/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

4kidz, obviously. I will never 4give them for not dubbing seasons 3 and 4 of Sonic X as a kid

>>42255

Don't forget NISA having an anime division.

Funimation and Crunchyroll are probably the worst of the bunch, followed by NISA, Netflix, and Amazon. Sentai seems okay but I'm sure they do shitty things as well. I haven't bought anime since the VHS era anyway, I usually just buy figures and merch.

Honestly even the old companies were fairly terrible. I remember when ADV dominated the industry and they used the cheapest possible VHS tapes on earth while having the balls to charge $30 for a tape with two fucking episodes. $35 if you wanted subs instead of dubs. I ended up watching tons of dubs as a kid because anime was expensive as fuck and most store selections were 90% dubs anyway. Mail order fansubs were the only good thing back then, but you could only find them in fanzines and at cons (when cons were actually good and not the weeb version of Comic-con).

>>42276

>You can tell Funimation

I assume you've been under a fucking rock since Funi has had assholes change dubs to fit in Sex shaming, feminist shit to name some along with the shit they've pulled with DVD box sets.

>>42274

If we are including Netflix and Amazon into the mix then they are by far the worst. Prime TV is a myth and there is maybe 5 anime on there worth watching, all of which is not even the original japanese audio (they make you pay for that).

Netflix hasn't updated their selection in years and basically just pays for whatever garbage Trigger decides to shove out of its colon.

>>42286

I know about that, I remember the gamergate line in Prison School and the feminist shit in Maid Dragon, I'm just saying it's interesting to see how fucked up their hiring practices are as well. It's like no one at any level knows what they fuck they are doing there.

It also explains a lot about how things turned out the way they did.

>>42287

Amazon also pisses me off for the retarded disclaimer that takes up the entire screen at the beginning of every show to remind you a fucking cartoon doesn't have real people in it.

Netflix is sketchy for trying to manipulate the Japanese end of the anime industry by dumping money into it to produce garbage shows. Nothing good can come of kike money going into the anime industry.

>>42255

Another thing to consider, not just the state of official dubs/translation scripts, but also release formats. While shit could be really bad in the past (IE: $30+ for single volumes of 3-6 episodes with DVDs during the early/mid 2000s), it's worth considering how despite advancements in format and disc space, you still get companies doing initial runs as as least two half season sets if the work is above 12 or 13 episodes, rather than simply doing the single compilation release at a halfway reasonable price after it's fully done, which only might be done down the line if it gets cleared for a second run. And Funi in particular still seems to like to dabble with a "so nice, we jew you twice" mindset, even if not as prone to the old 3-6 episode style (or worse; saw a set of Gundam Wing recently at a store that was 25 episodes over ten volumes). I remember when Space Dandy was airing, and it was stated to be a single season, two cour work. Well, Funi apparently took that as license to call it "two seasons", which from what I can see most "resources" repeat now, and used as justification to sell as a two volume set, at least for the DVDs if not the Blurays as well. 24 episodes is not that hard to fit into a 4/5 disc singular volume, which could be attested to by some of their reprints of other series they picked up like vultures and reprinted, so it just feels greedy on their part. Point being I'd have thought we were past "space restrictions" by now (DVD-5 to DVD-9 to Bluray), but anime still has to get fleeced here as separate volumes even for a single season when a single volume set should suffice, and when most western TV shows will just go the seasonal set route in comparison.

Of course, I'm not sure of how bad the state of things are in Japan on that end. For instance, I do remember Baccano being an eight volume release there from what I've seen (two episodes per volume) compared to four volumes (four episodes per volume) out here, but I'm not sure how their launch prices compared to Funi asking $30 per volume ($7.5 per episode, pretty much the cost of a movie ticket per twenty minutes or so).

I wonder what will happen to these kind of companies now that normalfags are moving to streaming sites like Crunchyroll en masse. Is there a chance that buying physical copies of anime will eventually become a niche thing and that companies who do actually care about the product release them in the west?

>>42292

amazon began prohibiting holocaust revisionist material from being sold on their site, and now has stated that they're going to ban any pro-NS material in general. don't support them, at all. find other retailers if you need to buy stuff, pirate if you need the anime.

>>42316

What really irks me are politically correct “revisions” of authors work especially if they get translated. Ernst Jungers Storm of Steel for instance was edited to remove large details of gore to make it more suitable for sales. And there is the obvious and glaring example of the book Ten Little Niggers which was revised multiple times. I felt offended after I learned of the true title because I would not have read any book that so much as mentioned negros in passing much less the title

What >>42292 concerns me too, how long until we see mandatory diversity quotas in our animu. We already see them do this for sales, I’m sure some have already jumped the shark to appeal to the lowest denominator. Reddit eats this shit up. Any Mary Sue with a hair color / eye combination gets a legion of pornography produced for free that just contributed to the smuttification of all animation.

>>42319

>removing gore from a book

What kind of pussy do you need to be to be that offended/disturbed by words?

>>42319

Both LWA's TV series and Devilman: Crybaby had heavy SJWs undertones, especially the latter so it's already happening. Crybaby barely felt like an adaption of the Devilman manga and more of an excuse to use an already existing famous title to push leftist politics into anime.

I wonder if Go Nagai even knew what he had agreed to when he let them use his work for something like that.

>>42326

Devilman Crybaby:

>uncomfortably long gay sex scene which wasn't in the manga as far as I know

>le Drumpf and Russia declare a nuclear war meme

>conflicts mainly revolve around muh racism/muh discrimination

>Akira's parents are Christian foreigners for some reason

Little Witch Academia's second half revolved around a pseudo-nationalist conflict between the supporters of two different sport teams because they were mad they lost. Even though the first two OVAs were mostly innocent fun where the conflicts were quickly resolved.

Surprised no one mentioned Viz, particularly their absolutely scumbag release of Sailor Moon on bluray. On top of the discs being upscales (bad ones, with massive amounts of DNR) they straight up lied about them being upscaled and completely fucked the first DVD release by pillerboxing the video, making the discs play in a postage stamp sized image if you watched them on 4:3. Best part: they completely refused to replace the DVDs even after the issue brought up even industry cucks like ANN.

>>42274

Sentai (aka ADV) had absolutely shit encoded and even glitched blurays for years.

>>42328

Don't forget that blatant as fuck anti-gun rap in episode 7.

>>42297

>24 episodes is not that hard to fit into a 4/5 disc singular volume,

The encoding quality would look like shit at four discs.

>I'd have thought we were past "space restrictions" by now (DVD-5 to DVD-9 to Bluray), but anime still has to get

It's not always a matter of space restrictions, it's also a matter of the spec of DVD, which uses 20+ old MPEG2 specifications that don't allow for a lot of wiggle room as far as putting shit tons of content on a disc.

Funimation is a shit company (and even many former employees can testify to that, as Glassdoor has shown), but I don't think you know how DVD/bluray authoring works.

> I'm not sure of how bad the state of things are in Japan on that end. For instance, I do remember Baccano being an eight volume release there from what I've seen (two episodes per volume) compared to four volumes (four episodes per volume) out here, but I'm not sure how their launch prices compared to Funi asking $30 per volume ($7.5 per episode, pretty much the cost of a movie ticket per twenty minutes or so).

You clearly have never looked at the average price of a Japanese physical media. You must be new.

>>42354

>Viz,

Jesus fuck I could write a novel on their brand of BS.

>>42328

Nah dude you missed the point of Crybaby. It’s a subversion deconstruction of the shonen genre. It uses post-irony. How did you miss this? ’’devil’’ and ’’crybaby’’ it’s just like the Hegelian dialectics that I learned about in my professor Blattstein’s sociology class.

Im sorry for this abortion of a shitpost

I can't help but saying "holy crap" after reading this thread; it's like every well-known anime licensing company is scum. Might as well look for the ones that aren't scum by anons' standards.

>>42361

I sometimes fantasise about starting a licensing company in my own country and mainly focusing on more obscure works but I can't imagine what kind of financial and legal bullshit you have to get through to get there. Still, it's a bit strange that all of these companies are run by people who seemingly despise anime. Even videogames have companies like GOG who seem to care about their products yet there have been no western otakus who attempted the same with anime even though it has had a presence in the west for decades now.

>>42369

>Even videogames have companies like GOG who seem to care about their products

I take it you're unfamiliar with them capitulating to Resetera.

>no western otakus who attempted the same with anime even though it has had a presence in the west for decades now.

Read about companies like Star Anime and Anime Crash, companies formed by otaku who had no idea how to run a business. There was also Crimson Star Media that was started up by some guy to license some OVA so he could dub it himself, then it shut down because said guy went to jail for CP possession.

>>42385

>guy went to jail for CP possession.

Not this shit again.

Was the case like Mad Thad where he got arrested for storing "CP" porn of his perky waifu?

>>42386

No one knows exactly, other than he went to jail for violating his parole by going to a con, which put him in the vicinity of minors. Look up Corey Maddox

>>42325

I always felt that crybaby was way too modernized, and I couldn’t get into that installment because of some of the bullshit that happened throughout the show like the animation i get that’s the guy’s trademark style, but it doesn’t feel right for a devilman setting and miki being an absolute dumbfuck that got herself doxxed.

>>42274

ADV was also infamous for fucking over its business partners. I don't know the details, but it's one of the reasons studios stopped giving ADV licenses.

Speaking of licenses, another reason ADV failed so hard was because it would buy up a metric shitton of licenses that it didn't have the time or manpower to release, but they would announce the series as picked up the instant they got the license. The result was that people waited years for things like the Slayers OVAs. The icing on the cake: ADV would give no notification when they finally did release a long awaited show, so the handful of people who knew it was out just didn't care anymore.

>>42478

What did ADV in was their deal with Sojitz that led to them licensing a bunch of shows for an inflated price that had no chance of turning a profit in the US. They accumulated so much debt that they siphoned it off to Funimation with the promise to pay it off. Supposedly they're still waiting for the payment, I do know Funi sued them.

It should be noted that Sentai Filmworks is still ADV by a new name. They just used a bunch of yax code shenanigans to avert bankruptcy and restructure under a new name.

>The icing on the cake: ADV would give no notification when they finally did release a long awaited show, so the handful of people who knew it was out just didn't care anymore.

Don't forget in 2007 when dozens of entries for shows on their website disappeared and they played it off as a glitch. Obviously they were going tits up by then and tried sweep their implosion under the rug.

>>42317

>are fucking kikes who still don't help them just hear what the lead of crybaby said.

Do you have a source? That sounds like a very interesting read.

On a side note has anyone heard anything shitty about Discotek? I know they took forever to release the second Urusei Yatsura movie after announcing it, but that's the only shady activity I've personally seen from them.

>>42628

>make a completely innacurate Commie-tier meme dub while claiming to western fans that it sucked in Japan so there was no other choice while probably lying to their teeth to the Japs about how they are going to make a proper localisation for their show

What a bunch of fucking kikes. Granted, I think the Ghost Stories dub is pretty funny but that doesn't change the fact that they just turned someone's hard work into a joke that has nothing to do with the original script. That's especially frustating because I feel like Ghost Stories could actually have been popular with a young audience in the west, especially because I could see myself having fun watching it if I was still in elementary school.

Why the hell do the Japs let these people fuck up their art that cost so much to make?

>>42581

The only thing shitty about Discotek are some of the people who work freelance on their releases are full blown socjus cucks. For example:

>their main bluray encoder and compressor, also founder of ANN

https://mobile.twitter.com/worldofcrap

>narrator for some extra features on releases and liner notes

https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelToole?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

>guy who cuts trailers for their releases and does postproduction work for some of their discs. Also works for CNN

https://mobile.twitter.com/ArguingMeadows

>>42656

>Ties to ANN and CNN

So they combined the cancer of both 2D and 3D news?

>>42656

The fact that those clowns are freelancers is a relief; anyone can be hired to encode so the first ann is no person of importance to the company, and none of the people listed appear to have any influence on the company's direction–hell, bringing over Miss Machiko is enough to piss off the landwhales at ann. If this is the worst aspect of Discotek I can breath a little easier.

>Narrator for extra features and liner note writer

<mike toole

<tool

<t o o l e

Some fuckers just seem destined to be useful idiots, and this faggot seems like the kind of guy who unironically thinks cops shoot innocent niggers.

>>42631

Because the rights holders in Japan don't care what happens to these series once they leave Japan. So long as the licensing companies pay them they'll let them do whatever they want.

>>42918

Don't forget they're also about to re-release Angel Cop uncut. Not to mention they've re-released stiff like Mad Bull 34 and Violence Jack, so clearly they have no problem putting out content that would give your average soycuck an aneurysm.

>>42918

>this faggot seems like the kind of guy who unironically thinks cops shoot innocent niggers.

Just look at his twatter, for anime related tweet he's bitching about muh drumpf.

Bump.