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so the studio actually explained why it wasn't licensed worldwide. since it's an anime original, with no other media or merch for it, that came beforehand, completely new, it's often seen as a risk by these streaming services since they got no clue if it will be popular. so the studio didn't feel like they could / couldn't charge big numbers for it to companies like Crunchyroll. They also said that since it's an anime original, a season 2 will depend on the merch sales. Who knows, with how popular the show is, they might license it in the future, and will be able to charge more money for it.
Then how every generic low quality Isekai anime gets license over this? Those anime studios aren't big as TOEI but they managed to slip away and got license anyway without merch to back it up. It doesn't make any sense
That doesn't make sense. There are a lot of anime originals out there that gets picked up by shit like crunchyroll and netflix. In the same season, Jellyfish had translation and this season we have Na Nare, both also have translations.
i love that this is the va’s first project because they are real musicians that learned to va for this project, and nina’s va has an incredible voice at 16 🙏
@@zonmbz No, I mean that the kind of raspyness and sassyness portrayed in Subaru's JP VA is more often seen in EN Voices. Raspy voices are not common in JP VA, so having her type of voice is a very welcome one.
@@GaporigoYes but it will be updated on some 🏴☠️ sites incase people want to watch in the future with proper subs Edit: It is also available on Laftel in South Korea
If I can sum this series in one word, it would be raw (literally and figuratively). All these girls are dealing with issues constantly, so it feels cathartic when they release their feelings through music.
It had a pretty bad situation and start this season, but Girls Band Cry managed to achieve the greatness it deserved and its incredible that it was all pulled off by the fans that managed to watch it, as well as the team behind the creation of GBC, and the actual band formed for this anime, TogeToge. They are great VA's. I hope this anime gets more popular later, preferably sooner.
This is the closest we may get to what feels like a ground breaking indie production, get anime of the year award. I saw trailers and I thought, it was just folly. I thought it was a "Bang Dream" discount knock off and just moved on. I didn't give it a chance and I feel like an idiot. It's damn near a masterpiece from every single second and aspect.
There's currently only 3 countries outside of Japan that have the GBC license and one of the Recent countries being Indonesia with Official Toei ENGLISH SUBS. Update: 4 countries now
it's kind of amazing how this year we had 4 anime written by him, all on his own, and 3 out of 4 are well talk in the community. Then next season we get 2 anime and an upcoming movie written by him and only him. How the fuck does this guy gets anything done
It's also worth mentioning that the script and series composition is being done by Jukki Hanada, the same guy behind A Place Further than the Universe, Sound Euphonium, and a decent amount of Love Live.
This type of higher fps 3D anime style has been used quite a bit already in videogame animations. I've noticed this especially in chinese gacha games (for example Arknights, HI3 and PGR cinematics). I honestly always wondered when it would bleed into the Japanese animation industry, and I'm glad to see GBC being one of the first to use it fully. I hope CGI will continue to be used more as an alternative style rather than the "budget saving" CGI dragons/monsters.
TOEI did recently tried new 3D software like Unreal Engine few years ago. I thought it is rumored but thank god the japanese animation industry finally using new 3d software for decades
REALLY?!?!? I thought it was much more band focused than every other band series I've seen, that's one reason I like it. What the fuck is a band focused series to you?
I would have worded it more... diplomatically but yeah. This is much more music anime than most music anime. All it's missing is Rupa complaining about the price of bass guitar strings.
band focused, not music focused. I think that's his point. Most music anime focus heavily on just the band *making or practicing* music in some way and are pretty heavily music focused, rather than just the band *living life like a slice of life centred around band music.* 'Hibike! euphonium' and 'anonymous' noise for example; are both amazing anime but both almost solely focus on aspects related to music or music production/practice. The relationships between characters, for example, rather than focusing on the nuances (the time they spend together completely separate from music and music life) are instead very heavily focused around how it affects the music and performance - to then reflect back on how how it affects the character, rather than the other way around.
As someone who grew up in the age of torrents it has been incredibly disheartening to see so many embrace streaming instead. I can't get too mad about the legal streaming sites, but the illegal ones are terrible. Torrents are about community; streaming is about making money.
Same here, I've been torrenting ever since my friend showed me how in elementary school nearly 20 years ago. For me, consistency, reliability, and ease of use are all reasons why I still prefer torrenting over streaming 95% of the time. It's way easier to choose the exact subs you want and confirm the audio and video quality of the file with torrents compared to trying to find a decent stream mirror on an illegal streaming site. Plus, the benefits of having the actual video file on your device are self-explanatory. Honestly, I have an annual subscription to HiDive, but even then I'll torrent some of the shows in their catalog for better subs and because their mobile app still sucks.
you're so lost. streaming is about letting people access media without the hardware for it. it's why we are streaming full videogames with services like geforce now. because people don't have the pcs to run it, just like not all people 10 years ago had a terabyte hdd to save all their anime on. the illegal streaming sites are better than the legal ones because they typically offer more range, better players, no region lock and no altered products due to cultural sensitivity checks (crunchyroll/funimation is effectively unwatchable because of this). streaming is just the grandson of torrenting and it does the same exact thing just less efficient and more focused on the user experience. (just like all media products today)
Firefox + ublock origin solves the issue for me. But i still torrent more than half the streaming sites out there either use the machine translated version or are just inconsistent on which translation they use. @tinypopura
Now they have official license for 4 countries outside Japan, AFAIK - South Korea - France - Indonesia - Thailand (just announce couple days ago and will release in July)
Also, the CGI direction is one of the best I've seen and really put its strength to great use. Examples are the facial expressions and camera works. It's amazing to see its potential and see how studios experiment with it and actually works.
Worst of all is that the anime IS licenced. In FRANCE. What kind of deal were the French able to accept that American companies couldn't is really beyond comprehension.
its same for Grendizer U. It got Saudi Arabia license on it and has even English subs but its..so bad its MTL teanslated and Mecha fans are now subbing the shows for themselves just like GBC because Crunchyroll or others didn't put it despite Grendizer U and GBC are in Crunchyroll Anime 2024 promotionals
My best guess why no streaming service licensed it is music. Since this is a special case of a real-life band being created with anime from the beginning there has to be some weird licencing wall stopping anyone from picking it up. I may be wrong, it's just my best guess.
@@lrcnapkin Yeah but as far as I'm aware those don't have real-life counterparts of the bands. Sometimes they'll perform in real life but it's not the same as having a full-time band. Maybe I'm wrong about my assumptions.
@micryt. definitely not, Toei was the one who formed the band specifically for the anime, so there is no special licensing that would cause the problem
Thank you for talking about this show. It's spectacular. The direction is just incredible and every time Black and Red particles come off the MC I start to well up. I mean i haven't seen it... but also SobsPlease is doing such a great job.
There is a petition "Urge Streamers to license 2024 Anime 'Girls Band Cry' " for asking toei to license girls band cry on Crunchyroll, guys please sign for it, we should let this good anime be know by the world
Nah cuz why does the series actually live up to its name??? Like every episode finds me either about to cry or already there-and you’re right about the performances being visceral like every episode I watch made me fall in love with music (and especially rock) that much more
I can't help but feel this is Toei's fault somehow, they have the trailer on their official English channel with a release date for "soon". So they know something
Thank you for recommending this show! It slipped under my radar. When you said it was directed by the director of LL Sunshine, one of my favorite anime of all time, I was even more hyped. Keep up the good work!
After being unable to stream this show and everything they’re currently doing with the Precure franchise, I can safely describe Toei Animation using these words from John Oliver: They are run by clowns, Who are supervised by monkeys, Who report to caffeinated toddlers, Who are overseen by a bunch of fluffy puppies, Who are monitored by a wasted bachelorette party, Who’s boss is just a large, inflatable tube-man!
funny story, GBC also has a promotion for Blu-ray bundles in Chinese on their official youtube channel But there's no release in any Mandarin-speaking country and all the ppl just got confused and begged in the comment section for the release of the anime I mean wtf is going on in Toeia
Sobplease does an amazing job on the music scenes. They stylized their subs that complement the music segments so well that I thought they were from the official GBC channel
Could not agree more with this. CR and TA have got to be puking buckets after not picking it up from day one. The sheer meme potential this series has had over its run time and the strength of its small but dedicated fanbase is testament to its marketing quality as well. Such a genuinely fantastic show that I'm glad is still getting traction, but its a real shame its not getting the spotlight it truly deserves. Awesome work as always! Solid script writing and solid editing to back it up. You and OtakuBox are a dangerously great pair 🙏🙏
Toei will soon realize that they have lost a lot of money over the piracy of this anime for refusing to give people outside of covered countries legal option to view it. Blue Archive finally got the legal viewing treatment, but GBC, just why?
I mean I thought the CGI also looked different than all other CG anime's you put on screen, the difference was I thought that was a good thing because those series you put up kinda looked like shit.
I just watch it.....12 episodes in......desperate for ep 13 now......and Rupa is best girl.....and so Momo....Nina.....Subaru.....Tomo.....goddamn I love them all.
My next goal at an anime convention is to go to a crunchyroll (or any streaming service) panel and ask their staff why this wasn't licensed. Then sit back and enjoy the mental gymnastics.
I mean, they're not going to say "Toei asked for more than we thought the license was worth/Toei has someone incompetent handling international licensing for this show who wasn't very communicative with us" that's not really how public facing communication works lol
There has petition for asking to license on crunchroll, but the sign is still low, if can get it higher i think will be more convincing, i think you can use this petition for asking
It's most likely an issue to with the music rights. Japanese labels may be lax on what you can sing on a karaoke stream, but they're as ruthless as American labels, capitalism and all.
I swear to god you don't fail to absolutely nail it with these videos, really appreciate the effort that goes into this stuff. Also it's good to see another who's awaited Girls Band Cry from the beginning, next up for me is that damn Pole Princess movie which I NEED to get my hands on ideally sooner rather than later.
@@MoxxieIsBestBoy okay so I've watched both series and wouldn't say one is better than the other. I would say if you love Bocchi you will also love GBC
I never really think Orange studio CG is... lets say to my liking (I dare say it's overrated, but that's just me), but GBC totally retains that classic exaggerated expressiveness one comes to expect when watching anime; all the deformation and imperfection that you subconsciously recognize and one will be weirded out when it's gone or neutered in a typical CG anime. This might be as close as we can realistically get for a TV production to ArcSys' signature 2.5D CG fighting game animations.
This is honestly much better. I'd take fansub translations any day over the trash "official localizations" we've been getting in recent years. Also remember: the main way these anime companies make money is BD sales and merchansiding. All you're doing with a streaming subscription is giving money to that streaming service.
The director who directed LL Sunshine did an amazing job on GBC ngl, just marvelous, the songs, the story, the emotions of the characters, and also, the 3D CGI. After the huge debacle of LL Superstar 2nd season I was shocked when I saw such an amazing masterpiece, GBC, was directed by him lol
YO. When I looked up the main cast and saw that this was all of their first jobs, I was blown away! It's perfect to cast newbies in this kind of show. Love it.
Amazon has the best cartoon selection now. Invincible, x men 97 and girls band cry. Amazon might be the cartoon collector goat. Sad but Toei is no longer the king of cartoons
I was pretty sure of my choice for anime of the year. After watching this anime, I am not so sure. About Nina being bipolar, I am pretty sure that Tomo is autistic too.
curious to see if there are more overseas fans who see this show as "yuri romance" than "music anime" the discord for this anime is basically yuri leaning and they are spreading it around that this anime is yuri romance which turns off some people but for the record i 100% think this is music anime (duh) LOL its just so weird to see people ignore that aspect in place of sexuality.
Yuri fans....they will take anything and claim it as a yuri anime even if it's not about romance. It's pretty sad their only takeaway is "wow guys this show is so gay right? Lesbians"
Yuri fans are straight up annoying. They will immediately ship female characters when they have a slight bond with each other. Look at the Lycoris Recoil fanbase lol
CHALLENGED ACCEPTED! *Goes to look for the anime* ... wait, did I get tricked into watching it? GENIUS ADVERTISEMENT! Seriously though.... sail the seas, and find what you want to find~. Nothing is impossible, when you make your mind~.
my only problem with CG is when they mix 2D and CG & they don't match the CG to the 2D art. I'm fine with it as long as there's no jarring art style changes mid-scene. an All CG anime with fully smooth animations sounds awesome!
5:30 okok hold up there pal, As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll use my (take some air*) appraisal skill to rise in the world IS somewhat good, it's your good avg anime with no "masterpiece" animation but "good enough" to just kill sometime, so don't trash to ma boy there xD
MuseAsia or any other Legit animeYT channel should license this and post it in YT, just seeing the demand here in YT should give them an idea that it is a hit.
On one hand, yeah, "Girls Band Cry" is pretty good. It's a shame it wasn't picked up due to the risks involved but it manages to stick the landing fairly well so it's bound to get picked up sooner or latter. If nothing else, it's yet another example of good CGI to point towards (the expressive style really reminds me of the CGI in "Etotama"). But on the other, you subtly threw other series under the bus to prop it up and I can't stand for that.
What exactly does anime feel like? I mean, nothing else looks like One Piece or the Flowers of Evil or Nichijou and they're all anime. I think "not feeling like anime" is a plus, not a minus. Anime should be on the cutting edge and sometimes, often even, take risks and be experimental and even fail miserably. Some of the best times I've ever had watching anime was when it didn't "feel like anime".
GenZ complains are in next level of ignorance. I am a Chinese who grow up watching Japanese anime with machine-translated and worse-than-machine-translated subtitles. Now I can understand academic level Japanese in full sentence without any Japanese training in my life. It is not hard at all...anime japanese are often very repeative. Machine translated subtitles are enough to let you pickup what they said. Not to mention machine translation these days are much better...at least they dont makeup lines like the "official" subtitle do.
TOEI did recently tried new 3D software like Unreal Engine few years ago. I thought it is rumored but thank god the japanese animation industry finally using new 3d software for decades. This is reason why some ugly 3d designs were used from the old 3d software
the story synopsis mirroring the real world release is like watching a faqing fairy tale unfold before your eyes. The uphill battle to promote 3D style anime weighed down by bad predecessors, girls“idol” anime, original music and a story with soul? Here’s to hoping for a quick rise to success 🍻 the sooner it becomes popular the more the original cast and creators can be preserved
You went too strong on the guy! Machine translation is just fine... Just listen to the japanese tone and do your own real-time translation of the translation, and everything starts making sense 👍
I'm 54 years old and have been watching anime most of my life, this show is the first anime I have purchased the soundtrack CD (Togenashi Togeari) for ever. The show is incredible and the TogeToge album is even better. Every day this show languishes without someone brining it across to the regions unaware of its' brilliance is just a damn shame.
@@videotroll72 Just making an ironic observation. That said, I do feel like this would be a small liscensing team's change to edge into the Anime distribution game. Maybe give it a cool dub, budget pending.
Same. I'm watching 6 anime this season, one of which is Girls Band Cry which isn't available in most of the world, and another 2 are on Hidive which also isn't available in most of the world. Only 2 of them are on Crunchyroll, and the final one is on Netflix (though I don't have Netflix so I'm pirating that one too).
@@ilyanahm9569 Are they the exact same anime, by any chance? 😛 Mine are Jellyfish, Whisper me a Love Song, Voice Actor Radio, Train to the End of the World, Dungeon Meshi, and GBC.
@@elifia Oh wow, yes they are. I mostly watch yuri, so I thought all those had potential. Well, except for Dungeon Meshi which I just thought looked very fun... Only to be pleasantly surprised by certain events.
@@ilyanahm9569 Yeah, I was aware Whisper me a Love Song and Voice Actor Radio were supposed to be yuri. All the other ones were a pleasant surprise for me. Only Train to the End of the World hasn't included any obvious yuri yet, but it did do the yuri pose in the OP and there's still one episode left, so fingers crossed!
Honestly, I am thankful that a real fansub group is taking care of this, and not Crunchyroll. I prefer good subtitles to speed, always, and without fan subs most releases are just in a sad state in this streaming epoch. No subbeed OPs and EDs, on-screen text mostly untranslated, no TL notes, no nothing. And that is even if translation itself is decent. As a long-time anime fan I'm sick of this. Fansubs were better by a long margin instead of what we have right now as a standard. So, good thing for Girls Band Cry.
I understand enough Japanese where I don't need the subtitles a lot of the time so it really drives me insane when I see the subs be so wrong on the most straightforward things they are saying.
