Senpai Club, the most anticipated and totally real anime
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When did we get a tv tropes page?
[url]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/SenpaiClub[/url]
not even a day past release.
[url]http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22784252[/url]
this was great
I prefer the Korean ㅋㅋㅋㅋ.
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Somebody made an a cappella cover of the opening and it is amazing: [url]http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22822386[/url]
[QUOTE=Eric95;43798333]Somebody made an a cappella cover of the opening and it is amazing: [url]http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22822386[/url][/QUOTE]
Reminds me of Katamari Damacy.
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;43665510]I can't wait to buy episodes 1-3 as part of the four-disc Volume 1 box set. And for the low price of $50, to boot![/QUOTE]
When I posted this I had no idea the video would explode like it did. Congratulations, Eric and partner! I hope things continue to go well for you.
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;43802859]When I posted this I had no idea the video would explode like it did. Congratulations, Eric and partner! I hope things continue to go well for you.[/QUOTE]
Thanks! I'm really nervous about releasing the second part now, though. There's so much pressure
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;43665510]I can't wait to buy episodes 1-3 as part of the four-disc Volume 1 box set. And for the low price of $50, to boot![/QUOTE]
ho ho ho we might actually be doing something like this at comiket, limited print dvds with, like, two complete (every episode is three parts) episodes on them. because that's pretty much all we'd be able to finish by then
apparently the japanese market is very different
[QUOTE=Pikablu07;43710585][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hb95qRlyNQ[/media]
[sp]jojo doesn't know it yet but he's peeping on his mom[/sp][/QUOTE]
Late, but I like how Jojo does the mouth motion for a U sound at the end of 'Nice' even though the VA says it perfectly :v:
[QUOTE=Eric95;43803034]
ho ho ho we might actually be doing something like this at comiket, limited print dvds with, like, two complete (every episode is three parts) episodes on them. because that's pretty much all we'd be able to finish by then
[B]apparently the japanese market is very different[/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's a fuckin rip-off. I dunno how these people can afford a whole season. For example I can get season 16 of South Park on blu-ray for $30 whereas just one volume of an anime can cost upwards of $60 which gets you 4 episodes at the most. And the worst part is that they try and use this sales model outside of Japan and then wonder why nobody buys anything. At least the good distributors release box sets [I]sometimes[/I].
You need to release 3 volumes for episode 1 with each part having its own disk and then sell them for $60 each.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;43806917]Late, but I like how Jojo does the mouth motion for a U sound at the end of 'Nice' even though the VA says it perfectly :v:[/QUOTE]
Ahahah I didn't notice that, good catch.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;43807055]Yeah, it's a fuckin rip-off. I dunno how these people can afford a whole season. For example I can get season 16 of South Park on blu-ray for $30 whereas just one volume of an anime can cost upwards of $60 which gets you 4 episodes at the most. And the worst part is that they try and use this sales model outside of Japan and then wonder why nobody buys anything. At least the good distributors release box sets [I]sometimes[/I].
You need to release 3 volumes for episode 1 with each part having its own disk and then sell them for $60 each.[/QUOTE]
It might seem like it's overpriced, but that's because the Japanese anime market works very differently. Most studios and production committees basically rely entirely on home video sales to make back the initial production costs and then profit.
The thing about the Japanese home video market though is that it historically consisted mostly of rental sales rather than retail sales. Japanese consumers simply didn't have the space to buy everything on home video, so they rented it instead. Thus production companies would price the copies high on the premise that they would only be producing a few thousand copies to sell to rental stores.
But then, while the economy started tanking and rental stores stopped stocking as much as they used to, hardcore enthusiasts started buying anime at these high prices meant for rental stores. And the otaku-base grew until it transformed from a few thousand rental stores supporting a show to a few thousand otaku footing the entire bill. There had been experiments in lowering anime home video prices to appeal to the mass market, but again Japanese consumers simply don't want to build a home video library and it ended up being the same otaku buying it as before, but for a lower price and thus a lower profit. The prices have to stay high in Japan or most shows/companies simply can't survive.
Western consumers want it on home video just like the rest of their big home video collections but are used to paying much less for home video content. While a licensed distributor could sell anime for cheap, this creates an issue where Japanese otaku start importing the western releases since they're much cheaper and end up reducing sales of the domestic Japanese versions. The Japanese producers know this, so they often impose restrictions on western distributors to try and strategically get their Japanese sales alongside the western releases. This has ranged from throttled western release dates to limited retailer distribution only to those who promise not to ship it to Japanese customers. The simplest option, though, especially in the declining state of the western anime home video market (because the majority of western anime fans would rather just watch it online now [welcome to the Netflix age; this is starting to happen to the home video market at large]), is to just put high prices on the western release and produce limited copies for only the dedicated otaku over here who will still buy it anyway. This is pretty much what Aniplex does. Funimation still tries to barter with producers and get the cheapest prices and least restrictions they can, so you can count on them at least to bring the best deals they could squeeze out of the stubborn producers.
tl;dr: Anime pretty much has to stay expensive to support itself. It's not because the producers are assholes, but because they want to make back their production costs.
[QUOTE=Shugo;43807615]It might seem like it's overpriced, but that's because the Japanese anime market works very differently. Most studios and production committees basically rely entirely on home video sales to make back the initial production costs and then profit.
The thing about the Japanese home video market though is that it historically consisted mostly of rental sales rather than retail sales. Japanese consumers simply didn't have the space to buy everything on home video, so they rented it instead. Thus production companies would price the copies high on the premise that they would only be producing a few thousand copies to sell to rental stores.
But then, while the economy started tanking and rental stores stopped stocking as much as they used to, hardcore enthusiasts started buying anime at these high prices meant for rental stores. And the otaku-base grew until it transformed from a few thousand rental stores supporting a show to a few thousand otaku footing the entire bill. There had been experiments in lowering anime home video prices to appeal to the mass market, but again Japanese consumers simply don't want to build a home video library and it ended up being the same otaku buying it as before, but for a lower price and thus a lower profit. The prices have to stay high in Japan or most shows/companies simply can't survive.
Western consumers want it on home video just like the rest of their big home video collections but are used to paying much less for home video content. While a licensed distributor could sell anime for cheap, this creates an issue where Japanese otaku start importing the western releases since they're much cheaper and end up reducing sales of the domestic Japanese versions. The Japanese producers know this, so they often impose restrictions on western distributors to try and strategically get their Japanese sales alongside the western releases. This has ranged from throttled western release dates to limited retailer distribution only to those who promise not to ship it to Japanese customers. The simplest option, though, especially in the declining state of the western anime home video market (because the majority of western anime fans would rather just watch it online now [welcome to the Netflix age; this is starting to happen to the home video market at large]), is to just put high prices on the western release and produce limited copies for only the dedicated otaku over here who will still buy it anyway. This is pretty much what Aniplex does. Funimation still tries to barter with producers and get the cheapest prices and least restrictions they can, so you can count on them at least to bring the best deals they could squeeze out of the stubborn producers.
tl;dr: Anime pretty much has to stay expensive to support itself. It's not because the producers are assholes, but because they want to make back their production costs.[/QUOTE]
Well I pretty much already knew all this and I still think it's pretty retarded.
current viewcount- 508,500
half a million dude
[i]half a million[/i]
[QUOTE=creec;43885549][url]http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22869893[/url]
【進撃】SHINGEKI Club【手描き】[/QUOTE]
Oh god everything fits :v:
It's Tsumiki's birthday today (the 14th) and she got tons of birthday wishes on twitter!
Somebody even did this
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bgae8LoCEAEpFGF.jpg:large[/IMG]
the hypest anime on youtube :v also when's the next part coming?
[QUOTE=Lok's;43915649]the hypest anime on youtube :v also when's the next part coming?[/QUOTE]
The answer lies within their newest video.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOXmtMEqco[/media]
Part 2 comes out tomorrow! Woo. Here's a teaser picture:
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg61VZwCIAEMTd9.png:large[/IMG]
Those fucking V faces are probably the funniest part
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;43982553]Those fucking V faces are probably the funniest part[/QUOTE]
I like to think of them as dorito shaped.
Everything associated with doritos is a quality product, especially when it's people.
[QUOTE=Oddshot;43983204]I like to think of them as dorito shaped.
Everything associated with doritos is a quality product, especially when it's people.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/JAwUlGy9kk0/maxresdefault.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Oddshot;43983204]I like to think of them as dorito shaped.
Everything associated with doritos is a quality product, especially when it's people.[/QUOTE]
dorito-faced badtouch sempai and shota boy
woo it's out!!!!
[video=youtube;58d7AjK0VuI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58d7AjK0VuI[/video]
[quote]The second part of the first episode of the most anticipated and also real anime of the century: Senpai Club! Tsumiki manages to accidentally attend a Senpai Club meeting, where she gets to know some, to say the least, colorful and unusual characters. However, she seems to be having a hard time fitting in![/quote]
Oh shit the dorito faced cherubs. Amazing.
god fucking damn it's amazing
it's beautiful
I love how Rock and Roll Senpai completely vanishes from the rest of the video after he gets interrupted.
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