Forum - View topicNEWS: Fuji TV to Stream Some Anime Titles for Free on YouTube
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Primus
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Did they not announce which series? Does anyone else find the vagueness of the title amusing? It's like "Fuji TV to Stream Some [crummy] Anime Titles [or something] for Free on YouTube".
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trunkschan90
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I hope one of the titles is Chibi Maruko-chan, KXLA channel doesn't air it anymore.
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darkhappy1
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So... uh, will there be any subtitles? English subtitles? As much as I love anime, I still haven't and will not in the near future learn Japanese. If they do have English subtitles (which I do not expect yet), I hope they put up noitaminA shows that haven't been released in the US like Hataraki Man and Kuchu Buranko.
Oh this is all a pipe dream. |
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Ryujin99
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I will be looking forward to discovering what titles they'll be putting on YouTube. English or Japanese subtitles would be fine with me, though... I'm not perfect at Japanese listening or reading, but I find that I can understand more if there are some subtitles even if it's also in Japanese.
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Zin5ki
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Unless certain regions are explicitly mentioned in the unveiling of a new streaming venture, it is often best to consider them excluded therefrom. |
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qashairy
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Was hoping it would be available on Malaysia.
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agila61
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They could also put them up on Viki and then use the fansubs from Viki on YouTube. |
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reanimator
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I doubt that. They have master videos, so they don't need fansub files. Noitamina shows use professional translation on other streaming sites, so why would they use translations from unreliable and underqualified sources? Also, let's not forget about their family oriented shows. |
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yuna49
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The Hataraki Man fansub was translated by one of those professional translators.
Not that I expect to see it appear legally anywhere. I just happened to rewatch episode six of that series, the one about Yumi-chan and the professional baseball player. What a subtle and complex show that was! |
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samuelp
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Posts: 2248 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Yeah, one of these days I'll get that show legally out there, and I'll take my subs and completely redo them because I was not capable of translating that show properly back then. It's such a shame the manga-ka probably won't finish the manga. |
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agila61
Posts: 3213 Location: NE Ohio |
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Who said anything about video? The financial question is who is paying for the subtitling.
Which the streaming licensees pay for, and which the original rights owners get the right to as part of their streaming rights contract.
Because if they pay for subtitling themselves for ad-streams, they will lose money? Now, likely the total ad revenue will cover the cost of the subtitles, but not the portion of the ad revenue from the views by non-Japanese-speakers.
What conceivable different does that make? Its not like the crowdsourced subtitles that the Korean networks get from Viki to put their shows up on Hulu are full of off-color language. Its like you think I was suggesting that they use a bootleg fansub group, rather than a legit site that uses licensed content and pays per view royalties to the rights owners. Indeed, one could hire a professional translation editor to clean up Viki fansubs {NB. @samuelp ~ and quite clearly should}, and still save a substantial amount of money over commissioning professional subtitles from scratch ~ even if the Korean networks have decided that they would rather not spend the money on doing that. |
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samuelp
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No, they couldn't. I don't accept jobs cleaning up other people's crappy subs, especially crowdsourced ones. Frankly it's nearly as much work as doing it from scratch, and doing it from scratch with a consistent team will produce a better result. |
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agila61
Posts: 3213 Location: NE Ohio |
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There's at least one set of them that they couldn't.
I have not doubt regarding the latter. I'm skeptical regarding the former. |
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bglassbrook
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It’s actually fairly common. In many cases, the disruption to your workflow of having to reconcile the "correct" result with the existing one is not worth the time saved by having a placeholder. Outsourcing for the sake of outsourcing rarely yields anywhere near the results of a well-planned segregation of work. |
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agila61
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The "disruption to your workflow" is an excellent way of expressing the basis of my skepticism ~ a disruptive innovation frequently entails a different workflow to best leverage. You get what you pay for, and in mixed ad-stream / subscriber business models, its the subscribers that pay for the professional subtitling and the ad-stream viewers free ride off of that, In the catalog ad-streaming business model, the professional subtitling was funded by a previous release. A crowdsourced translation is not likely to be the same quality as a professional team doing the job. However, a crowdsourced translation with a translation editor reading the scripts, making changes, and reporting changes back to the series team leader is also going to result in a higher quality crowdsourced translation. |
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