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This Week in Anime - What Do You Do When Your Fav Anime Isn't Simulcast?

Aside from the standard "contracts and rights can be weird sometimes," I think we're dealing with the two facts that anime has never been bigger and anime in the US has never been more monopolized. Yes, there are multiple streaming options for anime, but the ones that the market associate with anime are Crunchyroll and HIDIVE and they are not on the same level as each other. So Japanese companies with perhaps an overinflated view of their product (for once) ask for too much and Sony counters with offering too little, and the gap is too big to reconcile.

(Mermaid Melody didn’t get picked up for an English dub airing because they couldn’t get a merch deal I believe).

Aside from the standard "contracts and rights can be weird sometimes," I think we're dealing with the two facts that anime has never been bigger and anime in the US has never been more monopolized. Yes, there are multiple streaming options for anime, but the ones that the market associate with anime are Crunchyroll and HIDIVE and they are not on the same level as each other.

I have a better question: what if the anime you like is licensed "worldwide" by a platform who doesn't think the world exists beyond the US?
For example, Mission Yozakura Family is in Disney+… in some countries, apparently.

licensors not wanting to license a kids anime in subs given that the target audience may not be old enough to read subs and some of these anime are meant to sell toys and they may not want to make toys and release an anime

Those English logos came from Toei Japan and were also used in other countries who had the series like Italy when they had their dub airing on TV pre-Glitter Force.

Saban licensed Smile and Doki Doki as a package deal of 50 episodes hence why they skipped and combined half of Doki Doki because they could only dub 50 episodes total of both shows.

Multiple companies tried to release Sailor Stars sub only like Pioneer and ADV but Toei wouldn't let anyone have it It's well known among the anime industry that Sailor Stars was highly sought after back in the original run of the show so it's certainly not because of a lack of interest from the NA side that it didn't happen.

kgw wrote:

I have a better question: what if the anime you like is licensed "worldwide" by a platform who doesn't think the world exists beyond the US? For example, Mission Yozakura Family is in Disney+… in some countries, apparently.

Well that one's a lot easier these days, just get a VPN (of which there are dozens, like half the Youtube videos I watch have sponsor plugs for some VPN service or another) and make it say you're from the company where it is streaming. I mean, you'll still have to have the streaming service in question plus the VPN so it's pricey, but it's the best legal option you've got since physical releases are basically dead nowadays.

Wasn't it given a subbed release? I remember seeing Stars with yellow subs, but I don't know if it was a legit release or not.

But needing to sus out decent subs and then torrent them (something I have on good authority a lot of the younger fans these days aren't as practiced in)

Back in 2004, in the pre-Web 2.0 era, research indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all Internet traffic. At the time, file-sharing via peer-to-peer networks was the main traffic driver as no other services consumed large amounts of bandwidth.

Video Streaming Killed the Torrent Star

Fast-forward two decades and these statistics are ancient history. With the growth of video streaming, including services such as YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok, file-sharing traffic is nothing more than a drop in today’s data pool.

Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was. Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

Well, they also have Hulu, Disney+, and Netflix for the American audiences in terms of the official big platforms. However, you are correct market association with CR and HIDIVE.

The data shows that for Gen Z and Millennials, who both by far made up the majority of anime viewers, Crunchyroll came in fourth behind Amazon Prime Video and Hulu. As Crunchyroll is one of the few dedicated anime streaming services on the list, it suggests that the influence of other forms of media, such as live-action, plays a huge factor in where people watch their anime. As Polygon also reveals, when limited to specifically Gen Z viewing habits, Crunchyroll rose to second (58%) behind Netflix (76%).

Murder, She wrote:

But needing to sus out decent subs and then torrent them (something I have on good authority a lot of the younger fans these days aren't as practiced in)

"BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic"

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Back in 2004, in the pre-Web 2.0 era, research indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all Internet traffic. At the time, file-sharing via peer-to-peer networks was the main traffic driver as no other services consumed large amounts of bandwidth. Video Streaming Killed the Torrent Star Fast-forward two decades and these statistics are ancient history. With the growth of video streaming, including services such as YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok, file-sharing traffic is nothing more than a drop in today’s data pool. Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was. Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

Kadmos1 wrote:

Well, they also have Hulu, Disney+, and Netflix for the American audiences in terms of the official big platforms. However, you are correct market association with CR and HIDIVE.

"Most Popular U.S. Anime Streaming Services Surprises in Massive New Poll"

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The data shows that for Gen Z and Millennials, who both by far made up the majority of anime viewers, Crunchyroll came in fourth behind Amazon Prime Video and Hulu. As Crunchyroll is one of the few dedicated anime streaming services on the list, it suggests that the influence of other forms of media, such as live-action, plays a huge factor in where people watch their anime. As Polygon also reveals, when limited to specifically Gen Z viewing habits, Crunchyroll rose to second (58%) behind Netflix (76%).

Fernandez surveyed over 4,000 Americans

Wasn't it given a subbed release? I remember seeing Stars with yellow subs, but I don't know if it was a legit release or not.

And if true, why bar Stars from the English market when other countries were allowed to dub it?