There's probably some whack-ass reason involving a combination of Japanese IP laws, said Japanese companies not giving a fuck, with the added potential of 'It's free advertising' for said companies.
Japanese companies can do this thing that western companies seem to have forgotten how to do, think about the future. Why sue and get a one time payment, or maybe a small yearly payment, when you can take the deal, and make money from streaming for years and years to come and actually expand the audience paying for your content in an entirely new part of the world?
There's probably some whack-ass reason involving a combination of Japanese IP laws, said Japanese companies not giving a fuck, with the added potential of 'It's free advertising' for said companies.
But I could be completely off.
Japanese companies can do this thing that western companies seem to have forgotten how to do, think about the future. Why sue and get a one time payment, or maybe a small yearly payment, when you can take the deal, and make money from streaming for years and years to come and actually expand the audience paying for your content in an entirely new part of the world?