I only suffered through one episode of this fucking terrible show and I haven't watched the show they parodied which appears to be only slightly better, so I didn't know that this is probably because they went shot for shot on it.
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The first Episode was about the place being a mirror of the real place tho.
Just with a wordplay on Unagi/Usagi.
I too stopped watching after 2 episodes, was just not interesting.
Animes based on a game often aren't the greatest.
I remember that Osomatsu-san had a similar problem, the first episode was full of parodies and they stopped streaming it and the DVD/BluRay feature a different episode all together. Japanese copyright law is really strict in these scenarios.
"As mentioned above, the show’s planned Blu-ray and DVD releases of the first three episodes have also been canned. The Blu-ray box set will be out later this summer."
Three episode Blu-Ray "box sets" are a pathetic joke.
But the only reason to watch this anime in the first place is the parodies.
Pretty much, yeah. I remember reading somewhere, though, that lowering the prices of the sets (or including more episodes and thus reducing the number of sets) doesn’t actually increase the number of purchases enough to offset the lowered price. The people who are casual fans will only watch once, the fans who would buy the series on disc will buy it at almost any price, and those who would buy it at a lower price aren’t very numerous.
Online streaming services have only made it worse.
cant find it now tho since I’m on my phone, I’ll try and sort through my bookmarks for the source later.
Anime Blu-Rays are straight up a scam. Like it exists to purely take advantage of fans who will do anything for actually being able to watch the episodes at their leisure
You'd think that'd be the end of it, but no, the rabbit hole goes even deeper.
For "Love Live Sunshine", one of the most popular multi-media series in Japan(albeit dying to other competitors at the moment), they hold actual concerts with performances from the voice actresses at venues. They're pretty big too; the previous one was at Tokyo Dome which seats up to 57,000 people. However, you don't buy the tickets normally as you do with normal Western concerts. There exists this concept of "chuusen", or lottery -- you enter in codes that allow you to be raffled and randomly selected to win.
Guess how you get your hands on those codes? That's right, with fucking blu-rays. Blu-rays that just hold 3 episodes at best, when one blu-ray is more than capable of holding more than 8-9 HD anime episodes easily. People drop hundreds if not thousands of dollars buying these discs just for the code inside, for a random chance at winning a ticket to go to a concert. Think about that insanity.
I went because I have friends who do pool in for these tickets and end up with spares, but I'd never do it on my own.
initially, anime was priced like that because the idea was it'd be sold to rental outlets
but then otaku bought them anyway
you don't really buy those blu-rays to watch the shows, they're like, collector's items
This is how a lot of stuff is. My friend is really into an idol group and looked into going to his favorite idol's graduation concert, but it's almost entirely impossible to get a ticket if you live outside of Japan. Not only do you have to go through the lottery system to get the right to buy a ticket, but once you obtain a ticket, it's linked to you personally and you have to show ID to enter the venue.
My Mom found Mushi-Shi on Netflix, she loved it so I wanted to get her the Blu-Ray set.
I got her concert tickets to a fucking Eagles concert instead because it wasn't as asinine.
and of course, funding
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How do most western anime fans get their jams? I know Crunchyroll, although they don't seem to be very well liked. Do people just use a bunch of different streaming services? Or does everyone just pirate everything?
pretty much just the latter unless you want to deal with crappy streaming sites like kissanime or deal with crunchyroll's selection
I don't like crunchyroll for several reasons, including and not limited to their actual contribution to the anime industry being dubious if nonexistant, their encoding being terrible with color banding everywhere and just all around low quality, and their subs being inconsistent with stuff like honorifics etc, lots of typos, no effort whatsoever put into typesetting anything, no subbed openings and endings, and also their high-and-mighty attitude about being "THE ONLY LEGAL WAY TO WATCH ANIME OUTSIDE OF JAPAN!!!!"
I just get my stuff from IRC or Nyaa. If I'm feeling really lazy and just wanna go rewatch a certain scene that isn't on Youtube I'll use 9anime or kissanime or whatever.
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