Disney+ : Where Anime Goes to Die
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- Tokyo Revengers. Bleach. Heavenly Delusion. Undead Unluck. Sand Land. Summertime Rendering. These Anime should have been HUGE. Some even were... before Disney+ and Hulu got to them. It's almost like they WANT these shows to fail.
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0:00 Does Disney WANT Their Anime to Fail?
6:14 Anime Autopsies
14:52 Everything is Getting Worse
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Disney treats anime worse than they treat the Muppets, and THAT'S saying something.
at least they still try to give us actual decent Muppet content unlike with anime wher disney will sit on them without any rhyme or reason!
@@17jacoyne disney sucks with anime
Muppets suck tho... R U 2 years old or something?
I wonder if they treat Muppets better because Muppets already has a higher number of viewers and require less of an investment.
@@goff256 Definitely. Muppets have been around accruing fans since the 70s so even if they don't have a massive audience like the princess movies or the Marvel stuff, they do have a fanbase (some _way_ more passionate than others). Anime fandom, while it is a large market, is inherently fragmented, since not everybody likes the exact same shows. The only fanbase for any given new seasonal anime are the fans of its manga or light novels and then just a prayer that more people check the show out.
This is the first time I've heard about Sandland being on Disney Plus/Hulu
Yeah that sounds about right…
This is the first time I have heard of Sandland.
Same... I know the game was coming out. Thought the anime was still in Japan only
This is the first time I heard about anime being on Disney+ overall
I think that just proves his point.
I knew Disney wouldn't want to market Anime because it doesn't fit their "U.S. brand". They're rather annoying like that. But it is insane that after one the most important storytellers in history passing away can't even manage to rattle their habits even a little.
In some international markets all of the Fox related content is in a separate streaming service called Star+, and while they're going to combine both services in June of this year, I actually find it very frustrating the fact that they don't market anime very well here in Latin America, a region where anime has always been popular. Bleach, Black Rock Shooter: Dawnfall, Summer Time Rendering, Tokyo Revengers S2, Heavenly Delusion and Unded Unluck are the only "Disney+/Star+ Original" anime that actually got dubbed, and for some titles like Undead Unluck the dub wasn't added until much later, which is weird considering that Netflix uploads all of their "original" anime with a dub on day one.
Why not just market it through Hulu? That's not the same brand.
Its funny because i just got back from japan and i saw a TON of ads for disney+ anime and i was always like "oh?? disney has that one??"
Disgusting.
@@GeneraluStelaruhow
Crunchyroll not getting the license to stream Summer Time Rendering was such a detrimental hit to the series and no one will ever knew how awesome it was
At least the manga is still accessible...
@@SecretIdentityStudionot everyone reads manga, most would prefer watching it animated which makes it hard for series to gain traction in popularity. At least to a wide diverse audience.
What's it about?
@@SecretIdentityStudiosadly it’s not really, there’s no digital version… :( physical release only, so you’re stuck paying 25$/vol instead of 9$/vol digitally…
@@pikachuattack542 You know that movie, Groundhog Day? Where Bill Murray repeats the same day over and over again, and if he dies it resets to the beginning of the day? Its like that, only he's being hunted by the pod people from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers because they wanna kill everybody.
Note: Disney was accused of doing pretty much the EXACT SAME THING to theatrical releases of Ghibli movies twenty years ago. It was suspected THEN that they were deliberately trying to crush their competition.
i thought funimation did the ghibli films
@@leongay3190 No, Disney was the first to release all but Totoro, until GKids got the rights.
@@GarethOfByzantium And without Disney around, the latest Ghibli film actually topped the American box office for a week.
@@easolinas1233 YUP!!!
I wonder what Ghibli's thought process was back then that made them think it was a good idea to let another competing animation studio handle their product.
It hurt me on a spiritual level that Disney got Undead Unluck. No advertisement. Likely little to no chance of a physical version. I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't acknowledge the anime on the platform because it A.) Has content they'd rather not associate with on a general scale. and B.) Likely they only acquired it has a half measure to attract people to D+ without actually putting in the effort. Plus now other streamers don't have access to it.
It's like the whole issue with non-competes and IP farming. Plenty of companies acquire authors, artists, titles, squander it, only to not put any effort in and now they've ensured that other competitors are deprived of talent, at the expense of everyone and everything they exploit.
I feel that way about Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War. :(
But if they want to attract people, they'd need to know these shows even exist on D+. I can't sub for a show, if i'm unaware of its existence.
I wouldn't have subbed for Tokyo Revengers (or any show), but i legit had NO idea it even had more than 1 season.
Kinda like they just wanna grab stuff so others can't have it, even if they don't want it themselves.
LoL, I found out about "Loser Ranger Go!" cuz I kept seeing an online ad saying it was on Disney+..
and my thoughts were..
"Disney plus has Anime?!" 😅
Wait, Loser Rangers Go is on Disney Plus and not Hulu? Does it have an English Dub yet?
@@samflood5631 It's Hulu, they've merged. No dub yet.
@@samflood5631 The U.S apparently gets anime on Hulu while other countries get it on Disney+ according to about a dozen comments I've read saying so in response to a dozen other comments that say "wait Disney+ has anime?".
@@samflood5631 it's on hulu, and no
bueno disney odia power rangers por todos los problemas que le causó
Remember - If respectable ports won't let you dock your ship, there are less respectable ones that would love to have you.
Yeah, so long as these distributors are willing to continue picking up and subbing their anime. Widely available quality subs devastated the fansubbing community, moreso when Netflix started to do their job so the fansubbers lost that niche too. Blue Archive takes days to get its subs fixed cuz whatever official English ones it has are unwatchable garbage, and Girls Band Cry didn't get good subs for its first episode almost until the THIRD episode aired. And it's still a week behind.
If this starts to happen more fansubbers will eventually pick up the slack but we're all going to suffer, as will the anime being neglected, for a while until they get their feet back under them.
♫ Yar har, fiddly dee ♫
careful, Nintendo's Naval Intelligence could be reading this.
@@skeletor8951 anime would only stand to benefit from CR, HiDive, and any other big company falling under. it means newer and generally nicer and more desperate fish come along more than happy to sign for licenses and or promote shows and reap advertising rewards. of course seafarers couldn't care less.
streaming is 100% profitable if companies worried less about stock holders and more about simple maintenance and affordability as well as user experience
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It's actually comical how vehemently Disney REFUSES to play ball in Hollywood like everyone else and just expects the entire industry to bend to their every whim!
They own like half of all popular intellectual properties in the world at this point, of course the industry bends to their every whim. It's frustrating...
Disney IS HOLLYWOOD.
@@sleepysera and they've managed to fuck up every single one of them.
@@Blodhelm do you have any idea how much money they've been losing since 2020?
@@BrendanJSmithI'm just going to assume by your Disney hate-boner that you think they're "woke."
Literally every complaint I had about disney picking up anime and hiding it on Hulu (another service) in the US was literally brought up in this video...
This is, at best, the rear-guard action of a defeated army trying to escape. At worst is a STUPID way of losing money. In no way is this a sensible strategy for the future. Sega lost the game console war, so it went back to just making games. It didn't fight until it went bankrupt and sank with the ship.
Honestly, they tried to silence Bluey as well! When they got the rights to it they didn't advertise it AT ALL. But now, Bluey accounts for nearly 1/3rd of all streaming on their platform.
They hate it when any media that **they didn't make** does better than their own rubbish they're churning out right now.
I despise them for what they did to Nimona. They need to get a grip.
They really tried to hide Bluey, here in Latin America there's tons of advertisement for the series and Disney+ in various pages and social media
As a sidenote, Bluey's Neutral Spanish voice actress has voiced plenty of anime characters, which isn't uncommon for Mexican child VAs, and coincidentally she voiced child Yuzuha in Tokyo Revengers S2, which is a Disney+ exclusive
Hey Mosoco
My whole life, I’ve been told that “the internet is forever.” But in the age of walled gardens and companies that refuse to water them, I’m not so sure anymore.
Piracy exists tho. Those classics are still out there, just without license,
Remember that in the age of walled gardens and companies that refuse to water them, it is not only acceptable but morally superior to pirate. Set up a Servarr+Plex solution for your friends and family and you, too, can pirate with style and convenience.
the only people that said that didn't know what they were talking about (which, tbf, was most people). we're in a historical black hole of information because of how impermanent our primary form of communication is. digital records don't last, even without copyright killing everything.
@@Lattellerrsame with videos games and software
@@bigbundle3223agreed. Things should be written down.
the fact that i didn’t even know Disney+ had anime to begin with says a lot about their approach to even streaming anime on their platform in the first place…
Depends on where you live. In the US the anime is on Hulu and outside of US it’s on Disney plus.
I knew they had Bleach because it was in the animation category.
Really things and networks seem to be losing touch now with audiences more and more.
That's what I thought. It should have made clearer as I'm going through D+ now and see no anime. Yeah the offerings on Hulu are meh.
@@DBZnChill In South America and Europe, well, maybe just Portugal, it's Star Plus. We don't have Hulu so they made the streaming with the name associated to what was Fox. But in South America they will discontinue the streaming put everything on Disney Plus. Probably because of the lack of subscribers or views and they want to save billions.
Indie video games brought new life to the game industry when big companies were squandering their resources. When the Unity engine sabotaged their reputation, people started looking at open-source alternatives. And I've been seeing indie anime clips pop up on youtube.
When companies inevitably fail their customers, the community steps up to fix their dumb avoidable mistakes. That's the positive ending for your video. We do it ourselves.
It's pretty obvious to me that Disney feels threatened by anime. And they should be.
I doubt it their movies make more money even if they aren't that good
With how absolutely amazing X-Men 97 has been and all the hype that it's generated week after week since debuting, you'd think maybe SOMEBODY over at Disney would put 2 and 2 together and come to the realization of "Hey, we've got a lot of subscribers who enjoy animated shows made for older audiences; maybe we should try advertising some of those animated shows we acquired from Japan?"
See now, that would require a synthesis of ideas, and Disney executives haven't had an idea other than "Buy shit" for almost 2 decades.
disney hasn't unlocked basic pattern recognition on the skill tree yet
@66Roses make you realize how overpaid they are while acting like they're the reason the company is successful and now they want to push AI art or other AI stuff
That would require a brain.
The studio that animated the original series was Akom which definitely had anime influence, they also did the transformers and old batman series
It's actually a miracle that shows like Summetime Rendering and Heavenly Delusion did so well despite Disney practically sabotaging their chances. Really shows just how passionate the anime community can be about sharing stuff they love. (like Me, someone who loves Heavenly Delusion to pieces lmao)
It's all free advertising from fans of each show talking about it after watching it on a pirating site lol.
As a Heavenly Delusion fan, I absolutely hate how it didn't win in any damn category in the Crunchyroll Awards...
@@chonki_raddish I mean, if it isn't on CrunchyRoll it ain't winning any awards from them. Lol
@@casteanpreswyn7528 While Crunchyroll shows definitely have a skewed bias on their platform due to accessibility for the people voting on the awards. Non-CR shows can still get wins. They are generally outliers though.
Some Examples are
- Komi can't communicate (Netflix) winning best comedy of 2022
- Cyberpunk (Netflix) winning 2023 AotY and Best Dubbed Voice Performance
- Oshi no Ko (HiDive) winning Opening song of the Year
I LOOOVE HEAVENLY DELUSION!!!!! i watched it weekly and that experience was amazing!!!!!
Well... if it wasn't for Geoff, I would never know about a TONE of anime titles, so... thank you for your hard work! This channel somehow outperforms practically every media platform in the genre when it comes to advertising, which is both super cool and a bit sad...
I'm still mad about what hbo did to cartoon network and nothing has gotten better since. these companies just do not respect animation, and foreign animation even more so.
It's not just the lack of marketing, it's dumping every single animated show on their catalogue, in a single category. So even if you want to find some top secret anime, you still have to sift through dozens of toddler tv shows. Then again, the alternative would probably be a "Kids" category where they would still throw in a Made in Abyss or Madoka Magica right next to Doc McStuffins and Peppa Pig.
In the very early days of video rental stores (yes, that long ago), this is exactly how they categorized things. I have a very clear memory of walking into a Blockbuster with my friend, looking for something to rent. At that time our local Blockbuster had ALL animated videos grouped together in the “animation” category. My friend and I saw some videos that were clearly Japanese anime but not, like, titles that we had ever heard of before. So we rented them out of curiosity. One of those videos was “Urotsukidoji.”
ah. the intended way to watch made in abyss
This reminds me how i borrowed a vhs of Akira from the library when i was like 6 years old because it was in the kids section
Made in Abyss in kids category...gotta traumatize them early.
Right next to the classics of childrens animation such as Watership down
I think the reason why Disney doesn’t promote anime they acquire is because of hubris. If it’s not made by them, they feel like it’s not worth advertising, even if the stuff they acquire is so much better than what Disney makes.
Originally Moana was going to be 2d animated, but the higher ups decided that 3d was the way to go, fired all the 2d artists, and haven't looked back. I could also see a distrust for the medium of 2d also being a factor along with how they themselves didn't make it.
@@FelicityUwU I think they don't even like 3D animation, new Pixar films are just cash grabs for toys. Star Wars clone wars was stuck in hell until the Sequel bombed hard arse, along with their try hard Star Wars animated series of Rebels and Resistance. (BTW, Star Wars right now is literally carried by Bad Batch, and its animated style; which the upcoming _Tales of the Empire_ series is using...)
@@PrograError Yeesh. When Disney of all people can't do animation, you know something's wrong. Gosh.
They only started advertising bluey when it became a quarter of their watch time. Why they spend millions to license foreign shows and let them rot unless they become too popular to ignore is confounding.
TOH got cancelled because it was attracting “the wrong demographic”. I imagine they choose not to promote anime for the same reason.
This video is prompting me to say: Your best anime lists are absolutely invaluable. Not only do they save me a whole lot of effort, but they're probably the only means to find a comprehensive list of ALL the good stuff that's actually out there - including, as this vid just pointed out, the shows that are otherwise dreadfully buried.
Judging every new show every season is not easy! 🙏 So thanks so much for your efforts Geoff!
People have no idea how frustrating it can be to be an anime fan in Italy at times. Between old stuff that's stuck on 1980s/1990s VHS, shifting rights and the ambiguities of streaming and TV rights, it's a mess.
Here in Latin America things were very difficult as well, with all of Latin America being a huge region composed from different countries, sometimes some shows were more difficult to access than in others, though one thing we had in common is that there weren't a lot of official anime releases in home video, if you wanted to watch anime legally it had to be shown on television, and the dubbing quality could vary a lot depending in which country it was recorded with Mexico being the place where the best dubs were made, followed by Venezuela, then Chile, Los Ángeles and Argentina, Colombia and Miami made the worst anime dubs though. Nowadays, stremaing has made things much easier and more anime have been dubbed than ever before, though the quality still varies
The one thing that also affected us in Latin America were the licenses, Funimation, for example, used to blocked tons of licenses, but nowadays it's HiDive the one who blocks all the anime they acquired. At least now we even have our own anime distribution/dubbing companies, like Anime Onegai
Disney's lack of anime advertising shows not just an apathy, but an outright disdain for anime as a whole. They think "oh, people logging onto disney plus will watch this new thing, rather than watching the original star wars trilogy for the thousandth time"
True
Disney+ doesn't even have an anime tab on the homepage. I can guarantee if it wasn't for MB here, most of us wouldn't even know that they had any anime
american disney plus doesn’t have anime
@@wildstehonestly I've been subscribed to Disney+ for years and never even knew anime was on there. I never bothered to look because I thought Disney+Anime,=Fish.
So yeah y'all are completely right about this
It really is just a disaster now and with this and people not having sense or not taking things seriously it really is disaster.
love summertime rendering so much i actually took a flight to japan, 5 trains, and then camped by a dock in a small port town, waited for good weather so the boatman could take the 20 or so people, and finally take the boat ride to the island where it was based off of. loved seeing and finding many of the shots used in the anime. the fact it didnt get more attention remains one of the greatest anime crimes ive ever witnessed in my 17 years of anime watching.
Whoa. This sounds absolutely amazing.
thats so cool!!!
Anime worse crimes
-Wind Rises to Frozen in Oscar
-A Silent Voice didn’t nominate in Oscar and Boss Baby did
-Hollywood stoles many of Satoshi Kon’s scenes and put in their films
-Summertime Rendering didn’t get promote well and didn’t win anime of the year
Watched Re:Creators before it got removed on Prime and MY GOD it was good… literally rushed to watch all of the episodes
I may or may not have cried… especially knowing nobody will be able to experience the masterpiece after it was remobed
I get so excited when good anime drops on Netflix, but I didn’t even know anime existed on Disney+. And if I’m not mistaken, most of it is region locked. What a shame.
If you're in US, it's not on Disney+, it's on Hulu. If you subscribe to both, you can get at some but not all Hulu content from the Disney+ main screen.
Netflix is garbage.
Yeah you have to have Hulu too because it's not actually on Disney+ in the US and there's not enough other stuff on Hulu to justify the extra bills
I really don’t understand why streaming services are making certain shows and movies region locked. I mean, I guess it’s because they don’t think a show or movie would be that big in that region, but this kind of thing feels like it’ll encourage people to either get a VPN or just pirate it
In America the Disney + stuff is usually on Hulu.
It's real fun searching for anime on Disney; even searching "Anime" doesn't bring up all the anime they have (only 30 series, no "next page" button, no "anime page" with all the anime they have), so you have to KNOW the thing is there to search for it by its exact name, or randomly get it as a suggested. Truly burying some series entirely because you can't search or browse for them without knowing the name already..
Probably compounded by the fact at least one doesn't have an easily searchable name as mentioned in the video. They really messed up.
The Disney+ app is a nightmare. They also bury their cartoon shorts nearly as effectively as they buried anime. You have to know what you're looking for to find it, just browsing seldom works.
I didn't even know there WAS anime on Disney+
disney and many (older) animators dont like anime. since anime is famous for taking shortcuts in the animation process, doing it cheap and still doing it well.
Yep. I've tried to browse for anime on Disney+, and I eventually gave up and just had to google "What anime is on Disney+". I left feedback, but they absolutely do not care. Like how hard would it be to create an Anime category and tag all the anime so they came up? It's SO BASIC and they can't even be bothered to do the absolute minimum.
I thought the reason why they stopped dubbing Tokyo Revengers was cuz of the Toman symbol according to what my friends told me.
Thanks to you Geoff, I already have gone in blind on Summertime Rendering and it was great! Most of the anime fans reading this are going to be Sub-Only Die-Hards anyhow but take it from me, a filthy Dub-Lover, watch Summertime Rendering subbed. That was one of the roughest dubs I’ve seen in years.
I watched the dub this weekend and there’s really only 2 actors that are super rough. It was almost as if it was their first time ever voice acting, because they get noticeably better in the later episodes, lol.
@@XwingInfinity One of them was definitely Ryuunosuke's actor. I'm not too inclined to blame any of the actors individually though with how across the board lines were coming out stilted and bland. I do think Ushio's actress in particular was pretty good! Felt like poor or amateur Directing and it was night and day when I watched the latest season of Jujutsu Kaisen right after and everything from the script to the deliveries were vastly better.
@@00Clank For me, the weakest links were Sou and Mio. As you said, Ushio was the highlight.
MILD SPOILERS: For Ryunosuke, they made the very bizzare creative decision to have the actress who played Hizuru also do his voice (even during instances where it makes no sense for him to be using the same voice as Hizuru) and I think she either had terrible direction or just zero experience voicing a male character, because she did excellent as Hizuru.
@@XwingInfinity OH Well that explains it! All her effort was put into doing a young man voice whenever she was playing him in a flashback or his internal dialogue combined with what has to be less than stellar direction because no good director would let some of those line reads through. I had not looked at the cast list to pick up on this, thanks for cluing me in.
Hey man. When you said, "go watch Heavenly Delusion," I went and watched Heavenly Delusion, and it was my favorite anime maybe ever. You're doing great.
Also, like, it's one of two arguably trans anime I know of, and that was pretty mind-blowing.
@@josephbales7021read Welcome back , Alice by Shuzo Oshimi . First and only trans manga I’ve read and it’s amazing
@@josephbales7021 One of two!?
Ranma 1/2
Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl
A Cheeky Angel
Kampher
Wandering Son
Simoun
Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3
Chevalier D'Eon
Princess Knight
Only two of those shows are 'guy turns into girl for ecchi reasons but you're not supposed ot read it as actually trans' shows of which I'm forgetting even more. Not counting 'male soul in female body' mind transfer stuff like Murder Princess or Saga of Tanya the Evil or that Gender fluid fox god show I can't remember the name of or 'one arc cannon fodder tragic villain' stuff like the twins in Black Lagoon.
@@AC-dk4fp Okay, Simoun isn't something I'd count because it's super weird about its gender. But the rest of this . . . Guess I have some shows to watch. Thank you much!
@@josephbales7021 I'm not making promises. Most of those shows are 'prominant characters would be trans/nonbinary if they were real' stuff.
But I count them as trans because saying Kashimashi's convenient UFO magic so it can get to the love triangle romance story quicker makes it less of a transgender story than Wandering Son's social realism and high angst doesn't sit right with me and nor does excluding shows important to trans anime fans just because they're at best allegories with a small amount of exploration of dysphoria.
The depressing reason as to why Bleach isn't among the anime that have been left to die in obscurity on Disney+/Hulu is that Viz of all people have stepped up on marketing the Thousand Year Blood War. At least, that's one huge reason.
I don’t believe for a second that anime like Undead Unluck, Yozakura Family AND Sandland are gonna die in obscurity because Disney’s being a prick
defintinly not Sandland given the hype and circumstances surrounding it, same for Undead Unluck and Yozakura Family, just not the same circumstances
They’re gonna be fine, doesnt mean I don’t blame Disney Plus for making their out reach be less because pettiness
@@leoultimaupgraded9914 They may not die in complete obscurity, but definitely in relative obscurity. I mean, not every anime fan is dedicated enough to watch channels like MB to find new anime to watch, nor are they all religious SJ or Kodansha readers. I mean, the fact that we don't have clips of these anime being posted on CZcams by anyone is proof enough that a huge marketing opportunity is being missed, and these anime aren't showing up in ordinary weeb feeds. They'll do fine off the strength of their appeal, but not as good as they should have.
@@leoultimaupgraded9914 they aren't going to die in obscurity, but they certainly aren't going to get as much love as they should have either though.
What do you mean "of all people?" Viz owns the rights to Bleach. Viz licensed the show, hired the actors, prints the blu-rays and makes every deal that has to do with where it streams and/or airs. Viz got to choose which platform it was going to air on, and Disney offered them the most money for it. Of course Viz is promoting it. They did the same thing with Zom 100, except they licensed that out to Netflix and Crunchyroll instead.
@@flamemasterelan Because they normally fucking suck in this regard as an IP holder and won't do most of the heavy lifting.
Also, Zom 100 is another fucking story entirely.
Biggest problem with Disney having Anime isn't the lack of marketing. It's the fact that I don't want to pay for Disney+. Put it on my existing CR account and I'll watch the shit out of these.
Just subscribe for a month with a list of things on the platform you wanna watch, then unsubscribe.
The Reason Hi-Dive didn't work in non-English speaking places, (at least in Germany, where I can talk from first hand experience) is that they did not bother to translate the shows into the countries language, so you have an anime streaming service, which in itself is pretty niche, refusing to license anything but english subs and dubs in a country, where people don't normally speak english.
Here's a good example about how little attention to detail they are paying. No automatic subtitles on multiple animes. You have to go in once the episode starts top turn the subtitles on. That tells me they do not care about their English speaking audience.
Yeah when I went in to watch Go Go Loser Ranger I was eating and not prepared for them to just start talking without any sort of sub/cc. Caught me off guard too
It gets even worse. Episode 6 of GGLR originally dropped without any subtitles for English audiences at all. They literally care so little about their anime for people outside of Japan, that they forgot to give anyone who doesn't speak Japanese a chance at understanding it
I have a Disney+ subscription and pirated both summertime rendering and heavenly delusion because I didn't realize they were on Disney
If you're in the U.S. they might not be. They'd be on Hulu.
Same, Had no clue They were on Hulu. I had boarded my ship and sailed all the way back. Before even noticed, they were on there.
They arnt, in the US at least, I just checked cause i was surprised by the title
@@AdamYJAustralia has them though, since we normally get worked over, I assume everyone else has them.
I have Disney Plus and still pirate their stuff because they're the only streaming service that can't get sound working correctly, and it laughably quiet. Netflix, Amazon, Stan, etc... Can get surround sound working, Disney? Nah, it's too hard bro, even though the service has existed for more than 2 years. They had surround sound working briefly for 6 months though. 🤨
Glad you brought up the closed caption instead of proper subtitles issue. I want to watch Summertime Rendering but it’s nearly unwatchable with constant text distractions.
Honestly, thank you Mother's Bsment for reccomending summer time rendering and Heavenly Delusion. They were AWESOME!
What the fuck. I stopped counting how many times i thought "thats news to me" about a show. I genuinely dont know if i was aware Sandland had an anime.
Same, I had only heard about the game until now.
Never herd of
Same
Hulu really hides its anime like it’s embarrassed to even have it in its library. I have trouble searching for anime that I know is there
"They've known this since Speed Racer." Earlier. They've known this since Astro Boy. It's hard to really get much earlier in terms of what we consider "Anime", especially regarding what has received wide western distribution. But the point still stands. American Kids in 1963 didn't have to learn how to pronounce Tetsuwan Atomu.
I watched the entirety of summertime rendering because of the suggestion. What a wild ride. Thank you so much for such a beautiful and amazing recommendation.
Funnily enough I honestly think they're dropping the ball HARD in Japan too. I live here and have a disney plus account, I have watched almost exclusively anime on it, and no joke when I open the app/page it doesn't recommend ANY ANIME to me. Just their animated USA movies or categories like "Japanese actors in Hollywood". The app algorithm thinks i would rather watch Independence Day than Frieren/Apothecary Diaries/MHA/Tensura or dozens of shows they have a licence for here. Unbelievable.
disney hates anime
OK... that's borderline racist... I mean, does it count as racist?? in any case, it's awful what Disney's doing to great animated shows... likely because they show what their own produced stuff lacks severely
Yeah one of the craziest things about Disney+ Jail is that the JP bros groan just as hard as we do when it's been announced that they picked a series up. I don't think that was ever a thing for its counterpart Netflix Jail which was a thing up until like 2 years ago.
Disney legit thought it would be a great idea to grab anime because it would lead to growth of their service, especially in Japan where they are lagging behind Netflix and Amazon (which is super cheap over there) and most shows get on everything. Oh and thinking that social media metric companies like Parrot Analytics were a great barometer to follow to make such dumb decisions ("anime is big on social media, so if we lock down these shows to our service, then they have no choice but to subscribe to it over our competitors!").
@@TakeMinamoto In the words of Archer, "Jingoist, whatever."
Netflix also made an effort to just hide Pluto other than a trailer. One of the most awaited anime adaptations of all time and they just released like it's nothing. They just put it there and walk away.
Hell, months before Pluto arrived on Netflix. There was another anime based on Osamu Tezuka's manga called "Phoenix: Eden17". It's a retelling of Tezuka's "Phoenix" that arrived on Hulu/Disney+ with zero advertisement outside Japan. It also doesn't come with an English Dub and is subbed only. If that was on Netflix, then at least Phoenix: Eden 17 would had gotten more awareness.
The fact that so many people won't get to experience a one of a kind masterpiece like Pluto, really does eat away at my soul.
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers is another anime that could had way more attention if was released somewhere else than Netflix.
Which also additionally sucks as I really hoped for Pluto to get some recognition and reignite a spark for a potential 20th Century Boys adaptation.
Oh please someone invest in a 20th Century Boys Adaptation. I know it's a large undertaking, but I want it.
Nah, i knew months in advance about it thanks to the app, it even notified me when it came about
I want to let you know that because of your videos I've discovered so many great shows. I watched Summertime Rendering because you mentioned it in a video, and since then I've kept an eye on every Disney + release. Go Go Loser Ranger is already my new fav! It's up there with Dungeon Meshi! This is to say, you really are making a difference! I wouldn't have watched them if I hadn't heard it from you. You really do make an impact on the wider anime community even if you feel like you dont.
Disney has been trying to break through the anime market for years despite not putting in any effort. I've wondered for years why they haven't adapted Kingdom Hearts into an anime. It's only now that we're hearing about a supposed show in the works.
The fact Summertime Rendering didn't win ALL THE AWARDS EVER is a crime against the art-form.
Ik man had to legit tell my irls about it bc they just never heard of it but man was it such a ride from start to finish
Bro that shit was sooo good
He didn’t even highlight the OP, which was fire, just pure vibes
Seeing you pop up gave me some Goddamn whiplash.
@@bilditup1 the ops and Eds were 🔥
Quick note: corporate self-sabotage (as in doimg your best to make sure a colleague's good idea is forced to fail, usually motivated by pettyness or internal competition) is surprisingly common, and often behind utterly braindead decisions on the part of major companies.
Yeah, it's a mistake to think that Disney is a single whole acting in a consistent way towards a clear goal. A LOT of weird nonsense in entertainment specifically smacks of some people trying hard to make something work and someone else in the pipeline fucking with them just because.
I see that kemono friends anime as the end result of that mentality.
I really enjoyed listening to the background Balatro remix in the video, thank you for including it! It felt right at home talking about criminally underrated media with not nearly enough marketing behind it
I didn't even know Disney+ had anime.
I appreciate the shout out to Girls Band Cry. It’s absolutely insane how hard that anime got shafted, especially considering recent hits like Bocchi the Rock and currently Whisper Me a Love Song. People want to see girls rock and they just straight up said “no”
And you can blame Toei for that. I don't know how/why, but they simply didn't bother licensing it to any western companies outside of a French licensee who has no intention to go any further than a release en France.
And considering how infamous Toei is when licensing anything (to wit, we're still getting fucked up released of Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya and their Transformers anime. To say nothing about how they've been treating Digimon or Precure; or any of their older shows like Galaxy Express or Mazinger Z). I cannot for the life of me say this move is shocking in the slightest. If anything it's more surprising when they DON'T screw up a licence.
One of my favorite Toei fuckups is when 4kids just wanted to buy Magical Doreimi but Toei forced them to take One Piece as well
I'm gonna be real here and say that I forgot that Disney+ even had anime on their catalogue.
I think Disney did, too.
I swear there's gotta be some boomer exec there that specifically dislikes Anime and everything that comes with it - the art style, how it competes with Disney's in-house productions, its sensibilities and older target demographic. They probably put a blanket ban on advertising it at all, concerned that if they DID and some clueless parent put it on for their young children because "it's a cartoon, it's for kids", they'd get hit with massive backlash when little Timmy sees any of the stuff that happens in Summer Time Render, Heavenly Delusion or Undead Unluck.
A month or two back, Disney+ added the Hulu Tab for those who sub through the Hulu Bundle or Hulu/ESPN Bundle. For those that have the bundle, you are able to view Anime on Disney+.
You gotta get an upgrade for it. Its through Hulu.
@@Gilthwixt1 Ah, the old "Animation is for kids" excuse. Knee-capping the creative arts since... well forever. And also cringe culture as well, but that's a conversation for another day.
Holy crap Good call on summertime rendering. That was quite the treat over the last day here! Thank you!
Thank you basement guy. I would like to try some of their new anime recently but I don't really have any idea what are they. Glad you give some light.
19:09 I don’t blame you, Coyote Vs. ACME is one that hits me the most, and American’s art industry and entertainment industry is not exclusive to them, it’s pretty much EVERY industry in the USA that’s suffering a lot at the hands of corporations and the shareholders, we’ve been pretty much entered into a dark age of the USA.
Two weeks ago I noticed on Disney u they had an Anime section... It confused me To se Konosuba, and Mushoku Tensei....Not very Disney friendly... But when I checked literally yesterday.. the anime collection group was gone... the shows are still there... but the collection/section for anime... gone
My still shows up but that might be due to my Disney+ subscription plan being the Hulu/ESPN Bundle deal.
I just looked and it wasn’t on mine I was confused because like you said you can still search & find the anime. So it’s like they are hiding it. Also noticed that you need some kind of upgraded subscription to watch any anime
WHAT?! Konosuba’s on Disney+ where you’re from?! I guess the UK version isn’t as lucky 😔
@@alwaysawesome216 UK has Heavenly Delusion
Hulu has a bunch of stuff from Crunchyroll and Hidive. The only way that collection would be gone is if you didnt have Hulu anymore.
Keep up the good fight. Your videos are the only one I go to for anime curation so I know which cool anime would peek my interest rather than waste time watching 100s of trash to sought out the few diaminds
Thank you for drawing attention to summertime rendering. Thank you for not spoiling it too. Going in with no advance knowledge beyond the anime chart synopsis is definitely the way to do it. Probably all you really need to do to get people to watch it is show Hizuru Minakata. No description needed, just "See this character? she's in it. Go watch."
Undead Unluck being dub only on Disney+ is a travesty. I can't watch the original format legally. Awful.
It had both sub and dub on US hulu
Legalese debatable but wcostream is reliable
Yo ho
Imagine how I feel with Disney+ not dubbing Tokyo Revengers. And right at the Tenjiku Arc too, literally the best arc in the series.
@@SarungStreams god, wcostream is nostalgic for me 😌thank you
Conspiracy theory: It is known that Disney and Disney related media was beaten by Anime shows and media Disney might’ve been try to choke out local interest in anime by buy exclusive rights to stream likely to be popular titles then release them with little to no advertising while profiting from the Japanese audience.
That's not a conspiracy, but a known tactic.
Yeah nah thats literally what theyre doing
honestly i am pretty sure they want to choke out _animation,_ not simply _anime._ another comment brought up the owl house, a gem that disney canceled because it wasn't soulless. most corpos are subhuman animals that don't understand the value of art, but the execs over at disney are even lower than that, they are actively trying to bury the idea of artistic expression.
I think it could be as simple as they didn't think it would make enough viewership to justify marketing it. Why bother if it does not make profit, so they just do the bare the essentials and be over with it.
@@HorseWithNoBaneThen why buy exclusive rights in the first place?
How much you wanna bet the ongoing enshittening of streaming services leads to a new age of pirated physical versions being sold under the table at conventions?
We will DEFINITELY take your recommendations Geoff. Thanks for extending my already massive "to watch" list :)
I’m a fan of this game called twisted wonderland, a Disney game. When the game came to the west, an anime was announced. There hasn’t been any other news on it then that initial announcement. That wouldn’t be that big of a problem, if it wasn’t for that fact that was early 2022. The game isn’t finished, so I’m not expecting to see it anytime soon. But they haven’t even made an update.
God I’ve been waiting on even a murmur on TWST anime.
Honestly...as much as I'd love to blame Disney for that. It's pretty par for the course to see a publishing company for a series announce an Anime adaptation for a work and then sit silent for a few years before mentioning it again.
Currently waiting for any additional news on Genshin Impact's Anime Adaptation as well as the Witch Hat Atelier Adaptation announced two years ago.
YES! I love that game!
Though I feel the reason why there isn't an anime yet is because of the studio behind it has been busy on other projects/shows. So they will get to it, eventually! But I agree we need an update soon for it!
I find it amusing that Aniplex is disturbing that game and they put up ads for it on there channel!
I've bene playing that, I was originally unintrested in it because I thought it was an Otome game, it's not, it's more like a JRPG/rhythm game
They refused to stream bleach in germany for months, making sure all of us get spoiled by the fans on social media and by clips on youtube
It's as if they *want* anime fans to sail the high seas.
Something kind of similar happened in Latin America, when Disney began streaming Bleach on Hulu some people discovered that the it also included separate audio tracks and that was a big deal for us in Spanish-speaking America since Bleach's dub stopped around episode 229 back in 2015, but when it was added to Disney Viz finally dubbed all of the remaining episodes, though not all of the original voice actors came back due to the series being dubbed in another studio, with Uryū and Chad being the most prominent from the main cast. Though I cannot blame Disney for it, that was more Viz Media's fault since Bleach's LA Spanish dub was based on the English version, though for TYBW they swtched to use the original Japanese version as a base.
Incidentally, just on the 5th of last month all of the Bleach's movies were finally dubbed into Neutral Spanish and added to Apple TV of all places, though it seems the dub was already done a long time ago since Renji's original VA is present in those movies but he sadly passed away on December of last year.
Same with Sweden, they released it 2 months into the cour which was bullshit.
This video convinced me to binge Summer Time Rendering this weekend (it’s on Hulu instead of Disney+ for me), and damn I cannot believe this show is not constantly being talked about as one of the all time greats in the mystery/thriller genre.
Disney actually now recommended it now on plus for me an entire anime section at the top when I logged in idk if anyone else has this but if it's new that's hilarious that they responded
I kind of expected something like this to happen when I heard that Disney wanted to get into anime, I was just afraid to say anything to not come off as paranoid.
Oh, I said it, and people mocked me. I will genuinely be so pissed if Disney starts buying animation studios and starts monopolizing anime
There's no paranoia with Disney, they are trying to get you.
@@Vivid_Sky23 Now it's your turn to mock them.
Same
I'm so mad, more of the fact that the animes being locked in Disney are actually top-tier and deserve to blow up than anime in general. Why would you take such amazing anime and market it so bad?????
Thanks for bringing attention to Undead Unluck. It blows my mind how little people are talking about it.
fr thank god to that random Shen edit on tiktok I started the manga, best decision I've made this year
I went out and purchased the books as soon as I saw the first couple of episodes.
I remember being hyped for it but only saw the first episode, I forgot about it some reason for a while and just recently found out that it had like 20+ episodes I think?! It's crazy bruh
Ikr it’s crazy how many incredible anime and mangas never get talked about like undead unluck, Toriko and yo Sakura family (I’m pretty sure toriko is fairly old so maybe that one doesn’t count)
I'm absolutely obsessed with Undead Unluck. More people need to see it!
You’ve given me some stuff to watch today so thank you
Wow I have been waiting so long for them to adapt Sand Land. Shonen Jump started in the Frieza Saga but got to read Sand Land from volume 1.
Thank you anime CZcamsrs for getting me into Summertime Rendering and dozens of other awesome shows
I accidentally found out STR thru CZcams while it was airing in Japan. I owe this to them and for that and She-Karen I boycotted Dissney for ruining me as both an anime and Marvel fan.
I heard about Summer Time Rendering when it was first coming out and the plot summary sounded great, so I was so excited to see it be simulcasted. And it wasn't licensed anywhere. Then it was confirmed that it would be appearing on Disney+/Hulu, which confused me because the only anime I knew about on D+ was animes using their IP like Stitch or Star Wars Visions. But I thought okay, I'll watch it on Hulu, not my preferred platform but I still want to watch the show. And then I waited... until the next year, and then it had all 26 episodes shat out in the middle of nowhere with zero notice. And an amazing show died on the vine for western audiences.
Every time Disney+ sends me a survery. I fill out the suvey par, humbly asking them to stop hiding their anime.
Imagine then replying. But, yeah, I hate them for hiding anime.
I weep for this generation. I remember when I had to go to the flea market to get vhs tapes to watch anime and the most reliable subs came from S.Baldric, E.Monsoon, and Anime Labs. The people making the decisions now obviously don't respect the fans, and that's a shame
The biggest issue I have with streamed anime is when they don't have all the seasons to the show. I have both Netflix and Hulu/Disney+ and both have Code Geass and they only have season 1. Why on earth can I not watch the second season on either platform? And they wonder why people cancel their subscriptions so freaking often...
Geoff, don’t apologize! We need more rants like the one at the end! Anime fans need more class consciousness!
For me, the most frustrating thing about Disney is that the works they buy up from others says *NOTHING LIKE DISNEY.*
In Germany here and i also didn't know Disney+ had anime at all. It never showed up in home page. At least now i know...
It would seem to me that Disney has a vested interest in Anime remaining niche and unknown in the west, because it exists basically to compete with them.
I bitterly wept when Toriyama died. He was taken away way too early.
We all did
The terrible part is that Toriyama outlived the average mangaka by several years. But in the end, he still literally worked himself to death, just like Miura and so many others
@@LAK_770 he could have walked away, he did for a long time, but passion brought him back doing it full time.
@@Majinhero In a way, that would mean Dragonball Evolution kill him. It was *so bad* that it Toriyama just *had* to make sure that POS wasn't the final DB movie ever made. And then the passion for a series he'd long ago burned out on was reignited.
@@RedXlV i don't know if i should like this or not.
Summertime rendering was the best show I watched in 2022, but my attempts to get people in my circle to watch was entirely in vain due to the inability for me to market the show to them without spoiling the entire plot. Sure would've been nice if the people who were airing it could've done that.
Well Geoff, you got me to start watching Sumer Time Rendering. I'm up to episode 4. Today, I'm starting to watch Undead Unluck. *TO THE HIGH SEAS*
I appreciate your endless crusade to share good anime!
Summertime Rendering feels like a true spiritual successor to Higurashi and im so sad it didn't even get a chance to be as popular as Higurashi was back in the day
Summertime Render was my coping mechanism after Higurashi Sotsu crashed and burned.
And that's the exact thing I needed to hear to convince me to look into it! Though I like Umineko more, I can't just ignore a call to action like /that/.
@@skeletor8951 Sotsu was such a massive disappointment. I never bothered to finish it. Dropped it when it decided it actually wanted to be Dragon Ball Z. Which is a shame because I thought Gou was a great set up, I loved the art style, I loved the OPs and the EDs, but it was just...bad!
@@jedimasterpickle3Yeah Sotsu was a massive waste of potential when Gou set up what ended up being my favourite villain origin story in fiction, even with Sotsu being pretty bad the motivations of the character and what led them to go down this road was still fascinating to me.
@@skeletor8951 Ironically for me it's going to be filling the hole of 'show I really wish I could have on DVD/Blu Ray but can't because of licencing stupidity' that Higurashi left after it *finally* became available here in the UK in full. *sigh*
I've been watching _Shogun_ with Disney/Hulu's terrible CC-English. Sometimes the subtitles are just [speaks Japanese]. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
AAAAAAARRRRGGHHH
Holy shit
Honestly that “speaks (insert language here)” thing is very annoying, like WHY can’t you just TRANSLATE THE LANGUAGE?!
Wait but isn't Shogun that show about languange, understanding, and not controlling your own words? I'm afraid that is intentional you know...
I fuckin HAAAAATE it when subtitles are like that HHHHHHRGH
@@essneyallen6777 Except that it's usually just a sigh, or exasperation, or something. It's especially annoying if it's something I understand!
When I watch Chinese shows elsewhere, something like "hai-yah" isn't translated, or given a sub placeholder. It's just an expression of frustration or exasperation.
You do the good job you actually are fighting the good fight love your stuff keep up mate^^
I appreciate the work that you do!
German weekly release of UndeadUnluck at Disney+ is currently at Episode 15 because they just stopped bringing new episodes after ep 11 for a few months and i have no idea why.
FU D+!
Here in Latin America the dub only reached episode 12. Say what you want from Netflix, but they almost always upload the anime they acquired on time with both subs and dubs for their original anime, and sometimes for anime they acquired from others
The irony of Disney neglecting animation, the artform that the corporation was literally founded on, isn't lost on me.
Thanks for this. I'd fallen off of anime for a while, and used Heavenly Delusion to get back into it due to this video. It reminded me why I love anime in the first place.
i'm watching dungeon meshi on netflix. Saw it pops up in my feed with "new episodes out" highlighted in my currently watching and was like "woah there's a simulcast?" I didn't know they did that before! Clever !
I remember PIRATING Summertime Rendering (watched it on your recommendation since I love Re:ZERO) as it was coming out. And you’re right; it _is_ fun to participate in the conversation every week. That’s an experience that will never be recreated in a binge watch. It’s just sad.
Agreed!! Watching Summertime Rendering was extra special to me because I read the manga years ago so I forgot a lot of the twist and revaluation throughout the story. So watching it was like reading for the first time again. And every week I was how I remembered this detail and how it connects but this other detail I can’t remember what it does later on. And reading the comments section on theory trying to remember which one is right. 😅
It was so much fun watching that show and I’m will forever be pissed at Disney jail that amazing show. It’s deserves all the attention which it never got much.
Binging and weekly releases are a double edged sword.
I only binge most anime so i mostly get majorly spoiled by the time it's all done........but on the other hand when they come out all at once i get to enjoy it without spoilers but people don't get the fun for those who enjoy to participate in the conversation.
Still sad i got spoilered against my will on summertime rendering a week before the final episode :/
When my brother and I watched the first episode of Yuzuki Family we thought it was just a bad fan translation. Finding out that’s Crunchroll’s official sub made with AI is so sad.
honestly, makes the 'its jover' fansub of girls band cry look better in comparison.
Outside the awful lack of marketing, I'm honestly kinda glad Disney+ got Bleach and TYBW. The original series' English dub was never really available here in the UK outside of one TV channel in 2007, so Disney getting it on their platform really was such a huge help since the physical boxsets have been out of print for years now.
Also, TYBW has no censorship at all on Disney, whereas if it were to go somewhere like Crunchyroll it'd probably have to put those dark shadows on half the scenes.
I think overall it being on D+ is a positive, but yeah, MAN do they do an awful job of "marketing" it. Thank gosh Viz Media promotes it like crazy at least, I just wish Disney would do it too, and it's silly that they don't- especially when other shows like Star Wars Visions and X-Men '97 did so well.
The fact I can no longer rewatch .hack really hurts. That was the first Manga I ever read and I remember watching it on toonami I'm so upset the funimation app shut down.
the way disney did tokyo revengers SO dirty breaks my heart. they couldn’t even be direct with the english VAs, who very clearly loved doing their roles, so much so that the central figure in trying to get them to dub one of the fanbase’s MOST POPULAR arcs is zeno robinson (hanma’s dub VA). its wild. as if VAs don’t go through enough
Which VAs are we talking about for the Tokyo Revengers dub?
I know this might sound crazy, but I find positive the fact that Tokyo Revengers is now on Disney+ because they actually improved the voice direction for the Latin American Spanish dub, the first season dub made by Crunchyroll was directed by Héctor Ireta de Alba, who voices Naoto in the series itself, and while he's a good VA he is not very good at voice direction, Tokyo Revenger's S1 Spanish dub had a lot of issues. When the second season arrived on Disney the voice direction was done by Marc Winslow, who also voices Hajime in the show, and he corrected a lot of things and since they also changed recording studios they replaced some of the VAs, but all of the main characters remain the same, but now they sound better. Sadly, they haven't been any news about the dub for season 3
@@samflood5631 definitely zeno, and i know around november/december (iirc) when people were asking him and adam mcarthur (chifuyu) about the dub on twitter they both had to basically tell them "i know as much as you do." i THINK it was aleks le who just took his role off his bio when things were really ambiguous
maybe i shouldve phrased this better to specify that i was probably inferring, but imo when several VAs are left shrugging, it doesnt feel like that huge a reach to come to the conclusion that the company, at the very least, just doesnt care.
@@fkwarlock So is that why Synduality Noir might not get an English Dub?
@@samflood5631 i'd imagine!
Watching anime legally is such a chore with region lock and DRM that it's literally easier and simpler to just pirate. This is what companies don't understand. I can't even watch anything on CR anymore because of DRM.
Also, the fact Band Girls Cry wasn't picked up by any streaming service is a crime.
What’s DRM?
@@kjanaeblue "Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM), such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption."
@@ninryu4 Thank you!
@@kjanaeblue I should note that my problem with it is that it's a privacy risk for browsers, that's why I disabled it. Of course without it CR's player doesn't work. It used to work fine before they switched.
Not to mention the censorship forced onto the “official” localizations by the companies that stream them.
Thank you for bringing attention to one of my favorites, Re:Creators, it doesn't get talked about enough
Im not one for anime as much lately due to time constraints, but youve got me to binge the manga for heavenly delusion, which i absolutely freaking love, and now I'm going to work on reading the manga for summer time rendering because I appreciate your recommendations
Jesus CHRIST, those AI subs are real???
I feel like we're moving back in a direction where the best way to watch anime as a western fan is the otaku underground - at least the subs are written by humans, and you can *actually watch the shows* instead of having them pulled from the only legal platform with no warning.
Unfortunately a lot of “fan subs” are just ripped from legal sites. If you go to watch that show (The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons) on most “underground” streamers it still has the AI subs on it, while CR fixed them after people complained
And you got gamergate type fools defending AI subtitling
@mothersbasement It's depressing to think that their takeaway almost certainly won't be "oh shit maybe we should have professional human translators do this job that fundamentally involves human communication" and will almost certainly be closer to "Well the AI models will improve over time, and until then it's cheaper to bring someone in to fix the occasional flub that people care enough to actually complain about"
@@mothersbasementyup, this is unfortunately very true. to me this is likely due to a combination of piracy not actually being all that lucrative, the difficulty of constantly keeping all of the new anime updated and "simulcast," as well as apathy from the people running these sites.
right now, real grassroots fansubs are only seen in communities of incredibly dedicated fans for anime that aren't being officially subbed anywhere else.
not to beyblade in the comments, but as an example, the current season of beyblade (beyblade x) is being subbed exclusively by coordinated groups of fans, and you'll see custom credits in the op naming the participants of this group. it's exciting for a fan like me, but there are countless other anime in a similar boat that don't have these kinds of communities with the time or resources to be able to do these kinds of things, and that's really tragic to me.
and honestly, it's anime like those that I have a strong suspicion are most likely to be given the ai subs treatment by crunchyroll.
regardless, it's a shit situation that's not going to be fixed exclusively through piracy. there's way more that has to be done for such widespread and systemic issues within the industry to be fixed.
@@sael91 but have you seen the content that "Professional Localizers" have done?