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Cardcaptor Takato
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The good news is you can watch Pop Team Epic on literally every other streaming site.
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Cain Highwind
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Sorry, I'm a little late on this. But, I wanted to add that the frustrations I see with Netflix are: They've sniped licenses away from other companies, namely Teasing Takagi and Mr. K from Funimation and just get an entirely new dub cast. Even if you don't care for dubs, they just sit on these exclusive licenses and wait for the dub to finish a dub MONTHS after the show aired. Sure, this was fine in the age of physical media, but now in the age of Simulcasts and even SimulDUBS, it's so needlessly archaic. I thin the one thing they've done good on is with Saint Seiya and how they took the cast of the new show and went and dubbed the original show and made it available. If Netflix ends up licensing Adventure of Dai, I hope they do the same thing there. |
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BadNewsBlues
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But not really a deal breaker for all anime fans? |
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Marc Nix
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There were also jokes that played on the earlier version's jokes if you watched both, like one I remember being there was a JuOn-type ghost hidden in the corner of a room that the camera slowly revealed in one version; in the second version that ghost wasn't there where you expected it, but then the camera moved slightly again or something and Popuko/Pipimi were in the opposite corner. It's generally a TREMENDOUS waste of time to watch both just to feel like you didn't miss anything, but I found the humor/surprises were enough and the episodes were so short that I'd watch half an episode, leave the stream/recording at a marker, and come back to an episode weeks later on to watch the variant. That, or scan through for some of my favorite gags real quick and see they differed. I appreciate that they went this crazy with the eps (just doing one special double-seiyu episode would have been a strong-enough gag) and there's some value in repeat viewing since at least always the performances have inherently different tones and inflections, even if the content is 90-100% the same. Is it vital you see both? No, but it is weird and frustrating that Netflix watchers don't have a choice. |
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Animegunclub
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Thinking of this being a deal-breaker is approaching the issue from the wrong side. Generated social media buzz for binge-structured shows (even/especially popular ones) seems to wane exceptionally after two weeks after dropping the whole shebang. People watch the whole thing, react, then go on about their life. Compare that to popular series that release weekly, the online buzz tends to stay/increase weekly until the show ends. Lets say they did simulcast some series that were definitely posed to be highly popular here in the states... Beastars/Carole and Tuesday definitely, Little Witch Academia/Violet Evergarden maybe... every week there'd be social media buzz, accumulating till the finale. There's a good chance some of these would be exponentially more popular than they ended up being. Add that to the fact that piracy is so incredibly easy and available for a lot of anime fans that are concerned about the seasonals, and you've siphoned off a lot of the selling potential of these series before you've even released it. Frustrating for fans that do want to support it, absolutely. But the bad business sense heavily outweighs that. |
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OjaruFan2
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I think the best way to deal with this situation is to simply not watch the Netflix US streams of the episodes at all and/or contact Netflix, politely letting them know that you would like to see the episodes in their original 23-minute format instead of the shortened 11-minute format.
Exactly. 
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yeehaw
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Crunchyroll, funimation and all other anime streaming services worked generally the same and customers were happy! We got anime the same day as the japanese!
And then Netflix came and decided that people who watch anime are doing it wrong and our complaints don't matter because people who liked game of thrones prefer binging. |
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