They NEED to start selling inhouse and get their own english voice actors to control the dub and subs, there's plenty of foreigners living in Japan with work visas so it should be easy enough. Cut off Funi and all the other western countries.
I'd rather they showed preferential treatment to Sentai instead, provided they can keep from going woke. That's due to them being the bastard offspring of ADV, who did all sorts of things to drop the price to the consumer, while pushing higher quality translations. ADV just happened to die from spending too much on titles that didn't pan out, because Funi kept bidding them up.
There was an subtitled anime streaming service from one of the japanese companies a few years ago. I can't find information anywhere on it, so I assume it failed. Can't even remember it's name.
The Japanese distribution companies should seize the opportunity and try to take over the Western comics market too. Bring on some of the indie creators and directly compete against Diamond.
Japan is slow to change so it'll take a few years for that to happen. Streaming is finally starting to replace cd's for example and they're just NOW figuring out leftist westerners are fucking crazy when we've been dealing with it for 7 years now.
He did more than that. He also uploaded his works onto the internet. A somewhat symbolic gesture since piracy exists and they were already up there anyways, but the originals had much better quality. Because having no copyright at all was better than the legislation they were proposing, dealing with the internet directly a better method of earning money than pleading with the government's IP rules even when you 100% own your own works.
Akamatsu is a treasure who has always stood up for the fans and audiences.
He's also the only content creator I know offhand who managed to completely revolutionize a genre because his publishers were being whiny about wanting more of the same: Negima was made after Love Hina's success, and the publishers demanded another harem romance manga when he wanted to do an action shonen...
He may not have been the first ever, but he was definitely among the first major trend-setters for the "action harem" genre, blending the casual cute fanservice harem with tense tournaments and fight scenes. A genre that is, of course, entirely politically incorrect because when men and women fight... sometimes the women lose. Due to their own failings, even! Not just because the man cheated or something, they just were legitimately inferior! Political correctness states this cannot stand. Women must be perfect. All flaws in them must not actually be in them, but instead external flaws, sourced in men. How can this man just... Make women who can lose sometimes?! He's a menace!
1941 : Japan wants to destroy America.
2021 : Japan is more American than America
They NEED to start selling inhouse and get their own english voice actors to control the dub and subs, there's plenty of foreigners living in Japan with work visas so it should be easy enough. Cut off Funi and all the other western countries.
I'd rather they showed preferential treatment to Sentai instead, provided they can keep from going woke. That's due to them being the bastard offspring of ADV, who did all sorts of things to drop the price to the consumer, while pushing higher quality translations. ADV just happened to die from spending too much on titles that didn't pan out, because Funi kept bidding them up.
That is a tall order for a Western entertainment company in the year of our Lord 2021.
I’d just prefer more (non-woke) dubbing companies to exist in general.
Who knew that Live Action Evangelion was a bad idea? /s
There was an subtitled anime streaming service from one of the japanese companies a few years ago. I can't find information anywhere on it, so I assume it failed. Can't even remember it's name.
Are you sure it wasn't just Sentai's HiDive?
that was it.
The Japanese distribution companies should seize the opportunity and try to take over the Western comics market too. Bring on some of the indie creators and directly compete against Diamond.
Japan is slow to change so it'll take a few years for that to happen. Streaming is finally starting to replace cd's for example and they're just NOW figuring out leftist westerners are fucking crazy when we've been dealing with it for 7 years now.
2012: “Finally comics are being recognized! I will talk about them some more with more people! The future is bright.”
2015: “ Finally video games are being recognized! I will talk about them some more with more people! The future is bright.”
2021: “Finally manga are being recognized! I will talk about them some more with more people! The future is bright.”
Me: Holy crud, we’re stupid. I am not letting you people near my favorite indie comics/games.
Fucking drooling normies. You try to enlighten them, introduce them to a bit of culture, and look at the mess they make. Never again.
Late to the whole gamergate thing huh?
Good to know the big mangaka are aware or becoming aware.
He did more than that. He also uploaded his works onto the internet. A somewhat symbolic gesture since piracy exists and they were already up there anyways, but the originals had much better quality. Because having no copyright at all was better than the legislation they were proposing, dealing with the internet directly a better method of earning money than pleading with the government's IP rules even when you 100% own your own works.
Nice. Those laws are pretty draconian and ineffective at whatever it is they're trying to accomplish.
Akamatsu is a treasure who has always stood up for the fans and audiences.
He's also the only content creator I know offhand who managed to completely revolutionize a genre because his publishers were being whiny about wanting more of the same: Negima was made after Love Hina's success, and the publishers demanded another harem romance manga when he wanted to do an action shonen...
He may not have been the first ever, but he was definitely among the first major trend-setters for the "action harem" genre, blending the casual cute fanservice harem with tense tournaments and fight scenes. A genre that is, of course, entirely politically incorrect because when men and women fight... sometimes the women lose. Due to their own failings, even! Not just because the man cheated or something, they just were legitimately inferior! Political correctness states this cannot stand. Women must be perfect. All flaws in them must not actually be in them, but instead external flaws, sourced in men. How can this man just... Make women who can lose sometimes?! He's a menace!
Love Hina was the first Manga I completed in my collection. Glad to see it was a good investment
It's not market pressure. Don't pretend it is. If you do, they already win.
It's a infinitesimal minority of whining bitches.
I'm still in grief over the Negima abrupt ending.