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Supporting the Anime Industry
brunoais:
In my case, I prefer to support the japanese, also.
I watch anime in Crunchyroll when I like it (even though, only a rare supply of the ones I like are available on my country and on Crunchyroll)
Sometimes, when I reeeally like an anime, I buy the DVD (BD's are too %"$%#@£$&$% expensive) and then order it to a fake address. (Google translator really a good friend here!) I order to inside jp, just because it's cheeper and I'm not sending money to other useless stuff outside the actual anime industry.
I also don't want that DVD at all. I have no use for it, so I don't care if they get the DVD back because the address does not exist.
I don't do this much, though as I don't have much money. But I really want to do this for anime that I particularely like.
An anime that stands out from the others I had seen (the winner, for now, is comedy!).
I have some reservations about streaming websites... yet... this seems to be the best option to keep ths "engine" running. Even though fansubs are are huge competitor of "official" subs. Not only because they are free, they are better and the include useful translator notes which official ones do not have.
ConsiderPhlebas:
I wouldn't mind paying for CR even if I still'd watch the fansubs, but as long as even some of the commercials show up as "this is blocked in your country", no way. If they want to sell their stuff, they'll have to get their act together and realize the world has changed. This, along with DVD and BD region coding is stupid and must go away before I take them seriously.
EmptyMemory:
I think for me, it's also a matter of supporting the shows I like. As of right now, I'm supporting all shows equally (i.e. not at all). While I want to encourage the creation of the types of anime I enjoy, monetarily, I'm encouraging the types of anime I don't care for just as much.
Take for example the not-so-mystery that is the rising popularity of moe/ecchi/loli/cheap slice-of-life/school-life romance bullshit. Regardless of whether we think a majority of what is popular among the Japanese otaku is crap, the fact of the matter is, it's still being made. It's still being made because, as Ozzaharwood has suggested to me, the merchandise for those types of anime are bought more frequently.
While supporting the anime industry as a whole is a cool idea, I think notion of supporting the shows you actually enjoy is a much more important matter. If you as an individual want to tell the anime industry to keep making shit that you don't think sucks, then we should be throwing money at the shows we approve of. And while all of what I'm saying sounds super obvious, I think I can make an educated guess here in saying most of us don't do our part in compensating the creators of the shows we've actually come to enjoy.
But, I also appreciate why we don't.
--- Quote from: Ozzaharwood on May 17, 2013, 07:38:22 PM ---I think if the anime industry doesn't care enough about us to try and get the anime into American markets with subtitles, then why should we care about supporting them? Without fansubs, most of us wouldn't be watching anime anyway, because we wouldn't understand it unless we understood Japanese.
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All in all, it makes me sad that I don't have an effective way to show the creators of the shows I enjoy that I value their work. And while I do have the option to do as brunoais has done, I'm not going to do so because I also value the roof over my head and the food on my plate that I enjoy while I'm watching my damn free fansubbed anime.
Xycolian2332:
There's going to be a better way to support the anime industry through streaming soon:
www.animenewsnetwor k.com/news/2013-02-26/nikkei/adk-toei-aniplex-sunrise-tms-nas-dentsu-to-stream-anime-overseas
revo:
I care about quality
I have Nausicaa from US (disney)
Evangelion 1,2 from US (funi)
RedLine from UK (manga)
Arrietty from UK (studiocanal )
... and few more
They ALL suck compared to Japanese release
That is why I'm not supporting them anymore
Blurays from Japan are too expensive for me :\
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