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DragonSpikeXIII
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J-Drama in the U.S.?! How did they manage to license them, amazing!
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phoenixalia
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Huh, while I'm not a fan of J-drama, good news for fans of it.
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darkchibi07
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Ahhh, Team Medical Dragon. There's something kind of badass hearing Hiroyuki Sawano's music (Kill la Kill, Attack on Titan) on a medical drama.
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Emerje
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Would rather they got some tokusatsu titles by now. I wonder what's keeping them from getting Super Sentai on Crunchyroll.
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mdo7
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Wow I never thought Crunchyroll would get this much J-dramas, this is nice and too real to be true.
Those J-dramas may not be super popular compared to the one with Johnny's idols or Korean one but at least we got some decent J-dramas. BTW, some of them like Switch Girls, Last Cinderella, and Future Diary are on Dramafever. But nice to see Crunchyroll kept their promise to pick up J-dramas. It looks like that promise come true. Thank you Fuji TV, I wish NHK World can broadcast their dramas around the world. |
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Sana_chan5
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Yay, more J-dramas finally.
Liar Game was fun to watch. Super exaggeratedly dramatic sometimes, but still a good watch. |
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tasogarenootome
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Woo-hoo! Been wanting to check out Liar Game and am a bit curious about the Future Diary adaptation as well, so this is great!
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WeirDiE_InC
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And here we were told live-action Japanese show were virtually impossible to license; nice one, Crunchyroll.
I second getting tokusatsu, although I think they'll have to approach Saban Brands too. |
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mdo7
Posts: 6253 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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They're almost impossible IMO, if any J-dramas has Johnny in them, forget it. But even the most popular J-dramas that doesn't have Johnny in them will not get pick up in the US for streaming like Amachan for example and that baffle my mind. But I guess it depend on the companies in Japan that are willing to be open-minded or not. Fuji TV is the only one that I know that are open-minded to streaming outside of Asia. Other Japanese companies, not quite and I find this mind-boggling because 2 J-dramas are going to be shown in LA/Southern California on a Japanese-American station and they're not even found on Viki, Crunchyroll, or Dramafever when those 2 J-dramas can reached to a wider audience beyond Southern California if they put it on streaming sites. I'm aware that J-dramas are shown in other part of Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malayasia, Indonesia, Burma) but they don't export them to Latin/South America when other Asian dramas (Korean, Taiwanese) are really popular in those area, so apparently it looks like Japan didn't cash in on the drama fad in South America, again this baffles my mind. Last edited by mdo7 on Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:44 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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enurtsol
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Probably now that big investors own Crunchyroll, big Japanese businesses are more ready to work with them. Sometimes big J-businesses won't make big deals with you unless you have some big guns behind you to make it worth their time. |
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fuuma_monou
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After Power Rangers hit big, straight up Tagalog dubs of Super Sentai shows just stopped. Not sure if this is a licensing restriction or just a sign that Power Rangers is the bigger brand. worldwide. (IMO Tagalog-dubbed Power Rangers shows sound awful.) |
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mdo7
Posts: 6253 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Oh you welcome, ANN (that include to whoever wrote the article), it might be a good idea to follow Dramafever on Twitter and Facebook so you can keep track of what J-dramas (or drama adaptation of anime/manga) may come to that site. Also I would recommend looking at the Coming soon section on Dramafever to see what the site may pick up and stream. We do have one J-drama coming to DF, Partners by blood (again Fuji TV was the one that license this drama to the site) or it's original title Bitter Blood as Poonk, another ANN user told me. |
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agila61
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Part of it would have to be when they hired a second licensing agent just for live action, who could continue to work on landing live action independent of the ongoing bustle of the anime seasons. AFAIU, another part is likely to be a modification of the contractual terms, where dramas produced under the conventional terms in Japan had rights split up in ways that made it difficult to put together international licenses. It would be no accident that its Fuji TV dramas that Crunchyroll has signed up, as the single drama simulcast that they have had in several broadcast seasons was typically a Fuji TV drama, so it seems likely that Fuji TV has been making the transition to contracting terms that make it easier to license overseas for a while now. The biggest part of the news could be yet to come, since the dramas that Crunchyroll was obtaining in numbers in 2009 and 2010 were heavily slanted to K-dramas with North America only licenses, while the J-drama simulcast this broadcast season has a region license of:
... and the GTO Tawian catalog title has a region license of
... which are encouraging signs that this package deal may have reasonably wide regional availability. |
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Miss Hachiko
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Eh. The only popular ones (in my opinion), that's really worth watching is mainly Liar Game, Switch Girl, and (maybe) Last Cinderella. :<
Kinda wished they would've gotten Saikou no Rikon or Rich Man, Poor Woman. They have gotten awards for it, and are pretty popular (Both have SPs and RMPW was supposed to have a sequel if Ishihara Satomi didn't star in Shitsuren Chocolatier last Winter. ), but it's understandable if it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to obtain a license for those two lovely dramas. ; A ; |
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agila61
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Yeah, Crunchyroll's strategy is probably "give us whatever you can", and if an adequate audience shows up for what they get, over time their ability to land more content will grow. |
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