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♂️Leftist∞ Rants about politics & anime. Jaded & cynical. Passionate manga & anime fan since November 2008. Gamer since January 2002. Alt account: @BigOnAnime94
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Do not follow if:
-You can't handle harsh criticism of the Republican and Democratic parties especially the Democrats as I see them as the party that enables Republicans and is a bigger obstacle to progress as they hide their opposition to things.
I hate both political parties.
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The
@FUNimation
website as of 2:30 AM Central Time now redirects to
@Crunchyroll
. I can now finally make this thread.
RIP FUNimation*
May 9, 1994-April 2, 2024
*The company still exists as Crunchroll, LLC, but the FUNimation branding is officially retired.
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Should be noted, Aniplex Japan blocked FUNimation from renewing the license, so the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series expired on July 31, 2016.
Aniplex Japan blocked every company not named Aniplex USA and Right Stuf from renewing stuff.
classic, important anime are getting harder to watch by the day, and we need to talk about it
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In less than 24 hours, 192 things will no longer be legally streamable as they weren't transferred from
@Funimation
to
@Crunchyroll
. The list was at 184 titles, it actually expanded to 192 in the last week.
Anime fans continue to win & are being put first
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Lupin, or next-gen console? Hmm...🤔
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We now live in a world where
@mediablasters1
will outlive the FUNimation branding. Media Blasters turns 30 in 2027.
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>Tries to read up on Pokemon news
>Sees this
>Sees complaining
Did no one play Pokemon Colosseum or something?
Serebii Update: It is confirmed that there are no actual battles with wild Pokémon in Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
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I've now witnessed yet another name in this industry disappear, and this one meant a lot to me, especially in the past.
I got into anime in November 2008, and quickly came to know FUNimation. This was their logo at the time.
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@UnseenJapanSite
How long until people realize Japan isn't an apolitical waifu wonderland? It's astounding how many conservatives spout the "Japan is apolitical." stuff, especially given the amount of anime with left-leaning views.
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@JordanUhl
I remember years ago when it was assumed everyone with an anime avatar was a right-winger and would be blocked. Now it's all the people with anime avatars are left-wingers and will be blocked. Make up your minds people.
(I'm a leftist, BTW.)
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They need your support now more than ever.
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Holy shit, KissAnime finally got taken down? All is well in the world.
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Their website looked like this at the time.
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Ah, those were the days early in my fandom. FUNimation felt like this very fan-friendly company, and they were at one time my favorite distribution company. I do look at their older releases quite fondly, especially in the graphic design department. I need more of their singles.
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I'm not even 3 minutes into this episode of Fire Force (Episode 12), the OP hasn't played yet, and I feel like hitting something out of frustration. This fucking terribly done fanservice every time... JFC... I still can't believe this is from the creator of Soul Eater.
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As this is doing numbers...
Just to note, *192* different things were not transferred to
@Crunchyroll
, and are now no longer available for legal streaming, it's either discs or the high seas.
Anime fans win, they put fans first!
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If you ever wondered why you can't legally stream say Baccano!, Darker Than Black, or Mardock Scramble, that's why. Aniplex Japan refused to let the licenses be renewed.
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I also remember the wallpapers on their site, so many wallpapers. If only I bothered to save many of them... They removed those from the website around 2017/2018. I did save all of the Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 ones which you can download here.
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I implore you, please buy directly from
@SentaiFilmworks
and
@mediablasters1
whenever possible. They need all the support they can get in these very dark times. They're also run by longtime anime fans with decades of experience.
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@yungRothschild
@korylester27
@antiherenow
Yet the government for decades has been able to cut taxes for wealthy people numerous times (top tax rate used to be 91% on income above $400,000) and increase the military budget (it just went up $80 billion, we spend nearly $1 trillion a year on war).
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@yungRothschild
@korylester27
@antiherenow
"Competing armies" The US beats the 8 below us combined. War=Profit War=Oil Oil=Petrodollar
Also the rich pay the most taxes? They use ways to pay little to no taxes, especially corporations. Amazon paid ZERO dollars in federal taxes, NONE. In fact the government owes them money
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@darlingCorinne
@LemieuxLGM
The rich are hoarding the money, and unions are almost nonexistent in this country thanks to Ronald Reagan busting up unions?
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To conclude these messy thoughts, goodbye FUNimation. You were an integral part of my early anime fandom. No matter how much Sony Pictures tries to scrub the name away & shove Crunchyroll in my face (they ruined that brand name even more than FUNimation), I'll fondly remember it.
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They even would do this with their trailers. You don't see this anymore, and in fact, sometime in 2021 FUNimation dropped trailers entirely. The days of when companies embraced the wackiness of anime and things felt so fan driven. Loved the atmosphere.
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Stuff with the FUNimation name on it now is nostalgic. Anime Source (phased out in 2011), the fill me out cards (phased out in 2014), the old trailers, and "You should be watching."
This is now very nostalgic, one of my favorite company logos of all-time.
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I remember watching those Hey, Nice Package! videos on their YouTube Channel with like
@JustRojas
@lheiskell
even though it would be a good while before I would be able to actually start collecting anime on home video regularly. Here's 1 CR didn't private.
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I witnessed the collapse of ADV Films though it would be years before I understood what happened (got into anime post Sojitz deal collapse), I was crushed by Bandai Entertainment's exit in 2012, but to see FUNimation's branding disappear after being an anime fan for 15 years, ugh
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As time went on, sadly they became more corporate in the mid-2010s, many of the older staff left, and once Sony Pictures bought them in 2017, and then when they were allowed to buy Crunchyroll in 2021 because this country doesn't enforce antitrust, ugh.
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@ramisery
@kalina_chung
@runewake2
@tha_rami
This is how the lazy parasites known as shareholders react to many things. These people are NEVER satisified. EA could make $1 trillion in profit daily and the shareholders would still throw a massive temper tantrum.
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Even this will become nostalgic. I still hate the 2016 logo as it's quite ugly, but the intro is nice. The long version sounds so good on a 5.1 setup.
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@InuyashaSan87
@marinmmillerVO
Quick note, they mispoke, it should be Crunchyroll, not VIZ. VIZ licensed only the manga, Crunchyroll licensed the anime.
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Despite how much the company changed, became suffocatingly corporate, and how much many things frustrated me from 2014-2016 which in hindsight it was stupid to get so upset about, it saddens me to see the FUNimation branding retired.
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@BeeDubsProwl
@CanipaShow
His entire kind does that. The ones that view Japan as an apolitical waifu wonderland where everyone watches anime when your average Japanese person doesn't care.
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@SOAMMS
@OddishHime
Should have used around 10.
Things would have been easier if Jeff Bezos' IMDb hadn't completely ruined BOM. All pages used to have an adjuster and you could very easily see the estimated attendance.
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So Fire Force is indeed being delayed out of respect for the tragic incident that affected Kyoto Animation. Please be understanding about the situation. People need to heal, your anime with flames can wait.
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Also of note...
-TMS Entertainment was blocking companies not named Discotek Media from renewing many of their titles (Ex: This is why FUNi lost Kenichi, why Right Stuf lost Cat's Eye).
-Enoki Films titles have been expiring.
-Many Toho titles have apparently been expiring.
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In 2021, companies not named Aniplex USA were allowed to license Aniplex titles again, but it was only new series for FUNimation and Crunchyroll.
Nothing has happened with catalog titles, so say Ginban Kaleidoscope remains SOL.
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ICYMI, it looks like the days of
@Crunchyroll
properly crediting their English staff on the home video releases of their titles are over. My Dress-Up Darling has hardly any English staff credits to speak of, and they have errors at that.
Unfortunately said credits on the English side are VERY lacking compared to the past few decades of FUNimation releases. The only staff credits you'll see:
They don't even credit
@Gshock99
() on the actual discs for her translation work! WTF
@Crunchyroll
?!
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@darlingCorinne
@LemieuxLGM
That's around when wages flatlined, and they've hardly increased in 35+ years since that happened.
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@GKIDSfilms
Before anyone makes a decision they may regret by selling their DVDs:
EVANGELION PSA: If you care about extras (), easter eggs (), the ADV dub, the Manga dub, &/or the original subtitle script ("It means I love you." "I'm so fucked up."), hang on to your DVDs. There is no guarantee this will hit the BD.
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"But where am I going to watch anime now?" Discs, legal streams, or if you're going to still pirate, learn how to torrent, it's so easy a caveman can do it. The best part? The quality is better, you can pick your subs, there's no ransomware, and nobody is profiting off of them.
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You're old if you remember these logos.
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My
@rightstufanime
order has arrived. GUNBUSTER!!! Thank you so much
@discotekmedia
for rescuing and releasing this. I've wanted an English-friendly release for almost 4 years now as the Bandai Visual USA DVD was hard to get. It's so beautiful!
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Now let's list some things:
Very first FUNimation DVD in collection:
Fullmetal Alchemist: Season 1 (2009 release)
(Early 17th b-day present in 2011)
Very first FUNimation Blu-ray in collection:
Spice & Wolf II
(Bought in 2012)
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Final TV series finished on FUNimationNow: Show By Rock!! Stars!!
Final completed entry to MAL through FUNimationNow: Steins;Gate 23(β)
Final episode watched on FUNimationNow: Plunderer Episode 3
Final anime screenshot from FUNimationNow:
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@abzeronow
@JordanUhl
With a stroke of a pen, Biden can cancel ALL student loan debt, but he won't do it. Why? He's bought and doesn't actually care. He has a long history of screwing people over on student loan debt.
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@Antimony96
@AlexMooreActor
-Baccano!
-Berserk
-Birdy the Mighty: Decode
-Full Moon wo Sagashite
-Guin Saga
-Gunbuster
-Macross
-Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
-Nana
-Persona 4: The Animation
-The Rose of Versailles
-ADV/Manga Evangelion dubs
Those should not be lost to history along with a lot more.
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Dragon Ball Z Walmart exclusive Blu-ray sets confirmed to be the 16:9 discs, shocking. Way too many people assumed they were going to be the 4:3 discs. There was a chance, but it was smaller than it being 16:9.
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@ToeiAnimation
Why are these screencaps not in 4:3 with film grain? That's not how the show premiered.
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Me seeing all these "No Blu-ray, no buy." people for Witch Hunter Robin, an SD show from summer 2002 that has no Blu-ray release in Japan.
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On another note, these continue to be the best release of the series. FUNimation is STILL unable to put together something better than 2003 DVD masters with zero color-correction. That is just embarrassing.
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So much watching stuff on FUNimation...
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I see lots of people still aren't aware of
@Crunchyroll
directly funding anime by being on production committees. I recently started the new Kino's Journey anime and guess what, CR quite literally is on the production committee.....
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10 years ago we lost something very important to the history of the North American anime industry.
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Worth noting, Ginban Kaleidoscope's fansubs are terrible (nearly all 2000s fansubs are atrocious), so that adds to the pain in it being unlicensable.
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Oh my god. Sony wants to push FUNimationNow timed exclusivity on Aniplex titles with this shit? From Magia Record Episode 3 around the 14:30 mark. In order: CR, FUNimationNow, HIDIVE
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This arrived from
@AmiAmi_English
on Tuesday, KDcolle Kurumi Tokisaki 1/2.5 scale with the AmiAmi bonus towel. The long wait for her is finally over. #時崎狂三
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@NorcalOw
@JoshuaPotash
Too bad it's nearly impossible to actually boycott them. Twitter is hosted by AWS, which is where Amazon's profits actually come from, online shopping is a side thing for them. Whenever AWS has an outage, it takes out like half the internet, it's too big to fail.
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EVANGELION PSA: If you care about extras (), easter eggs (), the ADV dub, the Manga dub, &/or the original subtitle script ("It means I love you." "I'm so fucked up."), hang on to your DVDs. There is no guarantee this will hit the BD.
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They've been having difficulty acquiring new titles (new anime almost always makes much more money than older anime) with FUNimation and Crunchyroll getting the lions share of things. This situation will likely get worse thanks to the consolidation.
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Extremely ignorant anime fans: "If Japan translated anime instead of those middle-men, everything would be better."
Toei Animation Japan:
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It caused me to shatter the record for most complete entries in a month.
Most productive month of watching anime in years, and most of this was TV series, not specials.
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@jbak6
@georgialyle
@YungHeeHaw
@Hawkize
@KrangTNelson
They pay state taxes and collect taxes in states with sales taxes now, but federal, they paid nothing.
Last year Amazon's federal income tax rate was zero. That was apparently too much for my Republican colleagues. Under the Trump tax bill, Amazon will get an additional $789 million tax break on the profits they shifted to offshore tax havens.
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Don't tell them about anime licensors getting on production committees where they're quite literally helping fund the production of the show.
It is incredible to me that in the year of our lord 2020 people *still* believe this shit
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@Neolibtears
Yikes. What's the point of corporations paying more in taxes if those tax dollars aren't being spent to benefit poor people?
Also oh my gawd, 1% tax on stock buybacks. Did you kno those used to be illegal and Reagan made them legal again *without* Congress? Biden can undo it now
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@GKalaitza
If anyone needs sources:
This myth it bombed in Japan annoys the crap out of me. It needs to go away.
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.
@SentaiFilmworks
continues to have fantastic graphic designers, so beautiful. I especially love how the Iroduku release turned out. That piece of artwork works a lot better than the key art.
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@Real_Kilometers
@Aurica__
Really tells you how few of people know what torrents are these days if only 40K got it from Nyaa. Most watching it illegally probably watched it on an illegal streaming site in garbage quality with ransomware with rips of the FUNimation simulcast subs (so no Blu-ray version).
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How to legally watch Pretty Cure:
-Garbage streams of S1
-Edited version of a later season on Netflix
-Live in China
-Spend years learning Japanese (a difficult language to become fluent in), import Japanese DVDs and Blu-rays without English subs
We need better than this.
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@OncoMouse37
This happened before FUNimation got bought by Sony Pictures. Some Aniplex Japan titles were allowed to be renewed after FUNimation got bought, namely Guilty Crown and Black Butler: Book of Circus (FUNi lost S1-S2 though, AoA re-released only S1 on Blu-ray).
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@Mendinso
@kimblackproud
And many people unfortunately think many of these people are demanding too much. The people that whine about "PC culture" and "SJWs" are just ugh.
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@SandsShifter
PS Vita is so underrated and unappreciated. And I love the hypocrisy going around.
PS Vita: Nobody wants console-gaming on the go.
Switch: PORT EVERYTHING EVER MADE TO IT!
PS Vita: Why would I buy a dead system?
NES Classic: I NEED IT!!!
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One has to wonder how many anime fans know of the following: ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Central Park Media, Urban Vision, Media Blasters, Sentai Filmworks (yes, many seem to somehow not know of their existence), Discotek Media (they should know about them, they're amazing)
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Congratulations
@discotekmedia
, Berserk is already the top-selling home video release on Amazon, period. It hasn't even been up for 24 hours yet.
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@GiaggiuATT
Wonder what'd they have to say to the chief animation director of One Punch Man who confirmed that show had an average budget.
I got off the "Unlimited Budget Works" train long ago when I learned more, and it's tiring to see so many still on it.
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Oh, BTW, good time to remind people that
@HIDIVEofficial
and
@SentaiFilmworks
exist. They use human translators and they pay them more than
@Crunchyroll
which is looking to replace them all with A.I. so Rahul Purini can buy his 1,000th superyacht. Sentai also credits their staff.
CEO of Crunchyroll is advocating for AI translation. Pretty much to be expected from a soulless businessman, but I have to ask, does this man have even the first clue about what the company he is leading actually does? Because these are some baffling takes
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I can now confirm that
@SentaiFilmworks
's Blu-ray SteelBook re-release of Beyond the Boundary has COMPLETELY replaced Krystal LaPorte's lines in favor of Kira Vincent-Davis who replaced her in the movies. Regardless of how you feel about English dubs, this is NOT okay.
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"Seriously, what is the purpose of physical media when I have Netflix?"
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Hard to believe now that the two oldest still active names in the North American anime industry are now
@AnimEigo
(1988) and
@mediablasters1
(1997).
RightStuf (1987) is gone, FUNimation (1994) rebranded as Crunchyroll, LLC, and VIZ (1986) wasn't always known as VIZ Media.
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@NancyHWeaver1
@mtaibbi
@genofthesea
She changed her tune once she got a job at MSNBC, or the establishment.
Revising my tweet from yday. The great clarion voice in the Democratic Party is Bernie Sanders. And he'll be ignored just like Dean.
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That feel when you're one of only a handful of people to own ALL of the Anime Sols DVDs. Dear Brother Set 3 IIRC was reported to be only 500 units.
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@PDX_Tom
@ASlavitt
@OrrinHatch
Sorry, but he's a lost cause. "We don't have any money." >Gives $1.5 trillion tax cut to the wealthy
"What do you call a Senator who has served for 18 years? You call him home." >Serves for 7 terms (42 years)
Also see:
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@NorcalOw
@JoshuaPotash
Additionally, Prime doesn't turn a profit, and was never intended to as it's meant to be anticompetitive. This will remain the case even after the $20 price increase. We need to use antitrust on Amazon to break it up into thousands of pieces.
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@HerselfHig
Same. My parents badly want Biden, they don't want Bernie. My dad is frustrated I voted for the "communist".
I doubt they'll notice the obvious dementia despite the fact my grandma (dad's side) had Pick's disease and died from it nearly 11 years ago.
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Imagine how less popular KissAnime would be if Daisuki lived up to its full potential and had a larger catalog than Crunchyroll.
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I like how people are still somehow acting like Crunchyroll doesn't have effectively a monopoly on legal anime streaming, and that their biggest competitors are Netflix and Disney, with hardly any mention of HIDIVE which licensed more titles than those two combined last season.
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I once tried to watch a Slam Dunk recap episode that never got fansubbed, and there was a raw upload on YouTube. I later turned on the machine CC to assist as I don't know enough Japanese to watch stuff raw, and oof. This is basically what
@Crunchyroll
wants with AI subtitles.
Crunchyroll Confirms Testing A․I. for Subtitling
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Just want to remind you that there are anime distributors not owned by large conglomerates that you should support, namely
@SentaiFilmworks
,
@mediablasters1
,
@discotekmedia
, and
@rightstufanime
/
@NozomiEnt
. They also care about shows that are more than 5 years old.
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