Uncut Anime Coming to a Major Game Console

[thespyisdead]

at first, i was going to shout "XBOX," but from what i have gathered, the japanese hate the xbox, so it could actually go either way...

 

[Baneat]

Also?

>it'll still have ads despite being a subscription service

Why does anything work this way?!

So they can make more money Because some people are money hungry assholes :/

OT: It'll be hard to sell something in a country that's been pirating and otherwise viewing the content for free for years and years. It's like trying to sell milk to a farmer.

To be honest, is it not kind of their fault for not keeping up and finding a way to monetise their shows outside of their own country?

They'll make some off maybe a dvd sale or two a year down the line or some kinds of anime figures but more could have been done. It takes a translator about 2 days to download, sub and re-encode/upload an episode of an anime and with netflix style subscriptions becoming popular they're missing a lot of money.

 

[Loop Stricken]

at first, i was going to shout "XBOX," but from what i have gathered, the japanese hate the xbox, so it could actually go either way...

But the service isn't IN Japan, so surely good business sense would be to put the service on whatever has the larger market share?

... and that's the 360, isn't it? I don't actually know...

 

[thespyisdead]

at first, i was going to shout "XBOX," but from what i have gathered, the japanese hate the xbox, so it could actually go either way...

But the service isn't IN Japan, so surely good business sense would be to put the service on whatever has the larger market share?

... and that's the 360, isn't it? I don't actually know...

to throw the whole console community off guard, why not put it on the Wii(U)

 

[Soviet Heavy]

You say that like it will stop people from pirating anime. It won't.

 

[PunkRex]

Sounds interesting!


>USA/Canada
>dubbed

Well, fuck that shit.

You so funneh DJ!

OT: So hows that fan made Toonami channel going? I live in the UK so i'll just keep surfing the internet in vein for now...

 

[ace_of_something]

This sounds like a 360 thing to me. Something like would have probably happened in Japan first if it were the PS3 and MS have been all over this console/TV thing of late

I unno Ps3 has all the same stuff as Xbox360 as far as 'tv' goes. Also you can get NHL season pass, there's TV shows for download.
They both are trying really hard to justify all that non-gaming software on the system.

 

[everythingbeeps]

"it'll still have ads despite being a subscription service. It'll work like a traditional channel, rather than an on-demand " No no no no. Just make it a TV channel if you're going to do that.

I agree. Unfortunately, those days are behind us. It wouldn't surprise me if more and more subscription-based services start including ads where they didn't before.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

I was excited, then I read Viz. It has been quite some time since I really watched one of their shows.

 

[Stripes]

Its a shame this is paid for rather than ad driven or something, if it was free they could get anime to a wider audience in the west which would be awesome. Its a shame its not coming to the UK. People who are inherently against dubs are kind of annoying, why right off everything because some is bad? Plus I doubt many people are as good at assessing foreign language voice acting since they dont hear it spoke day to day so wont recognise poor speech, just my opinion, its so grating to see people be so damn snooty.

 

[Tiamattt]

I'll consider giving it a shot if there's a Japanese/subbed option because some animes just sound better that way and vice versa, otherwise Netflix has enough dubbed only anime.

 

[Risingblade]

I have a 360,ps3 and wii...so I'm covered!

 

[Beautiful End]

Meh...sounds like a good deal but I'm not interested in any of those anime. Maybe InuYasha, and that's just a faint curiosity.

 

[Loop Stricken]

People who are inherently against dubs are kind of annoying, why right off everything because some is bad?

Because so little of it is good. Better to expect dirge and receive bacon, than have your wide-eyed optimism beaten around the ears by terrible voices.

Example: English-language dub of Panty and Stocking. Stocking's voice is RUINED.