Are Anime Fans Spoiled?

[Keith Justice]

http://kotaku.com/5950077/anime-fans-these-days-are-too-damned-spoiled

Came across this article here.

I don't really roll deep in anime circles anymore. And I watch the bulk of my anime on Hulu and Netflix.... it'd be nice to have Crunchy Roll on my XBox.

I hear there's hate for Hulu........ why?

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

I hear there's hate for Hulu........ why?

Aliens.

 

[big_j_ny]

I hear there's hate for Hulu........ why?

I suspect it is because of those "video ads" that interfere while watching a video on Hulu.

But that goes to show you that "complaining anime fans" have some selfish sense of entitlement to always have commercial-free content without knowing that someone has to pay the money to keep that content on there for them to see.

It even mentions that very fact in the Kotaku article that you posted in this thread, Keith.

As a matter of fact, this same "selfish sense of entitlement" can be seen amongst some members of the toku fandom when it relates to complaining about "why the RAW of a certain toku show wasn't uploaded on time" or "why the fansubs are being released too slow" etc.

 

[shingamyeonblack]

They are too spoiled. The first sentence pretty much got all of it.

There are streamed anime, but not just that. SIMULCASTED, SUBTITLED, FREE anime on the internet.

Most anime fans still want to download episodes which has millions of dollars of work in them for free.

I watch Toriko simulcasts sometimes, but it gets so good that I actually wait for a while so that I could watch a few in a row. I think that it's amazing that I can do that.

The subtitles also aren't too terrible until they get to informal speech. Then it's whatever the frick the subtitle person wants to put up there.

You have it better than Korean-to-English. It's horrid out there.

MBC, rated number one in credibility...

http://www.crunchyroll.com/publisher/MBC_America

by themselves.

 

[big_j_ny]

The only reason I didn't like Crunchyroll is because of mostly the n00b'ish people that post on the comments of the videos and the people that post on their forums.

Other than that, I love the kind of service Crunchyroll is providing in terms of being able to stream licensed anime/media for free..............with the "option" for a paying premium service to get the streamed content faster and higher quality.

So yeah, anime fans (and like I said, even SOME TOKU FANS) are generally spoiled whenever you hear complaints like this from them

 

[Hidden Masta]

Here's a better question. Is anything on kotaku worth while?

 

[big_j_ny]

You have it better than Korean-to-English. It's horrid out there.

MBC, rated number one in credibility...

http://www.crunchyroll.com/publisher/MBC_America

by themselves.

Wait a minute, MBC finally got a deal with Crunchyroll to stream their dramas there now? :O_O:

I've been waiting for the longest time to get some drama content on that site

 

[Keith Justice]

Here's a better question. Is anything on kotaku worth while?

I thought that article was. I've never really given Crunchyroll a spin before. I remember hearing of it MANY years ago, but I thought it was illegal bootleg stuff. I remember Dragon Knight's Matt Mullins said he used it to watch Ryuki.... does it have toku on it?

And legally?

 

[shingamyeonblack]

Here's a better question. Is anything on kotaku worth while?

:laugh:

Well, that article was amusing. Anyone could have written it, but yeah... amusing.

 

[big_j_ny]

I thought that article was. I've never really given Crunchyroll a spin before. I remember hearing of it MANY years ago, but I thought it was illegal bootleg stuff. I remember Dragon Knight's Matt Mullins said he used it to watch Ryuki.... does it have toku on it?

And legally?

In the beginning of Crunchyroll's birth as a site, it was originally similar to that of YouTube in terms of you can upload any kind of video content you want with small regulations "here and there" over whether the stuff being uploaded was copyrighted/licensed or not.

During those early times, Crunchyroll DID HAVE tokusatsu content on the site ESPECIALLY the TV-Nihon subs of Kamen Riders Ryuki all the way to Kiva. Crunchyroll was essentially how I was introduced to Kamen Rider Kiva (my first Heisei Kamen Rider), tbh.

But just like YouTube, Crunchyroll got PURCHASED and it became a financial entity that had to operate like a legalized company. So from that point, Crunchyroll basically shut down all of the video content that was uploaded on the site from over the years.

After all of that years of content was shutdown, the company Crunchyroll decide to get partnerships with Viz Media and other anime/manga publishers in order to be able to get legalized/licensed content to be shown on their website SO that Crunchyroll would be able to have streaming content on their site again.

And that is how you end up with the Crunchyroll that you see today