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NEWS: Amazon Prime Video Removes Scum's Wish, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, More Anime


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Key
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:12 pm Reply with quote
Of these, I'm most disappointed to see Yuki Yuna go. I have the first season on Blu-Ray, and it's still available on CR, but it deserves greater exposure. Also sad to see Scum's Wish go; that was a quality series.

This makes me a little worried about certain titles that AP has exclusively and has never released on home video, especially Re:CREATORS.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:20 pm Reply with quote
That's a bummer. With server-and-storage costs as low as they are, especially if you're Amazon, I'm surprised they feel the need to cut these. Must be very low viewership on them -- particularly disappointing for Scum's Wish and Yuki Yuna. Like Key, I was very fond of both of those.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:21 pm Reply with quote
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Of these, I'm most disappointed to see Yuki Yuna go. I have the first season on Blu-Ray, and it's still available on CR, but it deserves greater exposure. Also sad to see Scum's Wish go; that was a quality series.

This makes me a little worried about certain titles that AP has exclusively and has never released on home video, especially Re:CREATORS.


I'm not actually sure that Amazon was really any good for increasing exposure for various anime series. A lot of the better stuff they licensed got some buzz, but most of it sank really quickly and I think it's because Amazon Prime's output is not that prolific, and because they completely failed to advertise the anime. Especially outside the US. Here in Canada, it's basically got a crazy amount of overlap with Tubi for no apparent reason.

I think when stuff like Re:CREATORS and Banana Fish fall off Amazon Prime, someone else will grab it. Both shows have legitimate sales potential, Amazon is just completely awful at capitalizing on it. And I don't think Amazon's actively cutting these shows, I think the licenses are expiring and Amazon doesn't care enough to renew them. They gave up completely on the Noitamina blanket license after it expired, for example, once it turned out the Anime Strike experiment was a complete dud.

Yuki Yuna though, I hope someone else manages to get the home video rights to it just because PonyCan USA turned out to have no idea what they were doing.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:29 pm Reply with quote
Zendervai wrote:
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Of these, I'm most disappointed to see Yuki Yuna go. I have the first season on Blu-Ray, and it's still available on CR, but it deserves greater exposure. Also sad to see Scum's Wish go; that was a quality series.

This makes me a little worried about certain titles that AP has exclusively and has never released on home video, especially Re:CREATORS.


I'm not actually sure that Amazon was really any good for increasing exposure for various anime series. A lot of the better stuff they licensed got some buzz, but most of it sank really quickly and I think it's because Amazon Prime's output is not that prolific, and because they completely failed to advertise the anime. Especially outside the US. Here in Canada, it's basically got a crazy amount of overlap with Tubi for no apparent reason.

I think when stuff like Re:CREATORS and Banana Fish fall off Amazon Prime, someone else will grab it. Both shows have legitimate sales potential, Amazon is just completely awful at capitalizing on it. And I don't think Amazon's actively cutting these shows, I think the licenses are expiring and Amazon doesn't care enough to renew them. They gave up completely on the Noitamina blanket license after it expired, for example, once it turned out the Anime Strike experiment was a complete dud.

Yuki Yuna though, I hope someone else manages to get the home video rights to it just because PonyCan USA turned out to have no idea what they were doing.


Don't forget the lack of dubs for Amazon shows. A lot of anime lose exposure due to lack of dubs for a lot of people. I really enjoyed reading the Banana fish manga, and was disappointed when the show set in New York has no dub.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:34 pm Reply with quote
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Don't forget the lack of dubs for Amazon shows. A lot of anime lose exposure due to lack of dubs for a lot of people. I really enjoyed reading the Banana fish manga, and was disappointed when the show set in New York has no dub.


It's very obvious that Amazon thought they could just bully their way into the anime sphere, snap up the shows with the most buzz and slap them on their website and corner the anime streaming market that way. Turns out a lot of people like dubs, don't want to pay twice to access one service, and like it when stuff is uploaded properly and in a timely manner.

Prime Canada had a serious problem where several shows had episodes outright missing for ages, seemingly because someone forgot to upload them at all. And not offering dubs on Prime, a service a lot of people got for free shipping and then maybe decide to dabble in the streaming offerings, was a mistake because there's a lot of people who might see it, think it looks interesting, and then instantly shut it off the second they realize it's subtitled, however unfair that might be.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:46 pm Reply with quote
Yuki Yuna s2 was an amazon only show that's why the subs dropped the ball sad
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:46 pm Reply with quote
Zendervai wrote:
I think when stuff like Re:CREATORS and Banana Fish fall off Amazon Prime, someone else will grab it. Both shows have legitimate sales potential, Amazon is just completely awful at capitalizing on it. And I don't think Amazon's actively cutting these shows, I think the licenses are expiring and Amazon doesn't care enough to renew them. They gave up completely on the Noitamina blanket license after it expired, for example, once it turned out the Anime Strike experiment was a complete dud.

Seeing someone grab up, dub, and release Re:CREATORS is probably my greatest anime wish at this point. I'd pre-order that sucker at full price.

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Yuki Yuna though, I hope someone else manages to get the home video rights to it just because PonyCan USA turned out to have no idea what they were doing.

The Pony Canyon releases were quite nice, but yeah, they didn't know how to market them well.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:56 pm Reply with quote
What i really want is for amazon to give up on thier re:creators license and allow someone to actually release it on home video, cause they really are wasting it.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:56 pm Reply with quote
Aww man, sad to see these shows go but some of them were stuck in Amazon jail when they aired. Hope another company picks em up.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:58 pm Reply with quote
When I first read the headline, I thought the Great Passage was removed in my area. Fortunately, when I read the article, just applies to the US. Will still need to get a move on watching the remaining anime on Amazon Prime (Banana Fish, Great Passage, Inuyashiki, Kabaneri and Onihei) I know the latter two titles are available on CR. Who knows when the streaming rights will expire on those other titles?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:18 pm Reply with quote
Well darn, Since Yuki Yuna Season 2 was exclusive to Amazon & Pony Canyon never gave it a physical release, that really was the only incentive I had to even getting a Prime account (I kept thinking "oh yeah I need to watch that! Maybe next paycheck" but that never happened, so I never got to see it)

Like others said, here's hoping someone else will pick up the licenses for all these shows soon!
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:32 pm Reply with quote
One final insult from the folks who brought you the Double Paywall.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:38 pm Reply with quote
Aww man, I passed up the two hour long live action movie adaptation of The Great Passage that was available for only 24 hours through the JFF Plus online festival recently because I always had the anime to watch on my own time. Guess not anymore, unless someone rescues it.

EDIT: My bad, Discotek released it on Blu-ray back in February 2020. Maybe it'll eventually be on CR.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:57 pm Reply with quote
Kabaneri finished airing in July 2016, and Crunchyroll was able to stream it starting November 2019, a gap of 3.33 years.
It's been 3 years and 10 months since Scum's Wish finished airing, yet Sentai still is not streaming it despite dubbing it and releasing on bluray. Over 4 years for Great Passage even though released by Discotek on bluray (though they don't stream everything and don't have their own platform).
Guess Kabaneri was an exception and not something to gauge other shows by. Unfortunate.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:07 pm Reply with quote
I am not sad that Amazon is starting to lose their anime licenses. Hopefully other, more competent anime streamers pick up these titles. I hope the license to Saekano season 2 expires soon (if it hasn't already), and Aniplex USA can finally release it and the finale movie on BD.
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