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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Girls' Last Tour for Anime Strike Simulcast

If more people didn't pay for anime streaming services then neither crunchy nor funi would have had the money to increase the bids for streaming licenses, as simple as that, it is easy to understand unless of course, you are dead seat on smearing crunchy/funny the facts be damned.

Amazon did all that before they made a deal with Sentai (and Anime Strike was born), you are simply trying to shift the focus, Sentai DID a bargain with the devil and they have lost popularity inside and outside the USA.

Which is another reason fans hate strike, Funi is not going to dub any new shows from Strike (they have their own licenses) and unless aniplex or sentai makes a disc release, chances are many series from AS will stay without a disc release in the foreable future.

You got that backwards, show me a Funi release of an anime strike title and THEN you will have shown me wrong.

CatSword wrote:

Hey, Sentai? As we can see from this thread, people associate your name with dread now when it's announced you have a new seasonal simulcast. This is not a good thing for your company. Please cut ties with Anime Strike.

What Crunchyroll and Funimation do isn't any better though. That's the very definition of a monopoly. The current situation wouldn't have happened had Funimation and Crunchyroll not driven up licensing costs as insane as they were. This is Sentai saving their own asses by teaming up with another party.

mangamuscle wrote:

You got that backwards, show me a Funi release of an anime strike title and THEN you will have shown me wrong.

Do you understand the concept of proving a negative?

All you have is a theory and your belief. The closest thing you have to "proof" is "It hasn't happened yet".

As I pointed out before, Funimation has licensed a title for home video that is streamed by another company. You claimed that wasn't the same, but at least I provided a precedent, something you have not.


As far as home video licenses go, what do you think would stop Sentai from licensing those titles for home video release? Like Funimation, they've also licensed titles for home video that Netflix had exclusive streaming rights to. Also, unlike Funimation, your "helping the enemy" argument doesn't work for them.

I imagine this thread (and the prior ones and the ones to come) underestimate the ones that, at the very least, have made their peace with Strike

Why can't Sentai go with their other party they hype up half of the time and which the anime community is much more warm to known as Hidive?

zrnzle500 wrote:

I imagine this thread (and the prior ones and the ones to come) underestimate the ones that, at the very least, have made their peace with Strike

If you believe these threads, there's pretty much nobody who is subscribed to Strike. I suspect the number of people who have made their peace with Strike (or who already have Prime and are thus not subject to the "double paywall" is vastly underestimated - because they have no reason to gripe.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that the noisy one are in fact a minority.

zrnzle500 wrote:

I imagine this thread (and the prior ones and the ones to come) underestimate the ones that, at the very least, have made their peace with Strike

If you believe these threads, there's pretty much nobody who is subscribed to Strike. I suspect the number of people who have made their peace with Strike (or who already have Prime and are thus not subject to the "double paywall" is vastly underestimated - because they have no reason to gripe.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that the noisy one are in fact a minority.

Lynx Amali wrote:

This is Sentai saving their own asses by teaming up with another party.

But they did a bargain with the devil, the anime community (as in, the people that buy their discs) at large no longer sees them in a positive light.

and sooner rather than later Amazon will remove the middlemen (Sentai) and start licensing by themselves all the anime they want since theirs is not a partnership made on legal paper.

Except for that supposed "noisy minority" has representation all over the internet whereas the opposite has none by comparison. We have every thread posted on here, MAL, Reddit, or any other forum with users decrying Anime Strike. We have Sentais Twitter and Facebook that get berrated every time they make a strike announcement. We have Anime Strikes official twitter that was also highly attacked. We have YouTube videos with millions of combined views and thousands of likes belittling Anime Strike and Netflix anime.

We have YouTube videos with millions of combined views and thousands of likes belittling Anime Strike and Netflix anime.

the anime community (as in, the people that buy their discs) at large no longer sees them in a positive light.

@TasteyCookie Certainly, we don't know what the numbers are, so we can't say definitively that they are doing well. But we don't know that they aren't doing well, or at least well enough, either. Many, many people have been pissed off and make that known in every forum and social media account they can, but that isn't proof that the vast majority hates Amazon (and Sentai). I worry that some of us are in a bubble, and when we hear that Sentai (and thereby Anime Strike for the most part) picks something up, some cry "Why is Amazon [or Netflix] still haunting us?! All the people I know hate them! They have to be doing horribly!" when the reality may be that, while they aren't doing amazing numbers, they may be performing within expectations. Again we don't know, but I think we should be prepared for the possibility that Amazon and Netflix are doing well enough that they want to remain players in the industry for years to come so we aren't gnashing our teeth and asking why every season.

Let's not put words in people's mouths and start trouble.

Again we don't know, but I think we should be prepared for the possibility that Amazon and Netflix are doing well enough that they want to remain players in the industry for years to come so we aren't gnashing our teeth and asking why every season.