I've said it many times, if the Japanese just made a Steam dealing exclusively in anime and manga, combined with better AI translations, piracy would clear overnight as well as money would pour in from customers in other countries.
Them using middle men like Crunchyroll is only hurting them.
The problem is, and always has been, that Japanese businesses basically don't care much about their foreign markets. They treat it as throwaway concepts that just give them passive income. The only time they don't is when they've become so Westernized they are barely Japanese anymore (Sony, Sega, Capcom).
Its why everytime a manga company tries to make its "official global platform" is uses retarded ideas like Tokens that the Japs are buckbroken enough to like but causes it to immediately fail everywhere else.
The idea of having to put in effort to get foreign markets, as well as the very thought that everyone isn't exactly like them, will prevent that from ever happening.
Kinda why I still pray for the quake to take Sony management out.
I can't tell if you want a quake to hit Japan or an Escape From LA style scenario to shake California into the Pacific. I've been hoping for the latter for awhile now.
Its why localizers and their other ilk have managed to easily infest every single facet of the industry and flood it with their cancers so unopposed they feel comfortable bragging about it outright.
I don't think its a good thing to let these people have access to your copyright and name stamp period nor let them have their own growing power structure that could threaten your own one day (see, Sony).
Because part of that uncaring is also literally listening to no one either. But since your localizer company is in your company they actually have access to your ear and can influence you. Its isolating yourself to only have a middleman tell you what's going on in the world.
So really, its no defense at all. Its just throwing your hands up and going full isolationist and hoping that they leave you alone while they ruin roughshod through the world.
I've said it many times, if the Japanese just made a Steam dealing exclusively in anime and manga, combined with better AI translations, piracy would clear overnight as well as money would pour in from customers in other countries.
Them using middle men like Crunchyroll is only hurting them.
The problem is, and always has been, that Japanese businesses basically don't care much about their foreign markets. They treat it as throwaway concepts that just give them passive income. The only time they don't is when they've become so Westernized they are barely Japanese anymore (Sony, Sega, Capcom).
Its why everytime a manga company tries to make its "official global platform" is uses retarded ideas like Tokens that the Japs are buckbroken enough to like but causes it to immediately fail everywhere else.
The idea of having to put in effort to get foreign markets, as well as the very thought that everyone isn't exactly like them, will prevent that from ever happening.
It's both an advantage and a limiter that mindset.
Kinda why I still pray for the quake to take Sony management out.
If they could have a few non retarded managers that looked up to Gabe, they could just apply that to Crunchyroll we could solve most of our problems.
I can't tell if you want a quake to hit Japan or an Escape From LA style scenario to shake California into the Pacific. I've been hoping for the latter for awhile now.
The latter, always the latter. Sony have a HQ in California and their decisions have been worse ever since.
Honestly that sounds like a pretty strong defense mechanism against foreign meddling more than anything else.
My hope is that the foreign market collapses itself to the point where we go back to fansubs being the norm.
Its why localizers and their other ilk have managed to easily infest every single facet of the industry and flood it with their cancers so unopposed they feel comfortable bragging about it outright.
I don't think its a good thing to let these people have access to your copyright and name stamp period nor let them have their own growing power structure that could threaten your own one day (see, Sony).
Because part of that uncaring is also literally listening to no one either. But since your localizer company is in your company they actually have access to your ear and can influence you. Its isolating yourself to only have a middleman tell you what's going on in the world.
So really, its no defense at all. Its just throwing your hands up and going full isolationist and hoping that they leave you alone while they ruin roughshod through the world.
CrunchyLoL?
Crunchyroll is a symptom of the larger Sony problem:
Great assests and business placement
Retarded management
I doubt they'll be part of the solution unless ALL their management are swallowed up in the big quake along with the rest of California