging a premium for niche shows which will not go into the pockets of the animators themselves is sustaining the industry.

Could you explain that to me? I am confused here.

In my criticism of Funimation I've generally kept out of the realm of leaning into which company consistently produces a higher quality product. This isn't about who's better or not, and feel no need to fault Funimation for their specific level of quality. But I may have weighed in on it in the past.

So let me posit one hypothetical situation: Suppose Funimation were to simply go *poof*, inexplicably erased from existence (no one dying of course though). After a bit of confusion and after the dust settles, just think of the substantial chasm of opportunity that would result. You still have this deluge of titles crossing the pacific but new companies popping up and existing ones feeling less of the burden of the former monolith. Would the anime industry be better or worse? Well I've already heard more R1 companies is better, in Funi's absence more would pop up.

I disagree. I think their high prices are hurting them. They still got overstock on a lot of titles. In fact, as I've said before, I think they're even underperforming in Japan, too, or they wouldn't be charging their prices for us. Hell, you're already seeing JP companies sell budget anime DVDs in Japan, even for Sket Dance, which actually does seem to have a following. The old model is no longer working.
It's a good con which will fall apart soon enough.

Maybe because they want non-moe and ecchi titles which would justify supporting the industry?

You should read the Twitter posts about how sales went up after Toonami aired Casshern '08. People do watch and buy. It's just a shitty economy, so they can't watch and buy everything. So if it looks like crap, of course they're not going to blow money on it.

After a bit of confusion and after the dust settles, just think of the substantial chasm of opportunity that would result. You still have this deluge of titles crossing the pacific but new companies popping up and existing ones feeling less of the burden of the former monolith. Would the anime industry be better or worse? Well I've already heard more R1 companies is better, in Funi's absence more would pop up.

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If you wish for a company's death simply because you find its business practices inconvenient to you, YOU ARE BEING A JERK, no way around it.

Well, if they're corporate scumbags out to sabotage a company built up from the ground-as was the case with Sojitz-then good riddance.

They're still the distributor to most of the best-selling anime of the 2000's (They've had 32 anime sell at least 10,000 copies per volume on average, more than double second place Geneon. Link).

As for cheap re-releases, here's the real kicker, most of those bomb hard in sales. There have been tons of Emotion the Best releases this year, and I've seen only ONE make it at all on the weekly Oricon charts, and it did about 1000 or so copies.

and it's a wonder why they keep doing them if at times less than 200 people are buying them.

As for why they charge similar prices here, they know they can make money off of us (Remember this thing that sold out from nearly 2 months of pre-order?).

I wonder how rich they got off Madoka.

"Torrent Trigun or buy Trigun?" If asked that, they'd go with torrenting as even if they were paid to buy Trigun, they still wouldn't do it. I know plenty of these kind of people.

Oh boo-hoo, ADV, you didn't properly read the contract with Sojitz and you paid for it in blood.

As for why they charge similar prices here, they know they can make money off of us (Remember this thing that sold out from nearly 2 months of pre-order?). I wonder how rich they got off Madoka. They knew from the start this release strategy would do well. The Madoka LE's had been in the Rightstuf best-seller list since they were solicited, and it took until a few weeks ago for the first and second LE to completely fall out of the old system (The new one goes farther).