Disney+ : Where Anime Goes to Die 

At least the manga is still accessible...

@@SecretIdentityStudionot everyone reads manga, most would prefer watching it animated which makes it hard for series to gain traction in popularity. At least to a wide diverse audience.

What's it about?

@@SecretIdentityStudiosadly it’s not really, there’s no digital version… :( physical release only, so you’re stuck paying 25$/vol instead of 9$/vol digitally…

@@pikachuattack542 You know that movie, Groundhog Day? Where Bill Murray repeats the same day over and over again, and if he dies it resets to the beginning of the day? Its like that, only he's being hunted by the pod people from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers because they wanna kill everybody.

Yeah that sounds about right…

This is the first time I have heard of Sandland.

Same... I know the game was coming out. Thought the anime was still in Japan only

This is the first time I heard about anime being on Disney+ overall

I think that just proves his point.

i thought funimation did the ghibli films

@@leongay3190 No, Disney was the first to release all but Totoro, until GKids got the rights.

@@GarethOfByzantium And without Disney around, the latest Ghibli film actually topped the American box office for a week.

@@easolinas1233 YUP!!!

I wonder what Ghibli's thought process was back then that made them think it was a good idea to let another competing animation studio handle their product.

Piracy exists tho. Those classics are still out there, just without license,

Remember that in the age of walled gardens and companies that refuse to water them, it is not only acceptable but morally superior to pirate. Set up a Servarr+Plex solution for your friends and family and you, too, can pirate with style and convenience.

the only people that said that didn't know what they were talking about (which, tbf, was most people). we're in a historical black hole of information because of how impermanent our primary form of communication is. digital records don't last, even without copyright killing everything.

@@Lattellerrsame with videos games and software

@@bigbundle3223agreed. Things should be written down.

at least they still try to give us actual decent Muppet content unlike with anime wher disney will sit on them without any rhyme or reason!

@@17jacoyne disney sucks with anime

Muppets suck tho... R U 2 years old or something?

I wonder if they treat Muppets better because Muppets already has a higher number of viewers and require less of an investment.

@@goff256 Definitely. Muppets have been around accruing fans since the 70s so even if they don't have a massive audience like the princess movies or the Marvel stuff, they do have a fanbase (some _way_ more passionate than others). Anime fandom, while it is a large market, is inherently fragmented, since not everybody likes the exact same shows. The only fanbase for any given new seasonal anime are the fans of its manga or light novels and then just a prayer that more people check the show out.

Yeah, so long as these distributors are willing to continue picking up and subbing their anime. Widely available quality subs devastated the fansubbing community, moreso when Netflix started to do their job so the fansubbers lost that niche too. Blue Archive takes days to get its subs fixed cuz whatever official English ones it has are unwatchable garbage, and Girls Band Cry didn't get good subs for its first episode almost until the THIRD episode aired. And it's still a week behind. If this starts to happen more fansubbers will eventually pick up the slack but we're all going to suffer, as will the anime being neglected, for a while until they get their feet back under them.

♫ Yar har, fiddly dee ♫

careful, Nintendo's Naval Intelligence could be reading this.

@@skeletor8951 anime would only stand to benefit from CR, HiDive, and any other big company falling under. it means newer and generally nicer and more desperate fish come along more than happy to sign for licenses and or promote shows and reap advertising rewards. of course seafarers couldn't care less. streaming is 100% profitable if companies worried less about stock holders and more about simple maintenance and affordability as well as user experience

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I don’t believe for a second that anime like Undead Unluck, Yozakura Family AND Sandland are gonna die in obscurity because Disney’s being a prick defintinly not Sandland given the hype and circumstances surrounding it, same for Undead Unluck and Yozakura Family, just not the same circumstances They’re gonna be fine, doesnt mean I don’t blame Disney Plus for making their out reach be less because pettiness

@@leoultimaupgraded9914 They may not die in complete obscurity, but definitely in relative obscurity. I mean, not every anime fan is dedicated enough to watch channels like MB to find new anime to watch, nor are they all religious SJ or Kodansha readers. I mean, the fact that we don't have clips of these anime being posted on RU-vid by anyone is proof enough that a huge marketing opportunity is being missed, and these anime aren't showing up in ordinary weeb feeds. They'll do fine off the strength of their appeal, but not as good as they should have.

@@leoultimaupgraded9914 they aren't going to die in obscurity, but they certainly aren't going to get as much love as they should have either though.

What do you mean "of all people?" Viz owns the rights to Bleach. Viz licensed the show, hired the actors, prints the blu-rays and makes every deal that has to do with where it streams and/or airs. Viz got to choose which platform it was going to air on, and Disney offered them the most money for it. Of course Viz is promoting it. They did the same thing with Zom 100, except they licensed that out to Netflix and Crunchyroll instead.

@@flamemasterelan Because they normally fucking suck in this regard as an IP holder and won't do most of the heavy lifting. Also, Zom 100 is another fucking story entirely.

Probably compounded by the fact at least one doesn't have an easily searchable name as mentioned in the video. They really messed up.

The Disney+ app is a nightmare. They also bury their cartoon shorts nearly as effectively as they buried anime. You have to know what you're looking for to find it, just browsing seldom works.

They own like half of all popular intellectual properties in the world at this point, of course the industry bends to their every whim. It's frustrating...

Disney IS HOLLYWOOD.

@@sleepysera and they've managed to fuck up every single one of them.

@@Blodhelm do you have any idea how much money they've been losing since 2020?

​@@BrendanJSmithI'm just going to assume by your Disney hate-boner that you think they're "woke."

It's all free advertising from fans of each show talking about it after watching it on a pirating site lol.

As a Heavenly Delusion fan, I absolutely hate how it didn't win in any damn category in the Crunchyroll Awards...

​@@chonki_raddish I mean, if it isn't on CrunchyRoll it ain't winning any awards from them. Lol

@@casteanpreswyn7528 While Crunchyroll shows definitely have a skewed bias on their platform due to accessibility for the people voting on the awards. Non-CR shows can still get wins. They are generally outliers though. Some Examples are - Komi can't communicate (Netflix) winning best comedy of 2022 - Cyberpunk (Netflix) winning 2023 AotY and Best Dubbed Voice Performance - Oshi no Ko (HiDive) winning Opening song of the Year

I LOOOVE HEAVENLY DELUSION!!!!! i watched it weekly and that experience was amazing!!!!!

That's not a conspiracy, but a known tactic.

Yeah nah thats literally what theyre doing

honestly i am pretty sure they want to choke out _animation,_ not simply _anime._ another comment brought up the owl house, a gem that disney canceled because it wasn't soulless. most corpos are subhuman animals that don't understand the value of art, but the execs over at disney are even lower than that, they are actively trying to bury the idea of artistic expression.

I think it could be as simple as they didn't think it would make enough viewership to justify marketing it. Why bother if it does not make profit, so they just do the bare the essentials and be over with it.

​@@HorseWithNoBaneThen why buy exclusive rights in the first place?

In some international markets all of the Fox related content is in a separate streaming service called Star+, and while they're going to combine both services in June of this year, I actually find it very frustrating the fact that they don't market anime very well here in Latin America, a region where anime has always been popular. Bleach, Black Rock Shooter: Dawnfall, Summer Time Rendering, Tokyo Revengers S2, Heavenly Delusion and Unded Unluck are the only "Disney+/Star+ Original" anime that actually got dubbed, and for some titles like Undead Unluck the dub wasn't added until much later, which is weird considering that Netflix uploads all of their "original" anime with a dub on day one.

Depends on where you live. In the US the anime is on Hulu and outside of US it’s on Disney plus.

I knew they had Bleach because it was in the animation category.

Really things and networks seem to be losing touch now with audiences more and more.

That's what I thought. It should have made clearer as I'm going through D+ now and see no anime. Yeah the offerings on Hulu are meh.

​​​@@DBZnChill In South America and Europe, well, maybe just Portugal, it's Star Plus. We don't have Hulu so they made the streaming with the name associated to what was Fox. But in South America they will discontinue the streaming put everything on Disney Plus. Probably because of the lack of subscribers or views and they want to save billions.

See now, that would require a synthesis of ideas, and Disney executives haven't had an idea other than "Buy shit" for almost 2 decades.

disney hasn't unlocked basic pattern recognition on the skill tree yet

​@66Roses make you realize how overpaid they are while acting like they're the reason the company is successful and now they want to push AI art or other AI stuff

That would require a brain.

The studio that animated the original series was Akom which definitely had anime influence, they also did the transformers and old batman series

fr thank god to that random Shen edit on tiktok I started the manga, best decision I've made this year

I went out and purchased the books as soon as I saw the first couple of episodes.

I remember being hyped for it but only saw the first episode, I forgot about it some reason for a while and just recently found out that it had like 20+ episodes I think?! It's crazy bruh

Ikr it’s crazy how many incredible anime and mangas never get talked about like undead unluck, Toriko and yo Sakura family (I’m pretty sure toriko is fairly old so maybe that one doesn’t count)

I'm absolutely obsessed with Undead Unluck. More people need to see it!

They really tried to hide Bluey, here in Latin America there's tons of advertisement for the series and Disney+ in various pages and social media As a sidenote, Bluey's Neutral Spanish voice actress has voiced plenty of anime characters, which isn't uncommon for Mexican child VAs, and coincidentally she voiced child Yuzuha in Tokyo Revengers S2, which is a Disney+ exclusive

In the very early days of video rental stores (yes, that long ago), this is exactly how they categorized things. I have a very clear memory of walking into a Blockbuster with my friend, looking for something to rent. At that time our local Blockbuster had ALL animated videos grouped together in the “animation” category. My friend and I saw some videos that were clearly Japanese anime but not, like, titles that we had ever heard of before. So we rented them out of curiosity. One of those videos was “Urotsukidoji.”

ah. the intended way to watch made in abyss

This reminds me how i borrowed a vhs of Akira from the library when i was like 6 years old because it was in the kids section

Made in Abyss in kids category...gotta traumatize them early.

Right next to the classics of childrens animation such as Watership down

Originally Moana was going to be 2d animated, but the higher ups decided that 3d was the way to go, fired all the 2d artists, and haven't looked back. I could also see a distrust for the medium of 2d also being a factor along with how they themselves didn't make it.

@@FelicityUwU I think they don't even like 3D animation, new Pixar films are just cash grabs for toys. Star Wars clone wars was stuck in hell until the Sequel bombed hard arse, along with their try hard Star Wars animated series of Rebels and Resistance. (BTW, Star Wars right now is literally carried by Bad Batch, and its animated style; which the upcoming _Tales of the Empire_ series is using...)

@@PrograError Yeesh. When Disney of all people can't do animation, you know something's wrong. Gosh.

They only started advertising bluey when it became a quarter of their watch time. Why they spend millions to license foreign shows and let them rot unless they become too popular to ignore is confounding.

TOH got cancelled because it was attracting “the wrong demographic”. I imagine they choose not to promote anime for the same reason.

Wait, Loser Rangers Go is on Disney Plus and not Hulu? Does it have an English Dub yet?

@@samflood5631 It's Hulu, they've merged. No dub yet.

True

Disney+ doesn't even have an anime tab on the homepage. I can guarantee if it wasn't for MB here, most of us wouldn't even know that they had any anime

american disney plus doesn’t have anime

​​@@wildstehonestly I've been subscribed to Disney+ for years and never even knew anime was on there. I never bothered to look because I thought Disney+Anime,=Fish. So yeah y'all are completely right about this

It really is just a disaster now and with this and people not having sense or not taking things seriously it really is disaster.

Whoa. This sounds absolutely amazing.

thats so cool!!!

Anime worse crimes -Wind Rises to Frozen in Oscar -A Silent Voice didn’t nominate in Oscar and Boss Baby did -Hollywood stoles many of Satoshi Kon’s scenes and put in their films -Summertime Rendering didn’t get promote well and didn’t win anime of the year

If you're in US, it's not on Disney+, it's on Hulu. If you subscribe to both, you can get at some but not all Hulu content from the Disney+ main screen.

Netflix is garbage.

Yeah you have to have Hulu too because it's not actually on Disney+ in the US and there's not enough other stuff on Hulu to justify the extra bills

I really don’t understand why streaming services are making certain shows and movies region locked. I mean, I guess it’s because they don’t think a show or movie would be that big in that region, but this kind of thing feels like it’ll encourage people to either get a VPN or just pirate it

In America the Disney + stuff is usually on Hulu.

Also, like, it's one of two arguably trans anime I know of, and that was pretty mind-blowing.

@@josephbales7021read Welcome back , Alice by Shuzo Oshimi . First and only trans manga I’ve read and it’s amazing

@@josephbales7021 One of two!? Ranma 1/2 Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl A Cheeky Angel Kampher Wandering Son Simoun Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 Chevalier D'Eon Princess Knight Only two of those shows are 'guy turns into girl for ecchi reasons but you're not supposed ot read it as actually trans' shows of which I'm forgetting even more. Not counting 'male soul in female body' mind transfer stuff like Murder Princess or Saga of Tanya the Evil or that Gender fluid fox god show I can't remember the name of or 'one arc cannon fodder tragic villain' stuff like the twins in Black Lagoon.

@@AC-dk4fp Okay, Simoun isn't something I'd count because it's super weird about its gender. But the rest of this . . . Guess I have some shows to watch. Thank you much!

@@josephbales7021 I'm not making promises. Most of those shows are 'prominant characters would be trans/nonbinary if they were real' stuff. But I count them as trans because saying Kashimashi's convenient UFO magic so it can get to the love triangle romance story quicker makes it less of a transgender story than Wandering Son's social realism and high angst doesn't sit right with me and nor does excluding shows important to trans anime fans just because they're at best allegories with a small amount of exploration of dysphoria.

Ik man had to legit tell my irls about it bc they just never heard of it but man was it such a ride from start to finish

Bro that shit was sooo good

He didn’t even highlight the OP, which was fire, just pure vibes

Seeing you pop up gave me some Goddamn whiplash.

@@bilditup1 the ops and Eds were 🔥

I think Disney did, too.

I swear there's gotta be some boomer exec there that specifically dislikes Anime and everything that comes with it - the art style, how it competes with Disney's in-house productions, its sensibilities and older target demographic. They probably put a blanket ban on advertising it at all, concerned that if they DID and some clueless parent put it on for their young children because "it's a cartoon, it's for kids", they'd get hit with massive backlash when little Timmy sees any of the stuff that happens in Summer Time Render, Heavenly Delusion or Undead Unluck.

A month or two back, Disney+ added the Hulu Tab for those who sub through the Hulu Bundle or Hulu/ESPN Bundle. For those that have the bundle, you are able to view Anime on Disney+.

You gotta get an upgrade for it. Its through Hulu.

​@@Gilthwixt1 Ah, the old "Animation is for kids" excuse. Knee-capping the creative arts since... well forever. And also cringe culture as well, but that's a conversation for another day.

I feel that way about Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War. :(

But if they want to attract people, they'd need to know these shows even exist on D+. I can't sub for a show, if i'm unaware of its existence. I wouldn't have subbed for Tokyo Revengers (or any show), but i legit had NO idea it even had more than 1 season. Kinda like they just wanna grab stuff so others can't have it, even if they don't want it themselves.

Same, I had only heard about the game until now.

Never herd of

Same

disney hates anime

OK... that's borderline racist... I mean, does it count as racist?? in any case, it's awful what Disney's doing to great animated shows... likely because they show what their own produced stuff lacks severely

Yeah one of the craziest things about Disney+ Jail is that the JP bros groan just as hard as we do when it's been announced that they picked a series up. I don't think that was ever a thing for its counterpart Netflix Jail which was a thing up until like 2 years ago.

Disney legit thought it would be a great idea to grab anime because it would lead to growth of their service, especially in Japan where they are lagging behind Netflix and Amazon (which is super cheap over there) and most shows get on everything. Oh and thinking that social media metric companies like Parrot Analytics were a great barometer to follow to make such dumb decisions ("anime is big on social media, so if we lock down these shows to our service, then they have no choice but to subscribe to it over our competitors!").

@@TakeMinamoto In the words of Archer, "Jingoist, whatever."

Yeah when I went in to watch Go Go Loser Ranger I was eating and not prepared for them to just start talking without any sort of sub/cc. Caught me off guard too

If you're in the U.S. they might not be. They'd be on Hulu.

Same, Had no clue They were on Hulu. I had boarded my ship and sailed all the way back. Before even noticed, they were on there.

They arnt, in the US at least, I just checked cause i was surprised by the title

​​@@AdamYJAustralia has them though, since we normally get worked over, I assume everyone else has them.

I have Disney Plus and still pirate their stuff because they're the only streaming service that can't get sound working correctly, and it laughably quiet. Netflix, Amazon, Stan, etc... Can get surround sound working, Disney? Nah, it's too hard bro, even though the service has existed for more than 2 years. They had surround sound working briefly for 6 months though. 🤨

I watched the dub this weekend and there’s really only 2 actors that are super rough. It was almost as if it was their first time ever voice acting, because they get noticeably better in the later episodes, lol.

@@XwingInfinity One of them was definitely Ryuunosuke's actor. I'm not too inclined to blame any of the actors individually though with how across the board lines were coming out stilted and bland. I do think Ushio's actress in particular was pretty good! Felt like poor or amateur Directing and it was night and day when I watched the latest season of Jujutsu Kaisen right after and everything from the script to the deliveries were vastly better.

@@00Clank For me, the weakest links were Sou and Mio. As you said, Ushio was the highlight. MILD SPOILERS: For Ryunosuke, they made the very bizzare creative decision to have the actress who played Hizuru also do his voice (even during instances where it makes no sense for him to be using the same voice as Hizuru) and I think she either had terrible direction or just zero experience voicing a male character, because she did excellent as Hizuru.

@@XwingInfinity OH Well that explains it! All her effort was put into doing a young man voice whenever she was playing him in a flashback or his internal dialogue combined with what has to be less than stellar direction because no good director would let some of those line reads through. I had not looked at the cast list to pick up on this, thanks for cluing me in.

Here in Latin America things were very difficult as well, with all of Latin America being a huge region composed from different countries, sometimes some shows were more difficult to access than in others, though one thing we had in common is that there weren't a lot of official anime releases in home video, if you wanted to watch anime legally it had to be shown on television, and the dubbing quality could vary a lot depending in which country it was recorded with Mexico being the place where the best dubs were made, followed by Venezuela, then Chile, Los Ángeles and Argentina, Colombia and Miami made the worst anime dubs though. Nowadays, stremaing has made things much easier and more anime have been dubbed than ever before, though the quality still varies The one thing that also affected us in Latin America were the licenses, Funimation, for example, used to blocked tons of licenses, but nowadays it's HiDive the one who blocks all the anime they acquired. At least now we even have our own anime distribution/dubbing companies, like Anime Onegai

It had both sub and dub on US hulu

Legalese debatable but wcostream is reliable

Yo ho

Imagine how I feel with Disney+ not dubbing Tokyo Revengers. And right at the Tenjiku Arc too, literally the best arc in the series.

@@SarungStreams god, wcostream is nostalgic for me 😌thank you

Yeah, it's a mistake to think that Disney is a single whole acting in a consistent way towards a clear goal. A LOT of weird nonsense in entertainment specifically smacks of some people trying hard to make something work and someone else in the pipeline fucking with them just because.

I see that kemono friends anime as the end result of that mentality.

And you can blame Toei for that. I don't know how/why, but they simply didn't bother licensing it to any western companies outside of a French licensee who has no intention to go any further than a release en France. And considering how infamous Toei is when licensing anything (to wit, we're still getting fucked up released of Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya and their Transformers anime. To say nothing about how they've been treating Digimon or Precure; or any of their older shows like Galaxy Express or Mazinger Z). I cannot for the life of me say this move is shocking in the slightest. If anything it's more surprising when they DON'T screw up a licence.

One of my favorite Toei fuckups is when 4kids just wanted to buy Magical Doreimi but Toei forced them to take One Piece as well

Hell, months before Pluto arrived on Netflix. There was another anime based on Osamu Tezuka's manga called "Phoenix: Eden17". It's a retelling of Tezuka's "Phoenix" that arrived on Hulu/Disney+ with zero advertisement outside Japan. It also doesn't come with an English Dub and is subbed only. If that was on Netflix, then at least Phoenix: Eden 17 would had gotten more awareness.

The fact that so many people won't get to experience a one of a kind masterpiece like Pluto, really does eat away at my soul.

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers is another anime that could had way more attention if was released somewhere else than Netflix.

Which also additionally sucks as I really hoped for Pluto to get some recognition and reignite a spark for a potential 20th Century Boys adaptation. Oh please someone invest in a 20th Century Boys Adaptation. I know it's a large undertaking, but I want it.

Nah, i knew months in advance about it thanks to the app, it even notified me when it came about

God I’ve been waiting on even a murmur on TWST anime.

Honestly...as much as I'd love to blame Disney for that. It's pretty par for the course to see a publishing company for a series announce an Anime adaptation for a work and then sit silent for a few years before mentioning it again. Currently waiting for any additional news on Genshin Impact's Anime Adaptation as well as the Witch Hat Atelier Adaptation announced two years ago.

YES! I love that game! Though I feel the reason why there isn't an anime yet is because of the studio behind it has been busy on other projects/shows. So they will get to it, eventually! But I agree we need an update soon for it!

I find it amusing that Aniplex is disturbing that game and they put up ads for it on there channel!

I've bene playing that, I was originally unintrested in it because I thought it was an Otome game, it's not, it's more like a JRPG/rhythm game

I accidentally found out STR thru RU-vid while it was airing in Japan. I owe this to them and for that and She-Karen I boycotted Dissney for ruining me as both an anime and Marvel fan.

I heard about Summer Time Rendering when it was first coming out and the plot summary sounded great, so I was so excited to see it be simulcasted. And it wasn't licensed anywhere. Then it was confirmed that it would be appearing on Disney+/Hulu, which confused me because the only anime I knew about on D+ was animes using their IP like Stitch or Star Wars Visions. But I thought okay, I'll watch it on Hulu, not my preferred platform but I still want to watch the show. And then I waited... until the next year, and then it had all 26 episodes shat out in the middle of nowhere with zero notice. And an amazing show died on the vine for western audiences.

It's as if they *want* anime fans to sail the high seas.

Something kind of similar happened in Latin America, when Disney began streaming Bleach on Hulu some people discovered that the it also included separate audio tracks and that was a big deal for us in Spanish-speaking America since Bleach's dub stopped around episode 229 back in 2015, but when it was added to Disney Viz finally dubbed all of the remaining episodes, though not all of the original voice actors came back due to the series being dubbed in another studio, with Uryū and Chad being the most prominent from the main cast. Though I cannot blame Disney for it, that was more Viz Media's fault since Bleach's LA Spanish dub was based on the English version, though for TYBW they swtched to use the original Japanese version as a base. Incidentally, just on the 5th of last month all of the Bleach's movies were finally dubbed into Neutral Spanish and added to Apple TV of all places, though it seems the dub was already done a long time ago since Renji's original VA is present in those movies but he sadly passed away on December of last year.

Same with Sweden, they released it 2 months into the cour which was bullshit.

Oh, I said it, and people mocked me. I will genuinely be so pissed if Disney starts buying animation studios and starts monopolizing anime

There's no paranoia with Disney, they are trying to get you.

@@Vivid_Sky23 Now it's your turn to mock them.

Same

I'm so mad, more of the fact that the animes being locked in Disney are actually top-tier and deserve to blow up than anime in general. Why would you take such amazing anime and market it so bad?????

My still shows up but that might be due to my Disney+ subscription plan being the Hulu/ESPN Bundle deal.

I just looked and it wasn’t on mine I was confused because like you said you can still search & find the anime. So it’s like they are hiding it. Also noticed that you need some kind of upgraded subscription to watch any anime

WHAT?! Konosuba’s on Disney+ where you’re from?! I guess the UK version isn’t as lucky 😔

​@@alwaysawesome216 UK has Heavenly Delusion

Hulu has a bunch of stuff from Crunchyroll and Hidive. The only way that collection would be gone is if you didnt have Hulu anymore.

Summertime Render was my coping mechanism after Higurashi Sotsu crashed and burned.

And that's the exact thing I needed to hear to convince me to look into it! Though I like Umineko more, I can't just ignore a call to action like /that/.

@@skeletor8951 Sotsu was such a massive disappointment. I never bothered to finish it. Dropped it when it decided it actually wanted to be Dragon Ball Z. Which is a shame because I thought Gou was a great set up, I loved the art style, I loved the OPs and the EDs, but it was just...bad!

@@jedimasterpickle3Yeah Sotsu was a massive waste of potential when Gou set up what ended up being my favourite villain origin story in fiction, even with Sotsu being pretty bad the motivations of the character and what led them to go down this road was still fascinating to me.

@@skeletor8951 Ironically for me it's going to be filling the hole of 'show I really wish I could have on DVD/Blu Ray but can't because of licencing stupidity' that Higurashi left after it *finally* became available here in the UK in full. *sigh*

Imagine then replying. But, yeah, I hate them for hiding anime.

hulu is more robust on marketing anime in app, you just have to actually watch some on it shit works but if you never go there for it in the first place then how you gonna be surprised that it doesnt generate anime recommendations for you marketing in streaming is actually a very tight budget, the opex is going to always be under scrutiny and you gotta prove its going to make money if your going to spend time on any content not just anime

We all did

The terrible part is that Toriyama outlived the average mangaka by several years. But in the end, he still literally worked himself to death, just like Miura and so many others

​@@LAK_770 he could have walked away, he did for a long time, but passion brought him back doing it full time.

@@Majinhero In a way, that would mean Dragonball Evolution kill him. It was *so bad* that it Toriyama just *had* to make sure that POS wasn't the final DB movie ever made. And then the passion for a series he'd long ago burned out on was reignited.

@@RedXlV i don't know if i should like this or not.

What we really need to do is not pay them in the first place lol

I was so confused about the crap subs on Yuzuki Family, now I know why...

Okay, but how exactly would TYBW bring in new fans and not mostly oldheads? Like, in order to understand what's going on as a new viewer, you now have the homework of reading all of Bleach up through Fullbring. The most it could do to get hype is Twitter clip farming like it's a MAPPA production

@@samt3412 yeah that is a good point but alot of people saw the hype tybw’s first announcement trailer got and started watching the show to get caught up before part 1 aired

@@samt3412 or watch the OG anime, which takes longer but is an option for people who prefer anime. Tbh, a cheap 3 OVA series covering the Substitute Shinigami and Soul Society Arcs, the Aizen arc and the Fullbring Arc might have been a wise investment to onboard new viewers?

Honestly I'm just gonna wait and buy the Blu rays of tybw. There's just something wrong to me with Disney owning anime. Plus it should have been on Toonami (yes I know streaming is were to go for anime know but I still feel they would have treated it better. Also just for the sake of tradition)

@@latrellboddie8906 yeah disney buying bleach hurts so bad knowing it would do way better otherwise disney should stick to remakes of classic movies

Holy shit

Honestly that “speaks (insert language here)” thing is very annoying, like WHY can’t you just TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE?!

Wait but isn't Shogun that show about languange, understanding, and not controlling your own words? I'm afraid that is intentional you know...

I fuckin HAAAAATE it when subtitles are like that HHHHHHRGH

@@essneyallen6777 Except that it's usually just a sigh, or exasperation, or something. It's especially annoying if it's something I understand! When I watch Chinese shows elsewhere, something like "hai-yah" isn't translated, or given a sub placeholder. It's just an expression of frustration or exasperation.

What’s DRM?

​@@kjanaeblue "Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM), such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption."

@@ninryu4 Thank you!

@@kjanaeblue I should note that my problem with it is that it's a privacy risk for browsers, that's why I disabled it. Of course without it CR's player doesn't work. It used to work fine before they switched.

Which VAs are we talking about for the Tokyo Revengers dub?

I know this might sound crazy, but I find positive the fact that Tokyo Revengers is now on Disney+ because they actually improved the voice direction for the Latin American Spanish dub, the first season dub made by Crunchyroll was directed by Héctor Ireta de Alba, who voices Naoto in the series itself, and while he's a good VA he is not very good at voice direction, Tokyo Revenger's S1 Spanish dub had a lot of issues. When the second season arrived on Disney the voice direction was done by Marc Winslow, who also voices Hajime in the show, and he corrected a lot of things and since they also changed recording studios they replaced some of the VAs, but all of the main characters remain the same, but now they sound better. Sadly, they haven't been any news about the dub for season 3

@@samflood5631 definitely zeno, and i know around november/december (iirc) when people were asking him and adam mcarthur (chifuyu) about the dub on twitter they both had to basically tell them "i know as much as you do." i THINK it was aleks le who just took his role off his bio when things were really ambiguous maybe i shouldve phrased this better to specify that i was probably inferring, but imo when several VAs are left shrugging, it doesnt feel like that huge a reach to come to the conclusion that the company, at the very least, just doesnt care.

@@fkwarlock So is that why Synduality Noir might not get an English Dub?

@@samflood5631 i'd imagine!

Here in Latin America the dub only reached episode 12. Say what you want from Netflix, but they almost always upload the anime they acquired on time with both subs and dubs for their original anime, and sometimes for anime they acquired from others

Unfortunately a lot of “fan subs” are just ripped from legal sites. If you go to watch that show (The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons) on most “underground” streamers it still has the AI subs on it, while CR fixed them after people complained

And you got gamergate type fools defending AI subtitling

​@mothersbasement It's depressing to think that their takeaway almost certainly won't be "oh shit maybe we should have professional human translators do this job that fundamentally involves human communication" and will almost certainly be closer to "Well the AI models will improve over time, and until then it's cheaper to bring someone in to fix the occasional flub that people care enough to actually complain about"

​@@mothersbasementyup, this is unfortunately very true. to me this is likely due to a combination of piracy not actually being all that lucrative, the difficulty of constantly keeping all of the new anime updated and "simulcast," as well as apathy from the people running these sites. right now, real grassroots fansubs are only seen in communities of incredibly dedicated fans for anime that aren't being officially subbed anywhere else. not to beyblade in the comments, but as an example, the current season of beyblade (beyblade x) is being subbed exclusively by coordinated groups of fans, and you'll see custom credits in the op naming the participants of this group. it's exciting for a fan like me, but there are countless other anime in a similar boat that don't have these kinds of communities with the time or resources to be able to do these kinds of things, and that's really tragic to me. and honestly, it's anime like those that I have a strong suspicion are most likely to be given the ai subs treatment by crunchyroll. regardless, it's a shit situation that's not going to be fixed exclusively through piracy. there's way more that has to be done for such widespread and systemic issues within the industry to be fixed.

@@sael91 but have you seen the content that "Professional Localizers" have done?

And why is that?

​@@samflood5631It's because they keep on hiding anime.

@@Skyler3253 I was asking about Crunchyroll being being a monopoly.

@@samflood5631 Oh, my mistake.

honestly, makes the 'its jover' fansub of girls band cry look better in comparison.

I don't think Tokyo Revengers popularity went to shit because of Disney, it had more to do with how horrendous the manga ended 😂

i don't know if we can blame disney for that one 💀 that shit fell off because the manga is ASS

Pretty sure the horrible writing killed whatever hype the series had.

There's plenty of other anime shows on Hulu that have both a Japanese subtitles AND closed captions sub, so it's dumb that we are forced to just deal with a CC subtitles. Especially since Disney+ is usually so good with the subtitles even having subs in dozens of languages for some of their bigger series. It just feels insulting that they are doing the bare minimum of work.

@@MFAniki6390 I know, it sucks they do the bare minimum but at least it's the correct bare minimum in English. Look at the other languages for Sandland, it's all subs and no cc which is super shitty. Heck in en there's even an audio description track, idk why every other dub and sub has been let down so much, but it sucks.

I can download anime with subs that i can set up in any way I want with a few keys. Default video players allow you and subbers to customize subs to your liking. Some online players allow part of that functionality as well. And than we have premium AAAA services with funcionality straight out of 90s. Why would I pay them money for a lesser exp?