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DerekL1963
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You'd be surprised how many people don't pirate. |
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fuuma_monou
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I almost never binge-watch shows on Netflix. I was already used to seeing recent-ish anime dubbed in Tagalog or subtitled in English being aired five days a week (or two on the weekend) on cable TV. Just because Netflix drops a whole season at once doesn't mean you have to binge-watch it.
As opposed to zero bucks from fansubbers?
Ah, yes. The Oriental tradition of weekly television series. Totally unheard of in Occidental countries. |
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Kadmos1
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Like Netflix, Amazon Prime tends to have a lack of marketing for their anime streams. However, at least Amazon Prime often does the weekly simulcast. Also, that "Netflix Original" label is misleading unless Netflix was significantly part of an anime's production committee and the show is an original anime. AFAIK, Amazon Prime has not done that with any of their anime streams. |
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Chester McCool
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Maybe. I always saw Netflix's potential as more of a future thing. In a few years, people who may or may not be anime fans see a show in their recommended feed and watching it, not so much savvy anime fans who follow anime season by season. |
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donhumberto
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I think you hit the nail in the head. Netflix is being really good at creating new anime fans that otherwise wouldn't have bothered checking out what anime is in the first place. The other day I was in a live action Spanish forum I usually visit and people were raving about how awesome Castlevania was. Then someone asked for similar shows so he could get into anime and another guy (longtime anime fan, I presume) was like "yeah, dude, you should totally check out Zombieland Saga and Slime Data (WTF!!!) they're awesome!!" Needless to say, there was no response to his suggestions... Fast forward a couple of days and people started again buzzing about how awesome Hero Mask is. The point is that shows like Castlevania or Hero Mask, which could perfectly work as live action stuff are really important in order to attract newcomers that otherwise wouldn't bother. Many longtime (or hardcore) anime fans don't realise that a casual viewer would never-ever make it past 1 or 2 episodes of highly praised shows like Made in Abbys or Planet With because they are just "too" anime for your average Joe. Hell, even I only became an anime fan after watching Monster (probably the most un-anime series ever) |
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AkaRed
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On one hand they do good stuff like Voltron and Castlevania and on another hand they do shit stuff like the upcoming Saint Seiya remake that fuel me with rage when I think about it.
So they can do good but also bad. |
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EricJ2
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Well, that's going a little too far--Diane is still popular on the cosplay circuit, after all. 
But it's more the kind of show that feels too good to be running on one of the Mainstream Poseur services-- 7DS feels more like a show that could be fostering more of a cult audience on the right services, and let the Netflixes and Amazons cluelessly license new shows that they buy in a poke. It's not like we're dealing with the make-or-break broadcast risk of Fox being dumb enough to air "Escaflowne" on Saturday morning, because they didn't know any better. Close, but not quite. |
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Cabron
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>Evangelion probably qualifies as otaku-centric since it's a deconstruction of mechas and the culture surrounding the genre >deconstruction There's that misconception again. |
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OjaruFan2
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Gonna admit it here, Netflix having Evangelion, the fact that the show hasn't been legally available in North America for years, and the show supposedly getting redubbed in English has somewhat given me the urge to at least try out the first episode next year.
What about some of the more mass-market heavy shows that failed in North America, such as Doraemon or Sgt. Frog? Sure they had some marketing here, but when they came out, most people didn't care, except for the small fraction of fans that were already hugely familiar with them (this was me with Doraemon). After their distributors branded them a flop and gave up on them, that was the time when the word of mouth about those shows started spreading. I feel like bigger marketing would've made those particular shows more successful here. |
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Lord Oink
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If you want to get technical, Evangelion is a kids show as well. It originally aired on a kids show block in Japan along with other kids shows. |
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configspace
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Animation wise for all the episodes, from a couple uncensored scenes (bet most people didn't notice  ) http://otakomu.jp/archives/102137.html
to widespread scene direction/cinematography changes. Example, these clips ~ 3 mins http://www.bilibili.com/video/av1883937/ see pics top vs bottom: https://imgur.com/a/n2oNTqk Changes like those are literally everywhere in all episodes. And story-wise for the last episode being 15 mins longer. Note that the Director's Cut is on the alternative video "angle" track for Sentai's Bluray https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/news/knights-of-sidonia-release-details-explained FYI similar with Violet Evergarden, the last episode is extended (but only a bit) with new scenes on bluray vs the TV/Netflix version edit: after going back and reviewing old stuff, let me correct myself. Saying "entirely different" is an exaggeration. Faulty memory and all for only distinctingly remember key scenes changed, sorry. It's quite as back to back as that. but every episode does have different cuts for sure and the last ep most definitely |
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EricJ2
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Doraemon was always the B-player to the shows Disney X-D wanted to air, and when more game-marketing anime came along for license, US Cable Television Struck Again. And has the legend of Funi's horrendous Shin-chan-wannabe Sgt. Frog dub now reached the stage where we thought it actually DID air on cable TV? (It didn't, that's why Funi kicked it to the gutter.) Unless you meant Pioneer's horrendous Shin-chan-wannabe Lupin III v2 dub, which did air on Adult Swim, before they kicked it to the gutter. |
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Kadmos1
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For anime that air in Japan and maybe exclusively on Japanese streaming sites, non-Japanese Netflix is not the answer. For anime that is Netflix-exclusive (legal streaming, of course) and newer at the time of release, Netflix is the answer but not the answer for those that want a home video release of it in there country. For completed anime series or seasons of completed anime series, Netflix is an answer as that same series might be streaming on another official streaming site.
Despite Crunchyroll having region-locks, at least some of their recent (as in, the last 12 months) seasonal streams have secured "worldwide but Japan" coverage. Also, Sentai, AoA, or Funi* likely will get home video rights for at least some of those streams. *seeing as how Viz normally gets anime based off of Shueisha or Shogakukan-based IP. |
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TdFern 87
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Even if Funimation has gotten the rights to NGE it wouldn't have made a difference even if they put in a new dub cast. Although I guess I could see Funimation spreading the word a bit better than Netflix but thats about it.
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BadNewsBlues
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....They do bad even when said example hasn't actually been assessed to be bad? Or is the new SS series being judged on it's quality simply because of "certain" changes or it being in CG?
Kind of funny between it's mature themes, reglious imagery.......and having a movie that was notoriously violent. |
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